Originally Posted by GW in Ohio

T. Boone Pickens is going around advocating a plan to substitute natural gas for petroleum in automobiles. As I understand it, we have the technology now to produce automobiles that run on natural gas.

This is something we should consider seriously, if it will help us become less dependent on Middle Eastern oil.

Originally Posted by Oxymoron

Boone Pickens is trying to make some extra bucks of the Energy Panic. The greatest way to make money is to create a demand and have the majority or exclusivity of the product (Microsoft). He is no different then the SOB Gore trying to make money on panic.

Originally Posted by Oxymoron

Boone Pickens is trying to make some extra bucks of the Energy Panic. The greatest way to make money is to create a demand and have the majority or exclusivity of the product (Microsoft). He is no different then the SOB Gore trying to make money on panic.

Originally Posted by GW in Ohio

T. Boone Pickens is going around advocating a plan to substitute natural gas for petroleum in automobiles. As I understand it, we have the technology now to produce automobiles that run on natural gas.

This is something we should consider seriously, if it will help us become less dependent on Middle Eastern oil.

Originally Posted by GW in Ohio

I'm of the opinion that it is our meddling in the Middle East for many years that has emboldened our enemies, and indeed, made many enemies where none existed before.

It's time to repair the foreign policy damage done by the Bush administration and disengage from the Middle East. (This is a position advocated by Ron Paul and shared, at times, by Barack Obama.)

I have three good reasons for advocating this:

1. The people of the Middle East are basically crazy. If we are not there to stir them up, they'll make war upon one another. In any case, we'll remove the main reason why they hate us.
2. Disengaging from the Middle East will not affect the flow of oil to our country. These people are not stupid; they make selling us oil. Why would they interrupt that profitable realtionship? But even if the worst should happen and they stop selling us oil, that will be an excellent incentive to us to develop alternative energy sources and alternative means of transportation. (If you look at how many Americans are overweight, it would not be a bad thing if they started walking or bicycling, instead of plopping their fat asses into their SUV to go 2 blocks to the store.)
3. Israel can take of itself, as it's shown repeatedly. We can still provide the Israelis with weapons.

Although our continual meddling in Middle Eastern affairs (culminated by our brain-dead president's senseless invasion of Iraq) has made us many enemies, it's not too late to start repairing the damage.

Originally Posted by Oxymoron

Um they also have Oil which is estential for the Survival of the Western Economies.

Originally Posted by Shiva_TD

The US actually produces enough oil for our commercial needs. What we don't produce and can't produce enough oil for is personal transportation.

Originally Posted by GW in Ohio

I'm of the opinion that it is our meddling in the Middle East for many years that has emboldened our enemies, and indeed, made many enemies where none existed before.

It's time to repair the foreign policy damage done by the Bush administration and disengage from the Middle East. (This is a position advocated by Ron Paul and shared, at times, by Barack Obama.)

I have three good reasons for advocating this:

1. The people of the Middle East are basically crazy. If we are not there to stir them up, they'll make war upon one another. In any case, we'll remove the main reason why they hate us.
2. Disengaging from the Middle East will not affect the flow of oil to our country. These people are not stupid; they make selling us oil. Why would they interrupt that profitable realtionship? But even if the worst should happen and they stop selling us oil, that will be an excellent incentive to us to develop alternative energy sources and alternative means of transportation. (If you look at how many Americans are overweight, it would not be a bad thing if they started walking or bicycling, instead of plopping their fat asses into their SUV to go 2 blocks to the store.)
3. Israel can take of itself, as it's shown repeatedly. We can still provide the Israelis with weapons.

Although our continual meddling in Middle Eastern affairs (culminated by our brain-dead president's senseless invasion of Iraq) has made us many enemies, it's not too late to start repairing the damage.