Posted by
vonryansexpress on Thursday, July 17, 2008 1:27:48 PM
Media needs to push this White House hard in the remaining months to set the national psyche in gear toward a new fossil fuel ethos.
For decades, Americans have become intellectually alien from oil resources, the oil patch and the business of refining and sale of oil products. All this while going through commercial periods of buying more and more consumer goods that were the outcome of petro/refinement.
The reasons for this intellectual estrangement from oil and its exploration culture originate in oil spills of the late 1960's and 70's and the visceral repulsion that has attended the association of oil with the Arab Middle East and the conspicuous consumption of the potentates.
Since the early 1970's, oil and war and terror and OPEC and shady meetings in nice hotels have dominated the public’s view of what surrounds the production of oil and petroleum.
Couple this helix of oil association and Middle East and other desperados with the passive view of land and coastal use entertained by the Democratic Party and you have generations of Americans that have no love or respect for fossil fuel and its extraction.
We need a new mind set. Conservative Radio, Cable News, (The ever improving Mr. Dobbs included) will need to teach the public that oil is their friend. It may seem counter intuitive but it can be done.
Feelings are hard to overcome but lessons learned at the pump may be just the right instructional device.