Drill in ANWAR. Drill off the coast. Drill in the Dakotas. Build more refineries and Nuclear power plants domestically. That's the short term solution, giving us time for long term solutions.
Except these will not help. The current Republican administration-- you know, as opposed to Republican machine-- is telling us that all of this drilling will not benefit you or me until the end of the next president's second term. It will never lower the price of fuel more than a few cents per gallon, nor will it address the real issues.
I'm all for nuclear power, except that the current economics don't support the current generation of nuclear power plants. Every single "successful" nuclear plant in the world is government owned and run-- they are not the miracles of modern science we'd hoped they'd be.
If we want solutions, drilling is simply not the answer. Building nuclear power plants is not the answer. The things we can implement in the next two years, aside from continuing our assault on the brown people of the world, is to engineer our way out of the problem. Better technologies, more efficient technologies, more efficient lifestyles, are going to do far more good than this willful "fuck the environment and the future generations, we need to run our SUV's now goddamnit" attitude.
you'd rather support Jimmy Carter Jr.'s bid for presidency and socialist reform.
I've avoided calling your candidate Grampy McSame ("Y'know, Mike, without NutriCal this would not be possible."), I'll ask you to do the same.
Barack Obama is not my candidate of choice. But in the choice between John McCain-- a Great Nation Conservative who seems determined to keep this country on an immoral course ruinously expensive to the blood of our children and the fortunes of their children.
I am far more terrified of what may happen to my civil liberties under a so-called "conservative" regime than under a liberal one. That continues to astound me, but I guess it shouldn't: cautious conservatism has morphed into callous authoritarianism, while modern liberalism seems to be merging with libertarianism. I have lived under seven presidents starting with Nixon. The overwhelming evidence is that my civil liberties, my long-term economic well-being, my nation's standing in the world, and my children's futures have been advanced by Democrats and destroyed by Republicans.
I am not particularly interested in supporting Barack Obama, but you're right, the outcome of my decision is that I'd like to see him elected, because I will do everything I can to ensure the defeat of the current Republican nominee, John "1/20th a maverick" McCain.
A little domestic economic suffering over the next four years, if that's what it takes-- and if that's what it comes to, and argument nobody has successfully made based upon the policies outlined on Obama's website (which, by the way, are often four to eight times more detailed and thought out compared to similar documents on McCain's website, when McCain's exist at all)-- is a small price to pay, really, for the chance to undo the last eight years of malice, mendacity, maliciousness, and incompetence in our civil domestic and foreign policy spheres.
Except these will not help. The current Republican administration-- you know, as opposed to Republican machine-- is telling us that all of this drilling will not benefit you or me until the end of the next president's second term. It will never lower the price of fuel more than a few cents per gallon, nor will it address the real issues.
I'm all for nuclear power, except that the current economics don't support the current generation of nuclear power plants. Every single "successful" nuclear plant in the world is government owned and run-- they are not the miracles of modern science we'd hoped they'd be.
If we want solutions, drilling is simply not the answer. Building nuclear power plants is not the answer. The things we can implement in the next two years, aside from continuing our assault on the brown people of the world, is to engineer our way out of the problem. Better technologies, more efficient technologies, more efficient lifestyles, are going to do far more good than this willful "fuck the environment and the future generations, we need to run our SUV's now goddamnit" attitude.
you'd rather support Jimmy Carter Jr.'s bid for presidency and socialist reform.
I've avoided calling your candidate Grampy McSame ("Y'know, Mike, without NutriCal this would not be possible."), I'll ask you to do the same.
Barack Obama is not my candidate of choice. But in the choice between John McCain-- a Great Nation Conservative who seems determined to keep this country on an immoral course ruinously expensive to the blood of our children and the fortunes of their children.
I am far more terrified of what may happen to my civil liberties under a so-called "conservative" regime than under a liberal one. That continues to astound me, but I guess it shouldn't: cautious conservatism has morphed into callous authoritarianism, while modern liberalism seems to be merging with libertarianism. I have lived under seven presidents starting with Nixon. The overwhelming evidence is that my civil liberties, my long-term economic well-being, my nation's standing in the world, and my children's futures have been advanced by Democrats and destroyed by Republicans.
I am not particularly interested in supporting Barack Obama, but you're right, the outcome of my decision is that I'd like to see him elected, because I will do everything I can to ensure the defeat of the current Republican nominee, John "1/20th a maverick" McCain.
A little domestic economic suffering over the next four years, if that's what it takes-- and if that's what it comes to, and argument nobody has successfully made based upon the policies outlined on Obama's website (which, by the way, are often four to eight times more detailed and thought out compared to similar documents on McCain's website, when McCain's exist at all)-- is a small price to pay, really, for the chance to undo the last eight years of malice, mendacity, maliciousness, and incompetence in our civil domestic and foreign policy spheres.
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