[Updated Feb 20, 2007]
I was inspired by richardbelldc's diary, "The Biggest Market Failure the World Has Ever Seen", but I was disappointed by what I did not see in the comments. I started to write a comment, but then I decided it would make more sense to just write a separate diary altogether.
There is a war going on in the Green Party about the best way to address our future energy needs and how to go about solving global warming. (See the article, Nuclear energy can't solve global warming, Other remedies 7 times more beneficial) The issues are deep and complex. Further complicating matters, people inevitably become emotionally involved in the issues surrounding nuclear energy, without understanding the full scope of the opposing point of view.
Moreover, the addiction to oil goes much deeper than global warming. If someone were to ask me, "Could you sum up in one word, all the of the problems we face today, whether it is politics, war, the economy, or the environment?", I would have to answer, "Yes: oil."
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