Reply #3: Sometimes I wonder if people on DU have read up on

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peak oil and its implications for the world.

It is really scary stuff. After I researched it I was in a deep funk for months.

In my mind, the only thing that will save us is expensive oil which will force us to move to do the research and development necessary to save us. If we don't get a move on it we are in BIG BIG TROUBLE.

I wish the government had enough guts to increase taxes on oil and gas but you and I know they won't.

Therefore, the only way to get oil expensive enough to move our butts is if the market price increases a lot.

Look at Al Gore and global warming. We're destroying our planet, and we know it yet we can't even get our population to change to CFLs. Most people don't give a damn. All they care about is the here and now.