They never seem to realize that there are many, many gasoline and diesel powered vehicles on the road that are going to be running for a lot more years.
The way the global warmist talk you would think that every one of the gas guzzlers would be dead and buried in about 5 years if they get their way.
'Renewable energy good, but we need oil now'
Perino objects to Dem plan to keep prices high, 'move beyond petroleum'
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=70473Renewable energy is a praiseworthy goal, but the U.S. needs more oil now, according to White House spokeswoman Dana Perino.
She told a press briefing today it's going to take time to switch from oil and gas to "alternatives and renewables."
Her comments came in response to a question from Les Kinsolving, WND's correspondent at the White House.
He asked: "On Bloomberg Television, Washington State's Democrat U.S. Sen. [Maria] Cantwell said that Democrats don't want to increase oil supplies because they want to wean Americans off petroleum and into 'things like wind and solar that can help us with our high cost of natural gas.' And my question: Does the White House believe this is at all helpful to our present rising costs of more than $4 a gallon?"
"We have said that we believe there needs to be a transition period between the traditional oil and gas use that we have today to when we would [be] able to run on alternatives and renewables," Perino said, "and it's going to take a little while of time.
"That's why we think that we need to open up more of our own resources here at home so we can add more supply to the market," she said.
Asked point-blank if Democrats in the Senate would consider how increasing the supply of oil would lower the prices that are pinching U.S. consumers, Cantwell replied: "Oh, we definitely want to move beyond petroleum. And so there will be a supply side offered by the Democrats and it will include everything from battery technology to making sure that we have good home domestic supply, and looking, as I said about moving faster on those kind of things like wind and solar that can help us with our high cost of natural gas."
Her negative point was underlined by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, who said Democrats are not even permitting debate on legislation and amendments designed to increase the supply of oil and gasoline to U.S. consumers.
"Today, the appropriations markup that was going to include amendments that would open up the outer continental shelf and maybe even shale in Colorado and Utah was canceled," she told the same Bloomberg interviewer. "It wasn't postponed, it was canceled. So that indicates to me that the majority is not going to try to have an open debate, but I hope I'm wrong. If they have an open debate, and we're allowed to have amendments, and we have a balanced plan that includes production in all the sectors, then I believe we can meet this problem in a bipartisan way, and that's what we should be doing for America."
In a second question, Kinsolving asked, "Does the White House believe that our nation's media should strive for neutrality in covering the presidential race? And do you believe that most of them are neutral, or that most of them are biased in support of one candidate?"
"I'll answer the first, but not the second. Yes, I think that everyone should try to cover candidates equally. But it will be up to everybody else to analyze," Perino said.