You believe 3000+ young soldiers lives who signed up to defend our country and the $354,984,587,527 price were worth it?
Yes, absolutely.
During the evacuation of Houston during Hurricane Rita (along with what had already happened in nearby New Orleans), I got to see first-hand what happens when you take oil out of the equation. (all the gas stations were out... took like a week to get 100% back to normal). Without gasoline, nobody gets to work (including doctors, cops, and fireman). No food gets delivered to grocery stores or restaurants. Prescription meds? forget it... none are being delivered to the pharmacies, and there are no workers there anyway, since they have no transportation. I could write a 4-page post about what would happen to our lives if the oil supply got interupted even a little bit, but the point is most people really have no clue. I didn't until a year ago. My eyes were really opened that week.
Since world oil supplies are fast running out, we need to get our transportion sector switched over to alternatives, but that will take decades. In the meantime, we need to ensure we can maintain our oil supplies. When you look at and really understand the alternatives, YES that's absolutely worth 3000 lives... it's worth 30,000!
