[Coach_Owens87]

Our current oil situation is not the fault of any single person or political party, and has been building up for over forty years. Oil production peaked in the US during the mid 70's, we then began looking elsewhere of more oil. Today our economy and our existence is based on oil. OPEC will keep up production to meet the world's demands no more no less, if they increase production prices will drop and IMO OPEC will not let prices drop very much. I think we need to look at this situation in two ways, what can we do for the short term to ease the prices and what can we do for the long term.

For the short term (1) I think we need to drill in Alaska, along the coastlines and anywhere else we can find oil, (2) We need to add CTL (Coal to Liquid). (3) Develop ways to improve full mileage.

For the long term (1) I think we need to continue to develop ethanol base fuel, we know corn is not the best way to go, but sugar cane is being used in Brazil with a lot of sucess etc. (2) Continue to develop ways to improve full mileage. (3) Continue to find ways to improve CTL. (3) Continue to search for new oil fields that could not be reached before.

Number 3 is the only plan that sounds reasonable. CTL is a joke and will not work, just like drilling in ANWR will not solve our oil problem