[Pilot2519j]

The country has been without an Energy Plan since the Arab embargo's fo the 70's that is the fact. Reasons largely determined by the environmental attitudes of conserving everything pristine and not in my backyard so on and so forth. Here we are over 30 yrs later in the same boat in which we are being price gouge now if there is storm in the ocean! Is there any politician going to go and want more refinaries built or breeder reactors, I don't think so they have no cojones!
As far as the unions and competition there is not an even fight. Japanese car builders have a huge dollar advantage over american costs of production. Therefore either quotas which I dont like but if you levy a big tariff make them more expensive as they do in Japan that should level the field. This open market pollicy we have here is going to destroy every work sector of this country. I called to ask for an additional card from JC Penney I ended up in India! You mean to tell me that there no Americans capable of answering phones now? Yet, Palm, HP and a bunch of other companies have outsource the work abroad. Goods like shirts, pants,sneakers and dresses are all made in third world countries with no child labor laws exists, no OSHA, no EPA more important no wishy washy politicians. Tariff them to death as far as I am concerned look what at happened to Van Heusen, Hathaway, all brands of American shirt makers there all gone. In a few years all of us will be paper shufflers. The per capita income of this country is going down the tubes for because of this. I find globalization a fancy word of taking the US to the third world status. We sit on the biggest deposit of coal in the world lets use it come up with the technology to liquify the coal as cost effective as possible! If this is just mentioned as a plan you will see plummeting energy costs. We have let them strangle us we are the ones that are stupid. I dont see any arab saying no to more petrodollars.