The Congress is now at it in a thinly veiled effort to pander to the American people. It was bad enough when both Hilliary Clinton and John McCain wanted to buy off the good people of this nation with a ridiculous gas tax holiday, but now the Congress, mainly from the left side of the aisle, wants to drain the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to temporarily drop oil prices.
What is needed in this troubled nation is a long term comprehensive energy policy that will touch every facet of the economy and each of our lives. Any short term measure is simply short term folly. I will spell out this policy over the next few weeks. All it will take is the will of the Congress and the support of the people, but more importantly, the understanding that to do nothing will bring our nation to it's knees.
Trillions of dollars are leaving this country when those dollars could be invested right here in our own soil. Our people are bleeding, spending less, paying more for food and suffering at the hands of our own "Do nothing" law makers.
Our dependency on foreign oil has been talked about for nearly a generation while Brazil has become energy self sufficient in the same 30 year period, but without the effect of competing with a vital food source, corn, but more on that later.
Thank god the republicans voted down the measure to drain the SPR, but they have no better plan than to drill. There is no single idea. Yes to drilling, yes to conservation and yes to a Manhattan style project to, not only get us through this crisis, but to put us back on top as a world leader.
