An overhaul in Americans’ driving habits has been necessary for a long time. SUV hogs have encouraged oil producers to keep doing things they way they’ve always been done. If it wasn’t for the booming 1990s and the rise in use of SUVs we might have had alternative energy sources by now. But Americans have relied on oil from the Middle East, propping up a false security at home based on undue optimism, and now look at the boat we’re in.
To top it off, Bush’s unjust war in Iraq and the long-term occupation of Afghanistan aren’t helping energy prices at all. The U.S. military is the largest consumer of petroleum products and as long as we continue our occupation efforts, we will need the oil and we are the mercy of oil drillers in the Middle East. President Bush has done us no favors with his foreign policy initiatives and it will be a long time before the U.S. recovers from its self-induced economic problems.
