America Is Addicted to Oil. DUH!

Gas this high, this early. Forget driving vacations this year.
Today, I have to buy gas to fuel my generator, to provide power here, as the closest electricity from the “grid” is 15 miles one way and 35 miles the other way. Last week it was $3.14 at the small town I live closest to. Since in other areas of California it has been reported as high as $3.77, I am not planning on eating for the rest of the month. Me or my family.
Wasn’t the war with Iraq going to lower our gas prices? Wouldn’t it flow like the waters out of a mountain spring? That was one of the Bush Cabal’s selling points for the war.
Now, when asked, they say they never said that. Once again, what are we going to believe. Their lying now about their lying then? Or the truth. Thankfully, it’s on tape.

“It depends how the war goes. Under every plausible scenario, the negative effect will be quite small relative to the economic benefits that would come from a successful prosecution of the war.”
“The key issue is oil, and a regime change in Iraq would facilitate an increase in world oil, which would drive down oil prices, giving the U.S. economy an added boost”.
Mr. Laurence Lindsey , senior economic advisor for Mr. Bush stated in 2002, on the impact of a war with Iraq,:

Once again they were wrong. Boy, were they wrong!

This does not just affect the price of driving, either for travel or vacations, nor the people who are forced to use generators for power, (whatever happened to the Rural Electrification Law?), but it forces up the cost of food and all other products and services.
Meanwhile, the CEO’s of Oil Company’s are making fortunes and the Oil Corporations are making record breaking profits. Whatever happened to wartime profiteering being illegal?

Why in five years of this Administration have we not done anything to bring true energy independence to America? We have the technology. We have the will. We just do not have the leadership to do it. When you have Mr. Bush telling us, like he has just discovered the secret to life, that we are addicted to oil, you can see where the problem lies. Of course, we are addicted to oil, only because we need energy to run our country, our businesses and our homes. We are addicted to oil, because our Government is not thinking about the future.. Personally, I would rather get my energy from wind, solar, fuel cells, water, ocean waves or even the beat of butterfly wings.

When we can put all of our energy, through the brains and hard work of the American people to get a Man on the Moon, we can do anything. But as long as you have an Administration which is only worried about it’s power. (not talking energy here) and getting as much money as they possibly can into the coffers of it’s Republican Corporations, you will not solve the problems of this country or the world.

We could be the leaders on this. We could gain back all the jobs we have lost to other country’s. We could make the Middle East an area of this world, that is not important to the world. Let them fix their own problems.

This would save us in so many ways. No military needed to keep the peace in the area or spent on going to wars in the area. That could cut our National Budget by 40%. The projected cost of the war with Iraq is now at $1 Trillion. Without having to have such a large standing army, with all the weapons produced, we could go from 52% to 20% of our Budget and still be more powerful than any other country. Not paying through the nose for oil, at the whim of any of these undemocratic countries would save us money. We would have enough oil from America to take care of the things you have to have oil for.

What could we have accomplished with that $1 Trillion toward solving our energy dependence on the middle East? Maybe not finished the job, but it would have been a great start. And it would not have cost us all the lives lost.
Time to start working on the future, instead of being stuck in the old century of wars being the answer. It time for peace and prosperity!