The Plan Is Out

Praise be the truth is out! Yesterday, Maxine Waters, a representative from California and sympathizer of Fidel Castro, told the world that if the oil companies did not promise to lower gas prices for consumers if the companies were allowed to drill wherever they wanted she would press for government takeover of said companies. There is no longer any doubt where the Democratic Party stands. As of 7:46 AM this morning no Democrat from the committee, indeed no Democrat from anywhere in the party has stepped forward to denounce Maxine.

Ms. Waters simply revealed what is and has been going on within the Democrat Party for a long time. Those who have read their history and have paid attention to what is going on in this nation are not surprised by the blatant takeover statement that was made. Our supposed leaders have been taking us down the path to socialism/nationalism for the past century particularly during Democrat administrations.

There is no doubt that we have an energy problem. Congress wants to blame it on the oil companies allegeded price fixing. Time and time again they bring the CEOs of the oil companies before their silly committees to get face time and time and time again they have found nothing to indicate there is wrong doing. That is because they have failed to look in the proper place. The greatest wrong doing will not be found in the closets of the oil companies executives, it will be found in the closets of the likes of Maxine Waters and the dastardly deed can be summed up in one word, regulation.

The regulations placed on the oil companies are not the sole reason for the high price of oil but I would argue that they are a major contributor. Regulations that keep them from drilling for gas and oil off our coasts while China is drilling in the Gulf possibly horizontally and thus grabbing product that might rightfully be ours. Regulations that are so prohibitive that oil companies do not want to build refineries. Regulations that prohibit us from building nuclear plants that in and of itself could have a tremendous affect on so called carbon footprints given that such a thing really exists and is really harmful. Regulations that require some 26 blends of gas and retooling at least twice a year. Why do we have all these blends? Why wouldn't we have the best blend for the entire country? Aren't all of us entitled to the best air quality?

Then there is the question will conservation give us cheap prices? If we indeed move toward a 30mpg target for car mileage what will happen? I believe we will not only see smaller and less safe cars, we will also see higher gas prices because oil companies have an obligation to their stockholders. We use less gas or power the price will go up. If you check you will see that since we have been in conservation mode in this country energy prices have gone through the roof and they will continue to do so unless we get a real energy plan into place and recognize that what we must do is use things like solar and wind power as supplemental power.

Yesterday, May 27, 2008, it was announced that coal, we have an abundance of it, was going to be turned into jet fuel for the Air Force. Other nations, including Japan the only country to be struck with a nuclear weapon, use nuclear power plants. Why don't we? I remember a 7th grade assembly where a representative of General Electric used a sun lamp to show us the future, a solar car. Where is it? Why don't we have it? Could it be cost? Could it be cloudy days say here in Pennsylvania when your car might not run all that well?

The sad part of all of this is that this debate should have been going on in the 1970's during the Carter Administration and our first messy gas lines. Carter established the Energy Department and then went on with his business of not governing. Least you think I am too partisan let me state that every administration since Carter has steered away from making us less dependent on foreign oil. But the real person to blame can be found every day when we look in the mirror.

We have a candidate running for the office of President who just the other day condemned us for our consumption. According to Senator Obama, we should not be allowed to drive our SUVs thus telling us what cars we can buy. We eat to much thus it is our fault that others are starving. We, that leader of the free world, we the first people to step up to assist in every disaster in the world, we are looking at a socialist who would be president and who already has an admitted comrade in arms in the House of Representatives and Maxine isn't the only one there.