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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (247382)8/25/2005 7:39:20 AM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (4) of 1572209
 
re: No matter who was president we would not have achieved energy independence.

I don't think we'll ever reach total energy independence and I don't think we want to. By artificially excluding us from the world marketplace, our cost would go up.

Still, the single most important thing our government could do (on many levels) is to encourage dramatically increased energy efficiency. Let's have a "War on Energy Consumption" rather than a "War on Terror". (The war on energy would certainly be more effective against terrorism than our current war on terror.)

Make the goal to reduce oil imports by 30% in five years; 60% in ten years. The benefits-

1. A strong reduction in our horrendous and dangerous trade imbalance.
2. More efficient use of energy pumps money back into the economy similar to a tax cut.
3. Lower consumption will lower energy prices, another "tax cut" for the economy.
4. We reduce our economic and subsequent political dependence on our "enemies".
5. New technology businesses with high paying jobs creating new solutions, with potential export opportunities.
6. Reduced pollution.

What other government policy would have so many GREAT benefits?

The only good thing about us using 25% of the worlds oil is that it presents so much of an opportunity to improve and stimulate the economy. And that's what makes the recent "energy bill" such a dysfunctional disappointment.

The only losers would have been the energy companies, and our wonderful elected officials caved in to their special interest dollars. It's criminal.

John
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