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oil

I like your thinking on most things, but I think you have missed the point on the oil issue.
Most people don't care what oil costs, we are trired of sending money to crazy people that want to kill us (even though we have taken over Atab countries and try to tell them how to live and take their oil).
We have hundreds of years of oil supply and oil is renewable (the earth makes it every day).
The AWNR has no wild life, there has never been an accident in Alaska oil pipe line. It is ours and we should get it out.
We have no oil policy in this country, except for what the oil companies dictate and Democrats and
Republicans kiss up and do what they are told. We need to develop and support new oil corporations that work for the US instead of stock holders.
We need to support Brazil to purchase their oil when mvailable in 3 years.
Besides help in developing solar and wind, we need a national effort to develop fuel cell vehicles (like we did in the space progarm) and then give the technology to every car company in the world (don't give it to the big three auto companies because they will treat it like corporate welfare)
I know you think that democrats will solve the problems of this country but you are wrong. Both parties are helping this great nation with great people (outside the belt way) go down the toilet. Obama is an Arab and Muslim without the values to save this nation economic system. He will just tax and spend the middle class into poverty. McCain is better than Bush but not much better. Four more years of both parties will see us in worse shape than today if that is possible.
Ron Paul is the only person with a plan that might save our way of life. We are like the Roman empire and it will not get better.
Dr Bob

Clean Energy

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Across America Clean Energy Is Stirring

America is in peril. Obama says he is the man to fix the problems. And the most powerful tool at his disposal is developing a clean energy, good jobs economy that ends America’s addiction to foreign oil, rebuilds what he called the “American promise,” and clears the sky of global warming pollutants.

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Obama added moments later: “I'll invest 150 billion dollars over the next decade in affordable, renewable sources of energy - wind power and solar power and the next generation of biofuels; an investment that will lead to new industries and five million new jobs that pay well and can't ever be outsourced. America, now is not the time for small plans.”

Never before has a presidential candidate expressed such profound conviction in America’s capacity to change how it produces and uses energy in order to scale up a vast new clean and green industrial sector.

The more energy we use, especially foreign oil, the weaker and poorer we’re becoming. America never has had a presidential candidate who has both understood this and dared to say in such unmistakable words that he’s prepared to actually make significant changes.

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