Monday, April 25, 2011

Obama Clueless on Energy

The ridiculous conclusion of Barack Obama to ignore the huge amount of oil we still have in this country and off our coasts, and focus on the ignorant and anemic idea of developing the darling of the left and so-called environmentalists and their mainstream media allies: renewable energy, reveals he has no energy plan. As to focus on renewable energy is another way of saying he's forsaking the present, as renewable energy will probably never be able to meet the growing energy needs of the world, and definitely not in our lifetimes.

All the ignorant call for renewable energy does is attempt to make Obama look good to his political base, which has been abandoning him as he feebly attempts to move toward the center as the 2012 elections get close.

As for the high prices of oil and gas today, much of that has been brought upon us by Obama and his administration itself, as they refuse to rein in the Federal Reserve and force them to stop printing money, which is debasing the U.S. dollar and driving the price of commodities up, including oil and gas.

In an attempt to distract people from that reality, Obama announced the Justice Department is going to seek out cases where fraud or manipulation in the oil markets has driven up prices, even as his Attorney General Eric Holder says there are a number of legal reasons why gas and oil prices have gone up.

Obama said this in his weekly radio and Internet address, in reference to spending taxpayer dollars on renewable energy sources, "That's the key to helping families at the pump and reducing our dependence on foreign oil."

"Instead of subsidizing yesterday's energy sources, we need to invest in tomorrow's," he added.

There are several things wrong with this. First of all, our energy sources aren't yesterday,s, they're today's. Wasting taxpayer dollars on what will be at best a small supplemental addition to our energy supply will do nothing now, and little in the future, towards dealing with our energy needs.

Secondly, renewable energy, which while sounding good, isn't tomorrow's energy source. Experts across the board have concluded it will never meet the increasing energy needs of the world.

Finally, the key to lowering our depending on foreign oil is by digging our own, which is sitting wasting in the land and off our shores because of political correctness and the deceptive and false idea there is such a thing as global warming, which has been debunked everywhere as the climate has been cooling off for over a decade.

These are people who consider the earth their mother, or the equivalent of that, and find it outrageous that fossil fuels are being used, even though they reside in the earth.

This is why the global warming or climate change myth was created, in order to extract money from taxpayers in order to pursue a bogeyman that doesn't exist so the oil industry, and others, are weakened to the point of not being able to profitably drill for oil.

We depend on foreign oil because of the criminal laws that don't allow companies to continue to drill for the extraordinary amounts on American soil, including the proven reserves in Alaska.

Now we already have the environmental movement ramping up their lies and assertions about shale oil and gas, making it look like it'll be far worse than other types of extraction methods.

Why? Because there is so much available they're peak oil theories and realization natural gas could power America for an extraordinary long period of time, has them up in arms over the possibility pet projects, subsidies and pursuit of dubious alternative energy sources could come to a screeching halt.

Now you know why GE (GE) CEO Jeffrey Immelt was named to Obama's business committee, as he's been chasing these projects, more for the tax advantages and subsidies, than any real chance the wind turbines and solar panels will take care of our energy needs. That should be investigated thoroughly in light of the stakes we face.

Lawmakers need to get some courage and battle back against this immense waste of taxpayer dollars and time and start to tap into the energy resources we need now, not some type of wishful thinking in the future just because something is called "renewable." It may be renewable, but it's hardly a serious answer to energy issues.

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