| Wow! Thanks for posting that, but where do you start? I guess the first thing is how can you ask Americans to worry about a crisis that Americans are inventing? How can you restrict the use of nuclear power, restrict oil exploration, refuse building permits for refineries, and then catterwall about shortages when the shortages are all of our own doing and within our control to correct?
Second, Carter, like lots of his ilk, were sure we would be running out of oil by now. Instead we have Brazil finding fields to rival those of the Saudis, it's looking like there's a lot more oil under Iraq than has been thought, oil shale in the US can give us oil for the next 60 years alone! He cites that domestic oil production was falling and imports were up, and going to get higher, but never explains that this has nothing to do with our oil running out and everything to do with making more money off oil. All the dire predictions that Carter made about oil running out were based on faulty science and 100% wrong... kinda like man-made global warming is today.
And why is that whenever a Democrat talks about "comprehensive energy policy", it seems to always consist of no nuclear and higher milage requirements and that's about it? Carter talks about the need to use more coal, but then the Democrats block coal-fired power plants. He speaks of the need to use less fossil fuels, but restricts nuclear power plants.
And how about his great idea of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. What the heck has that done for us? Everytime we have an energy crisis, we're told we can't use the petroleum reserve because if a crisis occurs we won't have it. That's some serious pretzel logic. |