Flower Power (Obama Energy Policy....The Audacity of Ignorance or 'Don't ask, Don't drill)

american spectator ^ | 08/15/2008 | Peter Ferrara

[milwguy]

Barack Obama proposes that we seize the profits of the oil companies and use them for $1,000 "energy rebate" checks to every working family in America. That is what he said in his speech in Lansing, Michigan on August 4, 2008, entitled "New Energy for America." Economist Donald Boudreaux pointed out that seizing all oil profits would still not be enough to fund these $1,000 giveaway checks.

If the government is going to target an industry it has vilified in the public mind, loot all its profits, and then use the money for giveaway checks to buy votes, then what has our nation become?

If the government can do that to the oil industry, then why can't it do the same to any other industry, or group of people, that it successfully paints as unpopular? What then has happened to the whole notion of private property?

Why couldn't President Obama then decree that every owner of a four bedroom home take in two homeless people? Surely there would be room for them somewhere. Why couldn't he just seize every gas guzzling SUV, sell them for scrap metal, and use that money for $1,000 rebate checks to every Democrat voter as well?

This is why people say Obama is a socialist.

[milwguy]

Love the 'Don't ask, don't drill' line and the Audacity of Ignorance. Pretty much sums up the Messiah and his energy policy.

[djsherin]

Gotta love communism. It worked so well for the Russians...

Oh wait. No it didn’t.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Obama’s energy plan: Tire pressure guages and more taxes.

[kcm.org]

Wonder if Sen. Osama feels like he is on the Titanic>>?

[griswold3]

‘What it will cost is the sacrifice of the standard of living of the middle class and working people. Contrary to Obama’s false posturing, the federal government has been providing billions and billions in subsidies to “alternative fuels” like wind, solar and biofuels since the late 1970s. Not much good has come of it, surely not an alternative fuel source that can power our modern American economy and maintain our standard of living and economic growth.’

Kinda like the ‘war on poverty’ or the ‘war on drugs’. The ‘new alternative energy’ is creating a huge sucking sound.

[ridesthemiles]

Love the ‘Don’t ask, don’t drill’ line and the Audacity of Ignorance. Pretty much sums up the Messiah and his energy policy.”

Agreed.
Nobama looks more and more like an empty suit except for the hubris he stuffs into it.

[FlyVet]

If the government can do that to the oil industry, then why can't it do the same to any other industry, or group of people, that it successfully paints as unpopular? What then has happened to the whole notion of private property?

Yup. It's also unfair that the winners of life's lottery have saved and invested their money, and accumulated wealth. Sooner or later, these greedy commie pols will move to loot those accounts. Except for theirs.