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September 21, 2011

Republicans to Obama: The Whole Country Can be Rich

By Karin McQuillan

The good news is that America has wealth beyond dreams that can be realized in the next decade, producing a million new jobs.  According to a recent Congressional report, the United States’ combined recoverable natural gas, oil and coal endowment is the largest on Earth.  Our resources are larger than Saudi Arabia, China and Canada, combined. Our known resources can meet the country’s need for oil and gas for the rest of the century.  That’s not including shale oil, the true energy future.  If we used our own oil, we could replace imported oil from the Persian Gulf for the next fifty years. By then cars will probably be running on something else.

Now turn your eyes to where real jobs are being created. (more…)

I love the broadcast of Elbert County Commissioner meetings on the internet!  See here for today’s broadcast.  It’s most interesting to see the local parade of interested parties pulling the levers of public decision making.