I'm terrified and desperate.  

I've tried quitting before.  I'm grateful to the anti-tobacco people who aired an ad that let me know most people try to quit an average of SEVEN times before they succeed.  Otherwise, I probably wouldn't be trying again.

But I'm terrified I won't be able to do it again and desperate for whatever advice anyone has to hand to me.  

Watching Click and Clack (The Tappet Brothers) talking about the new car of the future got me thinking:

What we really need is someone who makes converter kits for conventional (i.e. the one in your driveway) cars that makes them greener, cleaner and less dependent on oil.

Lately, I've been toying with the notion that it might be in the best interest of the nation to nationalize or otherwise regulate our oil.

Clearly, the for-profit oil industry rarely operates in the public or even the national best interests.  Yet this non-renewable resource pervades and influences every aspect of our economy and is arguably key to any national defense strategy in both peacetime and war.

While I pose a few arguments below the fold, I'd like to utilize dailykos at its best - a brainstorming, educational forum.  I know nothing about the process, feasibility or reasonableness of the nationalizing a resource.  Can we collectively make the case to nationalize or otherwise regulate oil?

Thank you from the essence of my being for fighting the good fight.

Remarkably, I don't have that utter despair and helplessness I felt after the election - probably because you and others in the Democratic Party are standing up with strength and conviction.

It is that inner moral compass that you and we have that we must rely upon more strenuously today than any other day in the history of our lives.  I strongly suspect that when the Iraq thing came up that many in power had their misgivings.

 

I tried to fulfill my freeper duty and none of the links provided here seem to give me a poll to vote in.

Am I tinfoil?  Is my DSL too slow?  It seems we are hearing Cheney win already, and my hands are tied!

Am I alone here?