No Mullah Left Behind
Thomas Friedman lays it out - plain and simple. The problem is changing consumers' behavior towards consumption. For the benefits gained by conservation and less reliance on foreign owners of our debt, the offsets to GDP related to the auto and oil industries would have to exceed in order to shift attitudes.
Still, I'd pay more at the pump if I knew I had a car that was highly efficient (hybrid or fuel-cell) or that I could rely on public transportation. Unfortunately our infrastructure in the US is so fundamentally different than that of most European nations (where gas is taxed high in order to conserve and cities/countries are small), we're stuck with what we've got. But, we need to start making changes somewhere/somehow.
The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: No Mullah Left Behind
Still, I'd pay more at the pump if I knew I had a car that was highly efficient (hybrid or fuel-cell) or that I could rely on public transportation. Unfortunately our infrastructure in the US is so fundamentally different than that of most European nations (where gas is taxed high in order to conserve and cities/countries are small), we're stuck with what we've got. But, we need to start making changes somewhere/somehow.
The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: No Mullah Left Behind
posted by scott at 2/14/2005
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