Alternative Fuel Cars could fix the recession.
by Acer | Published on April 28th, 2008, 8:04 pm | Sports
If we want to fix our economy, the only possible way is to make alternative fuel cars. America in the past has remained a world power because when it recognized it could not win the game, it changed it. We changed how wars were fought, we changed how food was grown, we changed how things were produced. Right now, the OPEC cartel hordes oil, thus keeping prices high - and with china approaching being a bigger user than the US, it will only get worse, OPEC will not going to increase output to meet that demand. Thus, an enormous chunk of wealth goes straight to the Middle East and Venezuela.Alternative fuel cars and energy plants will reduce dependence on foreign oil. But that is not the only plus. The other is that when we produce these cars, who else will want to reduce their dependence on OPEC? Everyone!Especially Europe. Who in this scenario is the only provider? The US! WE will make money. Not the middle east. Not to mention that a decrease in the Mid East's income means less money that the Iranian Govt. can spend on creating nuclear weapons.
The biggest hindrance to this effort is the tree-huggers, and the people who hate tree-huggers. Their damn petty arguments about global warming and whether or not it exists has taken attention away from the non-environmental benefits of not using fossil fuels. It is not about that anymore. It's about remaining a world power. The most unfortunate thing about the whole argument is that now many conservatives and others have decided using fossil fuels is "American", and not using them is "Un-American". "un-American" is getting in the way of beneficial progress, and sending all our money to countries that may use it for dastardly intentions (not that all do, but for sure at least a few).
Bottom line: the only country with enough power to change the game is sitting on its hands. The cost is too high to change to another fuel source?! The cost is to high to remain! I love oil as much as the next guy, I love the machines that use it (I'm a total gear-head). But it's not the way to go anymore. Are we seriously going to wait until there is an equilibrium between the cost of either? Or worse, will we wait until Europe does it first? In the latter case, we would not possibly make any money out of it.
