---Democrats Continue Their Plan to Takeover the Oil Industry!---
The socialist revolution in America continues...
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Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), member of the House Appropriations Committee...."We (the government) should own the refineries. Then we can control how much gets out into the market."
Here again is the Democratic record on US energy--
Over the past 30 years:
Democrats have blocked the development of new sources of petroleum.
Democrats have blocked drilling in ANWR.
Democrats have blocked drilling off the coast of Florida.
Democrats have blocked drilling off of the east coast.
Democrats have blocked drilling off of the west coast.
Democrats have blocked drilling off the Alaskan coast.
Democrats have blocked building oil refineries.
Democrats have blocked clean nuclear energy production.
Democrats have blocked clean coal production.
Over the past 30 years Democrats have created "No Zones" for US energy exploration and development:
(Republican Senator Craig put together this map in 2006.)
As Americans pay more for gas than ever under this Congress--
Democrats continue to vote against energy development and exploration.
Yesterday, President Bush urged the Democratic Congress to lift the ban on offshore drilling in the US. Senator McCain proposed building 45 new nuclear reactors to ease the energy crunch in the US.
America is the only country that will not tap its own energy reserves but has the gall to demand foreign regimes to up their oil output.
In response to this request Democrats proposed a government takeover of the oil industry!
We're starting to see a trend here.
Maybe this was their plan all along?
Previously:
LEADING DEMOCRAT Calls For Nationalizing Oil Industry!
UPDATE: House Republican Leader John Boehner has more on the shocking Democratic announcement made on Wednesday.
Doug Ross has an excellent update on Democrats nationalizing the oil industry.
Amazing how all the rats come out once their false messiah spawns the demonization of American companies.
ReplyDelete"When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve teh poltical bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of Nature and Nature's God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requres that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation."
ReplyDeleteSometimes a little revolution is good for the soul of a nation.
They are on the losing end of this argument and are trying to change the issue. They can read the polls and the country wants to drill and drill now. This issue is a big stinker for the Dems.
ReplyDeleteAnd to think that these people consider the wiretapping of terrorist associates an unacceptable infringement of civil liberties ...
ReplyDelete... this is yet another example of cognitive dissonance on the part of the Dim Bulbs of the Dimocrat Party with regards to civil liberties ...
... in a manner reminiscent of their screaming "MY BODY, MY CHOICE" at the abortion clinic, then exclaiming "Sign Me Up!" for government health care.
What better way to control freedom-of-movement on a national scale, than to control the fuel supply for much of that movement?
This is another way the Dims seek to impose their eco/nomic morality upon us all, in a manner that makes Sharia-shilling mullahs envious ...
... a soft, cuddly fascism, but fascism nonetheless.
"What better way to control freedom-of-movement on a national scale, than to control the fuel supply for much of that movement?"
ReplyDeleteRich, you have hit the nail on the head in my view. I have long thought that the left in this country believes they can never impose their will upon us because we have been too free and too prosperous. The most insidious of their plans are to restrict freedom of movement through energy rationing and the phony "climate change" scam to inhibit American's ability to live, work and educate their children where they wish. I think the other arm of the program is to control healthcare. Once they control your movements, and where and how you may receive medical treatment, you are a slave.
Let me make something perfectly clear ...
ReplyDelete... if President Bush and the oil companies were truly the greedy SOB's their critics make them out to be, he wouldn't have launched OIF ...
... for the President, with the oil companies, would have been hip-deep in Crude-For-Food, which offered less risk and more likely -- and sustainable -- opportunities to profit.
The Prez would have probably gotten a Nobel for his "peace efforts" in this regard, as well ... with at least a respectful golf clap from his critics.
ATTN: critics -- including Bill O'Reilly:
The root of our energy problem is not conspiratorial greed ... the root is at the nexus of the laws of physics and economics.
Government needs to put the ball down, get out of the way of the play, and put its striped shirt back on ... limiting itself to enforcing honesty and integrity in business, instead of picking the winners and losers and playing the game for them.
Rich,
ReplyDeleteExcellent point. The hypocrisy is beyond shocking anymore. It is growing into outright fascism. That is two on record talking nationalization and one of Obama-trons on record.
Lets not forget the boondoggle of medicare, billions lost in scams, billions in fraud, billions in inefficient government run systems, billions wasted in education for a mediocre result.
Cavuto had an Obama-tron on his show yesterday. She of course favored nationalization. He asked a question in jest, being funny, haha, at the end of the interview.
Asking her if she would also want to nationalize media...
You can guess her funny, haha answer.
The next things they will want to nationalize is agriculture along with the airline industry.
ReplyDeleteCombine the above with nationalized health care and the Democrats will pretty much control every aspect of every citizens entire life.
I wonder when the Democrats are going to roll out their first "Five Year Plan".
wow! Atlas Shrugged is becoming a real life ..
ReplyDeleteWhere are you Ayn Rand?
A small minority of folks have suggested that the current crude price is the result of a bubble, akin to the bubbles that distorted high tech stocks 1994-2000 and housing stocks 2000-2006.
ReplyDeleteHopefully they will be proven correct. Otherwise we are in serious trouble going forward. There will be no drilling of consequence unless ANWR comes on stream. That said, if the supposed insatiable demand from China and India comes to fruition gasoline prices are definitely headed for $6and the civil unrest that comes with it in a large part of the world. We have not even touched on food prices, aided and abetted by our insane ethanol program. When we start putting food in our gas tanks we don't have an energy problem we have a priority problem.
Personally I'm in the bubble group.
Sorry, but I agree with the Dems on this one. We'll drill our country and its shores into an ecological nightmare, and gas prices will *still* go up, and we will *still* run out of oil.
ReplyDeleteOne of America's greatest blessings is its natural beauty. Another is the inventive spirit of the brilliant minds that make this country great. The future is solar power, or maybe even something better.
Consume less. Neither government involvement nor special taxes are necessary. Ride your bike or take public transport if you can, and carpool if you can't.
Sorry to be the lone dissenting hippy here, but we *have* to get off oil - and not just terrorist oil.
Consume less. Neither government involvement nor special taxes are necessary. Ride your bike or take public transport if you can, and carpool if you can't.
ReplyDeleteWhat a good little dem slave you are. Spouting the talking points of your masters. Tell me, have you ever had an original thought in your life or do you just depend on others to do you thinking for you?
Sorry, but I agree with the Dems on this one. We'll drill our country and its shores into an ecological nightmare, and gas prices will *still* go up, and we will *still* run out of oil.
ReplyDeleteEcological nightmare? Have you heard how we are so careful in our existing drilling operations, the fish congregate around the artificial reefs we call oil rigs.
Yes, we know we need to move beyond oil ... but it is nowhere near as simple as you make it sound, if we are going to maintain the prosperity that frees us to even think, much less act, in ways that respect both the planet and the human species that lives on it.
What the drilling does, is buy us the time for the transition.
Whether or not we make the transition depends upon how open the minds on ALL sides of the debate are. It will not be executed successfully if it includes a hidden agenda of socialist wealth-redistribution, as does much of the effort of the Climate Change Cult and its high priest, AlGore.
One of America's greatest blessings is its natural beauty. Another is the inventive spirit of the brilliant minds that make this country great. The future is solar power, or maybe even something better.
Even innovators have to deal with the laws of physics ... as one of them, who works with small-scale portable solar-power systems as part of my job, I know that up close and personal.
As I've said elsewhere, until some innovative soul comes up with an electrical-storage method that can be "filled up" in 15 minutes or less ... and power a vehicle for 300 or more miles without a refill ... the idea that solar power will supplant the need for oil is a mirage.
And people are spending billions to find a handle on that, or other alternatives. The impediment isn't lack of investment, or conspiratorial greed ... it is the nexus of the laws of physics and the laws of economics.
Consume less. Neither government involvement nor special taxes are necessary. Ride your bike or take public transport if you can, and carpool if you can't.
Try carpooling (or public transport anywhere but in a major city) when you need the flexibility to stay late to hash out a new innovation ... or work overtime to build it.
Again, it just isn't that simple, especially in an economy that is built upon taking the initiative, thinking outside the (40-hr) box, and going where no one has gone before in innovation.
And the same goes for dealing with the intermittent nature, climatic and geographic limitations, environmental impacts, and maintenance costs of renewable-energy systems that are anywhere near large-scale practicality. That takes time and resources away from our other endeavors ... including, at least indirectly, other and possibly more pressing action to resolve environmental concerns in other areas.
Sorry to be the lone dissenting hippy here, but we *have* to get off oil - and not just terrorist oil.
As I said above, we do need to move beyond oil ... but let us do so wisely, in ways that will not kill off the golden goose that allows us to be concerned about our environment ...
... lest we, wondering where our next meal will come from, start looking to fillet Willy instead of freeing him.
I see the anonatard trolls are here supporting this.
ReplyDeleteMemo to the anonatard trolls:
If you are going to talk the talk then walk the walk.
You start by consuming less.
You are aware of the fact that computers are probably the biggest and most frivolous energy wasting items in your house. Turn your computer off now.
Look around you and get rid of every item made out of plastic-plastic is made from petroleum. Recycle those items now, including your cell phones, polarfleece wear and iPods.
If you do not produce the energy you consume with your own personal wind/solar generating facility then call the electric company and have then shut your power off. You are aware that if you say you only use wind and solar from an electric power provider that you are using coal and NG produced electricity. The winds do not blow on command nor is the sun out 24/7. Those companies have to provide you with uninterrupted power and if they aren't generating enough they gotta get it from somewhere. That means they buy electricity on the spot market and that is generated by coal, NG and nuclear.
You are aware that all your food and clothing has to be transported over great distances to get to you. You can start by only eating and wearing items that are produced locally and with materials produced locally. By locally I mean no more then 12 miles from your house-12 miles is about the average a horse drawn wagon can travel in a day. Of course that means no more coffee, "energy drinks", Tofu (unless you live in a soybean growing region, fresh fish unless you catch it yourselves and fresh vegetables and fruits in the off season for the vast majority of you and your diets are going to be severely restricted until you can start growing your own food. Also you will have to get used to wearing alot of leather because most of you live nowhere near a cotton producing region and unless you keep a heard of sheep yourselves are probably pretty far from a wool producing area.
Of course you will never be going anywhere by air anymore, even if the prices fall. Air travel is the most wasteful of energy form of travel around.
So until I see all of you practicing what you preach I will treat you like the stupid little hypocrites with an agenda you are.
Idiots to stupid to know the public already owns the refineries and the major oil companies as well as every other major corporation and most of the rest of the infrastructure in the country,that's what stocks are all about.
ReplyDeleteM. Wilcox
Wilcox,
ReplyDeleteLOL!!! Doh! Yeah, some should look at their 401K retirement accounts, they'd be surprised at why they're getting a return.
Retire05,
Texas was an Indpendent nation at one time with at least one Embassy in England that I know of.
Rich,
They don't listen, they're Obamatrons. Funny how myself growing up on the left know them all to well. Government is evil unless they're in charge, lol.
You again make great points. We need a short term solution for the next 10-15 years. That is Drill Here, Drill Now, Keep Money Here, NOT There, Keep Jobs Here, Jobs Now.
There are some excellent storage devices already in developmental testing and commercialization, large size for both Wind/Solar.
It is only beginning and the Economy of Scale is huge. Some people think we can flip a switch and voila overnight magic happens.
There are over 250 million cars in America. At ten million a year replacement rate that is at least 25 years. Engineers that have projected this know it will take longer for a transition. Right now, the cheapest cars all electric are $100,000 street legal, with promised $70K cars next year. But that is only at about 10,000/yr. There are car companies around the world rushing to do this. From Japan to China to India to Europe.
GM is rolling out the Volt in 2010 at around $30-35K with a 40mile electric hybrid. They will only be producing 100K cars to start. So, realistically 25 years stretches out to 40-50 years at a frantic pace. But there will be alternatives to gas. Biofuels 2.0 are coming online as well.
Agenol struck a $850M contract with Mexico and looking for biz with Texas, Florida and other southern states. They're genetically altering algae working with Seawater to produce ethanol at a much higher output. This helps eliminate corn for fuel usage. Much better option, producing almost 20 x gallons per acre of corn. Freeing up land for food.
They're taking advantage of CO2! Imagine that? This is but 1 of many companies providing future solutions. But even with them, it will take 35 or more years to replace all the cars for flex fuels.
The $100K all electric cars are produced at a loss. It is wonderful new technology. And the competition for GM/Ford is good. That is FreeMarket at work. The future outlook is great. We will get off of foreign oil.
I say, Do it faster!
Drill Here, Drill Now, American Jobs, Americans Now!
BTW, there's another great startup company that helps to make the oil industry cleaner, more efficient than ever...
http://www.ecospheretech.com/
American companies, American ingenuity... still creative, producing the solutions for the future. But, we need time to get us thru the crunch.
The Bubble will Burst once we allow the supply to grow and open up our markets freely. Speculators will remove themselves once the futures market disappears for them.