Oil now? or loss election?

Written by: John Archibald on Jun 18, 2008 8:53 PM EDT

I have been an Obama supporter starting from before he became popular. Just as I had predicted Barack’s current success I have recently predicted that the cost of oil and it’s effects would become priority  number one with voters. And it will, trust me! We must be willing to, while giving as much attention to environmental concerns as reasonably possible, explore for oil, coal, and natural gas immediately. We must retrieve and process our fossil fuels as soon as we can while frantically developing alternative energy sources with which to power our industry, motor vehicles and homes. Unfortunately, Mr. Bush and Mr. McCain have beaten Barack and the rest of our party to this unavoidable common sense approach. He will ultimately loss the election if he does not realize and act on the fact that our economy is presently and for the near future entirely dependant upon affordable and available fossil fuels and their derivatives. If we don’t act now we will not have the ability to research and develop the needed technologies to make us independent of these fossil fuels because the looming energy crises will put us into the basic survival mode, and the means for such activities will not be available as they currently are. Unless Barack and the rest of the Democrats get on board, the republicans will continue to run things. Why can’t the Democratic party use some common sense. Why is it always one extreme or the other? I am embarrassed. To the Democrats I beg,… Please wake up??????? We need to get our nation back!   

I am a white 61 year old Vietnam vet and a retired building trades union supervisor who retired out of the engineering department at my last job. I am just trying to say many smart common sense people like myself (all races and colors) who want Barack to win and to have a couple of successful terms in office are very concerned that he has not picked up on this. I share many of his views and would like to see a prosperous period where we are not so preoccupied with the fossil fuel crises that we can't implement the needed policies etc. I pray for the sake of our party that Barack and the rest of the party quickly become aware of the gravity closing the door to the immediate pursuit of our reserves will have. This is the only mistake we can make that will allow the republicans to stay in office, and we are currently making it.

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