[Jake The Goose]

Time for the U.S. to declare all out war on OIL !!!

I would like to see some politician (or Rush) come out and propose this nation declare all out war on OIL - and thus set a timeline for oil independence.

A Manhattan Project for new energy and zero oil imports in 10 years.

Fund it and give the funding to the market as research and reward money.

"we award $1b to anyone in 5 years who can come up with a way to get rid of our need for oil"

Drill for it.
Develop new energy.

Declare war.

[rottndog]

War is not the Answer!!!!

No more blood for oil!!!!

[Eagle of Liberty]

Time for the U.S. to declare all out war on OIL !!!

I may be wrong but I believe that the President has been very vocal about the need to become oil independent both in his rhetoric and through funding, although I agree that a Manhattan-style Project is in order. I am pretty sure that during WWII, nobody but the workers knew about the Manhattan Project so maybe this is also the case here.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/06/20030625-6.html

[MNJohnnie]

You will create nothing but more bureaucracy with a "Manhattan Project for new energy source"

See this crash Govt project nonsense from the Leftist forgets one really important thing. You got to develop the infrasturcture to support and use the new energy source. So you do a crash project and develop a new energy source? Guess what NO ONE can use it!

What I would suggest is you give large tax breaks to companies that convert as much of their infrastructure as possible to alternative energy or spent $ on R&D for Alternative Energy sources.

For every $1 spent either converting your office, factory, store to alternative energy or spent researching and developing alternative energy sources, you should get to write off $1 of your tax burden.

Also, the US Govt could simply start buying alternative powered vehicles. For example, the Post Office, Non Combat DOD, Corps of Engineers etc could buy x number of their vehicals each year that run on hydrogen or what ever. Then each year after that the number is x+5%. That would help enormously in developing the infrastructure to support alternative fuels