>And here we are with enough oil in Alaska to provide the U.S. fifty years, but we'd rather pay to have the drilling done in another country than in our own. Can't dirty our environment but we'll certainly pump everything into the air we can. We have oil offshore, but environmentalists fight drilling there so instead other nations drill just outside our waters. A 25yr freeze on offshore drilling for oil and gas. Sheesh, it's just being drilled by someone else.

One can only admire the consistency ;).

>Then there's Al Gore whose resolution was to only give tax breaks to those who drove battery operated cars or bought carbon offsets.

And those who drive bicycles or shoes go completely tax free?

> They either need to drill in Alaska and every where else including Colorado, offshore every coast or they need to build a reliable mass transit system in every small town USA to the cities across the nation.

Norfolk here is building light rail. There are railroad tracks going through Virginia Beach almost to the shore, but they are decommissioned (or "exempt" as the road sign says). It would be a piece of cake to revamp the track - no buildings to tear, no land to buy off, groundwork done already - but the city opted not to join in, because of (I'd never have guessed) the noise. Mind you, the track is mostly going through the less populated areas or business zones, and is mostly near the I-264, which is anywhere between 3 and 6 lanes from west end to the east. And that's in the city where the most popular bumper sticker is "I love jet noise" - NAS Oceana is the single largest employer, and the jet fighters are flying just a few hundred feet above the hotels around 24th-30th street.

And let's not forget that we'd also like to join in some of the tourist stuff that's going on on the boardwalk in the summer, but we don't go because there's no good parking space - unless we take the garage at the 9th, which may be full during larger events and then the extra parking is few miles south and then they have to provide public transportation to and from these parking lots.

Horses, sure. The sticker would be "I love jet manure".