Posted by
Phillyfanatic(KGK) on Friday, May 30, 2008 4:25:51 PM
OK, I want to rant about gas-oil prices. I want to go back 30-45 years. Back then , many people were urging Congress, of course, run by Democrats, to drill for oil, build nuclear plants and use coal. Well, the Nixon years , with Dems leading Congress drew up the EPA. We all knew that pollution was a problem. We also, who were real conservationists, not the faux Greenies who want to just destroy all of human progress to save the blood worm, wanted to restore and keep national heritage homes, estates et al. Then too, there was the new OPEC group which supposedly was to regulate oil and gas production worldwide. That the Arabs were the real power there though I am sure America and England thought it would be, was never factored in. But, some wanted energy independence. Believe it or not, Nixon did. As far back as the '60's. Of course, emotive liberals started to cry about climate, cars, oil and gas companies and a movie, the China Syndrome and a Russian accident began to be taught in our universities that free enterprise capitalism was evil and that Government should take over the energy companies. Well not yet as of then but Maxine Waters, a black socialist pacifist Democrat from Los Angeles recently blurted out that oil and gas and perhaps more industries should be nationalized. By now, 2008, we are being pushed by Warner, Lieberman , Obama , Clinton, Leahy, Reid, Pelosi, even ole John McCain that we need clean energy and boy howdy we should not even drill in the area of Anwar. Oh the humanity. It is time to scream and yell on a daily level. Bills in Congress are starting to blend to stop any energy exploration or drilling or building of new plants, nuclear, gas cracking plants and even wussy Republicans are throwing in the towell. It has to stop. There are gazillions of barrels of oil in and off the shores of America. We have coal. We can build nuclear plants. McCain and the Pubs should run on that energy platform and we the voters who are paying the cost should pressure all politicians to start drilling NOW.