The 10 – 20 Plan, a Truly Energy Independent America

By Bruce H. Scroggins
12/01/2007

Answers to America’s Energy future are not, nor ever will be simple, but they are necessary. The Answer will be painful, constricting and precedent setting; they will involve conservation, higher fuel standards (CAFA Standards) clean factories emissions and Clean Coal, lots of environmental standard being raised and an investment in Strategic Reserves, as well as, a complete review of NAFTA and CAFTA.

But here’s an idea, whose time has come and America is, extremely late getting started, it’s the Government, investing tax dollars in building Refineries and Storage and Drilling for energy on North America’s side of the Planet. No more excuses from Big OIL & ENERGY. They have stated, it too expensive to build Refineries, in the billions of dollars and it takes 5 years to build.
Well then the Tax payers needs too build the Refineries, five of them, over the next ten years, Big Oil, has said this will come to no good, when the market has more refining compactly, no that’s not even close to true, but the US will then have a choice, too sell refined energy to the entire North American continent, all excess refining compactly will be put into use, this will keep the markets fluid. And the Big Energy companies will be clamoring to buy these state of the art refineries.

With the Foundation, of a Plan of tax payers investments, in refining and Conservation, higher fuel standards (CAFA Standards) clean factories emissions, lot of environmental standard being raised and an investment in Strategic Reserves, as well as, a complete review of NAFTA and CAFTA, the USA will then top this new plan for ENERGY INDEPENDENCE, with Alternative Energy Sources and Fuels, including Bio Fuels, this is the 10 – 20 PLAN, we start in 08’, by raising the investment in alternative fuel research and plan to be at the half way mark, by 2016 supplying half the cost of energy consumption in America, used by cars, trucks, Plants and homes.

By 2026, the US should plan to be energy independent of Middle East OIL. This present reliance on OPEC’s generosity, is one fraught with insecurities and our National Security can no longer be held hostage, let’s be perfectly truthful… America no longer wants to be DEPENDANT on the Middle East, or OPEC, or Venezuela, for our energy future. Big Energy has no answer, but slow plodding research and TV commercials; we need a Race to Energy Independence, like we had a race to the Moon.

Short and to the point, America’s leadership has to change and then America must hold the new leadership’s feet to the fire and demand a Plan for Energy Independence, in 20 years, we have to get off the Middle east Tit and develop our own breast, if you will.