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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (10221)	6/29/2009 6:00:00 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86355

The government invested heavily in our oil and gas infrastructure, has given hundreds of billions in subsidies and tax incentives, and continues to play an active role in securing our oil supplies globally. All of that has provided decades of fairly reliable and cheap energy to run our economy with, which has consequently allowed for an explosion of wealth in this country over the last hundred years. However, you don't want us to do the same thing for tomorrow's energy. If we don't lead in tomorrow's energy, we as a country will be a "has been". We don't even need to invest a fraction of what we've invested in Big Oil to make it happen either. We just need to have strict mpg standards and tax gasoline a couple dollars a gallon and it will happen through market forces. It's a small price to pay to get off of oil before the scarcity of oil and the increasing competition from India and China for oil supplies forces us to make the shift in a much more painful timeframe.