My POV Part 4

So do we stay the coarse, and stay in Iraq?
We are just buying ourselves time.
In the end we lose because the resource won't be there.
So maybe we pull out now?
But now we have just given up our seat at the "oil table" and we have to deal without the resource now. Remember the job's I was taking about?
Hell, we can't stand $3.00 plus a gallon now! Try $8 to $10, heck lets not be shy, how about $20 to $25 PLUS per gallon.
If you think that's an exaggeration, ask someone from England, or just look up online what a gallon of gas in the UK is going for. (U K $7.74 tax incl February 2008)

The way I see it, we adapt or die as a country.

I am saying that if we want to keep our economy rolling, and what I mean by that is, the Dollar having more value than the Peso, and foreign powers from economically holding us hostage, we need to walk away from the oil dependency.
In other words, don't fight that fight, get ahead of it.

I can not justify in my mind, the loss of our, Freedom's, Liberty's, Economy,and our young men and women, for a resource that is, by all educated calculations is going to be gone in approximately 15 years. If we want to stay out of conflict after conflict, and keep America a superpower we need to make the change from an "oil driven economy" yesterday. It hasn't even started to get ugly, wait till the world is about to completely run out of oil. What? You think that China, and Russia would think twice about trying to wipe us out, so they can have our share of what's left of the oil reserve, fifteen or so years from now? Yea we are looking at some bad times if we have the guts to do it now. The upside is after the dust settled our economy would end up becoming bullet proof.
We wouldn't be involved in regional conflict's time and again, and our politics, economy and freedoms wouldn't be at the whims of foreign powers. We would take the teeth away from them.
Or maybe we should pass the buck to the next generation?
Or maybe, we should wait till we are paying $40 for a bag of apple's.
Oppps, I forgot, there is no one to pass the buck to.
Hey, but what the hell do I know?