“Saving energy in your home will, especially as electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles become available, help us to break our foreign oil habit while also preventing us from having to radically increase our energy supply by building new power plants.” Domestic oil will help us break our “habit”…there’s a loaded word. Why isn’t it “foreign oil sources”? Why is a new power plant a “radical increase in supply”? An increase in supply is an intelligent choice. We cannot hybrid-vehicle and light-bulb our way out of Saudi, or Canadian or Mexican oil. What wrong with American oil? What ever we don’t buy that’s not our oil will sell somewhere else. Just watch events a bit longer. A crisis will erupt and then the enviro restrictions and eco-blinders stopping us from developing our own oil sources will look very foolish by comparison. As will the virtue quotient beaming down on someone in a house full of CFL’s.
