We are now paying nearly three dollars a gallon for gas. But the cost is really much higher. What most Americans don't see is the additional cost of the occupation of Iraq, a misguided attempt to stabilize the Middle East to keep a steady flow of oil to fuel our economy. This occupation has a price tag of $160 billion a year. That's over $500 per American citizen per year!
The highest and latest cost of our oil addiction is being paid by the families of the nearly 2400 Americans who died in Iraq, the untold others who have died after returning home, and the 17,000 severely injured young men and women who are facing a dreadfully underfunded military medical system.
Jeff Latas for Congress
This is too much for me. It should be too much for the rest of America. We must end our addiction to oil now. Ending an oil-based economy is healthy for our country. Our national security improves, our environment improves, our economy improves, we become a strong nation, and once again we can become the global leader in innovation and technology.
Every year at this time, gas prices spike. Last year the big news was gas prices over $2.25 a gallon. By summer it was over $2.80. It will go higher this year and if this isn't enough, wait until next year. Oil is harder to find and extract. Half of the oil on our planet is gone. That took around 100 years. At our current consumption rate, we only have maybe 30 years remaining. Supply and demand rules here and supply is limited and demand has increase radically in only the last five years. We have no choice but to end our dependence on oil; it's up to us to select when. I say we must start now, because we should have started in 1974 when the first warning shot was fired with the oil embargo. We are behind and our standard of living will suffer. You have a choice to send someone to Congress who understands this extreme problem. I am the only engineer running for this Congressional seat, and I will be one of the few engineers in Congress. This is one of many technological problems this nation will face and we need people who understand technological solutions.
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We have entered that back stretch of the race to put a progressive Democrat into a Congressional seat that's been held by a Republican for 22 years. I am very proud to announce that earlier this week I received the national endorsement from the Progressive Democrats of America. One week ago, the Tucson chapter of Democracy of America (DFA) also voted, overwhelmingly, to support me as the progressive to send to Washington. I am now the only candidate who can garner the DFA national endorsement. These were the first competitive endorsements in this race. I am very honored to have earned them.
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