Unfortunately, the young man was correct: our economy and our nation runs on oil, but we are just as complicit as our government and the CEO's of oil companies. We need to rapidly wean ourselves off the oil tit and use the money we save by occupying Iraq to develop the sustainable forms of energy that have already been invented.
I don't own a car and I take public mass transportation whenever I can. The mass transportation systems in this country need to be expanded and the fares need to be reduced or eliminated all together in a dream world where green jobs will be created and the environment will improve. When gas got over 4.50/gallon and people started to drive less, the air quality actually improved and that's a good thing.
This nation wastes 275 million dollars per day on these insane and inane occupations. If we pulled our troops out of the Middle East where they should have never been, we would have the money to actually take care of the first responders to 9-11 who are suffering from health challenges and many can't access the care they need in this callous medical system we have. We could also provide care to our wounded troops (physically, mentally, and emotionally) that also often find accessing care is difficult, still.
At his inauguration, Barack Obama said: "We will not apologize for our lifestyle, maybe he's right, most likely he's wrong, but we definitely need to change our lifestyle.
Wouldn't it be nice if after 8 years, we had a leader that had the courage to take us in a direction of peace and sustainability?
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