The Oil Drum

Ralph Nader is running for President and is having no problem proposing carbon taxes, no problem calling the Republicans and Democrats on their inability to face the folly of corn ethanol policies and is starting to talk about aspects of Peak Oil no one else will touch.
I think it is time to accept his offer to be President and move as fast as possible towards energy equity on the planet.
The savings in leaving Iraq within 6 months of taking office will save some of the spiral into debt holes that are crippling any hope of our retrofitting for energy economy.
Single payer national health saves us all money as the GAO pointed out ages ago. Shifting to electric passenger rail and other transportation economies will save us from greenhouse gases our suicidal traffic messes and much ill health, psychological as well as physical.
Citizen Nader is about real democracy still and denying him a voice, the essence of what is wrong here.
Behind those dread corporations running things are bunches of us consumers shopping Walmart and Costco for the globalization margin destroying local work and individual investors shifting our funds online for that marginal gain giving corporate lobbyists the power to undermine Clean Air and Water Acts first brought into creation by Naders earlier works...