14th
Oil Policies-Long term thinking
On CNBC right now there is a discussion about Bush’s decision to open up additional offshore drilling, which is a knee jerk reaction to high oil prices. Offshore drilling takes so long to actual produce oil that doing this is of little consequence.
If the US was a company it would have been bankrupt a long time ago. The best CEO’s look ahead at the macro issues and create policies today to insure that the future will be bright. You see this style of leadership and thought in many of the world’s greatest and most dynamic companies.
It is incredible how much the US (under both Democratic and Republican control) has allowed one of our most important resources, energy, to become the world’s noose around our economy.
Whoever wins the next election I just hope that they have the intelligence to put the right policies and people in charge of things to set in place the policies which will bring the US back to some level of leadership in the world.