Vehicle Choice and Fuel

While browsing the Americans for Vehicle Choice Facebook page i came across some interesting picture of tiny trucks, compact cars hauling plywood and more. It made me think, we should be less concerned with wasting engineering money on making smaller engines and smaller cars that are less safe and spend more money drilling for domestic oil and cheapening gas so that the days of big block V8s, personal luxury coupes, and big SUVs and sedans can come back so that we can start driving what America is pictured as. It's gotten so bad that the iconic Ford Crown Victoria which makes up a large majority of police and taxis has been phased out because the governments of states are demanding higher fuel economy. I can't wait to see what yellow piece of junk will be driving people around new york city in ten years when all the crown vics have 400k miles and aren't suitable for use anymore. This push for higher mpg, smaller cars which ultimately are less safe in any application where they can come in contact with buses, trailer trucks, etc. is ruining what America stands for. We need to pressure congress to give permits to drill in America, especially Alaska, and to buy oil from Canada which has large amounts of it. We should also invest in Clean Coal technology since we're sitting on the world's third largest deposit of it, and we should be building more nuclear power plants out west in the Mojave desert to help feed the need for clean power in CA, and NV, NM, and AZ. i wouldn't mind a nuclear plant a few miles from my home, especially since it's extremely cheap. We could also begin to invest in wind power on the eastern seaboard. While it's expensive it will eventually pay off since we don't seem to have the ability to lower crude prices coming from OPEC. A combination of all these things will see that filling your oil tank doesn't cost $700, filling my gas tank doesn't cost me $92 and powering a house isn't costing a few hundred a month. It seems that the only thing that hasn't increased (a substantial amount at least) is the cost of water, but when the Ogallala aquifer dries up in about twenty years and the mid west can't water their fields and our food prices skyrocket, we'll need to be saving money somewhere or this country will be the next rural china.

Why Ron Paul Isn't Mainstream

It's really amazing me as one of my friends put it at how much "effort is being put into not mentioning his name". He of course being my candidate of choice for 2012, Ron Paul. This was in reference to an article by Politico after the Iowa Straw Poll in which the title blatantly skipped the second place winner. Of course they could care less that he lost by less than one percent of the vote and completely obliterated Pawlenty. It seems that everyone and their brother in the media these days is dead scared of a real reforming conservative. Could it be their fear that he wants to recall our troops and protect our borders? or their fear that he wants to reform or entirely close down (the preferable choice) the Federal Reserve and restore the power of regulating our money to Congress? or could it just be that he's an old, white, rich, guy- the new enemies of America as the left would have it. Maybe that's why the media tends to favor Bachmann as the GOP candidate, because she could be the first woman president. Not that i have anything against that but i don't think she could do it. She's too young, and doesn't have the life experience that 75 year old Ron Paul has. To me Ron Paul is an even more conservative version of Ronald Reagan and that's what we need in 2012 when the rest of the choices seem to be at the best moderate conservatives, and at the worst, socialist, progressive, liberals who have another idea for their America. I urge everyone out there to pressure the media into giving Ron Paul equal coverage. The more we complain the better they'll listen.