President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s gave the US oil companies whatever they asked for. The oil companies have tens of thousands of square miles that is given to them for oil exploration and drilling. Instead of drilling and pumping us out of foreign oil dependence they have pushed the country even further under the control of foreign oil dictators. Meanwhile domestic oil production has declined over the same period.

I feel sorry for you that you believe the fairy tale told by the oil companies. If they could have drilled us out of this mess then why have they not done so over the past 30 years? The fact is most of our huge oil fields are drying up and whatever new fields they find are much smaller and therefore will be used up that much sooner.

I’d love to keep my head stuck in the sand and hum a happy tune to drown out the numerous and well documented facts pointing to the end of oil here in the US far sooner than the middle east. But I know that doing so will just be passing the hard choices along to our children (not our grandchildren – we don’t have that much time IMO).

We need to tackle the problem of our oil dependence before it becomes life or death for our children and their families.

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>>> NO PLUG=NO SALE! <<<
Electric cars + Nuclear Power 40% + Geothermal/Hydro 10% + Solar and Wind 50% + (Coal/Gas/Fossil Fuels 0%) = American Energy Independence and Environment Protection

… and JOBS FOR AMERICANS

Let’s just agree that the world needs real statesmen who can accomplish what no one else has been able to do before. Bring ever lasting world peace. (And not through a world government. Most of us are not yet ready for that idea.) I don’t see any real statesmen on the current world scene. Nor do I of any waiting their turn at governmental authority. The world can certainly use some true statesmen and a lot of improvement in all areas. Education, health, government, everything. A lot more freedom for many of the world’s people would go a long way towards helping to improve things.

I will leave you with two words – Chalmers Johnson.

Freshly charged to 100% lithium-manganese cells are 4.2v, but under load they soon drop to 3.5-3.6 volts and stay there for a while… BUT GM is not charging these cells to 100%, voltage will be lower.

In this 300 years time society has made small changes to refine and improve short comings within the medical service system. This is done month to month and is aimed at providing a better medical future.

Health providers make up 1/6th of the GDP of America. Many hard working, well schooled individuals along with bio medical and pharmaceutical companies are doing well within the medical provider community. They have earned the high pay. They are not average, they are above average in intelligence.

People who want to be covered by medical insurance either work for an insurance provider. Or simply buy insurance. Others pay full price as they go.

Obama’s new system is installed. Companies no longer need to provide medical insurance to their employees because tax dollars will pay for everyone’s medical bill. Then companies will pay their employees more because they don’t have the burden of providing the health benefit, right?

WRONG! The owners of companies, the ones who pay for free community medical coverage through higher taxes, will buy boats and vacation on Lake Mead.

Society, in whole, has an incentive to be strong and to improve by having to struggle a little and work for what we attain. As I said in a prior post. The new system is incentive for dodging having to work at all. And an incentive for self abuse as American Medical Response will always arrive (for free) to pick losers off the floor for another CT scan and week long hospital stay.

I worked for a company (15 years ago) which went from Health Net insurance to a budget fly-by-night plan. My dentist of 10 years, schooled at a credited Southern California University, was replaced by a dentist from India. The first time I walked into his office I was greeted with, “You here for a root canal?”. I replied, “No, I need a routine yearly check up please”.

Good intent, bad idea.

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