Why isn't ending foreign oil dependency more important?
America hasn't learned anything from the 70's gas lines, the Iranian hostage crisis or even 9/11Recently, President Bush suggested the idea of reducing gasoline dependence by 20 percent in the next decade. America's Big 3 automakers responded that ending foreign oil dependency just isn't profitable.
On the other hand, Honda welcomed the idea, and Toyota was far less opposed than American automakers. So, which automakers are better for America?
Yet, foreign oil dependency has already cost Americans more than a trillion dollars, and it is certain to cause even far more money and problems in the next few decades if we can't even reduce dependence by 20 percent. Ironically, however, such a sum could easily fund the technology to end foreign oil dependency using today's technology such as hybrid cars, clean diesels, lightweight composite materials and bio-fuels.
So why don't Americans take foreign oil dependency more seriously? (Read More)
Labels: clean diesel, Foreign Oil Dependency, global warming
posted by Dahcredyns at
10:51 AM
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Even the majority of the buyers of hybrid vehicles buy hybrids because of global warming, rather than foreign oil dependency. Why? Obviously, global warming is a huge issue, but it is still a rather contentious issue, rather than an issue that brings Americans together to fight a common cause.
On the contrary, it's hard to argue that ending foreign oil dependency isn't good for America.
First, we could save money doing it. Second, if automakers were provided with incentives to achieve fuel economy mandates, they would be developing automobiles using the most advanced technology available. Just as with the moon landing, pushing the technological envelope always leads to amazing and unexpected discoveries. Discoveries America could sell to the rest of the world. Third, ending foreign oil dependency would have a huge impact on global warming.
Quite simply, there is no excuse for America not to end foreign oil dependency other than ignorance, complacency and greed. However, since most of the rest of the world describes most Americans with those same three words, the chances of ending foreign oil dependency appear very slim.
And, since both political parties blame the other for a problem to which both parties have contributed, this issue might never be solved by politicians. For today's politicians, partisanship and re-election politicking has become more important than productive policy.
That leaves We The People. Can We The People set aside our differences and force this change?
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