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Build a wall around Washington, D.C.
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Yes, the U. S. absolutely needs to be self-reliant, and not just in energy. Certainly a strong case can be made that the U. S. has kept it's own "energy resources" in "reserve" - kept them for "last" in order to maintain economic dominance while controlling the *flow* of the rest of the world's oil - at least as much as possible; who gets that oil, at what price, where pipelines are built, etc.
... which explains a small part of why the U. S. maintains military bases now in 130 countries worldwide. At what expense ? It is laughable to hear someone suggest a three- or four-month moratorium on gasoline taxes, which would "save" the average consumer (what an ugly word) about $100 based on what the average American driver drives, and would also result in something like a $10 billion loss in money needed to maintain our highway system nationwide. The word "change" has been thrown around lately with no apparent clue in the minds of those using that word what the word actually means. For instance, why is the only "resort" that of "drilling off the coast of California and the north slope of Alaska" ? The so-called "war in Iraq" is not about oil in the sense of the U. S. *needing* that oil, but again, about *controlling the flow* of that oil, and controlling the flow extends to making sure that certain countries have no alternative to purchasing that oil; thus the current situation with Iran, which used to be one of the U. S. primary allies in keeping the "Middle East" stable (not so long ago), along with Turkey, and of course, Israel, which has had its own nuclear weapons since the 1960s, for which of course Iran might want to have its own bomb, but what 80 million Iranians want more (not just real democracy) is cheaper energy - not to have to depend on someone else to refine their oil so they can have gasoline while they are the fourth largest oil producer in the world. Had the United States, in 2001 or any other year, begun to devote the kind of money that has been wasted in Iraq, and in Afghanistan (I could list more) on creating real "renewable energy" at home - spreading solar to every available rooftop for instance, or converting idle automobile manufacturing facilities to turning out windmills (which are little more than cars without wheels or engines, but with a huge propeller instead) - this country would be far less dependent on oil today. The stumbling block, however is that "Individuals within the U. S. government, holding current office even, are, and have been for decades, some of the greatest profiteers from the sale of oil and gasoline - right here in this country" and converting U. S. energy needs to "renewables" will not happen until the profits those same "individuals" presently "enjoy" can be converted into being received from new "alternative" sources rather than from their current "oil interests." That is beginning to happen now, but slowly, and while it is happening, those who are elected to craft legislation to "solve" our pressing problems are so disconnected from reality, they do not even know what the problems are. A Senator proclaims surprise at the cost of a loaf of bread being four dollars rather than the three dollars he remembers. A Representative holds up an ear of corn to explain that the corn used to produce fuel is not the corn humans eat, so growing corn for ethanol will not reduce the amount of food available to humans - except she forgot that acreage used to produce ethanol is acreage that cannot be used at the same time to grow food for her, and for you, and me ... duh. By reducing the acreage available for human food, the cost of human food goes up, and it is going up at the same time the Dollar is losing even more value by being even more deflated by "stimulus" and the "housing bubble" while profiteers focus on bidding up prices of the very commodities all of us depend on to survive, so unless you have a garden planted, yes, "it doesn’t look good for us working and retired folks" - but it gets worse. At the same time, we now have NAIS (National Animal Identification System) ready to fine us $1000 per day per animal for any chicken, goat, rabbit, cow, or whatever other critter you might want your child or grandchild to raise as a 4H project, or just lay a few eggs for your breakfast, if you do not have that animal registered, and that means having the computer equipment to record every time that animal is moved off, and back on, that animal's *premise* (property or location, which also has to be registered, as does the veterinary clinic the animal has to visit). If we are going to build a wall, it needs to be around Washington, D. C. Let the "lawmakers" stay inside that wall and play, and do not let them out. The rest of us learn to forget the federal government, hire a lawyer each, make our own contracts with each other, and get on with our lives.
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