quietsurvivorfan wrote:
We need to find alternate sources here (yes, drill in anwar, drill off the coasts of FL and CA) and build more refineries. We also need to develop alternatives to petroleum for energy without killing the economy, again no easy answers.

Big fucking red ecks!

We need a modern day Manhattan Project for energy and transportation technologies. If you can spend 520+ billion on the Iraq war imagine what an anglo/american/select Euro technology project with 250 billion could do. The patents and technology owned by the member nations. Have the military and intelligence agencies provide security, build research labs at every major college in the Western World fund it like no other project.

It would make the Hugo Chavez's and OPEC irrelevent.