Foreign oil dependency & Global Warming: Michigan doesn't get it

Politicians in Michigan need to wake up

"Michigan's congressional delegation is urging the U.S. Health and Human Services Department to stop touting foreign cars to its employees.

In a letter to Secretary Mike Leavitt, Michigan lawmakers blasted an e-mail his department sent to its 67,000 employees advising them to avoid sport utility vehicles and recommending a number of foreign cars," writes the DetroitNews.

"It is our hope that your agency will refrain from sending out similar communications that make product endorsements, particularly by non-U.S. companies," the delegation wrote. "It seems to us the time and effort that went into producing this document could have been better spent preventing disease, assuring food and drug safety (and) improving children's health."

Wake up Michigan!

Honestly, global warming is the biggest issue facing the Health of America if it's real. Sure, global warming is a contentious issue, but global warming dissenters do not have absolute proof that human-influenced global warming is not real. Thus, there is nothing wrong with the Health and Human Services Department taking a stand - something the Big 3 should have done a couple of decades ago and at least after 9/11.

However, more to the point, the Health Department is not promoting foreign cars, they are promoting green cars. Sadly, American automakers just haven't been very green. Even more disappointing, being green coincides very closely with fuel economy, which also means that since 9/11, American automakers have done little to address foreign oil dependency.

How patriotic is that when foreign oil dependency has become one of the most critical issues to national security, even to the health and welfare of the American people?