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  • From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Total disbelief (was More Obama stuff, sorry)
  • Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:37:16 EDT


> >How do you see the odds on that happening voluntarily?
>
None.




>> In his speech tonight, if I remember correctly, Obama said he is
> committed to having us end our dependency on foreign oil in ten years.
>

I've followed Obama's energy pronouncements closely and I am convinced he
gets the overall situation. I was hotly annoyed when the loyal opposition
ridiculed his tire gauge thing. His point was not that inflating tires would
solve
the energy situation, but that it would solve it more than all the offshore
drilling combined.

He is right.

He gets it. He is right. (On energy). But every single policy he has
proposed is based on the notion that energy will be more or less business as
usual
for the foreseeable future. This is why I do not expect great things from
him.

The social programs, medical programs, greening programs and all the other
social programs in his are based firmly on the paradigm that we will all
still
be driving around in cars in the near future about as cheaply as we drive
today.

I see a disjoining of his view on energy and everything else in his platform.
Owing to the fact that we must contend with less energy in the future, and
likely the immediate future, we need LESS socialism, not more. Except for
getting our heads out of our posteriors and building a feasible rail system,
the
bloated, energy dependent federal government needs to largely go away.
Obama's vision is in just the opposite direction ... and bids fair to make us
even
more dependent on foreign oil.

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