Although I don't blame fossil fuels alone for any global warming that might be occurring, I think that fossil fuels need to be phased out over the coming decades for other reasons. Look, even if the present level is not proven to be dangerous, it is unlikely that there won't be any negative effects when almost every person on Earth is someday living a modern technical car-driving lifestyle and burning the fuel Americans alone do now. In addition, fossil fuels are just to valuable for other things besides burning.

America isn't the immediate problem right now. China is. This is why Kyoto was a non-starter, as is every other collectivist concept whose sole goal is crippling the Western World.

Alternatives can be found. High oil prices are GOOD news, not bad. That's how the market works, and will drive those alternatives. And making nuclear power possible in America again wouldn't suck either.