Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 07/18/2008 2:02:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
One day Americans are moaning about the harmful impact of cheap oil and the next they're grousing about the harmful impact of expensive oil.
Which one is it?
As a disreputable sort, I freely confess to having a fondness for oil. Actually, I have a mild crush on all carbon-emitting fuels that feed our prosperity. But I'm especially fond of cheap oil. For many years, those who spread apocalyptic global-warming scenarios have warned me that a collective national sacrifice was needed to save the world.
One option, we were told, was to make gas artificially expensive, forcing our ignorant, energy-gobbling neighbors to alter their destructive habits.
Well, here we are. At $4 a gallon for gas, we already have a flailing economy. Isn't it glorious? And isn't it exactly what many environmentalists desired?
The problem is that there is no feasible "alternative" fuel that can haul food from farms to cities, produce affordable electricity for your plasma TV and drive your kids to school. Not yet. It can happen, of course, but only (to pinch a word from enlightened grocery shoppers) organically.
The problem is that when "green" fantasies crash onto the shores of economic reality (as they did with corn-based ethanol), we all suffer.
Don't worry, though, congressional Democrats have a bold plan. Hold on for 10 or 15 years and they'll have a bounty of energy options. They promise. But no oil shale. No clean coal. No nuclear power. And definitely no more oil.
They will not enable your revolting, inefficient lifestyle. In the short-term, offshore drilling, especially, is a pie-in-the-sky fairy tale. Unlike, say, pond scum and hydrogen fuel packs.
On the bright side, it seems that reality is beginning to overtake fantasy.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
In other news. The Congress of Punk Rockers develops a manifesto critiquing Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata.
Ping to self for later read.
The Dems are offering political power to someone, who wants to take it?
schu
The Dems are offering political power to someone, who wants to take it?
schu
Me too
No Smoking Hot Spot (The Australian)
Drill or get off the Hill!
Touche! Good one :)
BUMP!
Both major parties are exhausted and are locked in ritualistic combat over nothing.
I agree that political power in this country is lying on the ground, waiting for someone to pick it up.
The problem with this is that, historically, it's seldom the right guy who picks it up. It certainly creates an opening for Rex Mundi to do his thing.
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