| I just can't help but think that we currently do not have the right people to make this happen. When I think about what a Roosevelt or Eisenhower or even a Wilson would have done to make the switch to alternative fuels happen, given the current political status of our world, I can't help but think it would have been more, better and faster.
I don't have faith that the economy will just suddenly adapt the moment the national gas average hits 5 bucks a gallon. I live in Northern VA, right outside DC, and this entire area is based around commuting. Everything from the Metro to the freeways to the absurd housing prices around the Northern VA area. When even upper middle class people cannot reasonably afford to live within a 45 minute commute of their work, how is the economy supposed to just magically adapt all of the sudden? Another urban housing boom? Yeah that's all we fucking need. I don't know mucha bout economics and would never pretend that I do, but I do not see any kind of infrastructure in place for the impending reality of what gas prices will be. | 