Comments on: Where I Stand

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:23:06 +0000

The leaders refuse to lead to a better place. I don’t think I’m qualified to tell them what that place is, although I would prefer that they see the benefits of real democracy. They have to make the decision, or they will never truly accept it.

Being human beings, I believe every time an outside “expert” tells them what to do, the process is set back by their resistence.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:12:01 +0000

I just hope the right ideas are floated before we are.

Fossil fuels are the answer to a question that was appropriate just under a century ago. They are not the answer today. The Middle East is a horrendous mess, and was so even before GeeDubya decided to make it worse. If our nation still depends on Middle Eastern governments… sheikdoms or democracies or theocracies… for its energy needs five years from now, I predict we are sunk. And a couple of decades after that, “sunk” might not be just a metaphor.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:04:52 +0000

There were a lot ideas floated at the time, and some of them helped reduce our dependency, but then Reagan undid just about everything and we returned to our bad behavior and ended up with Hummers, trade deficits, and enthralled to the Mideast.

[I made your edit.]

By: Alice

Alice — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:19:53 +0000

I remember the gas lines of the 70’s and I agree that we need to reduce our dependency on oil. There are credible ways to achieve this and actually, some pretty exciting and viable ideas are being floated about. However, I don’t think there is a politician alive who has the backbone to even begin to state, let alone follow through with such a decree. With our dependency on oil, Washington is subsidizing the economies of Saudi Arabia, et al. Indeed, a pox on all their houses.