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What have we accomplished?

    I find it disturbing thinking about how unavoidable the path of human consumption is. We can argue all we want about how to fix our problems with fossil fuels and environmental damage, but the problems are still there. How long has it been? Fifty years at least. That's how long thousands of people have been trying to make predictions of when our oil supplies will run out. Have they run out yet? No. Do we still say "maybe tomorrow"? Yes. What do these people expect?
     On a different point, what about what happens after? It's obvious that we will run out of oil, why are we trying so hard to be preventative? We haven't prevented jack. I say someone should start planning how the country will handle another depression. Fifty years, maybe more, the end of our age of oil cunsumption will be in my lifetime. I go to highschool. Out of our thousand students, I'm the only one I know of that's given any thought at all to this looming disaster. People just don't care, and won't care, until it's already here.
     Wanna know my idea for conservation? Raise gas prices to where they will be after we run out. It may not be popular, and I admit it has a billion in one chance of happening, but it would work. Think about it, really think about it, all the effects that it would have... I'll give you a minute... Now, wouldn't you say public transportation would be more popular? There would be less cars on the roads. People (unless they were governor movie stars) wouldn't be driving around in diesel breathing hummers. I'll admit that this wouldn't be that wonderful for anyone in the automobile industry, but I said this probabably wouldn't happen anyway, and hey, this is an environmentalist website right?
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