We Need a Sane Energy Policy

Today Barak Obama is introducing us to his energy advisers.  I thought this would be a good time to talk about energy and where we need to go from here.  We are in a dire financial crisis right now.  We are spending hundreds of billions on foreign oil.  We are borrowing this money from countries such as China that do not necessarily have our best interest in mind.   We are buying our oil from countries that definitely do not have our best interest in mind.  In fact some of them would rather we not exist at all.

Where do we go from here.  The first step is to take responsibility and pass a sane and comprehensive energy plan.  Such a plan will have to address many issues.  We must continue to push our leaders to move forward with funding and loans for new clean energy technology.  We must get the best of the new technologies implemented.  We must fund and build a new power generation grid.  We must have a plan to retool our automobile manufacturing process so that we can build alternative energy vehicles.  

When we fund the way forward to a new economy based on clean energy production and manufacturing we can create millions of new jobs.  Put this together with plans to fund community projects such as roads and bridges, and we can be on the path the economic viability once again.  We have the greatest military might in the world, but in building this organization, we forgot about infrastructure.  Our society is crumbling.  It is time for us to rebuild it.  It will take time, and it will be rough road for awhile, but when we emerge from this trial, we will be the better for it.  

Please join me in keeping the needs of the people in front of our leaders.  Please visit contact elected leaders.  Also visit Change.gov to stay involved in the process with President-elect Barak Obama.