amazngdrx :: Compromise? Or invasion, occupation, and nation building for oil, based on lies?

Obama crafts compromise, McCain wants to go forward with coal, nuclear, and oil/gas as it is used now. But just expand the supply somehow. By invading, occupying, and nation building country after country that happens to be located over oil?

Witness McCain's "Bomb, bomb, bomb..bomb, bomb Iran" joke?

The "drill, drill, drill" strategy is not a strategy, it's an anti-thinking slogan like "9/11"
has become.

We have seen how policy by sloganeering has worked. "WMD", "mushroom cloud", "war on terror", and similar sloganeering style non-policies.

Obama wants oil companies to drill where they have already been "given" (the Bush administration let them have leases without paying) leases to drill. But big oil wants a lock on every last drop of oil. Monopoly control of markets with no competition.

Leverage to kill any and all environmental oversight or enforcement of antitrust laws.

"Drill, drill, drill" what you already have been given to drill is a compromise.

The other part of the Obama compromise is to gradually reduce our dependence on oil to match the inevitable reduction in supply.

Over matching that supply/demand mismatch, by reducing demand even faster than the natural supply dries up, is a very good strategy to maintain our economic and political leadership position as a nation.

The US can become a force for freedom and environmentalism once again by maintaining that global leadership position.

Leadership in oily corporate militaristic imperialism, as the Bush administration has sought, is not working out.

5% of the world population acting as a global police force, with technology, research, development, and manufacturing rapidly outsourced offshore with the help of corporate tax breaks is not a formula for continued US success.

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Re: Compromise? Or invasion, occupation, and nation building for oil, based on lies?

by Cyril R. on Fri 12 Sep 2008 07:59 AM CDT | Permanent Link

Here's a compromise: compel governments and private investors, that for every dollar spent in offshore drilling, ten dollars be spent in plugin-hybrids and demand reduction.

That seems like justifiable policy considering plugin-hybrids and demand reduction are easily ten times more effective than offshore drilling will ever be.

Re: Re: Compromise? Or invasion, occupation, and nation building for oil, based on lies?

by amazngdrx on Fri 12 Sep 2008 11:02 AM CDT | Profile | Permanent Link

Yeah Cyril, considering only 3% of the world's oil reserves are left in the US, that would be a practical ratio.

That amount of investment in renewable energy devices like solar cogeneration systems and conservation devices like plugin hybrids and ground source heating/cooling, is ready to jump in to produce a huge boom.

Dwarfing the 90s internet technology boom. Now we need a government that will divert the 10s of billions per year in subsidies and corporate welfare now going to old energy economy multinationasls like exxonmoblie, and put that money to work starting up this new energy economy.

We can still lead like we did in the 90s, with polocies that spur mass production of all the technologies that will spread around the globe.

Solar cogen, biogas/organic fertilizer, solid oxide fuel cell/turbines, plugin hybrids, smart grid technoligy, wind, wave, and ocean current power generation, it's all waiting to revive the US manufacturing, job, and tax base.

Fire it up Obama!

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