I wonder if wel'll ever live to the day to see the following question in a poll: "Do you support introducing a gas tax that will finance developing alternatives?"
I suppose - never, because everyone knows what the answer will be. Which makes me very suspicious about the ability of "democracy as we know it" to solve problems requiring unpopular measures. Well we have the Roosvelt and Chirchil examples when WWII struck - but then the problem was apparent and people were easy to convince. That's why I think if we have any chance for the future is to make the problem apparent now. Well... I don't know, you may think I'm a crazy dreamer :) But I do believe that if some terrorist group finds a way to take out Ghawar for several months, this could be the greatest favour for our children someone has ever done.