While we in the US of A sit around and throw tax dollars at an ever greedy Wall st while gasoline prices rise,Russia has opened a massive pipeline to transport Central Asian oil to China. Remember one reason Afghanistan was so important was because Unocal wanted a pipeline from the Central Asian fields thru Afghanistan and Pakistan to the Indian ocean. Well guess its too late now.
And why is it that Barak Obama said that economic recovery was going to be fueled by the technology and change over to green sustainable energy and now China is touted as leading the world in the production of this green energy. My county(Botetourt,Va) elected Republican supervisors who promptly cancelled construction of wind turbines on the mountain tops.
Now we face another two years of a stalemated government and nothing will get done, as gas prices rise, the economy falters and spurts while china retools for 21st century energy. Get out your bicycles,people. Actually we could probably get a good deal on used Chinese bikes, abandoned by a Chinese middle class who will ride in Smart car type sedans while the Obamas,Cheneys and Goldman Sachs can use government gas to drive their Hummers and armored SUV's

2012 is coming, we need someone besides the usual array of facist republicans or the likes of sellouts like Obama and Clinton