A Timeline of Obama's Failed Energy Policy Courtesy of Speaker Boehner

If we move to a stronger stance on foreign policy and bring criminals like Iran’s president to justice, we will not appear weak and weak minded to the Arab Muslim world. If you look at your history he is a terrorist and involved in kid napping! Furthermore, our country has an abundance of resources put here by God mainly Oil in Ohio, Texas, Illinois, Indiana, Alaska, and our friends in Canada. We started buying overseas because it was cheap to do so. Not any more! Buy from our friends in the United States and Canada and we can rebuild America with the money we will save. We can then provide new jobs, and when the money starts to flow new loans will flow, entrepreneurs will begin to thrive and America will survive and be free from a communist socialist anti-free will governments that keeps you in poverty! Free will and choice to live no matter how small you are in our world of God!

Rick of OH 5:10PM September 27, 2012

If one reads even a small portion of the immense amount of digital and printed information on energy policy, it would lead one to believe that there are only two choices. Continue to explore and drill for fossil fuel or save the environment by seeking alternative forms of energy.

The health of an economy is in fact directly tied to the amount of energy the nation consumes. Without energy we would essentially be relegated back to the dark ages. However, continuing on this path may ultimately ruin the environment and deplete remaining sources of fossil fuel. Suffice it to say that whatever position you take is correct, although diametrically opposed in practice.

The problem, simply stated, is that we are burning ancient fuel in a contemporary milieu thereby creating an environmental imbalance. The solution lies in using contemporary fuel in a contemporary environment to restore balance. However, transitioning from the former to the latter cannot be accomplished too quickly without incurring severe collateral damage to not only our standard of living but also the world economy.

The question then becomes how can the scales be slowly tipped towards using contemporary fuel, without damaging the economy and yet happily embraced by a majority of energy users. This would seem to necessitate the introduction of a catalyst or paradigm shift to facilitate change which to date has not been available.

Instead of focusing on fuel usage and its ramifications, we would do well to focus on the mechanisms that use the fuel and perhaps reduce fuel consumption overall. For example, the same internal combustion engine used today is based upon a design over 130 years old. The engine in your vehicle is only 18% efficient which means that 82% of the fuel is wasted on heat and pollutants, not work. After all this time wouldn’t one think that there was a better way? Instead, we have taken the same inefficient design and modified it in numerous ways to eke out minimal efficiency gains while adding cost to the consumer in the process. Regardless of how you look at it, the basic design is still inherently inefficient.

For those interested parties and skeptics among us who may think a solution is improbable, take a look at the Russell Engine Generator at www.russellenergy.com . You may be pleasantly surprised that American innovation is alive and well.

Whatever the future energy solution may be, let us hope that Homo sapiens, Latin for “wise man”, is not a misnomer but a mantra for our species. We would do well to learn from our up to now successful journey throughout history. Since all of our evolutionary hominid predecessors are extinct, we are indeed the “last man standing”.

Chuck P of IL 9:19AM March 05, 2012

For all reasonable intents and purposes, Barack Obama will not be re-elected in November as his very unaccommodating "legacy" will be his own downfall.

But then again, I see so many knotheads on the MSM who still think this guy is some kind of "Messiah" when he continues to present himself as an "empty suit".

....just how many ignorant citizens are out there anyway??

Harry Reasoner of MA 10:10AM February 29, 2012

stop picking and choosing your fights with the President. It seems to me that the Right are chasing a greased pig. You argue about taxes and your policies screws the middle class. Your policies are politically corrupted by your insensitive realities of this country. No wonder you can't win California.

Charles of CA 2:47PM February 27, 2012