A nine minute video that speaks volumes about the current state of politics in this country. Unlike a lot of what we see and hear, Joe is proposing solutions.

As for it's suitability to this thread, it deals primarily with oil and our economy which effects everyone in or near our business or anyone considering entry to it.

It's very good stuff.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPch2k63uj4

 

This guy is on point. I don't like the current state of politics in this country. I am not the one to complain about anything even 4 dollars a gallon, but there comes a time when you say enough is enough. I understand this is the is not the old days when things were real cheap so understand that gas has increased but not to the point where it is now. I don't think either one of the candidates we have now will lay out a real solution about the oil situation. I don't belong to any particular party, I want someone to do the job for all the people not just a certain group. I am an african american male and I am surprised at the black people who are voting for Barack just becasue he has some black in him. my wife is doing this even though she say shes not. I will vote for mccain, barack or whomever will stand up and have some balls and tell special interest, lobbists, big business, lawyers, insurance companies, and dumb ass politicians with fucked ideas to go the hell because we want a better america for all the people not just your stupid ass friends or businesses. SORRY FOR CUSSING BUT ITS TIME FOR A MAJOR CHANGE, not just what barack is promising which is all HOT ASS AIR.

 

While he does make a lot of sense, the one thing he did not touch on is the reduction of greenhouse gases. As long as we are using oil for energy, that will NEVER be addressed.

On the other hand, we have had the technology to produce hydrogen at very low cost, and we have not had that technology for years, not for decades, but for generations. Ever hear the expressions: "CRANK UP THE EDISON", or "TURN ON THE MARCONI"? Along with the light bulb, Edison also iinvented the phonograph. While Marconi transmitted the very first radio signal. One of the principals used in Marconi's radio is also applicable to generating hydrogen and it's not much more complicated than the light bulb, but has never been used. Maybe because it's so simply, it's been overlooked.

Hydrogen is capable of doing everything that oil is currently doing except lubrication. It can take the place of natural gas, LP gas, galoline, and even be used to power our class 8 trucks. That would make oil nearly worthless around the world.

I've heard a figure of ten years before we see any relief from the proposed wells off the Atlantic Coast. In that ten years, we can nearly complete a transition from oil to hydrogen and be able to fill our tanks for less than 50 cents a gallon, including tax.

 

Just over a year ago, Car and Driver and Motor Trend had some good articles on Hydrogen...one of them was a very in-depth evaulation of it. YES it has potential...but the technology for storing and transporting it just isn't there yet. Not that it won't be in 10 years...just that it's not there yet...neither are all of those other biofuels that seem to be all the rage these days.

I strongly support developing ANY oil resources that are known to us...Sure, a better solution than oil would be GREAT, but in the event that it doesn't pan out as soon as we'd all like, we CAN NOT bet our economy, livelihood, and well being on a major scientific breakthrough that hasn't see the light of day yet.....

 

I liked Joe's idea for using our oil and switching to importing Iraqi oil exclusively, at a discount. It would help to stabilize the new Iraq and therefore the region. It would give us a legitimate reason to maintain a security force there and payback the few trillion or so we already have into this.

 

How many times must it be said that CO2 is not a pollutant? Wake up people! Man made global warming is NOT REAL! There is no scientific proof that it is real. The leading authority on this subject is Al Gore, who also claims to have invented the Internet.

People believe all of the doom and gloom they hear in the media. Why do we never hear from the scientists that know that the whole thing is a hoax? Because they depend on gov't grants and know that if they come out with the truth their funding ends. Global warming is a power play from the left, whose aim is to further control what we drive, how we live, through further gov't intrusion in our daily lives.

As far as taking 10+ years for gasoline to hit our tanks from the untapped wells. Give me a break. We put a man on the moon in less time.

Everyone, I urge you to bother to inform yourself on the GLOBAL WARMING HOAX.

 

Much of what this guy says is on target. However, we don't need government funded healthcare. We need smaller government with lower taxes. I also agree with Colts Fan, there is no proof that global warming exists, much less that it was created by man. Our planet is constantly changing. Over centuries we have seen cooling and warming. It is merely a cycle. The last couple of years we have seen record snow falls in some parts of the country. If there was truly global warming this would not have occurred. Global warming and green house gases have become a very profitable industry supported by "we the people" through our government. It is about power and money. There are those who use the environment to gain power, money and circumvent our constitutional rights.

 

My take on his healthcare mention was that part of the difference between discount Iraqi oil and retail oil could pay for healthcare. To what degree, I'm not sure.

I'm on a bit of a slow connection right now, so I couldn't go back and watch it again.