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No, I don't want to keep my quality of life, I want it to be better. We are Americans. We have always left the following generation better off. Just because Obama says things like we aren't going to be able to keep our homes the temperature we want, eat what we want, drive what we want, doesn't make it true. He's not going to be in office forever. Hopefully our next president will have a better vision for this great country. There's no reason, if we all pull together, that we can't undo all the damage he has done and get us back on the track to prosperity.
By the way, I didn't mention oil, but since you did, I'll say Drill Baby Drill. As long as we are using oil, it should be from our own resourses. But we need to utilize all forms of known energy and invest in new ideas. Conservation is only a small part in the big scheme of things.
Pretty words and big ideas wont protect you from basic mathematics. It's not even just energy, our resource consumption across the board is not sustainable. Hope and dreams aren't going to create more oil, coal, iron, or aluminum. Optimism and political philosophy cannot and will not change the fundamental fact that right now we consume more than the earth produces.
You act as though this is somehow political. It's not. It's reality. We can't just sit around and assume the free market will come up with a solution of its own accord. We have to work at it, hard, and we have to buy ourselves some time by curbing wasteful practices. Nobody has advocated cutting off use of fossil fuels. Nobody is suggesting we go cold turkey. What we're suggesting is that we take a step back and realize that we need a significant change in our habits if we're going to reach that goal of leaving the next generation better off than we are now.
Nothing worth doing ever came easy. Yes, goddamnit, we are going to have to make some sacrifices.