Free Gas?

Ok, so everyone is talking about the price of gas right now...and I'm affraid we, as a nation, like to pull the wool over our eyes on the fact that it is not going to get better if things continue the way they are going. There is only less and less gas available to us. The world's economy is growing at a very fast rate of 5% per year. Did you know what the first thing to change is in developing countries as people begin to earn more money? The very first change in their purchasing is meat. They eat more meat, because they need protein, and because they see Americans eating more meat.
The result of this and of the increased pressure to produce ethanol from food crops like corn (which is ridiculously inefficient), is that there is an incredible demand for nitrogen fertilizer. Did you know that nitrogen fertilizer is made directly from Natural Gas?
So why am I ranting about this? Well, let me preface this by saying that I am not trying to support any politician with this blog. My problem is with the ridiculously poor amount of thought that is going into our governmental decision making. The column below is about the new McCain-Hillary proposal to suspend the gov't tax on gasoline for the summer. If this happens we are all just going to consume a whole crap ton of gasoline, and the cost of this is not just inefficient use of a very finite resource, but there is an opportunity cost that we will pay as well. It will only suspend any urge to develop GOOD ideas for energy supply.
Again, I don't want to get political with this. I just wanted to rant, really.
But, if you are upset at the price of gas, soy milk, beef, or t-shirts, it is all connected. And it is going to require some real thinking on our parts to make any of it change. And let's contact our representatives!

Here's the column...