Originally posted by madnessinmysoul
yeah, some of us care about the long term instead of the short term...

What "some of you" fail to realize is that utilizing our own oil is not only a short term plan. We have enough oil we could drill in our own country
to last us 80, maybe 100 years. This would buy us plenty of time to be developing the technologies to rid our dependence on oil all together.
As long as we are dependent on oil, we have no reason to look for a true alternative. If we pull out of other countries for oil, we will have given
ourselves a time line with which to develop this technology. If we as a country knew we only had 80 years of energy left, you better believe we would
be working a lot harder to become energy independent.
Another point I might add is this. Why should we be wasting money and resources mining and shipping foreign oil when we have our own? Should we not be
using our own countries resources instead of using up the rest of the worlds?