Oldtimer said:I told you a dozen times before (but like a true neocon- you have selective memory :roll: ) - its too late for NOW-- we needed a comprehensive (oil, coal, wind, nuke, ethynol, solar, etc.) energy package- and leadership in developing it, 7-8-10 years ago instead of the Cheney backroom deal with the oil execs....
You really didn't/don't expect oil execs to come up with a energy solution, when it would mean they would possibly have to give up years of record profitteering- do you :???:
Do you really believe the oil companies are going to put out R&D money to develop enviromentally safe uses for coal (which this country has enough of to power the country for 1000 years)...... :???:
You have the luxury of hind sight to tell what you would have done, 8 years ago to keep us from having oil and gas prices of today???? Go ahead tell us what Bush should have done to stop these high prices today.
The fact is the President has a lot less to do with the price of oil and gas as you give him credit for. Countries like China are trying to make back room deals and grab up all the oil they can because the demand to supply ratio is dropping every year.
You try to over simplify things by blaming one man, when it is the millions of people world wide that dictate oil consumption. This oil crunch began many many years before Bush ever took office.
Just look at the growth of the U.S. in the last 10 to 20 years. And then look at the world population growth, then look at countries like China and India becoming industrialized. You simplify the problem and do not evaluate it fairly.
You are a broken record that has no answers or suggestions, just Bush criticizing, I imagine you will be a lonely old man once Bush is gone, nothing to complain about. O Wait you are already setting your future bitching in place by bashing McCain, your negativity will live on :roll:
As for oil companies researching coal usage, I doubt the will, they are OIL companies. It is not their responsibility to provide us with clean burning coal. It is their job to find oil and sell it for a profit so that their stock holders make money. They do not owe anyone anything except their stock holders. Quit bitching and buy stock in them.