Pat Manley for Ohio

This is a little long. Sorry. My car runs on C8H18, which is only hydrogen and carbon. Mostly hydrogen. When I drive, my engine produces carbon dioxide, water and nitrogen oxide. The trees and grass absorb the carbon diode, CO2, and convert it to oxygen, O2. The water, H2O, evaporates and helps those same trees and grass thrive. The nitrogen oxide, NOx, of course is not suitable to breathe but most ends up converted to oxygen and nitrogen as it passes through the catalytic converter. About 98% of it gets removed. C8H18 is gasoline and is considered a fossil fuel. When I look at the molecular structure and how it burns, releases energy and is modified through modern automotive technology, I can't help but think of it as a "natural fuel". The earth has been producing oil from organic plants and animals for 3.7 billion years according to the fossil record, so it makes sense it is still creating oil 24/7, although no one writes about this or even mentions it. Its the rate of oil creation that seems to be unknown. However, there was a time not that many decades ago when the experts claimed that forests and trees would be wiped out, but technology reversed this trend. For example, we are on the third re-forestation for the lumber we use to build homes and hardwood forests are currently being regenerated at a rate faster than consumption. Why can't we speed up oil production combined with more efficient use and the production of cheaper synthetic oil? Here is my point today: If we re truly going to have reliable and sustainable energy, we absolutely must have choices. Going all-electric is a prescription for disaster and we already see this with brown outs, black outs, major and localized infrastructure failures and a demand that has already stripped supply. At one time we had wood, coal, oil, natural gas, propane, electricity, peat (in some parts of the world), paper, water to produce electricity, wind, solar, and nuclear, among other minor options. To mandate electricity at the sake of other options, even if it is produced by some of those other fuels will only result in more government control over our homes and businesses, energy rationing which is already occurred in a number of states and giving governments a convenient excuse to control it, and last but not least, a direct and real risk to our health and national security. This is not a new topic and everything I wrote can be found elsewhere from other sources. What we have to understand is that the push toward an all-electric society has nothing to do whatsoever with the environment. It never did and never will. In truth it is about controlling the lives of every person on the planet. You control energy, you control travel, you control food production, you control warmth, you control people. If you take a moment to consider that its not about the environment considering the obvious environmental damage being done by alternative energy processes, then the real reasons come into focus. So do the solutions.

In addition to my businesses, I teach a class at a local community college. An interesting observation I make on a regular basis is the strongly held belief by students that the opportunities to make money and build wealth no longer exist. They think we had it easier.

Another observation I made the past several years is the increasing number of students who walk in to class every single day with a large cup of coffee from Starbucks, and tell me they eat out every day for lunch.

Ignoring lunch for a moment, a large Starbucks on average costs $3.50. Over the course of a college and working career, an individual who foregoes Starbucks could easily have $218,000 set aside by retirement. Add in daily lunches, this number (at today's high inflation), will quadruple even if the lunches are at a modest fast food or carryout deli. This means $872,000 that could be available for retirement is spent along the way.

Of course I am not suggesting never buying coffee or never eating out for lunch, but it does point out how some young people today do not quite connect the relationship between growing wealth through your lifetime and the inescapable necessity of sacrificing relatively minor things in order to get there.

The truth is that the opportunities are out there. They always have been and always will be. Sure, the government has made it more difficult with more and higher taxes everywhere, but I might suggest there are more opportunities for our youth to succeed and become financially secure than ever in our history. (Technology, resources, free online education, job openings everywhere, etc.). All that is needed is the will to do it. The opportunities are there.

In this age where so many want to work from home, want time off for everything, and seek that mysterious work/life balance, it comes with a cost. The hard truth is that to make money, one needs to put in the hours.

If your job doesn't pay enough, learn more, work harder and ask your boss what you need to do to advance. Another option is to or get a new job, even one you may not like that much. Getting a second part-time job is a common way to accelerate one's wealth accumulation. There are lots of options.

If the time off, work/life balance and daily Starbucks are priorities, go for it. Just don't expect to be as financially well off as your friends or co-workers who bring their lunch and spend time on the weekends studying, learning a new skill, or working a part-time job.

Of course I am not describing anything new. Its always been this way throughout history and always will be. Its a simple formula and one that my two sons internalized at an early age, for which I am thankful. I just find it perplexing that here we are in the wealthiest country in human history, and so few young people were never instructed on how we got that way.

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I wish to thank everyone for their tremendous support throughout the campaign. I’m sorry I was unable to bring us first place.

I also want to thank everyone on the campaign team who worked so hard through rain, 93+ degree days and past dark too many times to count. I am eternally grateful to you, and am blessed for the opportunity to know you and to campaign at your side. It was truly my honor.

We may have lost one battle but we will win the war. The dream is still alive.

Friends, we’re so close. The polls in Ohio close at 7:30pm.

If you are in line, stay in line. Don’t leave! — you WILL be able to vote.

It’s dark at Tremont Elementary. Just met a nice couple new to Upper Arlington are voting for me. Thank you!

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