Originally posted by SLAYER69
reply to post by whiteraven

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Here we go again....

Yet another thread about the Good Ole US of A.
All these threads ever do is stir the pot. On one side you'll have some Americans waving the flag and pounding their chest. They'll get a few stars. Then you'll have the group that will take it upon themselves to point out everything that's wrong with the US and all the wars we have fought. {Good, Bad or Indifferent} ignoring the root causes to many and only point out the wrongs we've done. They usually get like over 100 stars. {Go Figure}

So it breaks down this way.

On one hand we have a minority of Americans who want to take 100% credit for the past 100 to 150 years or so. Then on the other hand we will have those who refuse to give the US ANY credit. {Again pointing out Everything that's wrong with the US}

So then it comes down to a mud slinging contest.

Never Fails.

Instead of Talking about how "Great the US" is. I say to my fellow Americans let's just go back to the basics and just do the things we used to do before the spot light was put on us. This is another fine example of how ATS members will just use any form of American Pride threads as an opportunity to Slam the US.

They'll regurgitate then excrete large volumes of verbal feces about Iraq, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Korea {Always Forgetting} All the other Countries from Around the World who fought with the US or the Countries who contributed to the conflicts on the other side.

So please my Fellow Americans Give it a rest.

Originally posted by Kryties

OK fine stop exporting goods and services to us, we'll stop exporting Uranium to you how's that sound huh? I'd like to see how far your arrogance can take you through a country without POWER or the ability to make WEAPONS.

Might be an idea to THINK before you speak next time huh?

You may want to reconsider some of YOUR facts. Yours is just cheaper.

Fossil fuels – coal, oil and natural gas -- currently provide more than 85% of all the energy consumed in the United States, nearly two-thirds of our electricity, and virtually all of our transportation fuels. Moreover, it is likely that the nation’s reliance on fossil fuels to power an expanding economy will actually increase over at least the next two decades even with aggressive development and deployment of new renewable and nuclear technologies.

Because our economic health depends on the continued availability of reliable and affordable fossil fuels, the Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy oversees two major fossil fuel efforts:

1) Emergency stockpiles of crude oil and heating oil

The Department is responsible for maintaining the readiness of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve. In the event of a major supply interruption, the President could order emergency stocks from either of these two reserves to be released into the market.

2) Research and Development of future fossil energy technologies

Innovative technologies can make the future production and use of fossil fuels more efficient and environmentally cleaner. Energy’s Fossil Energy program, through the National Energy Technology Laboratory, is developing a full array of new technologies that can locate and produce oil and gas beyond the reach of today’s technologies, overcome the environmental challenges of using coal, and extract clean-burning hydrogen from fossil fuels.

In addition, the Office of Fossil Energy supports several initiatives to develop clean fuels from hydrogen and cleaner burning coal.

For statistical information relating to oil, natural gas, coal, and the electricity it produces, visit the Energy Information Administration.

The United States could be energy independent if it possessed the collective political will to make it happen. After all, the country has the largest energy reserves on earth, according to a recently-released Congressional Research Service report.

As shown in the first chart below, the United States’ 1,321 billion barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) tops number 2 Russia with 1,248 billion BOE, and number 3 Saudi Arabia with 543 billion BOE.

The ATS community needs to continue to Deny Ignorance and rightfully acknowledge that both the US and Canada (NATO) have been a force for good in this world bringing hope to the oppressed.