# Gore Wins Nobel Peace Prize **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [October 12, 2007, 6:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gore-wins-nobel-peace-prize/193001 "2007-10-12T06:23:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 115
**Author:** ![beat90tsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/43a26b/32.png) [@beat90tsi](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/beat90tsi)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 1:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gore-wins-nobel-peace-prize/193001/115 "2007-10-15T13:04:34Z")
> [@Pancakes Vs. Bacon](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pancakes-vs-bacon/33000/40): > > 1. We burn a shitload of oil. > 2. We burn so much we have to depend heavily on the middle east > 3. If we were to attain energy independence through alternative biofuels, more efficient cars, solar power, etc. it would benefit the environment greatly. > 4. If we were to attain energy independence through alternative biofuels, more efficient cars, solar power, etc. it would benefit our economy and our country because farmers would be making our fuel, which could end the enormous tax subsidies we pay them, and we would stop pouring billions of dollars a day into a region which hates us and is hell bent on our destruction. Energy independence would be grand, however, we all know that “government run” or “government mandated” energy research will involve more waste than we can bear to think. The best thing we could possibly do, is just ban the import of foreign oil. The market will dictate the price of oil when that ban takes place, and that price structure will drive the alternatives. Give Industry a few years heads-up, and we will have energy independence, someone smart and greedy will devise a way to do it, no doubt about it. Why do we keep using oil? Simple Economics, nothing cheaper is available. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gore-wins-nobel-peace-prize/193001)._