[kellynla]

Please correct me if I am wrong but if we were to open up offshore drilling, ANWR, clean coal technology & construction of cogeneration nuclear power plants that would not only desalinate water & generate electricity;
America could not only become energy independent and provide all the water we would ever need but would be such a HUGE boost to the economy, that we could completely turn this economy around in a matter of a few years!

[thackney]

I would not promise that all our energy would come from internal to our borders. I don’t see that as necessary (to reach 100%).

But decreasing our dependence from where we are today is the right thing to do.

We are going to spend the money for our energy. We should spend more of those dollars here at home.

[Centurion2000]

America could not only become energy independent and provide all the water we would ever need but would be such a HUGE boost to the economy, that we could completely turn this economy around in a matter of a few years!

FASTER actually. Remember that a lot of the economy is based on confidence and optimism.

This 1000 point rally in the last week? That's false hope and it's going to get bitter at the next treasuries auction. Also this Treasury plan to buy toxic assets is going to stick the FDIC with TRILLIONS of bad securities while the banks take a 5% loss.

[magooey]

America could not only become energy independent and provide all the water we would ever need but would be such a HUGE boost to the economy, that we could completely turn this economy around in a matter of a few years!

Nice point. In addition these activities would generate significant tax revenues at the current rates. If this Administration wishes to balance its budget, exactly what is their problem?

[SoldierDad]

The dimocRATS are not interested in anything which will boost the economy - less ability to control the masses when the economy is good.

[gidget7]

Months not years, but no you aren’t wrong.

[Jay Thomas]

That is not in the Rats interest.

[gogogodzilla]

"...HUGE boost to the economy, that we could completely turn this economy around in a matter of a few years!"

That is, a few years after all those power and desalinization plants come on-line.

:-)

[1035rep]

True, but Mr Obama wants to bring this country to it’s knees first so he can push through the Nationalized Health Care.

“Never allow a crisis to go to waste,” White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told the New York Times right after the election. “They are opportunities to do big things.”

[plain talk]

Please correct me if I am wrong but if we were to open up offshore drilling, ANWR, clean coal technology & construction of cogeneration nuclear power plants that would not only desalinate water & generate electricity; America could not only become energy independent

Well you lumped a lot of things together but let's focus on oil. Just opening up offshore drilling would not result in zero oil imports. Why? Because it is cheaper to import oil pulled up out of the mideast sand than to drill for it in miles of deep ocean which is an expensive operation. Having said it would certainly help us toward energy independence but more importantly we would be better positioned to ramp up in case we encountered an embargo.

[Global2010]

I have a gut feeling that turning the economy around is not the game plan in Washington DC.

Not in a ethical Capitalist sense.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Please ping me to anybody who gives a detailed answr to your question, please, because I need to learn a lot. But it seems to me you are talking sense, and what you said would ring true to a couple hundred million Americans. So keep saying it. And not just here.