A Crude Posting
on 04/14/2008 at 08:05 AM
So, what do you think is going to happen? Will someone finally get their butt off the pot and get something done? We’ll need a local refinery or two for this field. Build it. We’ll need quite a lot of pipeline. Build them. I’ve been listening to the hot air coming out of government for almost 40 years about our “energy policy”. Alternate fuels, alternate sources, clean coal, hydrogen power, advancing technology through research, blah blah blah blah BLAH. Times up. FORTY YEARS worth of expensive research. Well, here’s a liquid goldmine, hiding under some of the roughest and least inhabited parts of our nation. GET TO WORK. Take two weeks of spending away from the “War on Terror”, the “War on Drugs”, and “No Child Left Behind” and you’ll have plenty of money to spend on it. I’m all for private business, but maybe, just maybe, “energy” is something that ought to be nationalized? Sound off folks!
Drew, at whom are you directing your complaint?
Take two weeks of spending away from the “War on Terror”, the “War on Drugs”, and “No Child Left Behind” and you’ll have plenty of money to spend on it.
You say this all in one sentence, lumping “War on Terror” and “No Child Left Behind” in with “War on Drugs”. Surely you know those entities come from different sources. Nor has the Terrorist problem or recent initiatives to actually teach kids something been around sucking up resources (tax money) for the last forty years.
Building refineries and pipelines? You seem to lump that problem in with ‘the government’. Lumping the legislation against building refineries in with “War on Terror” is a very oversimplified statement. The legislation which has functionally barred the building of any new refineries in the U. S. has been in place for some thirty-five years now and is part and parcel of the Democrat (leftist, destroy the US) policy of using ‘environmental’ concerns to block industry and progress.
The political cartoon shown pretty well sums it up without really identifying the source of the problem – but it’s clear to anyone watching who is blocking things.
So yes, let’s build some refineries and a pipeline. But to do so, we (the U. S.) are going to have to revisit and re-write some ‘environmental’ laws crippling the U. S. industry and economy. To do that, we are either going to have vote out enough Democrats so they can’t block things, or somehow obtain their cooperation. Frankly, voting the antis out strikes me as problematic, but ultimately easier than obtaining ‘cooperation’.
Nationalize Energy? Bite thy Tongue, varlet!
Absolutely the very best way to screw up most anything is to make it a government program. That is a given, bunky.
Private enterprise is capable of solving all problems of logistics and consumer matters – as long as the government leaves it alone to function. Historically, the government has screwed up all sorts of industry by ‘regulation’ and that includes the government mandates for monopolies in the past. The problems of the railroad and various utilities could be avoided by removing government controls of monopoly.
That cartoon pretty well said everything that can BE said. Until we tell the ecoloons to STFU in no uncertain terms, we’re screwed. I’ll buy stock in the company that wins the contract. Right now.
Archie - I know all that. And I know its been the greenies who are keeping us back. But some of the other articles on this have cried about the expense, and oh, it can’t be done because there’s no pipeline. So maybe a few billion in government seed money could help things, and of course you have to rob Peter to pay Paul. Because the oil companies are all going broke, doncha know.
The best run department the government ever had was the Post Office. They ran it like a business and hardly lost a cent. Then some dingdong came out with the idea for bulk mailing discounts, and around the same time the rules got changed so they were no longer fiscally accountable. Now it’s a mess. Sure, they move a lot of mail, but 2/3 of it is junk that nobody wants, and it gets moved at a loss. So the price has gone from a nickel when I was a kid up to 41 cents today. But ... under the old rules, it was a well run department. Couldn’t that happen again?
OK, let’s see what private energy does about this. Probably NOTHING. Because their hands are tied. Lets’ untie them. All of them. Anwar: yes - screw the caribou, they don’t vote. Nukes: yes!! Offshore FL drilling- yes!!! Windfarms, solar fields, clean coal - yes!
Work on alternative sources that make at least some sense, which excludes ethanol, and at the same time ramp up acquisition and exploitation of the resources we do have.Uh huh, that cartoon (another ace job by Ramirez) is just too perfect. Solve the problem by unshackling the industry. So we might have to take a step backwards for a while enviromentally. But it doesn’t have to be a huge step. It isn’t an all or nothing thing. I personally volunteer to shoot a couple endangered owls if it will help get the US more independant from the Middle East.
Indeed. Ah, but have you not seen the bacterium that turns produce waste into petroleum? There’s another one for an alternative.
Then there are the damn Indians. What will they say if it’s on their land? All these bullshit treaties we have with them....
Why is it everyone goes after the proverbial apples and oranges argument? Oh, yeah so that once again nothing can get done, ever.
Forget screwing the GWOT or No Child Left Behind - those (to each their own) are viable and important gov programs - start with the earmarks and pork - the true gov waste - I bet when you add a few outdated subsidies still riding the books (why ever do you think that the line item veto was done away with?!?) - there would be plenty of money.
Why not a panel (and yes include an eviro wacko or two - just pick one of the more sane ones) - to see if indeed (as I believe) that many of these ‘alternative’ energy sources are in the crapper because they are crap (I still believe that the free market system - would never, ever pass by a really workable innovation).
I do believe also, that one of the reasons that this is not persued properly is that the $$$ benefits (and subsidies and kickbacks) to keep the oil #1 are really higher and greater than we even imagine.
And in addition to the eco wackos wanting to throw America back into the stone age to save the speckled back grousing bird - the left wants deeply to destroy America and the American free economy system - and if two of the largest oil fields in the World belong to America - well that just would not do.
Term Limits people - We The People need to take back our government and this would be the first step.
Thanks for the reply, Drew.
You realize the Post Office went to heck in a bag AFTER it was ‘freed’ from being a government entity? It has been a government endorsed monopoly for some years now. And I agree, at one time they were a well run organization - and now are a junk delivery system. Idiots.
Back to energy. Which really means, what to do about the leftygreeniewackoenvironmentalistnoncomposmentis faction in Congress? Sadly, under current laws, we can’t shoot them and the ‘media’ presents them as heroic and wise. We can only keep up the work of education via the internet and hope the American people get the message and start voting with their brains instead of their ‘feelings’.
I’d be for term limits if they were really term limits. A maximum number of years in all elected positions; not just a maximum in this job and then another maximum in that job and so forth. And if I could get it passed, I’d bar anyone who is a lawyer or ever has been a lawyer from voting or holding public office - especially judgeships.
“I’d bar anyone who is a lawyer or ever has been a lawyer from voting or holding public office - especially judgeships.”
Now that is sound advice!
Isnt that whole lawyer thing kinda like saying, if there is an accident on the road and people are hurt and need attention, that anyone who was or is a doctor can not help on the scene?
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