# Our nation's economic woes **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [May 29, 2008, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-nations-economic-woes/451010 "2008-05-29T14:14:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-nations-economic-woes/451010/61 "2008-06-03T06:20:57Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] Repealing W’s tax cuts would be a **start,** at least. [/QUOTE] Do you mean the tax rebate? If so, that wasn’t specifically his idea. ---
**Author:** ![anu-la1979](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@anu-la1979](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anu-la1979)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-nations-economic-woes/451010/62 "2008-06-03T16:57:32Z")
> [@](#): > > That what your crystal ball tells you? Mine tells me there is no alternative technology on the horizon that will make it possible for us to run our easy-motoring society the way we have been since WWII. Well, Sapphire Energy is being awfully cagey about the costs, but L.A. Times ran a big article on them in the Business section saying (as in, just days ago) that they expect to have green crude up and running at commercial rates within 5 years. There was a small nugget in there about the price per barrel being “within the range of regular crude” but since that’s a moving target right now, who knows what they’re really saying. [green crude](http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-fi-greencrude29-2008may29,0,7208016.story) It seems like Arch just wrote them a blank check. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-nations-economic-woes/451010.md?page=3)