Drill Baby Drill

Here at LloydLou I tend to talk politics and religion. But of course I'm not qualified to do that. Most people are not. We "most people" are really just airing our wishes and opinions. Rarely do we change any listeners opinion. I follow the Republican primary contest much as I would a new sitcom or a sports playoff. It's interesting because it is now and somebody's gonna get thrashed. The mighty will fall and the boring normal will become funny.

I think we all make a huge mistake in the way we think about politics. We tend to expect there to be a "right way" to deal with other countries, our economy, our legal system, our moral responsibilities. We choose between our two parties every two years. Expecting to finally have one of the parties "get it right". But they will never get it right. Of course. We all know this. But knowing and wishing are two different things. We continue to hope. And most of all, we hope that we as individuals will be "right".

The government/political system that would approach utopia for one individual/tribe/country would never, ever, ever, approach utopia for another.

Also: The government/political system that would approach utopia in one era of time would never approach utopia in another era of time.

So here is my advice to politicians and voters alike:

1. The most important thing to learn from history is that man is inhumane and we can and should strive to do better.

2. Make decisions that will help now and be a stepping stone to more help in the future.

3. There are no permanent solutions.

4. Remember everything is changing every day.

5. An economy can not be considered successful if there are people who are starving and/or without health care.

6. Keep marriage, sex, drugs, and religion out of national politics.

7. Let's try to fix our political system so that it is never about someone getting re-elected.

Okay... that's a general rant. enough.

Now I have a way to fix a couple problems quick. World strife is mostly about oil and religion. We actually could get by without oil and religion. Then only land and other natural resources would we go to war over.

I have a solution to the oil problem. We build that pipeline in ANWR. We build the Canadian pipeline being talked about. We drill baby drill (oh how fun, I get to agree with Sarah Palin!) we go offshore, on shore and everywhere. Now hold on environmentalists, let me finish. We make so damn much oil right here in North America that it is astounding. Think of the jobs it will create. At the same time we expand our conservation of oil, by using more efficient systems that don't need as much or any oil. We almost immediately stop importing oil from the Middle east. We get out of Middle East politics. We are already getting out of Middle East wars. Our expanded oil system can be slowly scaled back as we convert to other energy. Renewable energy. So I am calling for a "surge" in oil production for peace, And then lets see what happens with the new tech for energy. We lost 4500 young brave wonderful citizens in a war over oil and religion. We can eliminate the cause for that kind of war. Eventually the old oil pipelines can rot where they sit. Empty they do no harm to the environment. They become a monument to a choice we made. If this sounds like an only temporary solution, that is correct. All solutions are only temporary. If some rich powerful person stands to lose money because he profited from Middle East oil, that's too bad. We need to sever that oil tie now. It will bring peace and prosperity.