| "Hit the Ground Running" Suggested Solutions for the Democratic Platform SAMPLE WORK SHEET TO FUEL YOUR THINKING by BARBARA MITCHELL JULY 14, 2008 FOR: Plan to Decrease/Eliminate Foreign-Oil Dependency Continue the battery charged automobiles. Increase the work being done with Wind, Solar and water as energy sources. Actually, for large farms, which should be among the first of the federal government “For Profit” Owned and Run by the federal Government, Not privatized, it would be a big financial advantage for the government to begin production of a “For Profit” wind/Energy factory etc. A big cost to large farms is the, current, cost of energy to operate the irrigation (watering) of the farms Also another idea that can be worked to help all farmers and people in general is what I will call Coop Bio-diesel and Ethanol location owned and operated by local people of each town/state etc. from their own town or state grown corn. That is not as complicated as it sounds. Think Moonshine-whiskey for simplicity in reference to Bio- diesel and Ethanol; that would make taxing easier to regulate…. If we are going to become oil independent in the U.S., we have to be bold and get to work with a plan….and stop acting like coward hostages to the oil companies, otherwise, maybe the government should just let the oil companies run the world, because they certainly are controlling negatively ever business which negatively affect every U.S. person in one way or the other…. 40 percent of the profit from all oil purchased in the U.S. from the four or five major oil companies should be paid to the U.S. Government….with the government owning 40 percent of the for or five oil companies. Tax exempt of course. For the government, but taxable for the oil companies. (The tax part is not rocket scientist; it’s only a paper transaction)If the government is going to be held hostage as if they are part owner of the oil companies regardless. The government should receive 40 percent of the oil profit. . Every time there is a storm, fire, threat anywhere in the world etc., the people pay more at the pumps. Additionally the oil companies want the government to subsidize their expansion, even occasionally their disaster repairs, no matter how much profit their oil companies have made. So why not have the government receive 40 percent of the oil profits…. That is not an unreasonable action to take toward the oil companies, because the oil industry is currently bankrupting most U.S. companies; that is, of course being passed on to bankrupting people, which goes full circle back to a bankrupting the U.S government…This action would have to be closely regulated…. How can we form a regulatory entity to regulate “All” that will not be “For Sale?” I repeat we have to make serious changes. We know where the old system ultimately got us. To put into motion this debt paying system, again, we need the best and brightest team, who can Hit the Ground Running without fear. For the oil companies the best team of legal minds that can be found will be needed to draft and ink the deal... Either takes the profit, or break up the oil companies like was done before. However because of the U.S. debt, I say take 40 percent of the U.S. earned profit, and 40 percent of any profits “said” companies make from Iraq Oil…..By the time the full U.S. debt is paid, I am thinking within 10 to 15 years if the government goes “For profit”, The U.S. will be about 60 percent independent of oil, so there will be no need to break the companies. They will be coming obsolete in the U.S. With the “Green Movement” and U.S. becoming a major force in manufacturing again, a lot of plastic, which are oil-based will have been replaced also….. |
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