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To: steve harris who wrote (219044)	2/13/2005 9:02:40 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574606

Although, I think we should be drilling in Alask and elsewhere, I think that is only a short term solution. What we need is radically reduced consumption. We should make fuel cell, electric, and hybrid auto technology the norm, not the fringe. In addition, I think we should tax gasoline to raise the money for research to reduce consumption. Let's make it more expensive. Make buying gasoline punitive and people will voluntarily reduce their consumption. Then use the tax revenues to provide incentives for consumers to buy fuel efficient vehicles and to provide research grants to autocompanies to develop the proper technologies. If we launched a Manhattan Project to reduce our oil consumption by 50% within 10 years, I believe we could do it. But we don't have the political will, because Bush is an oil man. That bothers me. We're making Saudi and Iran rich, which fuels MORE terrorism not less.

To: steve harris who wrote (219044)	2/13/2005 12:39:00 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 1574606

The world has always been in transition. It always will be. People used to burn wood for a primary for of energy. It was cheap and plentiful. Whales provided great blubber. They learned about coal and started burning it. Then oil was discovered in Pennsylvania, and the world got another resource. Sometimes the shift happened because the old resource was running out, and sometimes because the new one was cheaper to gather. Fuel cell technology is more expensive than oil at current costs. It will become more prevalent. We could put energy salutes in orbit and microwave the energy to earth. The next transition will be expensive, but we will make the transition. Despite what you and I might wish the market will determine when the time is right.