For someone quite proud of their insight, you miss the point so often.

I'm not discussing my solutions for energy problems. I think you know what they are, and I don't have the time to educate you on oil reserves.

I'm pointing out that liberal "solutions" to energy issues have serious problems. Wouldn't be the first time.

It has been established, rightly or wrongly, that roads are now a government responsibility. After over a century of subsidizing the automobile, it seems odd that there's still astonishment that this transport technology is overused, but again, that's another issue. Your view of how the private sector would handle a simple problem of cooperation or organization is almost childish. Do you have any idea of the levels of cooperation required to simply make sure all the parts of a computer work in harmony? Or route communications lines around the world?

Back to the original point: If the government passes laws that cut the source of their funding off at the knees, something else will have to be done, and I guarantee you none of the economic geniuses in Washington, with their usual straight-line analysis, have thought that through.

It's the same kind of thinking that believes things like cigarette taxes can be raised to infinity and the revenue will always go up.