Quote Originally Posted by cigar no baka
I could give a flying fuck less if peaches cost $2 each. That's a price I'm willing to pay. Our national sovereignty is NOT for sale.
That's pretty easy to say when peaches cost 50c, less so when they're $2.

Look at the price of gasoline. It's gone up less than a dollar, yet everyone's acting like its the first sign of the Apocalypse.

Look at our "dependence on foreign oil". There are literally dozens of ways to ACTUALLY reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

Renewable wind energy would dramatically reduce our dependence on foreign oil for electricity production, but it costs about 25% more, so no one will switch.

Adding an E85 option at the gas pump would reduce our reliance on foreign oil for automobiles by 75%, but it costs 20c per gallon more, so no one will carry it.