Posted on 05/25/2008 10:05:08 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Spending $60, $70, even $90 for a fill up at the gas station is fun right? When it comes to crippling, racist, and economically debilitating energy policy liberals have truly paralyzed America. And they seem proud of their efforts. In the left's refusal to allow us to seek new energy sources they are stunting a nation's economy, they are hurting the average family, and they are starving hungry children.
They also have the gall to do all of this under the guise of feigned outrage at oil companies in addition to self-superior Senate floor speeches where they rage against the administration. They also express abject resentment towards anyone who dares to mention the obvious - that it is their policies that put us in this mess to begin with and disallows our escape from it.
If you want a mere glimpse of their hypocrisy revisit Gore v. Bush. I'm not referring to the court case, but their living arrangements. Bush lives in a solar powered home designed for maximum conservation impact in his Crawford ranch. Al Gore's home has not been converted to solar power, and only a year ago was exposed for having toxic waste on his property that was actually polluting the local water supplies. But this simple comparison barely scratches the surface as to the left's energy scam.
The real pinch that you feel at the pump exists for multiple reasons. Nearly all of them the fault of liberals.
Repeatedly they criticize the administration for having to work with Middle Eastern nations that sell us oil, they mock us for having to beg Saudi princes to increase production, yet they refuse to do the things that would cause the Saudi's and other members of OPEC to lower prices naturally.
This last week the nation of Brazil discovered enough oil sitting only 130 miles off their coast to give them the equivalent of nineteen years worth of oil by their current usage standards. That's nineteen years that they don't have to purchase oil from anywhere else.
Presently in territories under US control we have oil reserves that could eclipse that number by possibly 20 to 30 times. We have the technology to go get it with almost zero impact to the surrounding environment. And in some places where we could go harvest it from - like the Alaskan wilderness, we would need less than 2% of the total territory to give us domestic oil production that would rival the output of what we purchase abroad and thus cause those suppliers to drop their prices. Off the shores of California, Florida, and other oceanside states further exploration could be had with no cost to the taxpayer and any reserves we would find would belong to the U.S. and thus allow us to control our own energy future. But liberals in Washington, the lobbyists who pay them well, and the far left environmentalist groups who are manipulating the public discussion would rather you not be able to pay your bills or even drive your car - than to give in and allow any expanded exploration to occur.
But finding the reserves is only part of the problem. Once the oil is in hand it must be refined, and since "crazy greenies" have prevented the construction of one single additional refinery in nearly a generation, the supply chain is unable to be processed and delivered effectively to help the prices stabilize at the pump. Additionally elected liberals like Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, and U.S. Senator Richard Durbin have worked in concert to see to it that Chicago area drivers now pay a 20% tax on every gallon of gas sold.
The Global Warming scare mongers have played their part as well. Now that more than 31,000 scientists have disputed nearly all of even the most basic claims made in Al Gore's hysterical work of fiction, "An Inconvenient Truth," we are starting to see up close the damage Gore's self-enriching scam has produced. His insistence upon alternative fuels, has created horrific realities which are making the development of fuel far more expensive, and starving orphans on the African continent simultaneously. He's also made tons of personal riches from his "carbon credits" company that has yet to prove how it is regenerating the climate.
When we realize that the amount of corn for example that has to be set aside for the minimum production of ethanol, and how that corn is no longer for food supplies there should exist outrage. When we discover the tons of corn required to make one tank of fuel, yet realize the same amount of corn could feed an African orphan who is presently dying of starvation for a full year that outrage should create a quake for justice that liberals can not escape.
And we haven't even begun to address the entire idea of nuclear energy expansion that could go across the continent heating, lighting, and keeping our homes safe at far lower costs. In places like Africa nuclear power would move villages that are barely surviving into healthy new conditions. Simply replacing the dung that some mothers are forced to cook with would guarantee a drop in the child mortality rate across much of the sub-Saharan portion of the continent. Yet for all of Barack Obama's insistence upon giving a condom to every person in Africa he seems utterly unmoved by the plight of children breathing the smoke of bovine excrement.
Some proponents of energy exploration have argued that we are running out of oil reserves. Yet any one who uses common sense wonders how that is so. Oil reserves are developed by the death and compression of carbon life-forms over the years. Forests, wildlife, marine life, and humans have not stopped dying - nor are they expected to anytime soon. Harvesting living energy supplies - like food - seems to be counter productive than harvesting energy supplies that in fact have already been "processed" naturally for our use. With our more advanced exploration capabilities we are also discovering that we are far - if it's even possible to be - from "running out of oil."
So what does it all mean?
Liberals have put into place legislation that restricts our ability to supply our energy needs for ourselves. They have prevented us from being able to refine the energy supply we obtain. They have prevented us from creating the most cost effective energy supply ever discovered (nuclear). And they appear more than happy to continue to tax the living daylights out of us on the energy we have to have in order to survive.
In short it is using dishonest messages to tax us more, taking the capital we earn for our families, to create a greater dependency on "them" to "solve our problems" for us. Can anyone say "backdoor Marxism?" Do you like your $5 per gallon gas?
Just do nothing... because letting the marxist left run our energy policy seems to be working out well for all of us!
Isn't it?
Not one thing the Demo-rats say or the Environmentalists do will produce one drop of oil or reduce gas prices one cent.
We have to get those people out of office this November ....
“In the left’s refusal to allow us to seek new energy sources they are stunting a nation’s economy, they are hurting the average family, and they are starving hungry children.”
Absolutely true. When the Repubes had both houses of congress for the better part of the last decade, what did they do about our energy problems pray tell?
He’s exactly right. But the Republicans are too scared to take on the environazis and as the MSM is the willing propaganda arm of the Democrats, nothing will likely change.
I couldn’t have said it better.
...It is always someone else's fault.
If these gas prices stay high long enough then the public will finally start paying attention to the claims that liberals are the cause..
Good stuff
This could be McCain’s issue
Wasn’t it Gail Norton who was critized by Congress for making public a frozen tundra photo of ANWAR?
Conservatives send their kids to school(s) only to get socialists back.. And do literally NOTHING about it.. Socialism SHOULD BE illegal.. and communism treason..
Starving in the midst of plenty as it were. Republicans do not have the guts OR the moral convictions to stand up to anyone, they’ve compromised themselves throughout their careers to the point that they are a total wash-out. Opportunities to take the lead have occurred time and again to no avail.
We can’t afford anymore of this so-called leadership like we are now struggling under. It’s past time to take some serious action.
But what is more sickening, the general public, when surveyed, overwhelmingly say the Democrats are best for the economy, the environment and energy.
It has to be the Clinton ‘90’s (Having been the luckiest fool to be President during the computer/technology boom.) that is the cause.
Like Your $5 Gas? ..... thank a lib/dem!!!!!
Like Your $5 Gas? ..... thank a lib/dem!!!!!
If McCain doesn’t take it on , then McConnell should go third party by about September 15, six weeks of campaigning will put him in the White House.
I ask because even though I support the idea of drilling in Alaska, I always assumed that it would have some sort of negative impact on the natural environment there. I'm not a tree-hugger enviro-whacko, but I (like, I believe, pretty much all people) would hate to see the awesome beauty of the Alaskan wilderness destroyed or damaged by this. I'm a conservative, but I'm also an outdoors guy and nature lover, so there are some things worth saving. I feel much the same way about the coral reefs.
If they can do this with minimal or "near zero" impact, like this article says, then this needs to be done NOW.
What the left is counting on is that most people are stupid and will vote for demagogues who propose "solutions" like windfall proft taxes, subsidizing "green" but inefficient industries and perhaps nationalizing all or most businesses.
Keep bringing it to a vote. A slim majority can do little when the democrats fillibuster everything.
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