Bush Calls for Offshore Drilling.

Bush blames Dems for oil prices
Really?

Isn't it ironic that over the last eight years it is Bush administration policies that have created some very serious problems we face as a nation. For six years the Repubs had control of Congress and the White House. Now as they are licking their tails and trying to figure out how to salvage anything out of the disaster that has been the George W Bush presidency they throw the Dems under the bus for high oil prices. When Mr. Bush took office oil was hovering around $28 per barrel. In six years Mr. Bush and his republican Congress have wreaked economic havoc with their policies. Over the last two years the republicans have had enough votes to block most legislation to fix our problems. Now we are playing election year politics and nothing is being done to effectively govern our country.

Isn't it also ironic that the last time this country truly needed a revolution we were being governed by none other than King George III of England. What I bet most don't know is that he was also a George W. Turns out his name was George William Frederick, and he was the third George to be king. We have George Walker, who happens to be the third George to President. But I digress.

The point is we need a new revolution. It is time to institute the Green Revolution. Our founding fathers were brilliant and they left us a framework to institute change in our government. It is time that the American people take back the reigns of their destiny and resolve our problems.

The first step to a Green Revolution is to start at home. Grow our own food. Take our energy needs from the bountiful energy of the Sun. Recycle what we can. Compost organic waste and use it to support our own gardens. Buy products that are local. Buy, build, or trade for transportation that does not rely on oil based energy.

The second step can begin while you are working at becoming more sustainable in your personal lives. Contact your government leaders and ask them to do what is right and in the best interest of the American people. Ask our leaders to lead us into a sustainable renewable energy economy. Ask them to make responsible policies regarding our energy needs.

The American Society of Civil Engineers Infrastructure Report Card 2005, states that in 1999 America's utilities spent $5.3 billon dollars on maintaining, operating, and construction cost for the national power transmission system. Please read the rest of the report. It doesn't look good. We need to begin to redirect some of that money to eliminating the grid. Put the power on peoples roofs. Make low interest loans to folks so that we can afford to put solar on our roofs. The excess can be put back into the current grid to green up the consumption of energy in this country until each household in the United States is independently powered by renewable energy. Make mandatory renewable energy standards for new construction.

Ask our state and federal leaders to mandate clean vehicles. We have the technology and the means to become petroleum free in our automotive industries. Bush is calling for offshore drilling reversing his position in which he signed off several times to continue the ban. I have heard radio spots from oil and natural gas telling me how many jobs will be lost if Colorado Governor Bill Ritter signs a law to stop drilling for three months out of the year in certain areas. I ask Govenor Ritter to sign the law and then work to transition these workers into the renewable energy economy Colorado is now building.

Lets look at our problems differently. We are taking oil from the Earth and burning it to support our lives and industries. Burning oil creates pollution. We are still only just figuring out the true implications of pollution on the world. It poisons humans, animals, etc. We have technology to reduce significantly the amount of oil we currently use, and in the near future make us completely independent of oil. Why is there any question that we would not want clean energy. I don't want to be poisoned when there is a better way. It just seems to me that if we do not choose to change course without delay the consequences will be devastating.