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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by spbed Sorry as by law I think Alaskan oil will only go to the lower 48! The way I look at it it is like turning water on & off. The more people conserve the more oil producers just lower the output to compensate. The more used & the producers do not increase the price the higher the price will go. We either have to become self sufficent or make the oil producers believe that we ARE going to be self sufficent & you see how fast the price will plunge. if you did not see Indoenesians rioted yesterday over the price of their gas.[:(][:(] [/quote] If Congress wrote such a provision into the ANWR bill, it will likely be overturned by the courts as a restraint of trade. If that fails the oil companies could take the matter to the WTO. And even if that oil stops going to Japan, the oil from Souuth America that goes to Southern California will instead go to Japan. It's a world market and a great deal of the increased demand is coming from China and India. Trying to conserve or produce our way out of this won't work for the reasons you've given. What will is competition. Oil company representatives like to say we can't grow enough grain or produce enough alternative energy to replace oil, but it doesn't have to be an either/or answer. Natural gas likely couldn't supply all our transportation needs either, but if 1/4 of the cars and trucks could burn something other than oil. Ford currently produces something few people know about called the Flexible Fuel Vehicle. In my area the power company is runinng it's trucks on Bio-diesel, while tha gas company is running theirs on NG. Imagine if consumers had the same choice on a weekly basis.
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