An Oil Driven Economy; The American Dream!

What I do not get is all the hoop-la to save a misguided out-dated toxic fossil fuel economy?

The American dream of the automobile and suburbia is a failed ideology as more and more Americans spread out while spending more and more time stuck in traffic, travelling to and from a life-style dictated by the automobile. A life-style built on $20.00/barrel of oil and a dramatically smaller population than with us today. Look around the country as more and more suburban communities struggle to keep pace with growth while cutting services or raising taxes to keep pace with population growth. Between the property tax and the school tax, you'd think the Republicans would be throwing a hissy-fit.

They [Republicans] have it completely wrong, the problem is not big government. The problem is the myriad of overly zealous incompetent Nazi-like county officials, city councils, school boards and home owners associations drunk on power for lack of a real political career. Suburban America is a testament of how not to grow a country effectively!

For decades America has been trapped in automobiles as the primary suburban transportation choice. Think of the irony of our lives as the only means to getting from home to sporting events, bars and parties where drinking relieves us of our day to day misery when it is illegal to drink and drive. How fricken stupid is that? If we choose not to drive, then we pack ourselves into flying sardine cans with explosive devices for propulsion while breathing each-others germs sitting practically on top of one another.

Our dream of piece and freedom has given way to hurry up and wait as we struggle but, loose ground to the cost of living. We have built our nation on an economy of consumption starting with how we get to the store and ending with living with all the garbage and toxins as a result. The American dream is a national nightmare, and in particular in our Urban areas. Our cities, once the shining example of capitalism have become a war zone of poverty and violence. And yet everyday millions of Americans travel to our Urban war zones to make a living, only to retreat back to suburbia after a 10 hour plus work day including travel.

The country's planners were probably right to separate commercial working centers from residential sprawl because corporate America had a license to poison us at will [George F.] Unfortunately, the pollution became so bad, it reached our suburban retreats and poisoned us anyway. For what, now we are living with a dilapidated infrastructure that only serves to undermine our suburban way of life as we spend more and more of our precious income, time and mental faculties maintaining our 20th century energy grid, automobiles and roadways to perpetuate the cycle of consumption.

Alright my fellow citizens, way to think it through! Corporate America and their politicians have you right where they want you. Barely voting, barely saving and insanely electing the same politicians over and over again expecting a different result!

You want the American dream [?], you got it; nightmare on Elm street...

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