I should be President
So I have this brilliant plan to help with our energy crisis. I think if the government did these three things, gas prices would go down and we could all breath a little easier. Here they are:
1. Pass legislation demanding that we reduce our foreign dependency on oil by 40% over the next 10 years. This will do two things. First, it will immediately cause current oil prices to fall in anticipation of the reduced demand. Second, it will stimulate efforts to find and optimize alternate energy sources.
2. Offer tax credits to anyone driving less than 10,000 miles a year. This could cause an increase in public transportation and car pooling which would in effect decrease demand and thus lower the current oil price.
3. Secretly dig tunnels into the Middle Eastern oil fields and siphon away the crude oil. Ok, this one wasn't too good, but I really think the first two would help.
