Speak for yourself.
Posted on 06/21/2010 11:48:34 AM PDT by Rhonda Robinson
Reason Magazine rightfully praises comedian Jon Stewart – the only man who’s actually willing to ask inconvenient questions every now and then – for taking America’s politicians to task for talking about making the country energy independent, but doing exactly nothing to actually achieve this lofty goal.
America’s, and the West’s as a whole, dependence on Middle Eastern oil is a tremendous weakness. There’s no reason not to develop alternative energy resources. In fact, the opposite is even true: our oil dollars are used to either keep dictatorial regimes in place or to fund the very terrorist organizations who have declared war on us and our way of life – or both. By buying oil, then, we are strengthening and enriching our enemies. If that isn’t the very definition of a stupid foreign policy, I don’t know what is.
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I actually think Jon Stewart is a lot of fun to be honest. He’s done a lot of hilarious episodes.
Maybe he’s beginning to see the light
This is THE GOVERNMENT That he loves so much, doing this stupidity... and he wants MORE of it???
Maybe he will soon come to realize that Republicans really do not want dirty water or to starve old people and children
Every President since Nixon has had a plan to reduce “dependence” on foreign oil and none have worked. Except Reagan; he had the good sense to let the markets work.
“Every President since Nixon has had a plan to reduce “dependence” on foreign oil and none have worked. Except Reagan; he had the good sense to let the markets work.”
The Arab oil ministers spend much more on lobbyists than you or I. So, as the dysfunctional American government now operates, it’s much more likely that laws favoring the Arab states will be passed than laws that would make America a better, stronger country.
Of course he does. That's his meal ticket. Great Comic Fodder. You can't write stuff that's this good.
I love watching Jon Stewart arguments here on FR - "Is he Liberal or Conservative?". "Last night he said something bad about Obama!" "Oh yeah, well last week he said something bad about Bush!"
My take? He's neither a lib or a conservative. He's an entertainer that more-or-less reflects the current mood of the younger crowd in the nation. Watch him turn on The Chosen One as the rest of the country does, too.
You mean like not drilling ANWR or a moratorium on offshore drilling???
“You mean like not drilling ANWR or a moratorium on offshore drilling???”
Bingo.
Not surprisingly, President Bush [w] did a lot to reduce foreign dependence— at least upon Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern powers.
Bush changed US consumption patterns from Middle East sources to North American sources.
OUr #1 and #2 suppliers are now Canada and Mexico. That is directly due to the oil experience of Cheney and Bush. It is also something which Obama is working to undermine by making environmental arguments against Canadian oil.
Speak for yourself.
The DoE’s reason for being created was to help the US become more energy independent. What has been the trend since its creation?
Gee, you think nuclear power might help? Nah, the limousine liberals squashed that back in the 70’s (many of whom are now has-beens).
It’s about time that Obama and other leading politicians stop making fools of the American people and finally do what they’ve been promising for decades: develop a strategy to become energy independent by exploiting alternative energy resources.
This might be fine if there were true alternatives to oil. It's not going to happen anytime soon and we will continue to be dependent on foreign oil. Simply change "alternative" to "domestic" and I would agree. We need to use our own resources instead of putting them out of reach through idiotic energy policies.
And you mean like “Who killed the electric car?”
The kenyan doofus made a speech a while back about moving forward to build more nuke plants. Then behind everyone’s back suspended the construction of the yucca mountain nuke waste site. Something like 100 Billion has been spent on it so far, and the project was stopped.
I certainly don’t agree with his lefty politics but when he blasted CNN I did notice.
We can grow our own coconuts,
We can grow our own coconuts,
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