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Do the voices in your head also tell you that non of the above matters when the oil runs out ... thats the real crisis ahead, isnt it?? ..end of oil equals end of civilistaion as you all knew it ...

I agree that this country is f**ked when it comes to energy. Now that are gasoline is well under $2 per gallon a heavytax should be placed on fuel to make sure people don't buy new non-commercial usetrucks and SUVs and the revenue fromthat tax should go into R&D for energy independence. I wonder if fuel efficiency laws shouldn't be passed for motorcycles too. It seems like a 500 lb object should be able to get 60mpg. I wonder if our obsession with acceleration should not be legislated out of the realm of possibilities.

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Problem is, the average Non-Asian worker won't sit in a factory 12 hours a day for subsistence wages. THAT's why the stuff comes into other countries cheaply - it can't be made economically in the States

That is exactly the problem. But why isn't that the goal of Mr. Obama, to find things that can be made here and even if those workers are subsidised and their foreign competitors made to pay a heavy tariff, why won't that work. Maybe we Americans buy too much stuff because it is cheap due to foriegn labor, maybe we should buy fewer sneakers or TVs or Ipods, but maybe they should be made here so we stay employed and we pay taxes and we don't export out money to china. We are a nation of bartenters, salesclerks,and bankers, we don't make anything anymore.