First Issue of Discussion: Energy

In recent years energy policy has become a hot button issue on both sides of the aisle because American's have been directly affected at the gas pump and are mad about it.  Conserving energy, renewable energy, biofuels, etc. has been an issue that was dominated and monopolized by the left, or at least that was the public perception.  Only a hippie would brew his own fuel using discarded vegetable oil, right? That all changed in the events after 9/11.

The right got more involved in the discussion with the whole list; finding alternative fuels, conservation efforts, drilling off-shore, building nuclear power plants, etc and the discussion came to the center because was hurting Americans.  

Both sides had different motivations to getting this issue on the table of the public forum.  I think what is really important is that the fact that we are all now talking about it and that there are solutions.  

The question remains, what do we do from here?  What are the common sense conservative solutions to this issue?  What are the problems with our current system?  How do we correct it now and in the future?  How do we as citizens get involved?  What role does our government as well as foreign governments play in this issue?  Corporations?

Discuss. 

Make the Case

There are few pragmatic conservative voices in the public forum. Conservatism and the Republican Party have become synonymous and are used interchangeably.  They are not the same.  We MUST get back to discussing ideas, issues and concepts and our practical conservative solutions, regardless of party lines and affiliation.

It is our role as pragmatic conservatives to make the case for common sense conservatism. Real world solutions to tough issues and problems from health care to energy.  Our ideas have worked in the past and they will work in the future, but we need a BETTER argument.  We cannot allow others to define the conservative movement and pigeon hole us and our ideas.  We must make a better common sense argument, issue by issue, for the imperative need of conservative ideals applied in the public forum.

I would like this to be a forum of discussion for practical solutions to the issues of the day.  One issue at a time.

Let us begin the dialogue.