I agree with you completely. I'm an "all of the abover". Let's do it all to get to energy independence.
One of the biggest frustrations I have is watching AGW take over the agenda from energy independence. It's frustrating, because now that AGW is out of favor with the public, it's killing the momentum to get us to oil independence. Forget for a minute about the need to be good stewards of the only planet we know of that we're capable of living on. Forget all that. We need to build a nuclear power plant a year, leverage our natural gas abundance to build natural gas power plants, build massive solar thermal plants in the deserts, build wind farms offshore, drill in ANWAR and everywhere else for oil, electrify our transportation sector, and do everything else we can think of to be oil independent. We need to do all of that in order to safeguard our national security and to unshackle our economy from dependence on our worst enemies' whims. Those are good enough reasons to do all of that, and yet, the dispute over AGW science is destroying American's will to do the necessary things related to our energy policies.
I couldn't give two shits about health care, but we've spent a year debating it. When are we going to focus on the single most important issue to this country's future prosperity, which is our energy policies? |
