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To: RetiredNow who wrote (248358)	10/12/2005 6:52:17 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572604

If we'd taken the $300B we're spending on Iraq and spent it on alternative fuels for our cars and trucks, we could have achieved a 50% reduction in consumption in 10 years. No we could have. Remember you have to consider not just the budget cost but the cost to the economy. The cost of rushing through a massive increase in alternate fuel usage (enough to reduce our oil consumption by 50%) would be a lot more than $100bil a year. You could probably get a single digit reduction without too much cost. But 50% would be, at least in dollar terms, a lot more painful then the spending in Iraq. Also if we had started such a program the day Bush took office, we would probably still be spending the money in Iraq, in addition to the costs to reconfigure our fuel use. Tim