Anything's Possible.

       Well, India's going. We've been there, or to be more specific we threw a little machine there. Yep, India's sending a spaceship to Mars. Now, there are those who are against the idea. Spend the money on the poor some say. It's like here in America. Some folks want to spend a lot of money on alternative sources of energy. Then again, some folks want to spend no money on fairy tales.
       Now when it comes to alternative energy sources, right away people start pointing to Solyndra, the solar panel company we spent half a billion on and the company went out of business because it couldn't produce a good working product people could afford. Alternative energy sources just aren't possible at the magnitude necessary to power America. We can't give up coal, oil and gas to go on a wild goose chase. And that's a fact. The cost would be prohibitive. And that makes a lot of sense too.
       Then again we're celebrating the life of a president this last week. So what's my point? Well, I'm old enough to remember that president saying, "ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." Then he turned around and told us we would put a man on the moon in ten years. What a laugh. Nobody had ever gone even a hundred miles up in the air. Who's kidding whom? It couldn't be done. Except that it did get done. Even though there were lots of failures before it got done. We still sent a couple of guys up there, twice, to walk on the moon.
       So now folks say we can't replace fossil fuels for the energy we need. It simply can't be done. I can just see JFK rolling over in his grave and saying "Didn't they learn anything from that trip to the moon?" Don't we understand that anything is possible if we really want it to happen? Some folks will tell you the cost would be prohibitive. They said that about the trip to the moon. But it put millions of people to work and all the technology we enjoy today would still be a glimmer in someone's dreams without that effort.
       I wonder if we can afford not to make the choice to find those sources of energy, so we can stop polluting the world with these toxic fuels we seem to be tied to. When you see leaders fighting this idea, look to see where their loyalties lie. Do they get their funding from the robber barons of fossil fuels? I can almost guarantee it.