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> >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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