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To: tejek who wrote (344614)	7/28/2007 9:12:58 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573096

re: However, I am not terribly optimistic.........America's WA leadership is fairly corrupted. Like CJ says, it may well be too late. It may be. Think about it. What do you think gasoline is going to cost per gallon in 2 years? In 5 years? In 10 years? No way to know for sure, but it very well could be that it will be so high that transportation will eventually be the largest component cost of most goods. And that's to say nothing about what it would do to our economy if it becomes prohibitively expensive to move people around for work, shopping and recreation. We are spending huge dollars fighting wars to maintain access to an increasingly precious commodity instead of investing in alternatives. We are especially vulnerable because we use 25% of the world's production with less than 5% of the world's population. Our entire economy, and our society is based around the internal combustion automobile and we are doing nothing but building more SUVs that could power 5 more efficient vehicles the same distance on the same amount of fuel. When the history is written about the US I suspect they will ponder what knuckleheads we were at this precise period of time. They will say "how could they have not seen the danger?".