When I say...
Well Larry, perhaps big oil and the Greenies are in cahoots, but if they are certainly the politicians in washington who are constantly turnlng down drilling in ANWR and other places are also in on the deal.
We need refineries and we need to reopen some of those wells we plugged off when foreign oil got so cheap.
IMO we are getting screwed by these people and I would suppose it wont stop until we are economically dead in the water or we go to Capitol Hill with pitchforks and storm the friggin bastille.
WE need to throw out every POS incumbent on the Hill. We already know their record and it sucks. Stop being bought off by Pork and vote to get rid of these shysters.
...corporations and interest groups are for something, such as not drilling for oil domestically, I mean to include their politicians, which should go without saying.
Look an ANWR; an erstwhile sovereign state is forbidden to exploit it's own resource! It is said that there is much natural gas in the US and close off shore and there are no 'accidents' with natural gas; it evaporates. The problem from the green view, the desire to prohibit this is the nasty habit of natural gas deposits being somewhat hand in hand with oil, so, exploiting the gas exposes a given area to inevitable oil exploitation.
I mean, look how great the scope of our energy picture; green people are terrified of drilling for oil domestically or exploiting coal or nuclear or natural gas. They are all for the next logical step; foreign dependence.
Next up, energy companies. Oil and gas and coal people have no interest for nuclear to be developed. The domestic coal people are happy; we use it. The oil companies are happy as long as they are free to import. So, there is a second wall against domestic oil and gas and, obviously, nuclear.
Next up, you and me. Some of us are all aboard with the greens and the 'do something' attitude about man made global warming. Some of us are pro business and don't like to see mandates as to 'eco' friendly anything as we see that as fascism and socialism and the inherent inefficiencies and assault on free markets.
That puts this huge wall against domestic reliance and nuclear and limits on imports. So, everything we do points towards a national interest in foreign oil. Tough to man the barricades when, at the end of the day, we're only fighting ourselves.
So, we have troops dying for oil in Iraq while we're making our enemies rich and providing artificial impetus for solutions, green technologies, in search of a problem that doesn't exist; actual energy shortages in current resources.
Nothing is going to stop China and India from economic expansion, so, fossil WILL be used regardless of what we want.
We will spend enormous sums of money building alternatives that can not, absent the rest of the world following suit, do a damn thing about global warming even in Al's sweetest dreams and greatest distortions of science.
And here sits all these domestic resources as we provide people like Iran and Saudi and Venezuela the money to do, well, whatever they please.
Pretty crazy, huh?
