by Duane Kuehn

Created on: November 03, 2007

It might first be interesting to note that the energy consortium is the only business entity which has, in this administration, been the only U.S. market which has continuously increased in stock value.

Secondly, now debated, as the Democrats have entered a majority in the House of Representatives, whether to issue a "Windfall Profit" tax on the oil industry, a profit you paid into.

This world needs to adapt to the energy situation, not promote its continuance. New and innovative sources of energy, much less destructive to the surrounding world, adopted.

Rationing energy is an answer, but it is a putting off what we are making inevitable damage to the environment.

Aside from the fact that "rationing" merely means the poor will suffer. The rich, if not though one "loophole" or another, will find ways to circumvent a rationing situation.

If we cannot do the math, we can still read the writing on the wall.

There is actually no reason for the high costs of energy now in effect, and rising. Even national energy grids to alleviate problems considered highly functional, but have little merit. Hardly! Not only paid for by additional cost to the consumer, they will be highly susceptible to "crashes" or "blackouts" to larger and larger areas.

Drilling for new oil is very detrimental to the environment, and the living conditions of humankind. Just check out Texas, oil yes, but this "hole" replaced by something. Apparently replaced by water as wells move to lower levels or dry completely.

What happened during the last, and less forbidding, oil crisis? The government immediately moved to speed limits at no more than 50 miles an hour. The best speed for consuming less gasoline. This time, we simply triple the price at the pump and make the oil consortium billions.

More drilling will do nothing to address the effects of global warming. Rationing will only delay the inevitable.

Adaptation is the only logical and effective answer to addressing this problem.

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