Posted on 07/04/2008 8:34:15 AM PDT by ChessExpert
You would think that this story is right out of science fiction. But the facts appear to be that the US Democrat-controlled Congress intends to destroy the Republican middle class with $11 per gallon gasoline.
Excerpt!
Congress is not helping, but it’s too late anyway. We’re well on the way to the post-industrial stone age.
“We’re well on the way to the post-industrial stone age.”
There’s plenty of fuel out there, and lots of human ingenuity.
We’ve just got to avoid being enslaved by a Congress in thrall to the insane environmentalists.
Preventing oil exploration has nothing to do with protecting the environment. It is one of many methods employed by socialists to make people more dependent on the select few who manage the country to create a strong centralized form of government. It’s an excellent way for socialists to destroy our democratic republic and render the Constitution, that is anathema to their beliefs, irrelevant.
If you read the article, it’s very balanced and informative about the role government has in restricting the availability of oil ... in the “comments” section a couple of DUers, David and Leonard, show their sheer stupidity!
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/
Not this time. We’re headed off the cliff. It will be a quieter and better place after the next 25 years of pain.
perhaps they failed elementary school science; animals give off Co2 and plants give off oxygen.
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The higher oil prices go the more incentive to find a way to do without it. Like most endeavors in the human experience, if you set out to destroy something or somebody and you don't go about it the right way you end up just making it or them stronger.
Go ahead and put the sarc tags in. I have just been listening to Matt Savinar explain all this again and find the prospect of half the houses in this town not being heated this winter even with the Gov’s $1200 gift a fairly likely prospect.
Once gas reaches a certain point, let’s say $8/gallon, our service sector employees will decide it’s more expensive to drive to work for their $7-$8/hour jobs. That’s when the poo will hit the fan.
Oil at $300 would be about equivalent to total thermonuclear war. Quieter, though.
Our government is limiting energy availability (rationing) because they have the final say when it comes to approval for power plants, oil and gas drilling, or any other energy source.
Energy supply is no longer determined by free market and private investment. Our government has effectively nationalized our energy industry.
This is tyranny from an out of control government.
Wanna bet? $11 per gallon gasoline will put a stake through the heart of the world economy making the Great Depression look like kindergarten recess.
The natural outcome will be anarchy, lawlessness, an ‘every man for himself mentality’ followed by endless war (global & civil).
If our ‘limousine liberals’ think they’ll survive this unscathed, they have another thing coming…IMHO.
It is not too late. The winds of change are blowing, even here in Santa Barbara County where the no offshore drilling movement began. The Drill Here/Drill Now movement is taking hold.
Last night I spent a good amount of time talking to a hippie drummer friend who is married to a biologist who writes environmental impact reports. This is a very green couple. The drummer agreed that drilling can be done much more safely and efficiently now and we need to drill offshore to become energy independent. We both conceded that everything needs to be on the table, and everyone needs to be at the table to resolve our energy problems and devise a plan for energy independence.
My husband works for a major energy company as did his father and my father and I know a thing or two about this. There is reason to be very optimistic but we need to keep alerting folks to Newt's Drill Here/Drill Now movement.
The clearing price for gasoline is 4.00 per gallon. There is about to be big change, but it will come from McCain, not Obama.
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