Do you know just how much pollution is made by brewing beer? LOL

Listen everyone - this world is screwed. Gas prices are just a tiny part of the evidence.

The way that I look at it is that if you don't have kids - try to enjoy yourself as best you can and try not to do too much harm.

If you have kids & care about their happiness - fight really hard for space exploration and encourage your kids to learn how to be useful either on a spaceship or on a colony on some other world.

Of course, getting a whole bunch of money would help too.

Other than that - who cares? Petrolium will be used up in another 20 years or so, some or another nuclear plant will have a meltdown and make a European or Japanese or U.S. city the next Chernobyl. And some disease that makes AIDS look like the sniffles will eventually come along (and will still seem to miss affecting the wealthy.)

By the way - a question up above (from Kim, I think) asked how much of US oil is exported - as far as I know, none is, though we do export a lot of oil-based products (plastics, additives, chemicals, etc.) If Bush want's to reduce our dependency on foreign oil, the easiest thing to do would be to annex Mexico and possible Venezuela (rename them Old Mexico and South Alaska).

pax yall