We need private-sector jobs
Our country and its economy could be on a firm track for recovery with bold common sense actions to put Americans back to work. Begin with the need to become completely energy independent that would create hundreds of thousands, if not tens of millions, of jobs for Americans and legal immigrants rather quickly. Immediately approve the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to Houston to put thousands of people to work constructing and servicing these new employees for this 1,700-mile project.
We already have more than 50,000 miles of safe gas and oil pipelines throughout our country now, so the impact is well researched. Begin drilling for domestic oil on and off shore, build more refineries, safely fracking for more natural gas and build more nuclear power plants. Stop buying oil from our enemies and go into competition with OPEC by supplying our oil to the world. Learn from our prosperity after World War II when our government directed a huge effort to advance our country's technology with superior travel, micro electronics, communications and computerization to use and export.
This was done successfully by private sector investors, not taxpayer funding: companies such as IBM, Hughes, Texas Instruments, TRW and others who hired GI Bill-educated engineers, managers, workers and marketing people to help America become the strongest and most prosperous economy in world history.
In the following few decades, if an American did not have a job, he or she didn't want a job.
Now we need this same American “exceptionalism” directed to the best of our large oil, car and power corporations, plus subcontractors, to invent, develop and distribute alternative energy sources with unlimited supply, quality performance and affordable costs.
Our private sector corporations with today's technological advances can accomplish this with a phase in of these new vehicles and heating models during the next 10 to 15 years.
Having American oil, car and power companies invest in this effort would eliminate the “crony capitalism” that has resulted in lobby bribes and wasteful spending of our tax money to slow the replacement of fossil fuels that have increased our energy costs. We need real private-sector job creation and a smaller federal government to get out of the mess we are in.
American energy independence is the agenda I will be voting for in November 2012.
Donald Bolster Sugar Grove
We already have more than 50,000 miles of safe gas and oil pipelines throughout our country now, so the impact is well researched. Begin drilling for domestic oil on and off shore, build more refineries, safely fracking for more natural gas and build more nuclear power plants. Stop buying oil from our enemies and go into competition with OPEC by supplying our oil to the world. Learn from our prosperity after World War II when our government directed a huge effort to advance our country's technology with superior travel, micro electronics, communications and computerization to use and export.
This was done successfully by private sector investors, not taxpayer funding: companies such as IBM, Hughes, Texas Instruments, TRW and others who hired GI Bill-educated engineers, managers, workers and marketing people to help America become the strongest and most prosperous economy in world history.
In the following few decades, if an American did not have a job, he or she didn't want a job.
Now we need this same American “exceptionalism” directed to the best of our large oil, car and power corporations, plus subcontractors, to invent, develop and distribute alternative energy sources with unlimited supply, quality performance and affordable costs.
Our private sector corporations with today's technological advances can accomplish this with a phase in of these new vehicles and heating models during the next 10 to 15 years.
Having American oil, car and power companies invest in this effort would eliminate the “crony capitalism” that has resulted in lobby bribes and wasteful spending of our tax money to slow the replacement of fossil fuels that have increased our energy costs. We need real private-sector job creation and a smaller federal government to get out of the mess we are in.
American energy independence is the agenda I will be voting for in November 2012.
Donald Bolster Sugar Grove