Oil, the People, and Hybrid Cars

Following the re-election of Bush, stocks have been trading pretty well the last couple of weeks.

On Friday, however, things went funky. Fed. Chairmen Greenspan announced that not only would rates be going higher, but that the value of the dollar would also be weakening. As if that wasn't bad enough, oil prices shot up again.

While oil industry experts say there is no shortage of oil for the next few decades, oil prices continue to fluctuate upward. Every bump in oil prices not only raises the price of gas and heating oil, but also tends to stagnate the entire U.S. economy.

So, wouldn't the U.S. economy; therefore, U.S. citizens, be better off, financially, if we didn't use so much oil? Wouldn't we be even better off, if we didn't have to get involved in so many world affairs just to secure oil?

China recently became the second largest energy consumer behind the United States and is growing in consumption by some 9 percent annually. Even worse, car ownership is just beginning in China. If China follows the car ownership craziness of America, today's oil problems will seem like the good old days.

Already China is using it's U.N. veto power to secure oil rights, such as in the Sudan, and is seeking to 'work-around' the United States for oil rights. China doesn't want it's political influence shaped by it's need for oil. Should the U.S. and China disagree about Taiwan, for example, China wants to be able to guarantee that the U.S. cannot affect China's oil imports.

The situation has increased so much, that a Chinese submarine was spotted in Japanese waters last week. According to the U.K.'s Telegraph competition over the East China Sea between the two countries is "only a prelude of the game between China and Japan in the arena of international energy".

Global energy demand will change the world in the next few decades, and unless American oil consumption habits are changed, American life, especially for the average American, will be significantly affected.

Yet far too many American corporations still have their heads burried in the sand.

The American people will not tolerate further war to secure oil rights. Why should average Americans have to give their lives in foreign countries when it would be so easy to simply make every American-made car a hybrid vehicle?

The human beings that have died in Iraq deserve that legacy. Most of the dying don't profit from oil, but they die to protect it.

American automotive leadership has failed the average American misearbly. Instead of leading the world in automotive technology, we lead the world in automotive vanity.

The U.S. must be the leader in energy innovation, but American corporations are not willing to lead on this issue. Only the people can make the difference.

Hybrid cars such as the Toyota Prius or the Honda Accord hybrid send a message to automakers that complacency will not be tolerated.

While the Ford Escape hybrid is a good start for America, the cost is far too expensive. American consumers shouldn't have to suffer for lack of corporate innovation and vision. Business as usual cannot be tolerated. The stakes are far too important.

American companies always blame consumers for their inefficiency, yet what real choices have American automakers given us?

Forecasting the future is part of corporate responsibility. To forecast a future where oil consumption isn't a problem, where pollution isn't a problem, is a completely irresponsible forecast.

It's not just an irresponsible forecast, it is a willfull act by U.S. automakers to shun, or even deny, responsibility.

How sad.

Be a real American and demand products which end oil wars, which provide FREEDOM, not repression, buy a hybrid car.

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