Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Gasoline, Oil, Democrats, and Insanity

Democrat insanity continues on gasoline.  It continues to be mind boggling that the putblc will actually VOTE for these people.  (I realize the problem is that it is just as mind boggling that the public will actually vote for many of the people who call themselves Republicans).  For the public to let politicians get away with this ida that we can't do anything about the price of goasoline and oil mkaes us no better than lemmings throwing ourselves into the sea.  If you look at the enmtries in this blog over the past week, you KNOW that there are many things we can do about the price of oil WITHOUT CENTRAL PLANNING COECION.  

For leftistt Democrats, of course, the whole point is abut Federal Government coercion.  For them, it is not about reducing the price of gasoline.  For them, it is about POWER (not energy power, but political power and imposing their own agenda of the Federal Government taking over the energy industry--at least in terms of controlling it for leftist purposes).  Leftists regard the price of gasoline as nothing more than a route to more POWER for themselves and their own political agenda of more and more POWER in the Federal  Govrenment.  Foir them, power in the Federal Government is the same as power for themselves.

This entry is not a direct continuation of the series of entries exposing he insanity of Democrat oil "policies" by using Senator Dorgan as an example.  However, it fits right into that series.  I saw another Democratic spokesman on Hannity and Colmes last night, for the 15-30 seconds I watched.  It was more than enough.

In those 30 seconds, this leftist Democrat managed to repeat the same insane mantra that Anwar drilling will take 10 years and that "we" can't "drill ourselves out of this problem".

Again, how can ANYONE vote for ANY of thiese people?  The DECEPTION here, and the SOCIALIST/COMMUNIST agenda, is so obvious as to represent a blow by a 2 by 4 across the head.  If the public is not payhing attention, they are lemmings indeed.

The "we" this DEmocrat was talking about was the FEDERAL GOVERFNMENT.  For leftist Democrats, as I stated, this is all about getting more more for the Federal Government.  Yet, our country was founded on the CORRECT principle of a LIMITED Federal Government, and upon a FREE market system.  The whole idea of that system is that the FREE MARKET will eventuallyattract resources into the appropriate places--both as to oil and as to alternatives to oil.  The idea that the Federal Government can DIRECT the way the free market operates is a perverse denial of history, and of the very principles upon which this country was founded.

Leftist Democrats were saying the SAME things 10 years ago.  We COULD hve been drilling in Anwar NOW (not to mention it will only take 10 yuears, if it does, because of leftist/environmentalist OBSTRUCTION).  Is it not an INDICTMENT of Democrats to be talking about 10 years from NOW being TOO LATE?  Of course it is.  You should be able to imagine them saying the same thing then years from NOW.  That they are saying 10 years will be TOO LONG is NOT a "defense" of their position, but a conclusive indictment of it.  The REASON we have to wait that long is because Democrats made these SAME arguments 10 years ago.

Further, it is NOT "we" who will be drilling.  It is private copanies using THEIR money.   For leftist Democrats, of course, that money is THEIRS (the Democrats'), to use in the way the DEMOCRATS want to direct it be used).  It is DECEPTION to suggest that public money is being used either way.  That merely suggest that our entire economy, and the money of ALL of us, BELONGS to the Federal Government, and to leftists, to use to DIRECT our whole economy by use of coercive CENTRAL PLAINNING.  That, of course, is exactly what leftist Democrats believe.  However, it is false; it flies directly in the face of history; and it betrays the principles upon which this country was founded.

The question NO Democrat is answering is WHY NOT allow PRIVATE drilling in a very small section of Anwar (a very small section of the entire "prinstine" wilderness of ice and snow)?  Democrats do not answer that question, because they can't.  The answer is that lettist Democrats do not WANT lower gasoline prices.  They do not WANT us to produce more oil.  They want the POWER to DIRECT our entire energy industiry, and our entire economy in general, the way THEY want it to go.

Thus, in that 30 seconds, the Democrat Congressman on Hannity and Colmes managed to suggest an "Apollo program" (Kennedy program to get us to the moon, which actgually did nothing for space exploration in the end--we cant even get to the moon TODAY) to "wean" us off oil.  Do you need any more evidence that leftist Democrats do not WANT us to use gasoline?  Therefore, they do not WANT the price of gasoline to drop.  Do you need any more evidence that Democrats want to CONTROL the entire energy industry, and that they regard all of the money in that industry (as well as any money the rest of us have) as THEIRS, to use for THEIR goals?

Finally, this Democrat kept repeating that Democrat mantra that we can't "drill ourselves" out of this problem--AS IF allowing PRIVATE drilling menat that we could not do anything else.  As I have suggested, the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT should IMMEDIATELY cut its use of gasoline, oil, and energy 20%.  Do you hear leftist Democrats saying anything about cutting demand that way, and challenging private employers to do the same.  Of course not.  That is because leftist Democrats are about COERCION--preferably DECEPTIVE COERCION undertaken in a way the public does not realize what is going on (because the COERCION does not seem to be directly aimed at the public).

As I have said, to even say that we "cant' drill ouselves out of this problem" is so stupid as to disqualify anyone who says it from public office.   It begs the question. Whether or not drilling can fully "solve" our problem, the question is whether "we" should LET private industry drill for more oil (at the same time that "conservation" is occurring, from which Democrats EXCLUDE the Federal Government, even thout the Federal Government should be LEADING by example).   It is NOT any kind of answer to allowing drilling--drilling which would NOT have any adverse effects on the environment--to suggest that we should be doing other things.  We CAN do other things, IF they are economic (which presently they are mainly not), AND let private companies produce more oil.

Remember when "oil shale" (in the Rocky Mountains) was going to be the "answer" to our energy problem?  I do.  There are TRILLIONS of barrels of oil trapped in that rock.  It used to be suggested, and still is in non-leftist quarters,  that there is enough oil there to take care of our energy needs for HUNDREDS of years.  At these oil prices, it is even econmic to produce some of it.  But "we" will no longer LET that be done, because of the ENVIRONMENTALISTS.   What would make more snese:  an "Apollo project" to produce and environmentally safe (as to the extraction--not as to the USE of the oil, which is really where leftists are now coming from) or an "Apollo project" to develop iffy "alternative energy" sources?  The shale oil would actually make more sense, if we were REALLY interested in becoming "energy independent", as leftists are NOT (except as a political weapon to coerce people into giving them control of the energy industry).  Of oucrse, the GOVERNMENT should NOT be directing EITHER the "shale oil" solution OR the "alternative energy" solution.  The government should be ENCUORAGING the free market to properly allocate our resources.

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