Five Dollar Gas

> I have to disagree Long term, with the ever increasing global demand for
> energy, fossil fuels will become scarce or so expensive we can,t afford them
> or the pollution they create.

Unfortunately, neither the producer nor the consumer of fossil fuels pay the
pollution cost, but instead the general public. This means that while the
cost of the energy may (or even has) become too high to bear, people will
still keep using them.