Would you support higher gas prices if they paved the way for more alternative energy projects?

Question

"Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe," Mr. Chu, who directs the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal in September 2008. (Chu was appointed to the Obama administartion as energy secretary.)

But Mr. Obama has dismissed the idea of boosting the federal gasoline tax, a move energy experts say could be the single most effective step to promote alternative energies and temper demand. Mr. Obama said Sunday that a heightened gas tax would be a "mistake" because it would put "additional burdens on American families right now."

Falling prices and scarce credit already are putting the lid on hundreds of alternative-energy projects across the country, from wind farms to biofuel refineries. Reviving those projects, even with significant government incentives, won't be easy.

"There's no way we can create a better future without the price of [fossil-fuel-based] energy going up," said Jay Hakes, who headed the Energy Information Administration under President Bill Clinton. "But it's tough for a politician to get up and say 'Your prices are going to have to go up.' "

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Answer 1

I wouldn't. But Obama is doing just that -- and the "green" companies he is so fond of keep falling apart. And that's despite him banning the new gas pipelines, which would've made gasoline cheaper.

Answer 2

It's a false argument. By increasing our production and use of clean coal, natural gas, and even crude. While simultaneously developing our hydraulic, wind, solar and bio(minus our food). There wouldn't be a need for increasing prices. That is actually the energy platform the president ran on but switched once in office. The green technologies are at least 20 years off. To push us on them now will do irreparable harm to our economy.

Answer 3

A strong industrialized economy needs reliable and inexpensive sources of power, the opposite of what obama and chu want.

Answer 4

I drive an electric car, and my house runs on its own solar energy supply, so it wouldn't effect me much. The idiots in this nation need to learn that we live in a world of finite resources, and that we can no longer sustain our wasteful lifestyles.

Answer 5

If we want to live free. All Must pay. Id support whatever is necessary to maintain this country's heartbeat.

Answer 6

Zzzzzzzzzzzz....

Answer 7

NO!!

Answer 8

NO!