Originally Posted by Guest

as a focal point. I believe it will be very difficult to change our foreign policy significantly without compromising our stated values. And to modify it to accommodate oil availability only raises the same questions that arise each and every time the frailty of our energy situation is high lighted.

Policy is a an unpredictable long term variable that can change as a result of individuals, economic times, emotions and third party fallout, etc.

Not to shift the subject of the thread, however, every day that goes by without a specific energy independence plan here in the USA, the more we will be coerced into abiding by the whims of the oil suppliers at the time, regardless the policy in place. The growing demand and controlled supply will most certainly continue to aggrivate the price, reflecting in higher costs and economic turmoil.....AGAIN....no matter the policy in place at the time.

Then there is the wild card of terrorism that can easily cause an interruption in oil supply that will create an economic and human crisis such that it will make the current so called economic crisis seem like a cake walk. Policy will not affect a terrorist plot.

The only sensible way to assure the USA has adequate energy sources for the future is energy independence....WHAT EVER IT TAKES.

We have all witnessed that worldwide policies are nothing more than the expression of politics related to a specific individual/leader and their goals/objectives...words...to be changed at a whim. We are back in the la la land of less than $2 gasoline, so we the people are fat and happy once again and the cry for energy independence is barely a whimper...FOR NOW!

I support the USA serving notice on the oil producing countries of the world that we are in fact doing something about it. That they in fact can look forward to a day when they will be shipping no oil to the USA.

I support the USA putting the energy needs of the USA first, while there is a reasonable oil supply constantly shrouded by frail availability.

An energy independence will go a lot further in providing new research and jobs than the current stimulus pork joke.

[Our foreign policy should be....ENERGY INDEPENDENCE!]

BTK