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It's About Time!!

According to a news article at:http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN0741602120080707, some liberals are calling for expanded energy exploration. Well Hallelujah!! This should have happened right after the oil crises of the 70's. We here in the U.S. have more complacency than any other nation. We think we are invincible and that no other nation can take us down. Well think again! We are coming very close to being on our knees because of the current oil crisis. This should have never happened. If the U.S. had seen the writing on the wall in the 70's and had started energy exploration then the current situation could have been totally avoided. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge should be opened to oil exploration and drilling if any oil is found. The Alaskan pipeline should be used for transporting oil to "the lower 48" for refinement and the U.S. government needs to get off it's fat duff and start doing research into alternative energy sources since the oil will not last forever. Why can't the elected officials that are supposed to have our best interests at hand see any of this? We are currently at the mercy of multiple countries which by themselves aren't anywhere close to the size of the U.S. and before the oil crisis had a much worse economy. While were at it let's bring manufacturing back the U.S. too. If we don't we are going to lose more jobs to other countries and we will be in for a serious depression not just a recession.
We need people in government who look at these situations from the common man's point of view, not from a politician's. If the elected officials lose sight of what the common man needs then they should be voted out of office. It is the common man, the laborer, that keeps this country running. These are the people they should be looking to please. They should please us by keeping our jobs here in our country where they belong and by keeping necessities such as oil at affordable levels so we don't have to mortgage our homes to fill our gas tanks. I don't think anyone has actually had to do that yet but the way things are going it could certainly happen.