| The President of the United States of America has | | | | Of course our problems are not only with gasoline for |
| stated that our nation is addicted to Foreign Oil and | | | | our cars. What about our aircraft, trains, ships and |
| that we need to break the habit if we are to | | | | trucks too. Consider how much diesel fuel and |
| continue to use the amounts of energy that we do. | | | | kerosene they need? Something must be done here |
| Few can deny this truth and the answer is | | | | too. Likewise consider our costs to produce energy in |
| technology in alternative energies and alternative | | | | our nation. They keep going up and natural gas prices |
| fuels. But how can the United States turn this great | | | | due to fluctuations in supply will continue to see price |
| big ship around and be able to become more | | | | spikes as commodity traders watch the supply and |
| self-efficient? | | | | demand issues each year. |
| In 2005 we only sold a few hundred thousand hybrid | | | | If we are to win the energy war and break our |
| automobiles out of about 17 million total cars. That is | | | | addiction to foreign Middle Eastern Oil it is going to |
| a start, okay, I'll give you that, but it is not a good | | | | take more than lip service, as we must accelerate |
| start and you are not going to break any speed | | | | alternative energy uses and increase research and |
| records to breaking your addiction that way. We | | | | development and move this stuff to market as fast |
| must accelerate production to neck break speeds, | | | | as possible as if we were at war. Consider this in |
| like we did in WWII when we out produced the | | | | 2006. |
| Germans and won WWII. | | | | |