Reply #9: I would like to respond but I am at work

[kwolf68]

What your friend is doing is outright lying. He states or implies that Kerry wants to completely eliminate using fossil fuels.

Nothing could be further from the truth. The fuel/oil that propels our jets, cars, and makes our products and heats our homes WILL STILL BE IN SUPPLY.

Kerry's plan is to begin a true exploration of fuels that can rid ourselves of this dependence and in the least create a "competitve market" with dirty oil. Consumers should have choices among products (that is the basic definition of "free markets"), but too often "choice" limits profits and forces creative thinking. I should have a "choice" to heat my home with solar energy that is at least economically comparable to gas heat. But alas, we don't have real choice. If every car suddenly got 90 miles to the gallon now who the hell would that affect? Freaking oil companies. The lower they can push gas prices (while still being profitable) and the worse the gas mileage of our cars the more money they make.

You think for a 2nd they want to invest millions of dollars into R&D for alternative fuels? Or do you think they want to compete with potentially more environmentally friendly resources? Hell no they don't and they OWN the current administration.

Fossil fuels are a finite resource. They will be gone one day. In addition, even if these fuels were infinite, the burning of fossil fuels is arguably leading to the death of our planet.

It isn't the "ultra-Liberal environmentalist" I am worried about as much as the crooked, greedy, corrupt corporate oligarchs who craft energy legislation that the American people don't even have a RIGHT TO SEE. To me, that is radical.

I can easily expand on this in time, but later.