This has been on my mind for quite some time and I've shared it with others, like-minded friends and loved ones. It's been a very difficult year for most Americans. Our Government passed bill after bill, admitting that they are not bothering to take the time to read them first let alone keep the promise of posting them online for our perusal prior to voting. Fascinating that Our President has the time to play his routine 18 holes of golf, travel more than any other Leader in our history yet doesn't have time to read bills or explain his actions to the taxpaying public. (but then as a wonderfully logical friend pointed out, we're safer with him golfing because then he's not writing new policy!)
My true message is we have been sitting on a gold mine since 1969 and the leaders in our party are probably as clueless about this as I was. To what do I refer? Domestic Oil Wells. Most American oil wells were capped in the late 60's. including my families.
Back in 2004, my Father, younger brother and I started talking with the tax assessors office in Louisiansa and Texas where they are held in border offices and I started poking around for statistics and learned that there are THOUSANDS of similar wells that were capped at/around the same time that are still full of mostly natural gas that feasibly could easily be a prime source of fuel for America. I was three when ours was capped, up until then it was one of the sources of wealth for my father's family.
Engineers have been continuing to work on the uncapping process although it's tricky especially in this political climate but it truly has me wondering...if our government can pass a bill that allows universal healthcare, reporting of mental health records into a database, regulation of firearms, potential regulation of talk radio, potential dumbing down of our credit system, the most draconian regulatory physician mandates ever to be allowed in the United States - certainly we can get the fuel companies to allow the following to happen for the greater good:
If a BIPARTISAN Government trust was housed with a trustworthy party, such as a non-Government (frankly none of them have shown trustworthiness lately!!!) No payouts to the oil companies but their taxes would be reduced greatly and their cooperation would be required. They've had a strangle on the country for quite long enough.
By pooling the thousands of trusts together, uncapping the wells and allowing our own resources to be pooled from our own nation, we are doing the following:
1. CONTROLLING THE COST OF FUEL
2. ELIMINATING THE NEED FOR FORIEGN FUEL
3. CREATING A POT FOR CLEAN EMISSIONS/FUEL
4. ELIMINATING ALL DEBT/PLUS THE IMPENDING DEBT FROM Tarp II
(not to mention, we CAN and SHOULD close all borders incoming and outgoing Southern and Northern until ALL undocumented workers are accounted for. In California alone, it accounts for 50 % of the dollar deficit and this is unacceptable when the cost is being picked up by the taxpaying public.)
ONCE PAID?
1. GOVERNMENT IS FLUSH WITH CASH TO REBUILD - UNDER STRICT SCRUTINY FROM THE PEOPLE
2.. FAMILIES WHO OWN THE WELLS GET TO ENJOY THEM
3. GOVERNMENT WOULD REPAY THE FAMILIES 2 % TO FAMILIES FOR BORROWING AGAINST WELLS AND FAMILIES WOULD NEVER PAY TAXES AGAIN (WE WOULDN'T HAVE ACCESS TO FUNDS WHILE WELLS ARE BEING USED)
4. GOVERNMENT WOULD BUILD A 'GREAT WALL OF CHINA' STYLE WALL AROUND THE BORDER TO MEXICO AND PUT 24 HR COPS/W UZIS ON THE BORDER WITH IMMEDIATE ORDERS TO SHOOT ANYONE WHO VIOLATES ORDERS TO STAY AWAY. MEXICO'S DRUG WAR IS OUT OF CONTROL AND OUR SAFETY MUST COME FIRST, PERIOD.
Currently, none of this is able to happen, because different Gas companies hold the mineral rights to different wells in various parts of the company and they refuse to work together - THIS IS INAPPROPRIATE. This infantile attitude is holding up progress in our nation and keeping a fundamental area of economics from development that could seal up several areas. Now don't you wonder why they would do this?
MONEY. it's greed. pure greed. It's time to put the greed aside and force them to work together for the good of the people. and NOT put Barney Frank, Pelosi or any of the rest of them in the middle of it. Case in Point? Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac. Disaster. This is one area where touching one's cloak will not fix things, it must be bipartisan and not on someone else's dime. Part of the problem is our 'leaders' are NOT business people and are so used to collecting paychecks whether or not they are useful on the job. this is extremely unproductive and not good for the business of America.
We must work together.