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McCain's energy solutions. Like filling up a Hummer with an eyedropper.
Just when I thought there wasn’t much to talk about today, John McCain gave a speech. Doing a flip-flop from his past position of opposing U.S. offshore oil drilling, John McCain tried to exploit the easy path to sticker-shocked Americans, by falsely promising and implying that the way to lower gas prices was to lift the embargo on oil drilling near the U.S. coastline. Barack Obama was quick to rebut McCain’s remarks as another gimmick, similar to his summer gas tax holiday, and Obama was right on the money. McCain’s assertions that this offshore drilling in the U.S. will somehow solve our problems at the pump is ludicrous and aimed directly at uneducated people who know only one thing, they are running out of gas because they are running out of money to pay for it. So far every “solution” that John McCain has come up with not only seems to have the oil industry executives’ profit margin at heart, but the manner in which they address the problem is like trying to fill up a Hummer with an eyedropper. Exploitation of U.S. oil reserves will be critical over the long-term since the modern world has been so slow to develop alternative fuels and a viable infrastructure to use them. But there is only one solution, regardless of the short-term economic consequences that fundamental change will bring. But we will either face those consequences with realistic leadership, or they will force themselves upon us with possibly more severity and higher stakes. Unless we find ways to curb the demand and dependence on fossil fuels to propel our lives, there’s only direction in which the price of gas will go. Can anyone spell s-t-r-a-t-o-s-p-h-e-r-e? What we expect from our leaders, and from those who wish to lead us, is a plan that will give us relief not only for today and tomorrow, but lasting relief that will see us through this century and beyond. So far I haven’t heard much other than gimmicks and rhetoric, but I have some ideas of my own. John McCain and the Republican’s have campaigned on tax cuts for as long as I’ve been a voter, but they generally end up just tossing a bone to the poor and middle-class, while they carve up the prime cuts for the wealthy and big business. Hey I like a good tax cut as much as the next guy, but why not use tax cuts as an incentive to solve other problems that will effect the nation at all levels of social standing and life. Give the automakers tax incentives to reach benchmarks in the mass production of smaller, high-quality, affordable, fuel efficient cars, and at the same time give consumers a tax deduction for purchasing the automobiles and trucks that reach those benchmarks. Implementation could be as simple as a W2/1099 type form issued by the car dealer at the time of purchase, to be attached to your 1040 to confirm eligibility for the deduction. A small residual incentive could be retained for each year that you re-register the same car. These same incentives and deductions could be expanded to trucks, utility vehicles as well as construction and farming equipment. Always better than restrictions, with these types of incentive, then if someone still chooses to buy a Hummer or any other gas guzzler, that would be their choice alone, and they would have to live with the consequences, and have no one to complain to except the man or woman staring at them in the mirror. There are other ways to cut down on consumption with real results in the very near future such as expanding the use of virtual workplaces to cut down on the number of commuters as well as well-planned and maintained mass transit such as buses and a European style train system. But these are subjects for another day. The biggest immediate problem our leaders have on their hands, is not only to formulate sensible, realistic, problem-solving plans, but then to sell them to the American public. What better way to do that, than to save them money while at the same time addressing the important issues. Otherwise, if we fail in changing our mentality, over this next decade we may find ourselves in a hole we can’t dig out of. For me and my grandchildren, just to be safe, I think we’re going to start taking horseback riding lessons, because you never know, they may end up once again be in fashion as the transportation of choice. William S. James, Future Equestrian |
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