On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced to the world that the United States would send a man to the moon and return him safely by the end of the decade.  It was July 20, 1969 and the lunar module Eagle, successfully landed on the moon and 3 days later returned safely to the earth.  You ask, what does this have to do with gas prices, diesel prices and alternative fuels?  Please let me explain.  When President Kennedy made that, at the time, famous, bold and quite aggressive prediction, the United States nor any other country in the world had the technology, equipment nor experience to pull this challenge off.  The very best computers in the 1960's were not nearly as good as a mediocore computer that you would find in a second hand store today!  Scientist and Engineers of that era used slide rules and other antiquited equipment.  Also when the statement was made we had yet to put a man into space at all, not to think about sending and then return them.  So our people had nothing to go by or to use as a gauge or guidelines to follow.  It was all virgin territory with  poor tools,  Yet WE DID IT!!   If we can do that and under those disadvantages and circumstances, then why can't we build vehicles that get 100 miles to the gallon.  Why can't we have more and better sources of alternative fuels.  Why are gas prices so high and diesel costs so outrageous? 

IF WE CAN SEND MEN TO THE MOON IN 1969,  WE CAN BUILD CARS THAT CUT GAS PRICES AND FIND ALTERNATIVE FUEL SOURCES IN 2008!


We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
President John F. Kennedy   
Sept. 12, 1962


On April 20, 1961 Kennedy sent a memo to Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, asking Johnson to look into the status of America's space program. Johnson responded on the following day, concluding that "we are neither making maximum effort nor achieving results necessary if this country is to reach a position of leadership."

Today you could substitute American's space program and put in it's place the auto industry, oil industry and America's elected politicians.  Wouldn't you say that they are not making the maximum effort nor achieving the results that our leaders and mega corporations should be showing 


This is plain, simple logic, nothing more!

We are not talking rocket science here but basic problem solving with more items at our disposal than any other time in history.  And we have been building cars and producing gas for over 105 years.  We went to the moon in less than 9 years, but we can't produce cars that don't pollute the air and get great mileage after 105 years!  

People, friends and fellow Americans, what is wrong with this picture?

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