Time To Till Our Own Land (4.23.11)

Proverbs 12,11: "He who tills his own land will be satisfied with bread, but he who pursues worthless things lacks sense."

We are fighting three land wars at the cost of a trillion dollars a year to secure foreign crude oil, and are about to yet again raise our 14.5 trillion dollar debt ceiling. We have bailed out what's left of our "domestic" auto manufacturing so we can continue to buy the same cars and trucks that cost us three hundred dollars a month to run.

And yet we don't have any plan that requires our recently saved automakers to build cars that run on natural gas, which is found in abundance right here in the USA?

Perhaps we could re-nogotiate with Chrysler and cut their outstanding balance, in exchange for their guarantee to produce a car  that begins to break the foreign crude choke hold on our economy and politics.