KERRY : Break Stranglehold of Foreign Oil

[SGrande]

http://www.johnkerry.com/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=7090&AddInterest=1007

In remarks he will deliver today in Boone, Iowa John Kerry said, "Today President Bush has a meeting with the Saudi Arabian foreign minister that has enormous implications for our national security and the future of the region.

SNIP

"President Bush needs to face the truth that we have to break the stranglehold of foreign oil by moving towards energy independence and creating jobs here at home. No American President should ever have to put our national security second because of our dependence on foreign oil in the Middle East. Energy independence is critical to the long-term national security of the United States."

[methinks2]

1. He's right

on that one. We should invest in alternative fuel sources and also just use the oil from the capped wells we've already dug in the Gulf.
I have it from a credible source that we have a dig and cap policy in the Gulf of Mexico. In other words, we don't need any foreign country for anything. We are completely self-sufficient!
:wtf:

[SGrande]

2. Heck, you drive one of those hybrids lately?

I drove 200 miles on a gallon and a 1\2 of gas!

[Merlin]

20. What kind was it?

This is pretty interesting. I'd sure like to know more.

[retread]

23. The gallon and 1/2 is what you spilled while pedaling.

*

[goforit]

26. I can see you're still in a boat .....its you're cash bud!!!

LOL!!!.......Keep pouring it in Cheney's wallet!!

You make him proud!!!

ROFLMAO!!!

[NewYorkerfromMass]

3. Investing in Amtrak would help a hell of a lot too!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=40355&mesg_id=40355&page=

[are_we_united_yet]

29. I support NARP

[revcarol]

4. Now that we went to war to get oil, with his approval, he wants

to promote non-oil solutions?

Get a life, Kerry. Your two-faced act makes me sick!!

You're a day late and $4 billion a month short, plus loss of life.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

6. I think you should send Kerry a written morals lesson

since you are obviously better versed than the Senator, and are certain that all has taken place precisely as he desired.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

12. I think your irony may be lost on revcarol lol

n/t

[phillybri]

8. Wonk,wonk, wonk....

:eyes:

[Wonk]

16. Uh.... what? nt

[blm]

10. He's been an advocate for alternative fuels for many years, revcarol.

there is no artifice to his position on this.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

5. Credit to Kerry...

He is taking on Bushco's little Oil cabal.

[revcarol]

7. He wants Iowa's votes...

gotta say you believe in that corn fuel...Them farmers vote.

[sfecap]

9. Gee, is Kerry ever going to have an original position?

Dean has been talking about this for months...:-)

[Monte Carlo]

11. This is not the first time Kerry's talked energy & security, either.

And I assure you that I have been paying attention. Maybe not on the campaign trail, but his positions on both are well documented.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

13. Kerry has been talking about this for years, not months

Kerry has been talking about this for years, not months

[blm]

18. Kerry's been a top environmentalist for decades not years

and certainly not for the last few months.

[JI7]

28. yup,this has been kerry's issue for DECADES

seems some need to do a little research on what candidates have done throughout the years rather than recent "released statements". the record shows kerry has been a strong advocate of the environment for YEARS.

[revcarol]

14. Hey, I know Kerry's been for alternative fuels,

but he didn't bother to think out how he was enabling Bush to whack the alternative fuels argument by fostering the drive to war for oil."Hey, now we got pulenty of erl."

Just a little harmless naivete, I guess.<sarcasm>

[Jacobin]

15. Good on him.

This is such an obvious and common sense idea that it would behoove whoever runs to invest serious money in removing the dependence on the ME oil.

[blm]

17. He said that we must fully fund the research

and be independent of oil within 10 years. He wants it focused on as sharply as the space program in the 60s.

[Merlin]

22. Don't you wonder why in the hell Al Gore didn't do this in 2000?

I still find it astounding that Gore didn't call for an energy self-sufficient "space" program. I remember being sure at the start he'd do it. Then nothing.

[LEFTofLEFT]

19. YES YES YES

Any leader that is not working to free America from this weakness should be hung for treason.

[jpgray]

21. This SHOULD be the new space program

With any luck, it will also kick the economy in the ass.

[sujan]

24. does that include canada, venezuela and mexico?

2002 Top 10 Countries from which the United States Imports Oil
(thousand barrels per day)

[Pallas180]

25. There are alternative fuels for cars and solar energy should be used

in all the Southern sunny states.

Would you believe in Florida, where the average cloudiness
is 1/2 hour per day if that, maybe 1 percent of houses/roofs
have solar energy panels.

Car producers should be encouraged by tax breaks for retooling
engines for alternative fuel ...corn oil, soy who cares...doesnt
have to run on gas.......this should have been worked on for the
past 30 years.....instead the car producers did everything to kill
cars that got better fuel, rotary engine, etc etc

[maggrwaggr]

27. blah blah blah blah

which of his five faces said this?