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Earth Day  

It is Earth Day today and with record high oil prices at the moment, Bill O’Reilly may have the right idea. Bill wants people to drive ten percent less and that should be able to put enough pressure on oil companies to lower the price of oil. I don’t know if it will work since they only handle about 15 percent of the world’s oil while foreign governments hold access to 85 percent of the world’s oil. They are kind of forced to pay what the 85 percent wants. But I’m willing to try Bill’s plan, so I sat down with Barbara last night and we figured out we need to cut out 8.8 miles a week, and I’m encouraging my staff to try and do this as well. To fix America’s oil problem we need to conserve and produce alternative energy so that we can be less dependent on foreign governments that control 85 percent of the world’s oil. We also need to drill in the US where environmentalists don’t want us to drill at the moment. We are America first. You always hear “Buy America! Buy America!” Ethanol is buying America. Drilling in America is buying America. Buy America isn’t just manufactured products, its natural resources as well. So I encourage you to conserve and Buy America this Earth Day.