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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Can someone explain why we should all of a sudden strive to be an oil-free society?</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Whether we get oil here or imported it, we still have to pay for it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The foreign sources that have oil also need people to buy their oil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a competitive world oil market setting the price according to supply and demand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We may be running out of oil, but we are not there yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And as we do run out, the market will gradually find substitutions at its own pace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, we have national policies that are discouraging domestic oil production.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Becoming independent of foreign oil could be advanced by stepping up domestic production, but that option is not on the table for larger reasons of an environmental nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So in the final analysis, it is not just an objective of becoming free of foreign oil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a matter of stopping the use of oil. Why are we being asked to give up oil at an enormous cost? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">I think this proposal to electrify the railroads to achieve oil-free society is overstating a problem to turn it into a crisis that supposedly needs some swift action; a kind of Marshall Plan to go <span style="text-decoration: underline;">non-oil</span> for national security, if you will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p>
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