Joshua Lacey

Sign of the Times: Ethanol Boom Goes Bust, Utilities, Energy and Consumer Staples Hit Hard

Amen wheels14, couldn't agree with you more! Our dependence on foreign oil has all but destroyed our economy.We are definitely under the iron grip of the whims of OPEC and believe me they don't have OUR best interests at heart. OPEC just cut production again.The high cost of fuel this past year has resulted is record losses of jobs and homes.Sad thing is we have so much available to us in the way of renewable sustainable energy wind, solar, even wave. We have advanced technology available to us with the ability to cut our use of oil such as hybrid cars, electric plug in cars (which btw would cost the equivalent of 60 cents a gallon to drive)We need to put an end our dependence on foreign oil. Our government hands out a stimulus package of 168 BILLION dollars, what did that accomplish? A 3 day shopping spree. Now they are talking about doing it again. Why not invest the billions and billions of dollars in becoming energy independent, something that will benefit our society not just for a few days or weeks but forever? We have the knowledge, the technology what we seem to lack is a government who has enough vision to have a plan. There is an astounding book just out by Jeff Wilson called "The Manhattan Project of 2009" (Energy Independence Now) I got mine on amazon.com. He has a web page as well themanhattanprojectof2... This book is amazing I wish everyone had a copy especially every member of our government