Message For McCain, Harsh Words To Follow

A great editorial from the Wall Street Journal this morning. Target audience, the Arizona Senator who thinks ANWR is just like the Grand Canyon, the reasoning is mostly nonsensical, the article closes with a blunt message --

Recent weeks have seen some GOP stirrings on Capitol Hill, but John McCain has so far refused to jettison his green posturings, such as his belief in carbon caps and his animus against offshore development. A good reason for a rethink would be $4 gas. At present, it is charitable to call Mr. McCain's energy ideas incoherent, and it may cost him the election.

Amid $135 oil, it ought to be an easy, bipartisan victory to lift the political restrictions on energy exploration and production. Record-high fuel costs are hitting consumers and business like a huge tax increase. Yet the U.S. remains one of the only countries in the world that chooses as a matter of policy to lock up its natural resources. The Chinese think we're insane and self-destructive, while the Saudis laugh all the way to the bank.

The whole of the 'shortage is politically contrived, to try and make people think 'peak oil'. There is no peak oil, there is plenty of oil worldwide, in particular in the US, there is just political roadblocks and obstructions put up by the Democrat Marxists preventing recovery and refining. The left has been hard at work for thirty years preventing drilling, preventing building new refineries, prevent nuclear power plant construction, in fact doing all they can to prevent construction of new coal power plants.

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About 72% of all US energy is domestically supplied or produced, the rest is imported, mostly transport fuels. There are enough energy sources in the US for 100% domestic production, there is no need to send billions, no hundreds of billions of dollars to terror states -- None whatsoever.

The crap about energy independence is just another lie told by the left to control the economy. Do you know how much coal the US has that can be used for energy production? Do you know how clean our coal power plants are compared to other nations? Did you know that electricity is the dominate energy in the US, which can easily be produced with no CO2 discharge and much cheaper than any other? Nuclear produced electric power is about 1.3 the next best alternative. The Environmental Marxists are doing all they can to drive that cost up with various roadblocks, nonsense requirements and other legal means.

All for the worshippers of the God Gaia. Your life is empty without a God to worship, so the Envirommneatl Marxists invented their own.