Brazil became "independent" because they opened one of the biggest oil fields in the world off their coast!

Gas tax holiday? What a joke! We Americans need to down size our appetite for energy and brace for the higher costs of wasting energy. America wake up! Purchase sensible sized cars which don’t waste fuel, sensible sized homes which don’t waste energy! We Americans have been too FAT AND HAPPY for too long. This energy crisis we see today is just the beginning. This is a wake up call. Is the American consumer listening? I doubt it.

Wonder why this question is never mentioned to out leaders? I don't blame the oil companies I blame our polictial leaders who lets them get by with ripping us off.

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A summer gas tax holiday will make matters worse not better. In the summer we driver more not less. Demand for fuel will grow. Any savings will be short lived because as demand grows, gas prices will increase. So the oil companies will get more $ because we're using more, and we'll get a whole lot less now because we suspended the tax that would have funded the repair of our streets (potholes!) and bridges.

I wonder why the photos haven't been changed for so long, I thought they were to be changed every week on wednesdays

When I was in Brazil in 1992, you had a choice of ethanol, alcohol or gasoline when you pulled into a filling station, they were way ahead of this curve

You see yes the Brazilians have managed to have 100% in house energy production, some of which apparently yes does come from sugar, as matter of fact at each gas station you have an ethanol pump as an option! What is not mentioned is the huge oil find offshore that the Brazilians found, the biggest find in decades, in fact so big they are thinking about joining Opec! you see the objective way to solve the energy crisis is to leave ALL options on the table (in no particular order!), lets find ways to conserve and be efficient with what we have, lets find ways to add to what we have (different energy sources including nuclear power ask France they know) and lets start drilling in the mean time offshore or otherwise! One of the overlooked reasons for the energy crisis is that china and India have tapped into the pipeline and increased the demand hence the price! Brazil is going to add to this pipeline as a source by 2010 I believe. We can also decrease our dependence on foreign oil if we tapped into the vast oil treasures that we have here in house, Alaska, California offshore, Texas offshore, etc! Give a tremendous push to go nuclear as per France. lets be wise yes conservation is very important, efficiency is paramount, but if these are the things we hold up and don't look at the whole pie we are in for a hurt economically and as a civilization as a whole! Case and point brazil, who decreased their dependence on oil by supplementing it with sugar (ethanol) and then complementing their whole energy crisis by investigating and finding in-house Oil. FYI our top oil importers are Mexico and Canada, not the Middle East, which I believe (could be corrected) is less than 10%! Most of oil does not come from “Big Oil” it comes from government owned Oil companies (e.g. Chavez, Saudi Arabia, mexico, Kuwait, etc), which then sell to American companies.