a point i made to a friend a couple days ago, about how unhinged his fanatic sect of economistics has become.

off-shore drilling? thumbs up! energy security! revenue!

off-shore wind? thumbs down! aesthetically! it ruins the view! and the people who propose it are in a different political group! all kinds of really good reasons that are cost-benefit measurable, i have the figures in my office, i'll show you later.

remember: nobody doesn't like a swimming at an oily beach, or looking at "money" in the form of an oil platform on the horizon.

is that if you insist on a lifestyle that requires traveling at high speeds or for long distances, Cheney is right.  Again, it's about reducing consumption, which in this case means organizing or reorganizing your life so that you're near enough to the things you do regularly that you can walk, bike, or take public transit.  If you drive, you're voting for oil drilling and oil wars, despite everything else you might do to the contrary.

Each of us must work to ratchet down our consumption of fossil fuels to ever lower levels. It's true that we can't get to where we need to go on personal choice alone--we need policy change. But personal policy is something each of us can change at will, whereas changing national policy looks like it's going to require the destruction of Washington DC during a State of the Union address.

i agree with this point but I think that our politicians hold the responsibility of being good examples by living green lifestyles themselves. This is one area where the Aztecs had it right. If a member of the Aztec nobility committed a crime he was punished harsher than a commoner would be for the same crime. For their crimes against nature and humanity the oil owned Bush Administration needs to give up their limos and take the bus to work, give up their plastic bags for cloth shopping bags, and switch over cfls.

What does he need MORE money for?

Shu pas a vende.

Cities are getting more and more congested. Dirving is slower than cycling for many trips.

High-speed rail is faster than driving or flying for many trips.

A number of members of Congress recently have given speeches where they hammer the false rationale that the refusal of Congress to allow enough drilling on US territory/offshore for oil and natural gas is the cause of high prices of fuel.
Real reasons for high cost of gasoline:
1. oil comanies gouging, and the Republicans have been fighting hard against a windfall profits tax to collect some of the oil companies' profits which have doubled in the last few years.
 2. of a decades old policy of large subsidies for  fossil fuels production and tiny amounts of  support for wind, solar, and geothermal which could provide cheaper cleaner electricity if they were allowed to compete fairly.
3. electric cars could now be the norm, if the Congress had not repeatedly voted against requiring auto and truck manufacturers to produce vehicles that get better mileage.  

Why are they taking this position that totally ignores the fact that continued use of fossil fuels is cooking our planet? (Sen Coburn R OK, Sen Allard R CO & others) The only problem this might solve is how to increase their campaign contributions. Also, maybe they really do need huge vehicles with tinted windows.

Believe me, he looks like a Gestapo SS officer. If guys like him stay at helm, the world would soon become a burning hell. His greed for oil and ruthless butchery to secure oil resources abroad is bringing us closer to nuclear winter.They have made the Russians feels claustrophobic to put their nuclear weapons on high alert for the first time since the 90s.