Blood shooting from my eyes!
I saw the Schwitzer interview but did not see all of it. I first read about this in Diesel Power Magazine over a year ago. I was wondering what was holding up this program and now I know. I thought that maybe it had to do with strip or open pit mining of the coal. Glenn Beck also recently mentioned the drilling off Florida by China.
China is building 2 coal fired power plants a week, Europe has 30 in the works and France... FRANCE... gets 70 percent of their electricity from NUCLEAR! But not in America. Any wonder that China was excluded from the Kyoto Accord!!!!!
I do not think we can drill/pump oil in this country and expect to pay less than the world market. A cap on oil prices was tried in the 80s with terrible results - no exploration or drilling - no incentive! Some of the current price we are seeing in oil, corn, soybeans, etc. is due to speculators in the commidities market. With oil it also has to do with world demand surpassing world supply and the devaluing of our dollar. And this will not go away! China and Indina are purchasing a million cars a year (or month, I do not remember). Every administration since Nixon has promised that they would get America energy independent. None has delivered! In fact we are now more dependent than ever!
Alternative fuels would be sooo... good for our country. And not just for energy independence, which is very important. But also for ALL the jobs that it would create.
I am going to say some things here that many may not agree with. I truly believe that liberals want to destroy the USA that I know, love and served. They will definitely say that they do not but I judge people by their actions and outcomes of their policies and not by what they say. And they must dislike the poor as well because their policies hurt them the most. Some examples may help here: Federal Deficit spending, Federal Debt, War on Poverty, Alar, DDT, Kyoto Accord, no drilling for oil, no nuclear power plants, no new refineries, no alternative fuels, Global Warming, Ethanol Program, Carbon tax, restrictive regulation, suing in court to stop anything they do not agree with, Cap and Trade Bill, etc., etc., etc.
A little history may help here as well. In the not too distant past an obscure lackluster former army corporal was ELECTED Prime Minister and later GIVEN power as Supreme Chancellor of his country. He then started to purge and cleanse his country of any "undesireables" - all with the consent and support of the people of his country. And he was the "darling" of the liberals in this country, America, until what he was doing to the Jews leaked out! Who was this? For those of you who do not know by now - it was Hitler!
For a democracy or a republic, as America is, to succeed requires an educated and informed public. In America, we no longer have a majority of either. Our children are no longer educated in public school or college they are indoctrinated! In our colleges Marxism is praised, "From those who are able, to those in need." Anyone experienced this?! And the 4 major news networks (ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN) do not inform, they spew propaganda. And you only know this if you are listening to conservative tv or listening to conservative radio to get the rest or other side of the story. When a news agency does not report THE NEWS but instead reports what fits their agenda by cutting and clipping that is not news - it is propaganda.
So this is what we are up against in this country now - in every area - not just energy. And I am not optimistic. Governments do not solve problems (they mostly create them) - inventors and entrepreneurs do - when "allowed to" by their government.
Pray for our country. Pray for revival.
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