Old Guy, the idea is to eliminate our dependance on oil altogether. Then we won't have to worry about hostile countries using it as a weapon against our economy. We can drastically reduce our dependance on Middle Eastern oil right now if we start using common sense conservation measures. And that would be the truly 'conservative' thing to do.

What Mr. Bush and his oil buddies are doing is to promote the most wasteful oil consumption practices possible because it makes them even more obscenely wealthy than they already are. They don't care whether or not my son gets sent to Iraq to get killed in the process of securing Iraqi oil resources, as long as they continue to get richer in the process.

None of this is necessary. We are already in a position to be able to drastically reduce our dependance on foriegn sources of oil, right now. We have the technology. All we need to do is to do it.