The current energy situation in the United States should be blamed on one thing and one thing only! The total lack of leadership in our government, from our presidents and our congress. For the greatest county in the world to be dependent on any other country for energy is a crime. It is time to set aside the petty bickering and do what is right for all Americans!

The elected people running our government are really out of touch. Think about it, when was the last time that Nancy P, Harry R, Barak O, John M, or GWB pumped their own gas or actually shopped for groceries? They don’t! They don't get it...

Americans are fed up with this lack of leadership. Our national security and our economy is in very serious trouble, we are transferring our national wealth at a rate of 700 billion dollars to country’s overseas every year just for oil (an interesting fact, we have off our eastern shore 100 times more oil than we have imported from the middle east in the past fifteen years). This money should be reinvested here. We need action, something must be done now.

The two candidates for president offer essentially more of the same. One says we must go green and only green (we should suffer, that we deserve to suffer, while we wait for green and only green to become economically viable). The other says go green and also drill off shore; in my mind neither is acceptable. They whisper about possibly becoming energy independent sometime in the distant future (20-30 years?).

I think I have a better idea.

Back in the 60’s our president; John Kennedy called congress into session and issued the famous challenge of putting a man on the moon in ten years, we did it in 8 years. Our president (GWB) needs to do the same thing. Instead of congress going home for its summer vacation (six weeks), "GWB" should use his power as president to call both houses of congress back into session and not let them go home until they do the business that the American people sent them to Washington to do. The president must challenge congress, business and the American people to become energy independent, and then to become the biggest exporter of energy the world has ever seen!

The only way to do that is to utilize every natural (water, oil, coal, natural gas, oil shale...) and technological (nucular, solar, wind, thermal...) resource to generate the necessary energy that we require to drive growth in our economy, and to create new job opportunities. This can create the biggest economic boon the world has ever seen. We need to do this NOW!

At the same time we must be developing technologies that are safe, green and renewable (and the answer is not small (mercury) florescent bulbs and fuel from corn).

And you know what...this can all be accomplished within ten years. We have the smartest, most talented, hardest working, most productive people in the world here in the United States, we can solve this problem. Turn them loose!

All we need is to be challenged by our leader and have congress get the heck out of the way!

We must become the dominate producer of energy in the world, anything less is unacceptable! Our secutity and our lifestyle is dependent on it.

This is the most serious problem we face today. It's the ENERGY, stupid. Energy is the key to our economy.

"GWB" it's not to late, step up and be the leader. This August 2008 can be your legacy...don't let it slip through your fingers!