We'll be riding bicycles before long unless the Government invests in the world's largest coal-to-oil conversion plant. Also on the list, oil shale and tar sands conversion plants.
I did not say alcohol production plants...that's a political charade pocked full of false promise. Only hydrocarbon based fuel production yields positive yields of input vs output energy. Alcohol, hydrogen, and every other scheme must be put to rest and buried so we can focus on the real solution for the next 200 years. Beyond 200 years, fusion power hopefully will result in liquid and gas fuel for vehicles (air, land, sea).
We can best wage war on the terrorists and their backer nations by building these plants and becoming 100% self-sufficient on oil. War making in Iraq is not an effective war on terrorists. For those of you who like the Iraq war, you will love the upcoming Iran war and North Korea war. Stay tuned for more wars unless our Government gets some sense and puts the money into conversion plants instead of killing "insurgents" which half the time are ordinary civilian fathers, mothers, and boy and girl children, totally innocent people. Our President should spend less time in church and more time repenting for what misery he has wrought upon innocents in his foolhardy desire to liberate them from dictators and install systems of freedom and liberty... Bless him if only he could perform this miracle right here in the States. (Martha Stewart is a prime example--She shrugged her shoulders and got 2 years in the penitentiary for it because LYING is all it takes for a federal felony--and I bet you thought you had to draw blood or do a stickup to earn prison stripes.)
There is a reason why Congress has not declared this Iraq war. They would not have, will not, and will not ever declare it in the formal way WWII (the last righteous war) was declared. Sure, the Congress voted for the money to wage this President's war -- its to "support the troops". But why would Congress declare a war when the war might go bad as it has; why, because they would have to take the blame. This way, by allowing the President to wage his own personal war, he will get to take all the blame because nobody in Congress will admit to supporting the war as such, only patrioticly supporting the troops by voting for the money. Its perfect political sense and the best way to wage war if it wasn't for all the aluminum boxes coming home filled with other people's dead children. There is zero chance that the President's daughters or any Congressmen's children will come back in a box. Always remember, if a war is not declared, it is illegal under the Constitution as well as international law. Any captured combatent of a nation which wages an illegal war can be treated as "common criminals", just as Vietnam did to our captured soldiers. Its not worth it. Its wrong and immoral.
And its expensive. We can either get our jollies by lashing out at the world and wantonly killing everything that moves, or we can invest the zillion dollars these wars are going to cost us. Invest in conversion plants. Leave the gear in Iraq for the Iraqis to wage their own civil war and it wouldn't suprise me if those murderous savages killed each other off down to the last man and that man will pick up a pistol and blow his own brains out. Bring home the troops tomorrow to save their lives, their health, and the people's money so we can invest it wisely in our future.
Agree with me. That would be real patriotism in action not the phoney kind Washington wreaks of. Still in doubt? Then answer this question: Why don't terrorists bomb Switzerland? Its because their leaders stay out of wars and mind their own business. We are bombed because our Leader noses into wars and wreaks world-wide havoc. The President says we should always be in one war or another and that is contrary to what peace-loving Switzerland thinks. Somebody has got to be wrong and its either Switzerland or the President. Since Switzerland has no terrorist problem, logic tells me Switzerland's in the right and President Bush is in the wrong. The fix is simple. Get rid of Bush and we can get the United States doing like Switzerland does (or more accurately, doesn't). Our terrorist problem will be history (and the oil problem too).