The Oil Drum

I agree Nate. None of the other potential candidates have really made much mention of "peak oil". Al Gore is much more focused on Climate change and I don't think he's going to run.

Just take this Quote from last May of the Mayor making a shockingly honest assessment of a proposal to eliminate a gas tax in NYC:

Fifty million dollars a year is probably a thousand cops, close to a thousand cops, close to a thousand teachers," he said. "If we don't have the money, we can't have these things. What do we want to do without?

Reducing taxes when you're trying to end energy dependence on foreign cartels is not exactly a terribly smart policy

The long-term solution in this country, which nobody wants to hear, is to use an awful lot less energy and to get away from fossil fuels, particularly oil, that mostly comes from overseas.

Imagine one of the other candidates explaining why we need to tax gasoline to pay for necessary public services like teachers and police...

Hi Nate,

Thanks, as always, for your comments.

I wanted to share some info I received from a listserv. (BTW, I registered "Independent" at age 18 - still am.)

You may be aware of this; I just post it in case you're not:
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"Here's what the USA Today had to say about Lobbyist Thompson:

"Although the folksy-sounding Tennessean recently told USA TODAY that he would run an outsider, just as he did while campaigning as a "country lawyer" in a red pickup during his 1994 U.S. Senate race, his résumé is that of a longtime Washington operative who has crossed ideological lines to represent corporate and foreign clients."

In his most recent stint in Washington, Thompson worked for a London company lobbying Congress to limit liability claims for asbestos-related illnesses. Over the past three years he's made $760,000 fighting for the interests of his corporate clients."