"The World Is Flat" author, Thomas Friedman, wrote a fantastic op-ed piece in the New York Times, the Grand Rapids Press and probably elsewhere. Most powerfully, he said:
“When a person is addicted to crack cocaine, his problem is not that the price of crack is going up. His problem is what that crack addiction is doing to his whole body. The cure is not cheaper crack, which would only perpetuate the addiction and all the problems it is creating. The cure is to break the addiction.”
If you read the whole article, you’ll note that he is talking about America’s addiction to oil and the mad rush by some to drill into every piece of land and sea where there isn’t an oil derrick in order to bring down the price of gas. As our friend Dave Bulkowski from Disability Advocates of Kent County noted, if we’re addicted to oil, shouldn’t we be headed to rehab and searching for ways to change our ways?