On Guard – VoteVets.org Ad on Oil Spill
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June 19, 2010 by
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Over 11000 Guardsmen have been sent to clean up an oil company’s mess, when they could be fighting our enemies and protecting America. Just another reason we need clean energy reform.
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hanegake, that is one of the things this young man points out. This kind of thing is what our National Guard should be doing instead of serving as a work-around draft because the armed forces can’t recruit enough bodies to send overseas. I applaud the vets who are standing up and speaking out about the truth of what we as a nation are doing. People who complain about costs of developing clean energy: oil, coal, and nuclear have been subsidized from day one.
hanegake, that is one of the things this young man points out. This kind of thing is what our National Guard should be doing instead of serving as a work-around draft because the armed forces can’t recruit enough bodies to send overseas. I applaud the vets who are standing up and speaking out about the truth of what we as a nation are doing. People who complain about costs of developing clean energy: oil, coal, and nuclear have been subsidized from day one.
A national clean energy intitaive wouldn’t just levy an outright tax to accomplish, it would also tax everyone with:
* Higher engergy bills
* Businesses moving production overseas in large numbers, meaning lost revenue and lost jobs
* Replacing more private sector jobs with government sector ones
* Strengthening an environmental lobby which is de facto anti-progress
Also, more production overseas would mean a net less clean world, probably much less cleaner = not really green at all.
I would consider companies that behave like BP (and Monsanto, Wal*Mart, DIck Cheney, Plum Creek, or any other that puts profits before people’s safety and the environment) to be an enemy of America.
I applaud the message…
USA goes to war to protect oil…
we all use too much…boo Alberta oil sands (from me, the Canadian)
This is an awesome ad!!! – Share it on Facebook etc and let all see it! Its time we did something about our oil dependence!! For real!
BP should hire all the unemployed people in America pay them a lot of money to help clean up and turn the country around!!!! Betcha a lot of people would take the job!!!!!!
SOUNDS good. So if cutting our energy dependence on earl er, oil, is such a boffo idea, how come no one has done it yet, especially on a commercial scale??? BTW, are those windmills direct drive to their generators? If not, you should go listen to the noise polution a whole hill side of them make.
Take this to the bank: If you can figure out a solution (not a whine- a solution) as workable as oil, the world will beat a path, with checkbooks open, to your door.
But Obummer will tax you!
love it!!!!
effective
@MrMAC742 please google nikola teslas wireless energy system! this would solve most of the problems we face right now and in the future!it allows america to become energy independent and spread the freedoms world wide allowing the freedom of energy in america along with our values.please i even put up information to show how a wireless energy system work,it is not radio! please we need to learn now and start tommorow!its up to us as free americans to know about wireless power for the future
@gregkauf1987 please google nikola teslas wireless energy system! this would solve most of the problems we face right now and in the future!it allows america to become energy independent and spread the freedoms world wide allowing the freedom of energy in america along with our values.please i even put up information to show how a wireless energy system work,it is not radio! please we need to learn now and start tommorow!its up to us as free americans to know about wireless power for the future
why not?
Fantastic ad – I think it really hits home and it makes an excellent point. Energy is a root problem and we need to hit at it instead of fighting all the symptomatic problems.
Ah, it would be great if some alternative energy policy change came of this catastrophe.
Well lets be thankful they are not fighting “our enemies” whoever are so called enemies are.
Approximately 100 years ago, virtually NONE of the US had electricity. We used things like candles and whale oil for lighting which was, “good enough.” And then came the debate about whether we should build a nationwide electrical grid. “Candles and whale oil have been good enough for centuries. Why would we want to look to the future and move toward this new-fangled electricity?” Hey smart folks: Let’s look forward, not backward! Renewable Energy IS the future! Duh!
A private company using private equipment and private company employees (NOT the government), and making BILLIONS of dollars in the process, screws up and puts thousands of people who are NOT in the oil business out of work, AND wrecks an entire ecosystem for many years to come, and what is the public’s reaction? They turn around and look at the government to swoop in and “bail out” yet another wreckless private company (like the banks). Hey BP: YOU broke it…YOU fix it!
Why is a member of the National Guard advocating for a specific policy?
@504pro Cuckoo!
What an awful ad. First, the national guard should not be used for fighting wars overseas, and you’re against that anyway, so why say that using them here reduces our security? Second, the guard has always been used for this kind of work; if you joined thinking you wouldn’t be doing it, you’re a fool.
Most importantly, the more oil we get from domestic sources, the less we are dependent on foreign oil, which INCREASES our national security.
The “logic” here is completely muddled.
terrific ad we need more people speaking out against this horrible disaster,how coukd anyone not understand the gravity of our situation, it doesn’t matter wher you live we need to all help in any way we can.
GREAT AD!! I couldn’t agree more
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@hanegake what do you mean? why do you think we went into Iraq? WMD’s? You are a fool if you believe that! It was b/c Iraq was about trade their oil in euros and this would have hurt the US economy, so we went in……its always about money, power and resources. Wake up !
@Sam I know what your saying there . In the current economy its hard to find a job that pays good enough to live on and is stable . I have found that if you just work hard and are consistent you can go places . Look at the writer of this page , they are oviously hard working and have just been consistent over time and are now enjoying at least what would appear as somewhat of a success. I would encourage everyone to just keep hustling and moving forward.