The True Energy Enemy: Our Democracy
By Kleinheider Posted on April 30, 2008 at 4:22 pmJoe Powell points the finger at an electorate without a time horizon and blames it for our current energy crisis:
As much as the leadership in Washington is to blame for abandoning real solutions over the last 30 years, we have to blame ourselves too - for letting them slide and for indulging ourselves even more and for increasing our reliance on the commercial structures which have expanded our needs for energy.
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i will not say i am sorry that we need more energy, this is a good thing, our standards of living are going up and up… i am sorry that the republicans and the democrats have not let us have the freedom to get to our coal and oil and nuclear reserves and buid more.