how to kickstart the economy...a piece of advice for obama...

i see a great way to start the economy and kill two birds with one stone. energy independence. which we really need. so i say let's start drilling here in America for both natural gas and oil. also allowing our massive coal reserves, shale oil, and oil sands to be turned into Nazi style diesel fuel. while we are at it, allow federal lands in the south west in states like Arizona, new Mexico, and Nevada, and the California high desert to have solar plants built. tell the environmentalists....we will address their concerns, but for now...we need the economy fixed and the energy issues fixed. then we should ramp up our use of methane from livestock farms and trash landfills. not to mention city sewer systems. man o man we have so much energy it's sickening we are sitting still and doing nothing with any of it.

the beauty here besides the obvious is it will create good paying American jobs that cannot be outsourced. this will put cash into energy workers pockets who in turn besides paying down debt will go out to eat, buy new clothes, buy new homes to live where they work and the list goes on and on. this will have a trickle effect both up and down the pay scales. workers at retail stores and restaurants will get tips and more business..meaning more hours to help them pay down debt and spend more. independent businesses will get more business which will lead to job security to those who are still employed in small business and more jobs being added as well. this will help banks because they will be able to get deposits from newly cash rich energy workers depositing their paychecks. it will also help banks to find a nice group of steady income/low risk earners to loan money to. which in turn makes them money. also the more energy there is the cheaper it becomes which frees up hard pressed citizens with some more cahs in their pockets to help pay down debt, etc. wall street eventually will become happy as money will be flowing around again and it will lift the doom and gloom sentiment that is helping to drive stocks down to nothing. as the market grows investors will become less gun shy and they will start to pour their cash back into the markets to make money.

the beauty of energy is it's a business we cannot do without.

then we get to world politics. remember every war is tied to money in one way or another. lots of myths and propaganda are made up to justify a war...things like "freeing slaves", "stopping communism", the list of propaganda goes back to the beginning of America...when you actually study the real reasons a war started it boils down to money.

so we are in Iraq and the middle east to spread democracy right? maybe so, but that is not the real reason. the real reason is the world runs on oil. the middle east has the most and it's very unstable. the reasons they are unstable is because of the oil. piles of money in raw commodity form brings the worst out of people and their desire to control it. so we are in the middle east and Iraq or help stabilize the regions so the oil can flow freely. this is not a conspiracy...it's actually a very good reason on its own. people don't like to hear wars are about money and they are giving their lives for money stability....so propaganda phrases and made up to give people something to latch onto to make it all make sense to denote ones life to a just cause. somehow money just doesn't seem worthy of a life.

if we can get our energy independence, it allows us to change our direction in world politics. we can accept being the world police for real reasons if we so choose. or we can stick our middle finger up at those same unthankful regions we have made wealthy while spilling good American blood. this gives us much more leverage in world matters in things like trade, etc.

yes, it seems so easy on paper doesn't it. the truth is it really is this easy. industry is biting at the bit waiting for congress and the president to allow it to go forward and get things rolling. the only thing holding us back is a small group of vocal Americans, who can't see the big picture and think that drilling for natural gas and oil is damaging to the planet. yet if they sat down and really sued their brains for a minute. drilling in America makes the most sense to the environment. we have a epa, and rules and regulations that other countries do not have. we can do it better and more safely. either way the oil is coming out. whether it's off the coast of Florida or in saudi arabia. the only real differences are. if we do it...we create American jobs. we keep the monye made here in American corporations. we can make sure it's done safely. this really isn't that hard.

sure we can adapt to better fuels as they become more of a reality. right now we only really have so many to work with. all involve some environmental impact. some better than others. we can also cut back on use and use it more efficiently. what we can't do it continue as is doing nothing. there is no magic beans to make free energy with no impact. no matter what you think this technology doesn't exist and likely never will. so let's be smart and stat suing what we know works and we have access to. i don't know about you people, but i'm sick of doing nothing. let's grab the bull by the horns and let industry do what it does best. get to work freeing us from foreign energy and rebuilding our economy on a real industry that isn't going to die.