First of all I would like to remind everyone that George Bush was a Governor prior to holding the office of the President of the United States. He was never a member of Congress. This is important because the Bush-Bashing, Black Helicopter crowd wishes to link him with a vast right wing conspiracy known as "Blood For Oil". However, it was the Senate who chose to drive the concept of "Blood For Oil" in their May 13th, 2008 (97-1) vote which soundly rejected the Republican Energy Plan, which promoted offshore drilling and opening up Alaska (ANWR) for oil exploration. This control over an expanded domestic oil production is crucial because, currently, we are beholding to the Middle East for our oil supplies. Everyone remembers the Middle East, this is where the "Blood" component of "Blood For Oil" comes from because, as we know, the United States is fighting a war in the region and our soldiers are dying. Clearly, any "Blood For Oil" program was perpetuated, BY THE SENATE, on Tuesday the 13th with a vote which, not only rejected domestic exploration for oil, but guaranteed continuing entanglements in the Middle East to protect our oil interests there. In so doing, the Senate now owns "Blood For Oil" and, hopefully, the Bush Bashers will make a note of this lest they selectively forget.
Instead of a far-sighted energy plan, inclusive of nuclear, wind, solar and domestic oil energy, which seeks to wean the United States off of their reliance on foreign oil, the brain trust in D.C. came up with, yet, another band-aid solution to the problem, diverting the oil, destined for the Strategic Oil Reserve, to our gas tanks. Instead of working toward self-reliance based on our own, massive, oil reserves, the Senate, NOT Bush, is working on policies which will guarantee continuing entanglements in that volatile region that we have come to know as the Middle East.
Clearly, the world's oil supplies are finite and in need of replacement through a, more sustainable, source. If we can develop a program, such as the Manhattan Project, to destroy mankind, is it not possible to muster the same national will to produce a program that will benefit mankind?
I'm still searching for the filling station where I can get a tank of hydrogen for my fuel cell car that has yet to be produced.
Instead of a far-sighted energy plan, inclusive of nuclear, wind, solar and domestic oil energy, which seeks to wean the United States off of their reliance on foreign oil, the brain trust in D.C. came up with, yet, another band-aid solution to the problem, diverting the oil, destined for the Strategic Oil Reserve, to our gas tanks. Instead of working toward self-reliance based on our own, massive, oil reserves, the Senate, NOT Bush, is working on policies which will guarantee continuing entanglements in that volatile region that we have come to know as the Middle East.
Clearly, the world's oil supplies are finite and in need of replacement through a, more sustainable, source. If we can develop a program, such as the Manhattan Project, to destroy mankind, is it not possible to muster the same national will to produce a program that will benefit mankind?
I'm still searching for the filling station where I can get a tank of hydrogen for my fuel cell car that has yet to be produced.
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