Posted by
Squire Bentley on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 12:43:44 PM
The day after I published my blog on the oil crisis out comes some general agreement and support to what I have said. And the big point no one should miss is that the high price of oil and gas at the pump is deliberate, deliberate government policy to make us give up fossil fuels COLD TURKEY, with devastating effects to the economy which is already in a banking/mortgage crisis and absolutely horrendous effects on the average American worker many of whom are now putting gas purchases on credit cards they never will repay.
QUOTE #1
"I have got to admit: As each day goes by, I am growing angrier over the debate about oil prices. Elites pontificate that if we simply let the prices rise, the country will be forced to develop alternate energy sources. People will drive less and use less fuel, and that would benefit the environment."
"I use the word pontificate deliberately, because the tone is often condescending—as if they were telling a young child to “eat your vegetables.” Hand-in-hand with the pontification is a stubborn resistance to looking for new sources of domestic oil production, either onshore or offshore, or in Alaska."
"The implicit message is that allowing such drilling would interfere with the lesson that the American people need to learn."
"Ok, we have got to conserve more; I agree. And we have got to find alternatives to foreign oil. But, in the meantime, the “lessons” the elites are seeking to teach us are killing the world’s economy. And nobody feels the pain more than working-class Americans and the poor."
"Historian Victor Davis Hanson recently wrote about talking with some people at a rural gas station in central California. These people could not afford a “new fuel-efficient” car, and “they were now spending a day or two of their wages just to fuel their cars for their long rural commutes.”
"As Hanson put it, the “truly ethical and environmental solution would require embracing positions long considered anathema” to our elites. “Fairness to the poor and middle class” means lowering oil prices, not raising them as part of some social engineering scheme"
"At this point, people object that increased drilling will do nothing to lower gas prices. They insist it will be decades, if not longer, before the increased exploration pays off in new supplies."
"l, they are wrong: Before the moratorium on offshore drilling, oil companies had already discovered billions of barrels of reserves on the California coast. A friend of mine in the industry says they could be online and pumping within two years."production would quickly lower prices at the pump—because traders would be convinced that the supply is going up, not down."
"Nobody would benefit more from offshore drilling than working Americans—those being hurt the most by the status quo. "
"It is galling to me to watch people who, doubtless, live in large homes, fly in private planes, and are not affected by the price of gas, build their idea of utopia on the backs of the poor."
Chuck Colson
QUOTE #2
"This immediate danger is eclipsed only by the long-term threat from climate change, which will lead to devastating weather patterns, terrible storms, drought, and famine. That means people competing for food and water in the next fifty years in the very places that have known horrific violence in the last fifty: Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. Most disastrously, that could mean destructive storms on our shores, and the disappearance of our coastline. "
"This is not just an economic issue or an environmental concern – this is a national security crisis. For the sake of our security – and for every American family that is paying the price at the pump – we must end this dependence on foreign oil. And as President, that’s exactly what I’ll do. Small steps and political gimmickry just won’t do. I’ll invest $150 billion over the next ten years to put America on the path to true energy security. This fund will fast track investments in a new green energy business sector that will end our addiction to oil and create up to 5 million jobs over the next two decades, and help secure the future of our country and our planet. We’ll invest in research and development of every form of alternative energy – solar, wind, and biofuels, as well as technologies that can make coal clean and nuclear power safe. And from the moment I take office, I will let it be known that the United States of America is ready to lead again."
Barack Obama 7/15/08
QUOTE #3 - A SPOOF
Subject: Oback Arama and Drilling
"Frankly, I am disappointed that the price of gasoline has risen as rapidly as it has. I would have preferred a more gradual increase to current levels. I support a gradual increase in price to the price paid in European countries in the range of $9 to $10 per gallon. That will constrict demand so that people will switch to driving golf carts to work and to grandma's house."
"Yes, it's true that high gas prices will hurt the middle class the most but it's time they learned that the world is sick and tired of our using so much energy and the middle class just needs to get over it. Yes, yes, I know that Democrat policies have caused the high prices that are destroying the auto industry and the trucking industry and the US economy in general but our standing in the eyes of the world will increase dramatically if we reduce our use of energy. I am counting on the fact that the unions will still support me and those boz.. irr... aaah workers will still vote for me and when they do, I will get new and better and more ethical jobs for them in green industries that the auto workers and teamsters will love."
"The right is so ignorant about the laws of supply and demand. Just because you increase supply by drilling doesn't mean that prices will come down, at least that's what my advisors keep telling me, not to mention the Democrat brain trust in Congress and the Senate. When As president, I promise to use sound Democrat laws of supply and demand such as: confiscating obscene profits from oil companies, continued prohibition of drilling in sensitive areas, and Department of Justice investigations of oil company price gouging."
"You can have hope that I will change these things and others to bring us to policies that will make us feel good about ourselves. Riding in golf carts is change that works for me and change that I can use. Can you use that kind of hope and change?"
"Yes we can! Yes we can! Yes we can!"
I"'m Oback Arama and I approved this message".
by Stefano
People have written in and asked me why I did not mention that Speculators were driving up the price of oil and why did I not come out in favor of regulating them so that they cannot do that.
And the answer is that they would take the whole Speculation Stock Market and move it overseas. Prohibition doesn't work on any of the vices. But the way to break the back of the specualtors would be:
#1 - Dump all the national oil reserve on the market at one time (of course you would have to admit that casual effect of supply and demand). That would bring about an immediate short term price fall which would bankrupt the Speculators.
#2 - Aggresively pursue a policy of drilling for oil and mean it. Speculators would then be putting their money on the price of oil going down and that would remove all that part of the high price of oil which is due to speculation ( Speculators believe in the law of supply and demand also).
Lastly let me say that man made Global Warming is a religion with its proponents. However, since there is no 100% agreement on tthe authenticity of this belief (contrary to what Global Warmists will tell you), then it is really poor government policy to be implementing programs on the basis of faith. It's a hoax and junk science which cannot be proved so it is being accepted on faith and preached as the new religion of the left. It has a close analogy to The Apocalypse, Second Coming, And the End of Times. It's message parallels the preacher's hell and damnation oratory in instilling fear in the populace.
As a religion its dogma takes precedence over any human suffering. And so we have government induced high oil prices, government induced collapsing economy, government induced financial distress. The evil American high energy consumer must suffer to cleanse his soul through the new religion of Global Warming thereby reconciling himself with all of humanity. God save us from such tripe.!!