Independence from Chicom Slaves
It has been said that oil is the fuel of the free world. But dictatorships control the oil.
Our economy is so tied to fuel costs that any change in oil prices tampers with our system or self-government as well as prices we have to pay for everything. The best thing we can do for our economic well being is to make ourselves entirely independent of the world’s dictators. My plan would do exactly that in three years or less and at the same time creates over 100,000 new jobs in the first few months. Those jobs would be partly in construction of the new fuel plants, but mostly in the various fields of conversions, distribution, and technological improvements to the designs of production, storage, and use of methane. Sure, some jobs would be lost as well. As the USA lost our dependence on oil, those oil related jobs would tend to die out. But that would be a slow process.
We’d be independent of foreign oil in three years, but there’d still be plenty using domestic oil for a while. And since it’s not really feasible to convert all the lawn mowers and weed eaters, leaf blowers, and chain saws to methane, the market for oil wouldn’t entirely dry up overnight. Converting a significant portion of automobiles to methane would quickly eliminate the need for imported oil. Banning all export of fuel would take the USA out of the “world market” of energy over which prices are controlled by those dictators. But that wouldn’t address the problem of the declining dollar. As much as the media plays daily stories about increasing prices of oil, the real problem isn’t that oil is gong up so much as the value of the dollar is going down. When the Euro was introduced, it was pretty much on par in value with the US Dollar. Oil was about $60 a barrel, and also about 60 Euros per barrel. Today it’s about $140 per barrel, leading us in the USA to believe it’s gone up over 120%! But in Euros it’s only gone up a mere 50% to about 90 Euros per barrel. Sure, oil has gone up, but the main problem is that the dollar is going down. Why is the dollar dropping out of control in value?
In 1933, the ignorant masses allowed our federal government to leave reality and go to a system which recognized the federal government’s IOUs as “money” and pretty much forced people to accept those IOUs and trade them as if they were of real value. In reality, they weren’t of real value and still aren’t. If you have something of real value, whether a pound of gold or an original Picasso, or just a few hundred pounds of aluminum beer cans, it something people want or even need and are willing to trade for. A federal reserve note is only valuable based on the federal government’s whim. The federal government can tax you 50 cents for simply possessing a $1 federal reserve note with no notice and you may not even notice the tax or realize you are paying it. All they have to do is have the fed print more notes. You don’t know it, you don’t see it, all you might notice is the price of things going up. In that last couple of years, the price of gas has doubled. The media and the congress and the president all want you to believe it’s the oil producers or the world oil market. But in Euros, the cost of a barrel of oil has only gone up a little.
The president should sign an executive order forbidding the Federal Reserve from ordering any further printing of currency and call for hearings within 30 days to determine what is best in stability on which to base the value of the US dollar on and limit the printing of the US dollar to that value. I don’t believe that should be gold, or at least gold alone, for several reasons, not the least of which is availability and the instability of many of the world’s sources for it. But the dollar should be of real value, not a promise that our grandchildren will starve to repay dictators in other countries.