Originally Posted by boneheaddoctor

Just another way for bleeding the middle class dry for feel good programs for those who make less mostly due to life decisions.

THere are options to reduce our dependence on foriegn oil but the tree hugger lobby is agains drilling for oil we do have, and oil can be made from coal that we do have coming out of our ears. If we built more refineries that the enviromentalists don't want us to do we wouldn't have these false shortages created due to existing refineries running at capacity.