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Beginning with an observation on the recent Prudhoe Bay shutdown situation and followed with a question on who will be the next President of the United States.
I START TODAY'S comment by quoting Alaska House Speaker John Harris, R-Valdez, who said, "It was admirable that BP took immediate action, although it's sure to hurt state coffers. This state cannot afford to have another Exxon Valdez."
Mr. Westcott replies:
That's right Mr. Speaker.
Neither can our nation. Neither can our world. We must begin a withdrawal process to rehabilitate this addiction to oil and its incredibly singular effect on the "New World Oil-based Economy."
The Oil-based Economy rules our world economically and ruins our world environmentally. Therefore, we must DO something to stop this devastating economic evolution—by some sort of effective revolution.
 Actually, we could accomplish something else while we are developing and implementing a new and stable international economic restructuring based on sound and fair international trade practices: We would cut our enemies' revenues at the knees and then watch to see if they have the ingenuity to build weapons made out of sand—hourglasses possibly, but not effective weapons.
Now there's a Mid-East solution.
There is also a solution to stopping the madness that permeates a world based singularly on a dominant and volatile commodity, which is oil. Not to worry our "friends and allies in the Middle East," there would still be oil production, but only enough for the world to absorb in reasonable measures.
Ah, for a cleaner land, sea and air environment. Tribal wars in the Middle East would again resort to being waged on camels. It would no longer be necessary for Americans to be involved in the Middle East (imminently and eventually becoming an entirely Islamic region of the world) either as participants or taxpayer-funded financiers.
As importantly, energy affordability will be restored; livable American wage levels will return. American jobs will be restored; international trade of products and services, arts, crafts, travel and shared cultures would flourish.
There would be less American-sponsored foreign aid, which would equal less taxation on all Americans. Americans would keep more of their wages causing more money to be in circulation for the so-called rich and the poor (personally, I have experienced both ends of that financial spectrum). There would be less reason for generalized inflation as currently being adversely affected by this single unstable world commodity, oil. In fact, the entire world would be economically much more stable and sustainable. And our planet would be saved and also sustained for the benefit of future generations by having a cleaner and clearer world environment. Wouldn't that be nice (the preceding is not a question).
The real madness is that the entire world is so pervasively ill-affected by this Oil Economy even to the very extent of interfering with our (conflicting) religious beliefs.
I can tell you that if the world is blown up, either in trench increments or by gusts, Mother Earth will be the lone survivor. She will resist further permeation of its soil and ultimately absorb this trashy toxic skin that we humans, a particularly harmful species of this world, have so blatantly spread upon her.
All of this harm is occurring while we (the harmful species) attempt to soil other planets in our Universe. I do not think that the God or Gods (your right to choose) of this Universe is going to allow that to happen. Filthy humans have not earned the right from God to seed the Universe with its kind. What would we do on other planets, drill for oil? Build cars, highways, tourism, casinos, different temples of worship?
It must be done; it can be done: We have got to wean ourselves from the Oil Heroin addiction that we now find ourselves hooked on.
The major requirement in order to implement this imperatively needed restructuring is national leadership—American leadership. America needs political leadership that contains combined executive experience and a brain that understands two things at once; to understand the environmental consequences, and to know economics well enough to set forth a sensible plan, and to then competently, efficiently and effectively administer that plan.
I pose the following extremely important question for America and its (legal) inhabitants: Who will be the person that we are going to elect to the Presidential desk in 2008?
Bruce Westcott
Chairman, Reform Party of Nevada
westcott2006@aol.com.
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