Of course, things that are more complex than "Iraq and September the 11th," are more difficult for people to absorb on a wide scale especially when media outlets do not have enough time to explore them in detail because it would usurp excessive screen time of their sponsors.
Maybe even with time and sufficient refinement, the message will come through the filters that many of the issues (outside of Jesus issues) we face as a country can be traced back to energy and our unhealthy obsession with oil. Most people would not name climate change as a concern, but most would call terrorism, Iraq, high gasoline prices, rising consumer prices, an unstable economy right up there with health insurance. Eventually, maybe people will put the two together.
Senator Lugar spoke about this recently:
Our failure to act will be all the more unconscionable given that success would bring not only relief from the geopolitical threats of energy-rich regimes, but also restorative economic benefits to our farmers, rural areas, automobile manufacturers, high technology industries, and many others," concludes Lugar.
We must be very clear that this is a political problem. We now have the financial resources, the industrial might, and the technological prowess to shift our economy away from oil dependence. What we are lacking is coordination and political will. We have made choices, as a society, which have given oil a near monopoly on American transportation. Now we must make a different choice in the interest of American national security and our economic future.
Senator Lugar's recent speech on the topic can be found here in its entirety.
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