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Comrade Kunstler;
Yes, where indeed is the leadership of our country when we need them. They are busy on vacation at their ranch/estate in Crawford, or shooting attorneys with birdshot, or croaking out threats to Syria and Iran, simultaneously espousing Freedom and Liberty while plotting to sieze and hold foreign oil feeds to keep the American Way of Life a going concern, regardless of the global consequences. We want what we want, and we take what we want. I wish it was not the case. I wish this exploitive way of looking at the planet by so many of our species had evolved to a higher level of community building and sustainability. Locally, I have politicians and pundits pushing Biofuels as the new snake oil, selling a vision of the world to the local rubes that "We can grow all the gas we need, why it's just so easy."
Perhaps I could sell them a bridge or two as well...