Hurray! Kind of, sort of.

The Senate just passed an energy bill significantly increasing automakers’ required fuel efficiency…in 15 years!

Please. While I’m glad that our country is moving towards an energy policy that will abate global warming, we don’t have 15 years to lower our use of terrorist oil. Iran will have a nuclear bomb with in three years. Hezbollah is rearming thanks to Iranian support. More radical Islamic schools are being built in Afghanistan which teach hate towards Jews, Americans and anything that smacks of individual freedom. So in 15 years another generation will be brainwashed about the “evil Zionists,” “capitalist Americans” and “infidels of democracy,” making it impossible to make Israel, the United States or the whole planet any safer.

Where are our leaders? Where are the visionaries we need to make America and its most important ally in the Middle East safer from Islamic terrorists?

I was hoping for more legislation that would help all the smart venture capitals who are falling all over themselves to back any green initiative. The problem is terrorist oil is so cheap; these alternatives can’t compete.

Senate Republicans squashed debate on ending the federal handouts to oil companies. That money could have been used to find other sources of energy – solar, wind, geothermal, bio-diesel and more—that will help make Israel and the rest of us safer, and all of us more eco-friendly .

So thanks to the Senate, we’ll suffer for another generation and then be shocked when Iran not only has nuclear weapons, but begins serious international blackmail because of their capabilities. Then, when it’s too late, the Bushies will want to drop bombs on Iran to stop their program. We’ve seen how capable they’ve been at waging war. Heck they can’t even get drinkable water to New Orleans during a domestic crisis.

When all you have is a hammer in your tool kit, everything looks like a nail. Israel’s been waging war against Arabs for 60 years and there are still terrorists trying to kill Israelis. We need more tools. One of them is our wallets. When will American legislators learn that?

the reason we fought the first gulf war was cause of oil the second because of terrorisim.israel should have finished the job in lebanon

Andrew,

The U.S. could cut off the terrorist tap quite easily, if they were willing to pay a bit more for oil while they transition to alternative sources of fuel. Alberta has more oil than all of the Mid East, but since it is mixed with the sand, it costs more to extract. The U.S. government should incentivize energy companies to immediately develop a way to more easily draw tar sands oil. They would then have hundreds or thousands of years of supply from a reliable ally that is not going to use the proceeds to fund the destruction of the West. But it is not just the Republican Senate that is the problem. How Americans would be wiling to pay 4 or 5 bucks a gallon for oil—even if it would seriously eliminate terrorism?