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Quote by: Chris  Why not start now and look for alternatives? The same people who plug their ears and put their head in the sane regarding the end of oil - are most of the time the same people who want to go drilling in ANWR. |
The key phrase is "look for alternatives". Meaning, make use of this nonexistant source, energy price will go down. Frozen methane pockets, solar, wind, geothermal, moon rocks??? They have no effect on the prices of energy. Honestly, I have no idea what difference ANWR will make. But I do know energy can be made, and distributed, by methods of drilling/refining that we already have.
I think unanimously everyone would agree with you Chris that alternatives should be found. But rising prices are simply due to limited supply and increasing demand. It's almost irrelevant what side of the issue you take, green or dirty. All
the efforts to create supply are being limited while demand is not.
If middle american consumers want prices to go down, refineries and nuclear are the only two viable options to reduce prices for energy. Hydrogen cars, "sustainable living", alternative sources... I think it's all really cool. But the only people who can afford it are the wealthy, or the poor.