SCREWED

After all this, we don't even get cheap gas out of the whole mess:

Barring the unexpected, oil prices have no place to go but up -- and the United States isn't well prepared for a high-cost oil future. It has made only feeble efforts to develop alternatives to oil or to improve fuel efficiency, especially in cars. And though some of this reluctance is cultural -- Americans like big cars and hate being forced to conserve -- the main factor is economic: Oil has been so cheap for so long that most consumers simply don't worry about the risks of relying so heavily on a single fuel."

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