Greenpeace

Let us be realistic. We need oil in the short term for transportation. Within a generation, hybrid and electric vehicles, and many sources of the electricity to power the grid.

In the meantime we need oil for vehicles, trains, aircraft and ships.

A reasonable solution is putting tax dollars where they belong. Why are U.S. income tax dollars subsidizing highways and airports - which lead to massive consumption of oil?

Instead, raise the tax on oil to subsidize other means of transportation - public, trains, tax credits for hybrids (recently been done).

We have only been using petroleum for a century, which is less than what we have been using coal.

What else can we do? We can consume less fuel by doing things such as eating less meat - I've been flexitarian since before Memorial Day, 1992. How many of us eat too much meat, which uses forty times the fossil fuel to produce as does soybean?

And we have to consider the bottom line, growth and development. Remember the Sierra Club election several years ago over taking a stand on illegal aliens? More people means more petroleum.

I have no children and plan on one child and adoption.