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Perhaps The U.S. Should Burn This Bridge
Many years ago, I read about a concept which stated that if you are proposing a new business venture perhaps leaving your job instead of holding onto it as long as possible has its advantages. Doing this forces you to make a real effort to make your new business work since you can not readily go back to your job.I actually believe that this concept does have some merit. It forces you to focus on the task at hand and allows you to throw 100% of your efforts into your venture.
Perhaps we should look at utilizing this concept when attacking our energy issues.
Barack Obama does not believe that we should drill for oil off of the coast of Florida. Barack Obama does not believe we should drill for oil in ANWR. Barack Obama does not believe we should build new nuclear plants. In the face of what is going on currently this would seem to be lunacy. I am currently an undecided voter. Obama's stance on these issues definitely does not make me lean towards voting for him.
Foregoing drilling for more oil or building our nuclear capacity might be acceptable though if the United States were to be unified in the
one goal of becoming foreign oil independent. Because quite frankly if we
are not going to drill for more oil we better figure something else out.
We need to focus and we need to have our industry experts putting forth 100% of
their time and energy into finding a workable solution to this problem.
I think there is a bit of misinformation about the length of time it would take to retrieve oil from these sources. I keep hearing
ten years from the majority of the media outlets. Legitimate experts in the field say we should start
benefiting from drilling
in no less than three years. Of course if we do manage to produce more oil we better start building new
refineries as well or
any new drilling is pointless.
The point that Obama is trying to make, by using the ten year figure, is that the benefits are too far off in the future to make the effort.
He would like us to believe that drilling for oil now is futile and he may in
fact have an argument. Personally I think
we should do anything and everything we can right now for the future. Or else what is likely to happen is that three years or ten
years from now we are going to be asking ourselves why we did not drill when
the problem first became apparent. In the end we will never be able to eliminate our need for oil, yet we can eliminate our need for foreign oil.
That being said I would have much more faith in Obama's plan if he came out with strong statements about his alternative energy plan.
Statements that detailed a plan that would eliminate our need for foreign oil in ten years. Statements in which he uses words such
as "mandate", "required" and "imperative".
Obama does in fact have an alternative energy plan that he does speak about
often. He does propose alternative energy as the only viable long term
solution. What is missing is more urgency. Every campaign speech, every interview should start out with him
promoting this plan. I do not want to hear this every other week or once
a week. I want to hear these assurances each and every day. It
should not be just an idea or part of his platform, it should be the cornerstone
of his campaign. US citizens must believe that this is real and that this is going to happen. Eliminating the need for
foreign oil is necessary and should be the first item on the new President's agenda.
Our economy and our standard of living depends upon this.
We need a President that will be uncompromising and unwavering on this issue.
We need a President that will force the necessary bills through Congress in
order to make this happen. If we are not going to drill we need to set our
country on a new path. We need to do this yesterday.
This is imperative because becoming oil independent seems to be pretty far down on the current President's agenda.
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