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Originally Posted by pramjockey
No, the left have been saying "dependence on oil is dangerous - let's find other sources of energy." A far better long-term solution.
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They may have been
saying it.
But when the Democratic Party enjoyed majority control of both the House and Senate during the mid 90s under a Democratic president they didn't
do anything about it.
This has only become a serious issue, for either party, over the last few years. And for neither party does it really have as much to do with sustainability as it does with current gas pricing.
If gas prices were still artificially low the Democrats wouldn't have made this an issue, future be damned.
But now that the price Americans pay for gas is reaching the level that other nations have been paying for gas all along the Democrats have turned this into one more platform by which they can attempt to benefit the lower class by increasing taxes, quotas, regulations, and fines on the upper class and/or business and industry.
Classic rob-from-the-rich-give-to-the-poor liberal politics.
The fact that Al Gore and the eco-lunatic fringe are crusading for green/renewable/alternate energy sources is a different argument entirely.