Time to send the turkeys home

Tag : Waste Oil Changer

After the vicious beheading of two American civilians in SaudiArabia in 2004 the call went out by the U.S. government, "The U.S.government is renewing its call for Americans to leave Saudi Arabiaafter the recent terrorist attacks, saying the safety of U.S.workers was more important than any effect on oil supplies or theSaudi economy."
An estimated 35,000 Americans had been working in Saudi Arabia andit is unclear how many had left since those beheading attacks,which came at the same time the Bush administration had beenpressing the Saudis to boost oil production to help lower gasprices in the United States.
Gas prices have been on the rise ever since and with our dependenceon foreign oil at nearly 70 percent of our consumption.
We have oil in America, but our politicians would rather lie downin the path of a frozen bulldozer in the Arctic National WildlifeRefuge to protect a caribou rather than having 2,000 acres of icedisrupted so we could get millions of gallons of oil to relieve ournation.
Estimated U.S. oil shale reserves total an astonishing 1.5 trillionbarrels of oil - or more than five times the stated reserves ofSaudi Arabia. And yet, no one is producing commercial quantities ofoil from these vast deposits. All that oil is still sitting rightwhere God left it, buried under the vast landscapes of Colorado andWyoming. But what if we could safely and economically get our handson all that oil? Imagine how the world might change. ...
The governments of Communist China and Russia waste no time . Theyare now drilling for oil 70 miles off the coast of Cuba, and theyare actually tapping into oil in the ocean off the coast ofFlorida, by parallel drilling under the sea.
... China is building five brand new nuclear plants by 2010. Russiais laying pipe lines all through Europe to pipe their natural gasto those consumers. France has 59 nuclear power plants and hasblueprints for several more. France is the world's largest netexporter of electric power exporting 18 percent of its totalproduction to Italy, the Netherlands, Britain and Germany. Japanhas tested and manufactured a clean, efficient vehicle that is runby converting water to hydrogen.
Compared to all of these countries plans, all our governmentleaders can come up with, is the use of corn for ethanol, anadditive for gasoline, which most of our cars can't even start upon. This brain child of an idea has caused fuel costs to go throughthe roof and land that could be used for food crops is being usedto grow fuel for cars. There are food shortages breaking out aroundthe world. What will America do when floods and droughts hit themid west and the crops are ruined? Sure it's good income for thefarmers and many deserve a financial break from previous hard timesthey have encountered.