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Gold/Mining/Energy : Big Dog's Boom Boom Room -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: whitepine who wrote (157146)	9/17/2011 10:37:35 AM
From: GST	19 Recommendations Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 206100

Oil companies provide one of the most basic elements in our economy -- it is hard to ignore its importance. That is why shifting away from oil is such a grand challenge -- one that will take courage and intelligence. Subsidizing oil and pretending that global warming is an 'unproven theory' serves to assure us that no change is needed -- just more of the same. Unfortunately, more of the same is exactly what we don't need. We need to price oil at cost -- all costs. For the sake of argument, lets say that would be $300 to $500 per barrel. $300 to $500 oil would be the best possible thing that could happen to America -- to pay for it now rather than shift the cost to future generations, and to innovate now rather than fall behind while the rest of the world moves forward. That is not being a 'leftie' etc. -- it is being able to accept the truth and consequences of the real world, to be accountable for your actions and to pay your bills instead of trying to pass them off on other people and other generations -- not running away and playing pretend -- as in pretend that climate is not an issue and pretend that we don't focus most our 'defense' budget on defending access to oil. If the world was a restaurant, those on the political 'right' would be trying to skip out without paying their bill. If you are proud of that then you have values that I don't respect.