American doesn't need a piece meal temporary and phony holiday on gas taxes, we need to declare war on oil.
Barack is the only candidate who, as president, could give America a real break from oil prices since he is absolutely the least owing to the power brokers in the oil industry that have kept us from exploding into an energy independant golden age.
I would like to see the next president (Barack of course), make an absolute declaration of war against oil. It can be done, but we need a national will to do it, and an effrort that reflects the national security needs for it.
We need to establish a Manhattan Project like priority to do it, bringing together the very best from the Auto industry, academia, and manufacturing to produce fuel cell technology to power all of America's vehicles. Simultaneously they need to develop a conversion system for all the cars on the roads today.
A second task force needs to be working as well, to design a delivery system, and source all the manufacturing capability to produce, deliver and install this mechanism.
We must make absolutely sure that none of the technology, none of the manufacturing , none of the installation , and none of the jobs this creates in allowed to benefit anyine other than the people of America first.
As a matter of vital national security all members of this effort need to be located together, and absolutely no access, political or otherwise , be allowed to disrupt this process. Especially from the oil companies, and their lobbyist's.
While this project is underway legislation will need to be passed to protect the technology developed as a result of this process. Absolutely no foreign entities, corporate, government or otherwise will be allowed to control or access the technology until it can be demonstrated that America, and Americans do not lose security, or jobs from it's dissemination
It is not impossible that up to a million jobs can be created with technology alone, and it is imperative that the jobs created in America need to STAY in America. While it would indeed be irresponsible not to share this technology for the good of the planet, we must not outsource what could be the most important change in the course of humanity since the industrial revolution.
We would also need to assist the manufacturing parters in the project by eliminating unfair and unbalanced trade conditions that already exist , or could develop as a result of our determination reshape America's dependance on oil Also, as with the Manhattan Project, our military needs to fully engaged and on high alert to prevent any form of saboatge, from all possible sources.
How do we fund it. Get out of Iraq but, redirect the funding the war currently consumes. We certainly can afford to use this money to truly secure American and it's future.
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