Oil is going to get more and more scarce, and thus more and more expensive. If Americans can’t afford to buy cheap goods from China because they are spending more and more income on gasoline the economy will teeter.

It will be difficult to maintain the suburban lifestyle under this new economic order and quality of living will decrease as oil prices increase, eroding the middle class and crushing the poor.

American infrastructure will not be able to adapt quickly enough to higher energy costs, as previously stated. So the danger is not just that gas/transportation/freight costs will continue to rise, but that our infrastructure is not designed for $4 gas.

We must find new alternative fuels and utilize a broad array of current methods in order to solve this problem. Domestic production increases are not the permanent solution we need.

Private sector research and development of solar, wind and biofuels is fine, but government subsidies and mandates doesn’t make any sense. For the last few decades the left has blocked efforts to increase our domestic supply. The political pressure is finally building to expand the supply.

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