End The Oiligarchy.
With no oil consumers The Oiligarchy could no more buy
congress or
presidents or
foreign dictators or
religious groups than the whale oil lobby could now.
Why does the whale oil lobby have no power?
Because we simply don't use whale oil any more.
With no more market, theres no more power.
If instead of with oil, our civilization was powered by local grown Wind, Ocean, Solar, Geothermal and Lunar Energy, even if these businesses grew to titanic proportions, it would not lead us into wars and threaten our Democracy like The Oiligarchy does, no matter how gigantic all these industries would become, because its raw materials are readily available everywhere.
Right. So, how can mere Kossacks end The Oiligarchy?
With legislation.
Truly the most significant legislation in American history is in the Senate, right now.
There have been a very few times in our history when we really changed America for the better with legislation. Creating social security and the GI Bill made huge changes in America. What the Democrats have served up now is capable of making a similar really huge change. Now YOU have to step up to bat and hit it out of the ballpark!
Truly historic legislation is in the Senate right now that will end the hegemony of oil companies that turned us into the totalitarian oiligarchy we see examples of ad nauseum daily here, and this will pass or fail again depending on what WE do. If the Senate gets our message it will pass.
Al Gore says in his experience, Senators do listen to US. Thats why he asks you to speak tomorrrow: last chance tonight to sign
It's not going to work immediately, I grant.
It will not get these particular troops out in a week.
But this legislation is your best chance of ending not only this war, but every US war in the future, because every war is a war over resources like oil. These bills in the Senate could get us free.
Because this historic legislation is designed to deliver us from oil. It is devised by Democratic Senators with an understanding of science and governments role in changing course, and an appreciation of the power of American ingenuity. Because we can invent our way out of the dependence on forn oil The Oiligarchy.
To confuse constituents and give cover to those weakling Senators too afraid of The Oiligarchy to fight them on the one hand - but yet also just freshly hammered at the polls on backing the wrong guy on Iraq, theres also some decoy do-nothing bills. This is so they will be able to do nothing and yet say they signed forn oil legislation (Republicans are not allowed by The Oiligarchy to utter the phrase climate change, so we'll just use their term forn oil)while really merely promoting business as usual - The Oiligarchy's business, that is.
Can you see which ones will change things? Can you spot the less effective bills? Tough choice huh. Hmmm....
Business as usual for the Oiligarchy?
or....
...A true radical change in direction that removes our dependance on the fossil fools.
So rather than we keep screaming for the Democrats to somehow wrestle this Oiligarchy to the ground now and somehow get the troops out of Iraq right now, lets take a second to peer ahead, and just take a second to simply end The Oiligarchy.
Let them go the way of the whale oil industry. Let there be no powerfull oil lobby. No mercenaries fighting in our name. There are great alternatives that work. Cars do not actually need to be powered by gasoline powered combustion engines - which, as a prescient diaryist pointed out to us last night, keep running out of gas. Purely electric cars powered by renewables are possible. Wind and waves and solar and lunar Power are not something you need to go and dig out from under some other country.
They do not require an intimidated and silenced populace under police state rule like Nuclear power would in this country. There need be no big subsidies for nuclear plants like the Lieberman / MCain bill.
The Boxer/Sanders bill takes us clean into the future. Don't whine to ME that we can't do that. We can reinvent the wheel.
We did it already, when California forced the Big 3 to come clean (see Who Killed The Electric Car) but The Oiligarchy hid the truth from us not allowing advertising of the GM EV 1 in the 90's, the most loved car you never heard of till too late and then buying up and murdering the battery technology fueling the only cars (electric cars) ever to receive actual burials by the only consumers ever forcibly separated from their choice of car
Then crushing the entire fleet and burying the evidence.
And then convincing congress to bribe us with up to $100,000 each in subsidies to get back in the gasguzzler that one Senator in a hearing last week called The Porcus Totus.
We could end The Oiligarchy
driving the warmongering.
After The CheneyBush there will be new Fossil Fools controlling congress, unless we pull the plug on that industry that has always been driving us to fight them over there... The real enemy is The Oiligarchy - not the peoples on the oilfields. We can't fight them over there. Lets stand up now and LETS fight them here.
One of these bills will be the basis for a really new America, when we get a thinking being Democrat into the Whitehouse in 2008. Which bill that is is your choice now. One of these will be chosen this summer just to shut us up, so congress can say they did something to free us of forn oil when they are fighting for our affections in the next election cycle. It will take a while to get such radical legislation through both houses and then its all eyes on the election cycle! By then it will be too late for you to pick the legislation that would have really changed us from the ugly country we have become. You need to speak now, or forever hold your peace.
Lieberman/MCain supposedly got 500,000 signatures, (but no one ever asked ME. And I get every key legislation signature request there is from The Union of Concerned Scientists, MoveOn et al. The Liebermann does contain nuke subsidies...hmmmm Did anyone get any signature requests for that bill?)
Al Gore (Boxer/Sanders) has to beat that
If ever there was a poll to freep, this is it! Change direction. Your excellent personal envoy from the human race will tell congress tomorrow which way America should go.