Reply #50: if you care about the environment you must be opposed to high gas prices

[pitohui]

these high prices will mean the utter destruction of our western lands in the search for oil products that would otherwise not be "economic"

it will also encourage the continued destruction of our eastern mountains, for their coal

every time the price of oil and gas goes up and the high price is sustained, that's a powerful incentive to drill and develop in lands (and offshore places too like california and florida) where oil/gas cannot be drilled at clinton era prices

if you care about the environment, you MUST oppose these huge windfall prices to the oil lobby, you are paying the oil and gas industry to eat our planet

i have heard your argument before, and it's always from two classes of people -- the utterly clueless, and the deliberate shit stirrers -- i hope you are not a shit stirrer so suggest you learn about a little thing called "supply and demand," it's basic economics for any person who has even a high school education -- when prices are high and there is more profit to be made, then the industry is going to do more development and drilling, now aren't they? hence such silliness as alberta (canada) being torn up for otherwise un-economic nonsense like "tar sands"