The Perfect Alternative To Energy’s Policy Change

I want to comment on a very interesting discussion that I read in Fractal of Change.

It discusses the missed opportunities to change the energy policy of America following 9/11 but it continues with Tom Evslin very sound claim that we are really ready for a change in the energy policy now and not that such changes can occur naturally from the market up because of the unreasonable price of fossil oil.

I thought that the claim was worth a further emphasis so I bring it here and take it a little further. Changes are hard, changes in thought patterns are even more difficult than changes in action.

As a country we and our administration are used to solve problems by doing something that help us feel in control therefore it is easier to start a war than to change the way we think about very wide aspects of our lives.

It is psychologically easier to travel twice in few mounts to Saudi Arabia and ask for better prices for oil then to change the way we live from the ground. If one is conservative or older then 40 it is much more hard.

Mass consciousness should be ready for major changes in the way we think and live and in this aspect Bush couldn’t be the barrier of this change.

The advantage of the oil price crisis and the years that passed from 9/11 is that now people are more ready, they naturally want cars that are economic, they’ll ask for more enlightened energy policy and if the American people is asking for the change the policy would follow.