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“The Sunday Morning Bray”, by Bray!

Genesis 14:21 The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people and keep the goods for yourself.”

Just as the price of gas is reaching levels Americans can both go to the grocery store and fill their cars in the same week, our Glorious Premier Obozo decides to close the remainder of the ANWAR desert to oil exploration. This oil reserve holds more than thirty years of energy for America and would further stabilize the price of gas, but Marxists like him hate cheap oil so he is closing this production by edict. Alaskans want to develop and harvest this vast reserve, however the Federal gummit thinks they know best for the state from half a world away so the Alaskans have no say. This is the problem with the Feds owning nearly 60% of a state’s resources.

It is time to divest the Federal gummit from the western states and let them manage and maintain their own resources. There is very little difference between the old Soviet Union and America when it comes to central planning and ownership of the resources. Not only is there no difference than Moscow controlling the Siberian forests and railroads, it is not even as efficient. Alaska should be able to manage their resources as there is no justification for them not to and if there is 30 years of American usage then it would allow America to either become self sufficient or allow Alaska to sell to the Asian market. There is no reason logistically or environmentally these reserves nobody even travels to should not be properly managed.

The only reason Premier Obozo is closing this vital resource, like the rest of his Party he hates capitalism and America. He is a hardcore Marxist who only wants the worst for the American capitalistic machine. As he watches the gas prices slip below two dollars he sees his worst nightmare coming true. He knows cheap plentiful energy is the lifeblood of free market capitalism which is why he has spent the past six years doing everything he could to raise those prices in both gas and electricity. This has been his 1917 Russian Revolution being fought from the District of Corruption.

Just like the Global Warming, junk scientists promoted their Peak Oil theory. This was another consensus science which said there was only a very limited amount of oil around the world which would be depleted by the year 2020. These scientists who also were Marxists wrote their predictions on the information they had even though in the US most of the Federal and much of the state lands had been off limits to not only drilling but exploration. Imagine laws which say you can’t even look to see if you have a vital resource, but we have them. Add to that they were using arcane drilling and exploration methods which only located the largest pools of oil in the world. They were plugging incomplete data into their computer models and coming up with their consensus science that we would run out of oil in 2020. This was going to be a crisis of apocalyptic proportions just like Global Warming.

A funny thing happened on the way to the end of the oil, we found more. The world began finding oil in Russia, Nigeria, Brazil and the Dakotas turning their model into a puddle of goo. Academia refused to back off of their predictions until the last couple years and now politicians are backfilling with laws and regulations stopping as much production as they can to keep the prices artificially high. This is primarily being done at the Federal level and the Glorious Premier’s latest decree is another reduction in the supply to further hurt the American middle class which is what he is primarily about.

Every state should have full control of their resources. If they want to develop them that is their business and if they want to let it go to waste it is likewise their choice. We should have fifty mini-countries running and managing their resources at the source rather than a half a world away. The western states should be managed the same way the rest of the country handles their land. Alaska is so large it is hard enough to manage from Fairbanks and impossible to imagine running it from DC effectively. The ANWAR reserve is a frozen desert the size of South Carolina that is sitting on an ocean of oil. What gives the Federal Government the right to say the people of Alaska cannot develop and create quality jobs by punching some holes in that frozen tundra. This could be the equivalent of an American Saudi Arabia minus the Islamic terrorists, but thanks to DC Alaskans have to scratch out a living catching crab on the Bering Sea. They really never traded up when they were sold by Moscow.

With today’s technology there is nearly zero chance of having a spill and even if there was as we saw in the Gulf of Mexico the lasting damage is negligible. The year following the spill they had the highest catch of fish in healthier sizes than they had in ten years, so much for consensus science. Alaska is the wealthiest state in the union with huge amounts of natural resources and if the Feds would get out of the way there is a bonanza waiting to happen. Rather than sending their Federal royalties to DC and then DC deciding how much to send back, Alaska should be able to keep their taxes in the first place and hire their own land managers.

Along with drilling and exploration technology, the monitoring and reporting advancements give local jurisdictions real time oversight. This can make more efficient production and planning to maximize efficiency and minimize costs. This will make for a clean and productive development and stewardship of these lands lending to better conservation and development. Alaska is being held back by the President and his political agenda as punishment for being a great country. These resources should be turned over to the state and managed in a more effective and proper method which would help the Alaskan people who should be the stewards of these lands.

We have a President who is at war with oil and has outlawed drilling off the Alaskan coast in the Arctic Ocean where the Russians are now punching wells and now he wants to eliminate drilling in the only small area in ANWAR it is allowed. There are no environmental reasons just like the Keystone pipeline or the Gulf of Mexico, only a President who happens to hate the free market system. He should stick to starting race riots which is his expertise. They were wrong about the Alaskan pipeline decades ago and the science is wrong about the damage to ANWAR just as they were wrong about Peak Oil. The turning over of resources to the states would be an economic revival for those states and that expansion would spread to the rest of the country raising all the boats. It is time to free Alaska from a centrally planned government and let Alaskans decide what Alaskans want.

Pray America is waking

Note: The above opinion is not necessarily my own, but FReeper Bray’s. If you wish to discuss this, please ping Bray.