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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1036627" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>The American people seem to have a very short memory.</p><p></p><p>I was a kid in 1973-74 during the "first" energy crisis, and I remember very clearly getting up at 5 in the morning with my parents to go wait in line for gas.</p><p></p><p>We had a Plymouth Duster with a big V-8 in it, and it was a gas hog. Pretty soon, my folks got rid of that car and bought a Datsun B210 that got almost 30MPG. When American consumers started demanding fuel efficient cars, the Japanese auto industry responded by providing well made cars such as the Datsun B210, the Toyota Celica and the Honda Civic. Detroit, on the other hand, gave us the Ford Pinto and the Chevy Vega. This led to crisis in an American auto industry that failed to adapt to changing market conditions.</p><p></p><p>Fast forward 40 years, and here we go again. Gas prices are thru the roof, Detroit is in trouble, Americans are bitching and moaning about high prices, and Japan is leading the way in the production of hybrids and fuel-efficient cars. At some point, we Americans need to get over ourselves and accept the reality that cheap gas is not our God-given birthright. Our planet holds a <em>finite amount </em>of recoverable fossil fuel reserves; we have already consumed a significant portion of those reserves; as the remaining supply continues to dwindle, prices will inevitably increase. <strong>Whether we like it or not we are transitioning away from fossil fuels as a primary energy source. </strong>How smoothly that transition goes is entirely up to us. We can do it the <em>easy</em> way (thru conservation and the orderly implentation of alternatives such as biofuels, solar, wind etc) or we can do it the<em> hard</em> way by dragging our heels, raping the enviornment and sending our kids off to die in wars for the oil that still remains. Regardless of which path we choose, the day <em>will</em> come when all the oil is gone. Its up to us what kind of world we want our grandkids to live in when that day arrives.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1036627, member: 14668"] The American people seem to have a very short memory. I was a kid in 1973-74 during the "first" energy crisis, and I remember very clearly getting up at 5 in the morning with my parents to go wait in line for gas. We had a Plymouth Duster with a big V-8 in it, and it was a gas hog. Pretty soon, my folks got rid of that car and bought a Datsun B210 that got almost 30MPG. When American consumers started demanding fuel efficient cars, the Japanese auto industry responded by providing well made cars such as the Datsun B210, the Toyota Celica and the Honda Civic. Detroit, on the other hand, gave us the Ford Pinto and the Chevy Vega. This led to crisis in an American auto industry that failed to adapt to changing market conditions. Fast forward 40 years, and here we go again. Gas prices are thru the roof, Detroit is in trouble, Americans are bitching and moaning about high prices, and Japan is leading the way in the production of hybrids and fuel-efficient cars. At some point, we Americans need to get over ourselves and accept the reality that cheap gas is not our God-given birthright. Our planet holds a [I]finite amount [/I]of recoverable fossil fuel reserves; we have already consumed a significant portion of those reserves; as the remaining supply continues to dwindle, prices will inevitably increase. [B]Whether we like it or not we are transitioning away from fossil fuels as a primary energy source. [/B]How smoothly that transition goes is entirely up to us. We can do it the [I]easy[/I] way (thru conservation and the orderly implentation of alternatives such as biofuels, solar, wind etc) or we can do it the[I] hard[/I] way by dragging our heels, raping the enviornment and sending our kids off to die in wars for the oil that still remains. Regardless of which path we choose, the day [I]will[/I] come when all the oil is gone. Its up to us what kind of world we want our grandkids to live in when that day arrives. [/QUOTE]
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