HERE & NOW!

If you haven't already seen it, check out the following article from the Sacramento Union newspaper last month. Some very poignant remarks in the later half of the column.

http://www.sacunion.com/pages/columns/print/9951/

I say, “Drill Here, Drill Now”. If the estimates are even close to accurate for the amounts of natural resources available to us within our own territory, the USA could become a net exporter in 6 to 7 years once ANWR drilling, continental shelf oil and natural gas drilling, and shale-oil recovery are fully online. If the liberal knuckleheads will wake up to reality.

What about alternative fuels you ask?

Does ethanol cost less at the pump that standard gasoline/petrol? Nope. The stations I've purchased it at charge exactly the same price for each.

We need electric and hybrid cars you say... Great! :-) I've been to my local dealers... they don't have any to sell. :-( They are all going to the big 8 emissions control states like California. So I'm stuck with good 'ol fossil fuels.

The money the oil companies would spend to develop those drilling and recovery sites should be put into development of alternative power you say? Great. Build more nuclear power plants. "OH NO! We couldn't do that!" the tree hugger cries out in reply. "They aren't safe! What about 3 mile island?!?" Dude, Three Mile Island happened in 1979. That's almost 30 years ago! The Commodore-64 didn't even exist then. Technology has changed and improved. We have safe nuclear power operating in the USA already, why not build more?

What about wind-power and hydro-electric you ask? Wind-power isn't cost effective. The cost of the amount of land needed to build enough windmill operations to provide any significant power output, combined with the cost to maintain the giant machines far outweighs any benefit. The studies have been done... it just doesn't add up to an effective use of resources.

And hydro? We've got it where we can... but again, tree huggers prevent the building of additional dams for power generation. Because the resevoirs created behind the dams disrupt the natural surroundings. So what can we do?

Only by fully utilizing our available natural resources can we supplement alternative power and fuel methods and become independent of foreign interests! It's that word "supplement" that's the key. We need to drill now! The Democrats say 'it will take 6+ years to realize the benefit if we start drilling now'...? Okay. And your point is??? Doesn't that mean we should START NOW!?!

And what about the Democrat's poster child for ecological affairs, the inventor of the internet, Mr. Al Gore? Did you know, in his 2000 book “Earth in the Balance,” former Vice President Al Gore advocated increasing energy taxes on consumers to decrease the incentive to pollute. Seven years earlier, in 1993, Gore cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate to increase the federal gas tax to 18.4 cents, where it stands today.

Good ‘ol Al is laughing all the way to the bank… As seen on CapitalResearch.Org, Noel Sheppard of NewsBusters reports that Al Gore’s investment firm, Generation Investment Management (GIM) has acquired a significant stake in a firm that deals in carbon credits, confirming once again that Al Gore is a global warming profiteer. According to Thomson Financial, GIM acquired a 9.5% interest in Camco International Ltd., a carbon asset developer.

Can you spell "Hypocrite"??? I know you can.

I think I'll vote for a Republican and take my chances.