The Number Two Problem We Must Fix  -- Becoming Energy Independent

Flagrant mismanagement of our government has taken place over a long period of time and it is obvious to everyone that there is no quick fix. The longer we delay before starting the reform, the more severe the problems will become. We must keep in mind that there is, somewhere, a point from which we cannot return. I do not believe we are there yet, but it is not far away. 

Our present government's solution to our problems is to "give away" almost 200 billion dollars to bankers, wealthy stock holders, and the general public. But I have a much better solution.   My solution does not involve the government "giving away" our tax money to anyone. For every dollar we "give away" we devalue our currency by one dollar.

This method of recovery is absurd, shortsighted, and self-destructive.

If we have dropped so low that we must use our tax dollars to bail us out, then we must invest them wisely. We must get back more than one dollar in return for every one dollar we invest or we will be moving backward rather than forward.

We can take a major step toward our economic recovery and becoming Energy Independent by investing our funds into our future.  With 30 billion dollars, about the same amount we just gave away to the Bear Sterns stockholders, we can start construction of the facilities that will put us on the road to Energy Independence and all of the investment will be repaid plus a profit.  Is the Bear Sterns stock holders going to repay our $30 billion gift?   As President, I would not have given Bear Sterns a single dime of the tax payers money. Let them fail and a better, stronger, and more qualified company will replace them.  This is the way a free capitalist society works, the only way it will work. 

When I see our politicians spending our money in this manner, it makes me wonder if some of this money is diverted back to those who gave it away.  (No, they would never take "pay back" for giving away our hard earned money; they must have some other reason, but no matter how hard I look for it, I cannot fine it.  I am open to anything you can come up with.)

My recovery project will immediately start producing good paying jobs for American workers. They will quickly multiply as we move into the construction phase and then the operational phase.  All the money we are now sending overseas to buy oil will stay in our country and provide jobs for American workers. This will, within 10 years, provide direct jobs for more than 6,000,000 Americans, who's spending, down the line, will provide another 6,000,000 (or more) jobs.

Becoming "Energy Independent" is important not only for the energy it will produce, but it is just as important (maybe even more important) for the jobs it will produce.  (Why is it that I know so many things that none of our politicians know?)

With oil at $120 a barrel, we will also decrease our cost of gasoline. And this will reduce the cost of most everything we purchase, including our food products.  If we do not do this, our friendly oil suppliers will keep increasing the price.  As long as we have no alternative, they can charge us as much as they wish.

Also, think about these points.

1. Every day we are sending about 1 billion dollars to foreign oil producers, but after we complete this project, this money will go back into our own country and give our economy a huge boost.

2. We could become an oil exporter and bring some of our money back home.

3. The Muslim terrorists will have to find some other source of funding to keep fighting us.

The book goes into the details, but I think you get the idea. I have other important plans to implement that will provide even more jobs.

How does this compare to the plans offered by our existing crew of Presidential candidates?  Some of them are telling us that we will  eventually get to Energy Independence by sun light and wind power, but they either have no idea how little power there is in sun and wind or they have some other agenda. Solar Power is a joke, when you need the amount of power we need.  But we do need to get into the business of producing and selling wind power towers like they are now building, in large quantities in Germany.  This is virtually "free power," good for many years after the towers are put in place, but it will replace only a relatively small amount of our oil, unless you are talking 50 years into the future.  (By that time, I will be departing the Presidential office and you will have to find someone else.)

When you drive across the Southern coast of Spain, you can see hundreds, probably more than a thousand, of these wind turbine towers in the mountains.  This produces a significant percentage of their electrical power requirements.  Fortunately, for them, they consume only a very small percentage of the power we consume, but I really respect their futuristic planning and the way they "follow though" on their plans.  I wish our country would follow their example.

We must go with nuclear power plants, (the world's safest and most economical source of energy) coal to gas conversion plants, (cleaner and safer than today's refineries) and deep well drilling.  We could have and should have done this 20 years ago, but we idiots (including you and me) kept electing Presidents who refused to make it a priority.  If we had done this 20 years ago we would be "energy independent" today, and breathing much cleaner air.  And clean air is definitely one of my highest priorities.

Sometimes I wonder if our worlds richest oil supplying countries (and maybe even Japan and China) are putting money into the pockets of the "right people" to prevent us from becoming Energy Independent and also influence other facets of our government.  The "right people" are the richest and most influential people in our country, the politicians we elect to office, the Pocos, and segments of our "so-called" environmental community. 

The Flag Waving Patriot