Iran into Bolivia

Unlike Loverboy who was “loving every minute of it” when he was shot into space, the United States and other nations fear Iran’s ability to launch anything into orbit, which they did in the form of a satellite earlier this week. Iran may not have won the space race, finishing 9th, but they did display their rising technology. This could potentially combine President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s fiery rhetoric with a means.

Sputnik sparked America’s full involvement in the space race. The latest satellite should push a different type of race which we cannot win with the help of Hollywood. Oil revenues help Iran fund projects such as a missile system amongst other nefarious items. Clearly any simple-minded person can see the situation at hand and at least know possible solutions. Our Congress consistently fails to achieve this required status. To prove their stupidity, the Senate approved a tax credit for Americans buying new cars. Citizens can now receive a rebate after buying cars they do not want or cannot afford from companies funded by the government to produce those very vehicles. This is why the show “Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?” should be a requirement for potential congressional members.

How about tax credits for investing in actual green technology and not the research and development that the car companies should have being doing all along? Green companies currently face downsizing due to oil and coal lobbyists in Washington D.C. taking subsidies over the ones who could actually help America wean off funding towards the Middle East and prevent that satellite from becoming an intercontinental missile.

President Obama, if you want to have high approval in the long term, you will need to make potential career-ending decisions. Talking to Iran will not produce anything. Hitting their budget absolutely will. Gasoline prices are too volatile to sustain green investment and there is no market for renewable energy sources at the moment. Unlike Congress, you have a capable energy adviser, Stephen Chu, and a brain, allegedly. Play it smart, not politically.

A recent New York Times article outlined Bolivia’s supply of lithium, a valuable resource for improved batteries for hybrid cars and other electronics. The government stands reluctant on allowing other countries to harvest the mineral and does not have the resources to effectively do it on its own. I see this changing in upcoming years. If lithium is a major game-changer in the green industry, countries will be vying to buddy up with Bolivia. To prospective friends, President Morales likes sunset strolls on beaches and like Julia Roberts in “Runaway Bride”, eggs Benedict.

America will not take this approach if we gain interest in the lithium. We will be chilling in Chile then it will unfold. Bolivia’s government will become insufficient and we will help them fix it up. Problem solved. I joke now, but give it time. The growing importance of Bolivia will signify the standing of the movement towards better energy usage.

Going green is more dire than Chris Paul’s injury to the New Orleans Hornets. If politicians do what sounds good to their constituency over what is smart, then America will blow a 20-point lead in 12 minutes and fall in the standings. As Kermit the Frog once said, “It’s not easy being green”; however, I think it will be worth it.