I am American, but America is to blame for quite a bit of this. Fortunately we have passed some legislation that will ease our dependence on foreign oil, like this for instance:
http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/12/19/now-its-pen-on-paper-official-president-bush-signs-35-mpg-cafe/
This should help ease our national debt and put less stress on the economy, because more than just the price we pay for oil goes into buying this stuff. We have to pay all sorts of taxes and surcharges you never even see to transport, protect, drill, and invest in new oil resources.
Bottom line, the U.S. needs to focus on alleviating the ballooning national debt, otherwise things will only get worse. Pressure on China to let its currency fluctuate more will certainly help is well, since those problems are interrelated.
Investment in more efficient or green energy, like nuclear power, geothermal energy, wind, etc. will greatly help as well, since a great deal of our problems involve energy.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
