Spigzone, Cenk won't talk about oil depletion | 16 comments (16 topical, 0 hidden)
It was in Obama's Inaugural (none / 0)
Obama said in his inaugural that he wants to stop buying energy that "hurts the planet and helps our enemies". It's clearly a priority for him but it's the kind of thing that takes a while to come up with a plan that has all the details in place. Give him some time to do that. One of his few pieces of luck is that oil got a bit cheaper just before he came into power, so give him a few months to fix the economy and set a date to get out of Iraq, then see what he says about lowering oil use. He has appointed people who understand science, so that's a good sign for this.

by moribund on 02/10/2009 10:44:14 PM EST

Time is one thing he ain't got. (none / 0)
That's kinda the problem, Obama doesn't HAVE that time. If he DID, what he is presently doing would be workable.

The stimulus bill was a waste of precious and unrepeatable resources. The inaugural address should have laid out the core situation to the american people with a basic framework of what needs to occur to meet the challenge with the absolute basics that will be needed in an initial 400 billion 'Saving America's Future'. Or some such. the 'SAFe' bill. The contents simple, contructing a safety net FLOOR so every citizen can be assured that no moatter how much they lose and how bad their situation gets, they can be assured of food, shelter from the elements and baisc medical care. With THAT floor in place, people can RELAX a bit. The rest of the bill devoted to energy storage technologies, renewable energy projects, mass transit and converting to plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles.

I think the american people were READY for that message and would have solidified behind it. They ARE ready to work and sacrifice IF they know it will bring a clean safe secure future with a reasonable quality of life.

That was totally doable.

The point is Obama needed to start the people of this country down the correct reality path at the start, not the path of cheerleading the country to look forward to a return to past glory. That's idiotically short sighted and the path of the politically cowardly. The people of this country needed a glass of ice water in the face and be told 'here is the real situation and this is what we can do to meet it'.

by spigzone on 02/28/2009 10:16:02 PM EST

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