What's wrong with you? I will advice you to shut your AM radio and do some reading. You will be well educated about economic and monetary policy.
The American economic system has been built on consumption and not sustainability. Thats why we are in this mess. We have the biggest military in the world.
Annual Defense Budget = $550B/y = $5.5Trillion in 10 years. Annual Crude Oil Imports = $400B/y = $4.0Trillion in 10 Years Annual cost of Iraq and Afghanistan = $10B/month = $120B/year = $600B in 5 years. Bush Tax cuts during a time of war (stupid idea) = $2Trillion Annual Energy Consumption = http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/pdf/trend_2.pdf
Look at page 9 and see how much energy light vehicles consume (about 20 Quadrillion BTU of energy).
Obama is saying move all this cars to electric (which you can charge from your rooftop solar panel or wind), higher efficiency or hybrid cars.
You guy have to think beyond the next election and tank fill up, thats why we are were we are today. More than 30 years ago Jimmy Carter had solar panels in the white house, guess who removed them all.
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