On the Price of Gas

Thomas L Friedman on the price of gas:

When a person is addicted to crack cocaine, his problem is not that the price of crack is going up. His problem is what that crack addiction is doing to his whole body. The cure is not cheaper crack, which would only perpetuate the addiction and all the problems it is creating. The cure is to break the addiction.

Ditto for us. Our cure is not cheaper gasoline, but a clean energy system. And the key to building that is to keep the price of gasoline and coal — our crack — higher, not lower, so consumers are moved to break their addiction to these dirty fuels and inventors are moved to create clean alternatives.

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2 comments

  1. Richard
    July 30, 2008 at 8:12 am

    I agree…one thing that I have not heard from our leaders is the “c” word…conservations!

  2. Micaela
    July 30, 2008 at 8:25 am

    I heard a guy talking on NPR yesterday about this:

    How to harvest solar power? Beam it down from space!
    http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/05/30/space.solar/index.html

    Hmm…interesting. The beams coming from space concerns me a little.