<div>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?).</div>
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<div>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. </div>
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<div>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:</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.pickensplan.com/">http://www.pickensplan.com/</a></div>
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<div>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. </div>
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<div>Ted Moffett<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/20/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">lfalen</b> <<a href="mailto:lfalen@turbonet.com">lfalen@turbonet.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">What else can he mean by completely restructuring the economy? Think about it.<br>Roger<br>-----Original message-----<br>
From: Sunil Ramalingam <a href="mailto:sunilramalingam@hotmail.com">sunilramalingam@hotmail.com</a><br>Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:44:06 -0700<br>To: <a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] being fair and even<br>
<br>><br>> Roger,<br>><br>> 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.<br>
><br>> Sunil<br>><br>> > Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:28:22 -0700<br>> > From: <a href="mailto:lfalen@turbonet.com">lfalen@turbonet.com</a><br>> > To: <a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>
> > Subject: [Vision2020] being fair and even<br>> ><br>> > 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.<br>
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