Corporate leaders won't let US manufacture our way out of oil dependence.  They would rather move every factory offshore than give up the huge profits they reap from gas guzzling and fossil fuel destruction of the planet.

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/5/17/151725/397#13

Ameri..CAN
Or ameri..can't.

We know we can, but this corporate class running things from the whitehouse, congress, and the boardroom can't.

When coal miners went on strike and then mine owners locked them out, crippling the nation's economy, national guard troops were sent in to operate the mines.

Real leadership in DC would send in the national guard right now.  To take over corporate boardrooms and get this energy revolution going.

We can't afford this lockout by the corporate elite, they are closing down america's manufacturing capacity to keep their lock on power.  And that is killing the living planet that we all depend upon for life itself.

Put Gen. Karpinsky in charge of the GM boardroom, for instance.  She knows the wrath that oil war has wrought, first hand.

Call in the national guard, this is a real emergency.