The Pursuit of the Presidency…

As the race for the future Presidency heats up, the candidiates exchange blows almost every day playing it out in the press.  The main issue playing out now is the drilling of the Gulf Coast. Barak Obama seems to think it will be 6 to 9 years before we will see any oil from this expedition. In business you plan for the future, the present, and learn from your past.  So worst case scenerio 6 years to 9, at least it is a start. It will take a combination of things to reduce our dependency on foreign oil. There is no quick fix that resolve the constant flucuation in gas prices.

If I was given an advisory role in an campaign I would start with expanding solar panel program, reducing the electrical need from the power grid. Secondly, the U.S. has so many different fuel blends. Find who has the most enviromental friendly blend and make it the standard across all 50 states.  I would quit pushing on the ethanol so hard and hope it will suffice 10% of the fuel market at best.  Then expand hydrogen program, increase electrical cars, and hybrids.  If we expand these ideas and make a blend of avenues reduce our dependancy we will be better off.

My next step increase mass transportation in all metropoliton areas and develop roads the would reduce traffic. I live in Atlanta and we have Marta here but it doesn’t provide you access from city end to city end. If we develop rail systems from Woodstock to Kennesaw, Kennesaw to Marrietta. Meaning from suburb to suburd then run buses from there. This would reduce buses driving so much far and polluting our skies. Then from Atlanta to Nashville and Birmingham bullet trains that do the speeds like in Europe and Asia.  Then there is a program in Texas that was being researced where it was like a 25 lane highway which would provide tractor trailers there own higway since there gearing really slows down the main traffic ways.  This would provide bigger HOV lanes, rails going from city to city, and implementing recurrent driver training in each state.

I am sure there are other great ideas that can be added to this. It is just having the foresight to realize it isn’t once thing that will solve our issues. It will be a multitude of solutions that will free us from the bonds of foriegn oil.  If you vote in November, I ask you vote for the candidate that will not provide us with excuses, but will understand the choices even when they are hard; are the proper course of action.  Ignorance is bliss until you don’t understand why rights have been circumcised.