Can not slick this one over

While drill baby drill is a bit shopworn, it does speak to the much larger problem we have to deal with. First the BP gulf disaster is unprecedented and there is plenty of blame to go around as we are seeing it being thrown around right now.

Green energy is the buzz word at the moment there are serious problems with that approach.Many companies are going green on there own because green products will sell in today's economy and business's both large and small will look to their bottom line. We are greening and we do not need more government interference, regulations and laws. Just move over and let us do what we do best. invent, invigorate and induce our best and brightest to get busy bringing us out of this demoralize funk we have been sinking into for years.

Now lets address practical issues. I am glad to see the automotive industry working on the new breed of transport though I would like to see more help for the smaller inventive companies in the for of tax breaks and loans and grants whenever possible. Some good work is being done out there and we should know about it. Now this is progress and it will only get better over time, but that is the rub. We have to go to work, shopping, doctors, kids sports, a hundred things we do just living our lives. We can change some of our habits, carpooling whenever possible, Making lists to achieve a logical sequences of errands that will save fuel and time and many other ways (blog me and tell  me the ways that you save energy). We can only do so much, two vehicle families usually are because one parent cannot do everything and be everywhere that a growing family requires. The answer some will say is to cut back, but where and is it our governments business to take them to task and/or punish them if they don't fit some unworkable schedule imposed by Washington. Single mothers with a teenager who is sometimes forced into the position of substitute adult and/or working at a part time job to help support family; not only will need that second car and by necessity will only be able to afford an older fuel inefficient car (mom's car might not be any better. These situations, these people, unless they win a lottery, will probably be in these circumstances for a long time. These vehicles run on gasoline as do a huge majority of our defenses vehicles.

Transports, carriers, jets, planes, trains and automobiles, every branch of our military heavily depends on our existing fuels, fuels that we are running low on, fuels that our national security and our ability to wage wars (boy do I hate these wars, our wars but that is the subject for future blogs).

As much as we hate to accept it we are forced to be dependent on what we have for the time being. The bright point is that this will give our ingenious citizens time to perfect green fuels that will work for everyone not just those in the top ten percentage of people who have disposable income.  So that brings us back to

Drill baby drill. This phrase needs to be dropped from our lexicon. It is used as a put down by to many people and it is becoming offensive (lets try for some civility shall we?) We must drill new wells our older well are slowing up, drying out. New wells are necessary. I think we know we have to reexamine our underwater drilling. We cannot control problems remotely and with the tremendous pressures that the wells are subjected to. Had this well been in water a few hundred feet down it would have been repaired by now. Remember earlier I said there was enough blame to go around, well green team take up your share. Had you not been so aggressive in your demands we would have wells closer in and more on the continent. Wells we could take care of, so all that underwater deep sea damage, well we all need to shoulder our guilt for allowing this to happen and move on. New wells.The Alaskan site is but a small, very small Part of our beautiful landscape and we need much stricter state oversight. I mean they have the most to gain but most definitely the most to lose and they are aware of their responsibility to the land that they all love so dearly.

Our refineries are really in shambles and need major repairs as do our pipelines and transport systems. The up side of this is that many workers will be needed to fix things and a large portion of those could become permanent jobs. (beats those temp. census workers jobs.) Anyhow I digress.

This also brings us around to "Cap and Trade".  We have to kill this turkey. It is much to costly and damaging. Lets start slowly with our electric grid. It really needs repair and quickly. Again it is a matter of national security. Our ability to protect and defend ourselves makes this a job that can't wait. Enemies and sunspot flares can put us totally in the dark, so this is a very high priority. I want oversight on it though. Both Bush and Obama could have and will put many things into the grid that can be used to check up (spy on) ordinary citizens, I'm sure with the best of intentions but I don't want or need another big brother.

Time to get busy and while we are at it lets us the rest of that stimulus money and fixing the roads and bridges here in the U.S.A., without all the new agencies, oversight committees and the occasional czar or two. Hire the engineers and builders, open the jobs up to any and all that are qualified for their desired positions and leave the labor

We are running out of fuel, time and patience. Tempers are short and frayed. It is more important now more than ever that we use some common sense and start pulling together. United we stand divided...