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To: Brumar89 who wrote (404034)	8/3/2008 6:23:00 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574784

I just don't get the Obama position -- he says it is a "crisis", but then refuses to pursue some of the things that may get us out of the crisis. If you're going to take nuclear energy and drilling for our own oil off the table, it leaves you with a total crapshoot on future technologies, some of which are clearly not going to happen quickly enough. Why a person would oppose nuclear energy, the cleanest form of energy we know of as of this point in time, is just inexplicable. The McCain approach of "let's do everything" -- which is the same as the Pickens Plan, makes a hell of a lot more sense.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (404034)	8/4/2008 11:49:01 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574784

Republicans are claiming that OCS drilling will provide nearly immediate relief from high oil prices......as in "drilling our way out of the oil crisis". No one is making a similar claim with alternative energy. Yes, they are. Democrats are saying we can and should get off fossil fuels and can do that soon. See Harry Reid - fossil fuels make us sick. Its not that we can and should get off FF......we HAVE to get off FF. There are no ifs or ands about it. We know how to produce oil. We don't know how to produce electric cars that will go 400 miles on a charge and can be recharged in minutes. When are we going to get that? Exactly. Those things are in the developmental stage. There is no immediate relief from high oil prices. It will take at least ten years to transition away from our addiction to oil. Is ten years a guarantee? We will have electric cars going 400 miles between quick recharges in 10 years, you're saying? I don't know. Up til now, the free markets have stopped us from reaching this goal. Hopefully, that will change in the coming years. The odds look much better than they did previously. However, all this subterfuge is BS.......you're trying to put me on the defensive when its you who should be on the defensive. Your boys are the ones making the claims.....drill, drill, drill our way out of this crisis. And yet, here you are.......an oil professional and you can't even give me a clue as to when there will be oil coming from off the CA or FLA coasts........let alone how much. Once again, the right is walking us down the primrose path for their financial gain......and it stinks.