Compass Points: US Energy Facts

My friend Joated saw this posted over at Maggie's Farm. In his words, "It needs to be spread far and wide.

"You won't hear this coming from President Obama. He and the environmentalists have decided we're to become energy poor. Unless it comes from nuclear...wait that was two decades ago...windmills...no, that was before they discovered windmills kill birds, bats and views...solar...no, desert tortoises....Well, energy poor.

"You want to reduce the cost of energy and boost the American economy? We could do that now.You want energy independence? We could do it now.You want to reduce the trade deficit? We could do that now.You want to tell the Arabs in the Middle East--unsound and unsavory suppliers of so much of our oil--to go pound sand? We could do that now."

Go. Read the whole thing!