Another artificial energy crisis
July 18th, 2008 by Republican By DefaultThe first energy crisis, back in the 70’s, was created by foreign interests who hate America. It was people from the ilk that took American embassy workers hostage in Iran and blew up a marine barracks in Lebanon. And along came a Democrat U.S. President and Congress and made the problem worse with their consistently bad economic policy.
The next time the Democrats provided us with a president that same ilk reappeared and was re-energized by the lack of proper response to their threats and attacks. Now the oil prices are rising again, for many reasons. Partly because our enemies can get away with it, but mostly because we have no alternatives to buying their oil.
Thanks again to the Democrats, oil companies cannot drill in areas that have the largest oil reserves in the U.S. President Bush has lifted the ban on offshore drilling, which was half of the problem. The other half is caused by the Democrat controlled congress. Thanks to them and their continual resistance to using our own oil, we are stuck paying exorbitant prices at the pump, most of which goes to rich oil sheiks who hate America (but love American money.)
For years liberals have been telling us that we needed another energy crisis to wake up to the need for alternative fuels. Now we have the energy crisis and the alternatives can’t produce the results. As always, liberals didn’t think things through. They got their artificial energy crisis, but can’t deliver on the alternatives.
I sincerely hope that Americans wake up to the continued failures of liberal policies enacted by the Democrat party. Maybe they’ll stop listening to the liberal professors who have never held a real job in the real world and yet are brainwashing American kids in our universities.
Here’s an opinion piece in the Denver Post that does a better job of explaining the problem than I ever could.
July 21st, 2008 at 11:59 pm
Interesting Reading:
Today’s Oregonian Headline: Northwest’s wind power could quadruple
A BPA assessment shows developers are ready to build wind farms, but power lines can’t handle much more.
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1216529717321800.xml&coll=7
July 22nd, 2008 at 12:37 am
If wind power is cost-effective then I think it’s a great idea. If it costs more than traditional sources, then I say wait until it becomes cost effective. We don’t want to end up like Germany and spend boatloads of money to support a pie-in-the-sky approach that will only serve to create an industry at taxpayer expense that will then sell to other nations at cut rates to keep their companies alive.
I think it’s great that they’re pumping their money into building an industry that will eventually benefit us, but I don’t want to do the same. We’ve already pumped a lot of money into rebuilding their country. It’s about time they return some of it. So when I buy some cheap solar panels in a few years, I’ll think of it as repayment of the war debt from over half of a century ago. In the meantime, German citizens are being bilked to support a green-dream that, if left to itself, would probably have produced the same results a few years later at a much lower cost to the average person.
Liberals need lessons in economics.