The United States of America needs to be completely free of gasoline powered cars within ten years if we wish to be secure and prosperous and save the planet.
Our dependence on foreign oil, mostly from the Persian Gulf, has led to a war and occupation of a Middle Eastern country, and threatens to send us into another. Only an end to our need for foreign oil will bring peace and stability to our nation and the Middle East.
Our dependence on oil has added to the problems we face with climate change and only by changing to a different fuel source that does not hurt the earth can we hope to end the damage, though we probably cannot reverse much of the damage that has already been done during thirty years of complacency and argument.
Our dependence on oil is causing a transfer of wealth from the pockets of ordinary citizens to the coffers of oil companies and Middle Eastern countries. Only by producing our own energy sources here at home will we see a return to prosperity for the middle class.
John McCain and the republicans are having a snit fit and demanding that the democrats return to Congress and vote to allow more off-shore oil drilling. There are two problems with allowing new locations for off-shore oil drilling: it will not encourage the development of alternative fuels with the urgency needed, and it will not produce any gasoline for ten years, by which time we should end our need for it to fuel our cars.
Somehow the republicans think this demand for drilling is a winning issue for them. It may be, if enough of us are dumb enough not to realize it will do nothing to lower the price of a gallon of gasoline, nor will it help us move away from gasoline engines, nor do anything to stop global warming.
The oil companies have made record profits in the last quarter. They have also spent record amounts of money trying to debunk the science of climate change so they can convince everyone to keep using gasoline powered engines, and keep drilling their way to more record profits. There are currently two oil men in the White House and over the past eight years they have done nothing to lower the price of gasoline or develop alternative fuel sources. Now they have called for more drilling off the coast.
When are we going to wake up and see reality? How dumb are we going to be?
Want more of the same? Vote McCain!
