Contrary to propaganda from the environmentalist community, we are not running out of oil. We are suffering from the lack of drilling and exploring because we are under a moratorium until 2012 that prohibits drilling in places like ANWR, the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of America. While we are sitting on our hands and seeing oil prices rocket through the atmosphere, China and now Nigeria, are acquiring leases to drill for that oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
It as been estimated that between ANWR, the Gulf of Mexico and off shore sites, we have approximately 112 billion barrels of oil. This could sustain 60 million automobiles for 60 years. The untold story is the fact that in North Dakota, Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado we have somewhere between 800 billion to 2 trillion barrels of oil in the oil shale fields. In addition to all of this we have coal and the ability to turn that into gas. So why are we not using our wonderful minds and technological abilities to do something with all these possibilities? Why do we fail to realize that our path to energy independence involves short, medium and long term solutions that will be costly to both the producers and the consumers?
The reason for this lack of planning and development is the alliance between the environmentalist and their Progressive partners in government. Take a look at an observation made by Glenn Johnson of the AP Online, "McCain has long expressed a belief in global warming, arguing that even if he is wrong, acting as if the planet's temperature were increasing would only benefit the environment if scientists subsequently proved he was mistaken." How many gazillion dollars will he have spent on this asinine project? A host of scientists are already proving that not only is it possible that global warming/climate change is a hoax, but we might very well be at the beginning of a cooling period because in January of 2008, the sun went quiet and there was no sunspot activity. This is a regular occurrence on the part of the sun.
The environmentalists, supported by their terrorist friends ALF and ELF, are directly responsible for the energy problems we have. They have no proof to sustain their claims whether it be global warming, climate change or the disappearance of spotted owls. Most importantly these folks are not really concerned with the environment they are anti-capitalist and are supporters of big government. Thus they are willing to work with those politicians, including the three presidential candidates, to create a fascists nation here in America and expand said programs to globalism with the UN in charge. At least temporarily.
Now you might ask why do the Progressives ally with these folks. Your first guess might be that the Progressives are concerned with protecting the rights of the minority and based on current political polls these folks are truly a minority voice. But that is not the case. By sidling up to the environmentalists, the Progressives look to be thoughtful and concerned but more importantly it allows them to play identity politics and once again split the American people so that we fight one another and the Progressives sit back and laugh while taking the power to govern unto themselves. Oil just becomes another item of another war that America must wage and therefore we must huddle around our government and give it more power to fight yet another disaster.
