Take a look at the history of Mexico's national oil company PEMEX. They are a huge employer, probably the largest in the nation. As their gulf wells peter out, those workers will be streaming into the U.S. We need a strong energy policy that takes into account the resources of our neighbors, as well as our consumption patterns. Rebuilding our economy is not necessarily about using more energy, it's about using what we have more intelligently. There's a lot of fat and waste to cut from the system. Let's start with the cheap and easy things first. That's what I want to hear from the candidates.

There's still time but my advice to the McCain/Palin campaign would be to get down and shore up the border states. Especially Texas with its 34 electoral votes. A lot of angst/anger down here. Texas is purpling and may go blue.

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I fail to see how this pipeline is very beneficial to continental Americans. Any revenue would likely benefit Alaskans direcly, who are already enjoying a budget surplus because of commodity prices. This appears to have been a tactic by the Republican leadership in AK to force gas leaseholders to bring methane under their lands to market. Seeing how global conventional gas production is declining somewhat, wouldn't it have been more prudent to send this gas through alternative pipelines to be constructed by BP or Chevron? Did it have anything to do with the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act? Of course TransCanada had the funds, they need to produce their tarsands no matter the political or national security costs. http://gov.state.ak.us/agia/