God likes to play little jokes, like making the Jews roam around the desert for 40 years and placing them in an area with no oil taps like the rest of the middle east. Israel must scrounge around like us and buy what petroleum they need from the Arabs and Chavez. These people might hate the Jews, but they love money from whoever is willing to pay for a barrel of their oil.
The best news is, if all goes according to plan, www.projectbetterplace.com – Project Better Place will make Israel very close to being independent of oil by 2011 - that’s 4 years away! Shai Agassi, an entrepreneur has raised $200million for this electric car project with Renault-Nissan. It should be looked upon as a model and beginning for a new world policy.
Israel IS smaller than the USA, they don’t have that far to go from one end to another, so there will be “half a million charging stations” around Israel to make it oil free. The reality is we need to clean up our earth ASAP! Electric cars and alternative fuels would be so much cleaner, the planet healthier and the terrorists poorer.
What the Hell is the USA waiting for? We are so far behind! We need to go nuclear like the Europeans, but that’s another story…
We listen to our own President say “we are addicted to oil” and yet, he is always kissing Saudi ass for more! In almost 8 years he has not done shit to help wean us off “our addiction”, NOT ONE THING!
We know Bush’s heavy duty love for the Saudis, it was Salem Bin Laden, Osama’s brother who helped financially bail Bushy boy’s failing oil company, Arbusto out of debt. Arbusto became Bush Exploration (BE, And BE became Spectrum, Bush was Chairman and CEO and they lost over a million dollars but for some reason, Harken Energy asked Bush to join Harken’s Board of directors and finance committee. Abdullah Taha Bakhsh became the third largest investor. Harken was given a contract to drill for oil off Bahrain even though they had NO previous experience drilling offshore. The company was going down and Bush hurried and sold off his own shares weeks before Harken announced their $23million dollar loss. Good thing his father’s very good buddy, Richard Breeden was in a position to make sure Young Bush was not touched. (reading from Breeden bio) “1989 to 1993 as Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Mr. Breeden served as a senior financial and domestic policy advisor to President George H.W. Bush during his tenure as Vice President and President.”
So SOB - (Son of Bush) as usual got a pass on any big investigation into his sketchy sale and luckily SOB’s father has lots of great connections and Bush was never prosecuted for his insider trading and other issues. That GHW Bush is good about bailing out his sons after the rob us, what a dad! (another story)…
As for our President, he is still using the US treasury as an extension of his own personal checkbook…. Too bad Poppy can’t bail him out on this presidency. But that’s another story too, back to Israel…
Israel has the right idea, we MUST take a cue from this progressive effort! We should have long ago taken an initiative through big grants to Universities, college students and independent labs to find better ways to get us off foreign oil. Why don’t we offer multi million dollar rewards or bonuses, some big incentives to those who can make alternative energy forms that can be cost effective and won’t screw with the environment.
Israel should be applauded, there should have been huge headlines so people here are outraged that we have done nothing while this Schmuck Bush continues to pander to the oil barons. Where is our media? Guess they are too busy trying to second guess the nominees for the next presidential election, lets hope whoever is in office next follows Israels lead…
January 26, 2008...4:42 am
Let’s Follow Israel’s Lead
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