Bodies for Barrels: Betrayal and Energy Dependence

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Michael A. Fox R-OH

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Bodies for Barrels: Betrayal and Energy Dependence
By Michael A. Fox

America's energy problems are not, as President Bush recently declared, because Americans have an "addiction to oil." Our energy problems stem from the failed leadership of two political parties - Democrats and Republicans.

For over thirty years presidents and congresses from both parties have had an addiction to playing politics and courting the special interests who fund their next election cycle - all at the expense of our national security.

They have betrayed us. America felt the first shock wave of energy dependence with the oil embargo of 1973. The lessons from that experience were clear - our nation and our economy could be brought to its knees by a handful of hate-filled lunatics in the Middle East; a lesson ignored by both parties. Since then, leaders from each party periodically paid lip service to energy independence, making symbolic moves designed to reassure the public that making America energy independent was important. But neither party ever made it a priority. Neither party has provided continuous and determined leadership to secure our national security by securing our energy independence.

The result? Never in our history has our country been more vulnerable to foreign influence and economic attack from our enemies. The neglect and betrayal by both parties has led us to an unspoken yet horrifically real and hollow energy and foreign policy that reduces us to trading the bodies of our young people for barrels of oil.

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1. And we are still leaderless

I wish someone would take the lead from REPUBLICAN Bartlett of Maryland and take peak oil seriously.. But hey, most DU'er don't even take peak oil seriously..

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2. If we manufactured something other than weapons...

...maybe we could have an economic policy instead of the failing paradigm of cold war elites.