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Our goal should not just be freedom from foreign oil. It should be freedom from fossil fuels altogether. Petroleum is an essential ingredient for many industrial applications - plastics, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and others. It is ridiculous to be burning up our limited supply of petroleum in automobiles. We must pursue alternative fuels like hydrogen and ethanol from prairie grass. In the meantime, it is essential that we drastically increase CAFÉ mileage standards for automobiles, and apply them as well to SUVs and light trucks.
For the generation of electricity, we must use renewables like solar, wind, geothermal, and tidal energy.
Nuclear power plants can be made quite safe, but they won't be part of the solution until there is a safe, permanent means of disposing of radioactive nuclear waste. No such means is in sight, and I therefore oppose new nuclear power plants. Return to top
The "Federal Reserve" is not federal, and it has no reserve. It is a group of private bankers controlling the money supply and making hundreds of billions in interest on money they print for the government. Congress should consider buying back the Fed and printing its own money, as the Constitution directs. Return to top