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Our tremendous energy addiction is the source of our national energy crisis.
Some of these arguments are close analogies to a heroin junky complaining that the reason why they're homeless is the fact that the prices have went up, and if more people would grow poppy then they'd be able to have a happy lives and shoot up in the living room of their new home.
8000lb RVs, 4 wheelers, boats, airplanes, etc etc are invalid excuses. They are luxuries, and as such are an extraneous consumption of money. Play outside... Camp in a tent... Buy canoes... Trade in the ATVs for mountain bikes... Read books with your kids...
If you don't "like" or "want" to do these things, then pay for the fuel. I like to drink micro-brewed beer, so I don't shout at the clerk because it costs 9 dollars a six pack. Beer is not a necessity, not unlike boats and 4 wheelers.
And on Iraq... Creating the world's largest refugee crisis, killing thousands upon tens of thousand of innocent Iraqis, and endebting us to nearly a trillion dollars (and in doing so, creating more crisis by trashing the dollar) was not worth 1 barrel of oil, or a billion. To buy that analogy, you must say that if someone breaks into your house and shoots you and your wife to steal money for his family, then he's justified.
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