"But all I have to do is look over into the Middle East and I see American soldiers dying because of oil."
American soldiers are dying because brutal tyranny, terrorism, and insufferable oppression tears at the global economy and the very fiber of humanity, demanding violent force answer its heinous call. Of course every kind of complexity is woven through the context of this experience and you can take your pick when casting blame... economic agendas for which energy is but one among many, political power, humanitarian cause, religion, social issues, self-serving egotists, etc.
" I guess the comparison is tenuous, but this country's economic future will live or die based on what choices we make in this decade about our energy future. It's not good enough to just say we want to diversify away from oil."
The choices we make as a culture include the choice to innovate and produce solutions that were not imagined a decade ago ... scientific, technical, life style etc. We are all aware of our situation and we've begun heading in a new direction. It isn't owned by one party or another. It seems wise to me that we should consider and access every resource available.
"We need legislation to make it happen. That is really the only thing I want from Obama. Nothing else matters to me as much as that."
If you've ever tried to hold up a ten thousand piece puzzle and make 99,999 pieces fit around one, you probably ended up with a useless pile, needing to be completely restarted. That is what you get when you try to make everything fit around an agenda or one person's actions. Legislation is an important piece but trying to make everything fit around preconceived agendas or Obama's actions is not likely to get us where you are pointing. |
