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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Maybe I’m way too jacked up on caffeine from my tea, lol, but aren’t those two mutually exclusive ideas in one sentence. Twice!!!!

I agree, more or less. Mostly more. We have spent tons of money for oil from foreign sources when we have an adequate supply within our borders and offshore. I work for an oil company and I have seen the maps with oil reserves marked out ready for congress to OK drilling. The democrats and the environmental lobby have tied the oil company’s hands for a long time. Plus if we could have built the kind of nuclear power plants that were requested over the last 3 to 4 decades, most of our energy could be coming from electricity and not oil. I am all for generating more and more power from solar, wind, ocean and river currents, hydro-electric dams, nuclear plants, natural gas (but as little as necessary to balance things out) and from clean coal technology. The cap and trade bill before the senate will bankrupt many businesses in the U.S. and send thousands to the unemployment lines. Manufacturing plants WILL move operations outside our borders. We will put our manufacturing base at a huge disadvantage in world trade. Some of the democrats supporting this bill has called it the greatest revenue generator ever devised. Revenue for government that will have to turn around and spend it to support the ever expanding unemployment lines. Obama said today that he believes the unemployment figure would not exceed 10%. In February he said his economists said with the passage of the stimulus bill it would not exceed 8%. Many other economists said it would not stop at 10%. Obama is going to be proven wrong again. His spending and taxing is going to cause massive unemployment well over 12% and likely approaching 15%.

Sorry if I offend some of your sensibilities, but I am not in the mood to be nice tonight. I feel the need to say what I think and report what I read and hear. So that those who disagree with me will know, I am signing off for the night.

Noel,

I think a lot of you. I like most of what you say. But you live in a realm that does not quite exist in the real world. Maybe things will turn around and be like you want. I did say that there are leaders (???) in Washington who have been waiting for exactly the right conditions to exist to bring about the world that you may desire. Just hold on to you hopes and aspirations. If these people make through the next election cycle next year you will get your type of world. Good luck to you. I hope you and yours fair well in the future.