[Vision2020] being fair and even

[Ted Moffett]

It's no secret the US energy economy will be restructured, eventually,
whether we want to or not.  The days of oil as a primary transportation fuel
are limited.  If we got the US off foreign oil, this would be a major
restructuring.  The problematic relationship with Saudi Arabia would be
dramatically altered, perhaps in the best interests of the US and the Middle
East.  And I mean involving the close to a trillion dollars the Saudis have
invested in the US economy (gee, I wonder if this influences US foreign
policy?).

It can happen greatly via the private sector (though no doubt some corporate
interests will resist), so I don't know why Roger makes this comment by
Obama (if this is what he indeed said, and I'd like to read the full
context, ) out to imply only Socialism.

T. Boone Pickens, Texas oil man, long time Republican, Bush supporter and
Swift Boating of John Kerry financier, has a plan to replace 20% of US
electricity generation with wind power, then use natural gas, now used
greatly to generate electricity (Avista), to power transportation, within
ten years. This is a rapid major restructuring.  Pickens recognizes that,
though the private sector can accomplish much, government regulation, etc.
has an important role to play... He is looking to the next administration
(he is deliberately staying non-partisan in the 2008 presidential race) to
push his ideas.  An Obama or McCain administration will push to restructure
the US energy economy, and government regulation, changes in tax policy
etc. will be involved:

http://www.pickensplan.com/

If Obama was a hard core Socialist, he would advocate total government
takeover of major sectors of the economy: the oil and auto industry,
pharmaceuticals, telecommunications and media, computers, software,
utilities and so forth... There are no Socialists in the US Senate.

Ted Moffett


On 8/20/08, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:
>
> What else can he mean by completely restructuring the economy? Think about
> it.
> Roger
> -----Original message-----
> From: Sunil Ramalingam sunilramalingam at hotmail.com
> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:44:06 -0700
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] being fair and even
>
> >
> > Roger,
> >
> > Seems to me you're making an enormous and unfounded leap to say that
> Obama is talking about 'full blown socialism if not communism.'  Without
> foundation for that claim it's pretty ludicrous.
> >
> > Sunil
> >
> > > Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:28:22 -0700
> > > From: lfalen at turbonet.com
> > > To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> > > Subject: [Vision2020] being fair and even
> > >
> > > Sue doesn't think I'e been fair and even in the ridicule or poking fun
> at department. I think that Saundra's George Bush cartoon was a fair
> response to my kittens joke. I will give her another one. The radio talk
> show hosts have been belittling Obama for his " that is a higher pay grade
> than me" answer at the Saddleback Forum. I don't see a problem with it. He
> could have been referring to God. Who knows? In any case why waste time on
> it. There are more important thing to be worried about. For instance he said
> "It will be necessary to restructure the entire american economy. That
> translates to full blown socialism if not communism to me. That scares the
> hell out of me.
> > >
> > > Roger
> > >
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