Posted by
GunnyG on Thursday, May 15, 2008 7:18:18 AM
Are liberals deliberately trying to sabotage American industry? Are liberals actively working against our best interests? Our national security interests? Why, when it comes right down to where the rubber meets the road, liberals ALWAYS do the WRONG thing and leave us in the lurch? As gas prices rise on a daily basis, we should review just WHY this situation is biting us in the butt and WHO is to blame for it. Let's examine the issue.
Once upon a time, the Republican led House voted, on 1 Aug 2001, to ALLOW drilling for oil and natural gas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska. WHY did this vote come up? Because a liberal idiot by the name of Congcritter Edward Markey (D.-Mass.) tried to get an amendment passed that would have BANNED ANY DRILLING in ANY part of ANWR. Oil production from ANWR was an integral
part of President Bush's comprehensive energy plan, and since Bush HAD a plan to get America OFF of foreign oil, one wonders why the libs fought against it? Could the reason have come to light recently when we found out that liberals in Congress get US to pay for their cars, insurance AND GAS? WHY worry about gas prices when the American taxpayer is footing the bill?
Let's check out exactly what ANWR is. The entire range is 19.6 million acres of protected land in the northern half of Alaska, in a very remote area. The area ALREADY APPROVED for drilling is located in the Coastal plain, which is about 1.5 million acres in size. Using simple math, we find that it is only EIGHT PERCENT of the total area of the range. Furthermore, the oil industry states that they only need to drill on 2000 acres! A mere .11% of the total area! The liberals are whining that less than ONE PERCENT of ANWR will be drilled on! Again, we MUST question WHY liberals consistently stand in the way of America becoming INDEPENDENT of foreign oil! Moonbat Markey bleated: "this is the most important environmental vote of this Congress, 2001 and 2002. This is the top environmental vote for every environmental group in the United States." Yep, Malarkey (what his name SHOULD be!) it's MORE important that ANWR STAYS a whole lot of NOTHING than our national security be assured by the USA having a STRONG domestic oil production capability! When it comes down to where the rubber meets the road, liberals are ALWAYS on the side OPPOSITE of America's main interests. Not to be outdone, RINO Nancy Johnson (R.-Conn.), Malarkey's cohort, not only tried to spin off the amendment but also spouted liberal pablum with this nonsense: "Mark my words, my friends. We cannot explore this area and drill in this area without permanent and severe damage to the environment. Just the mapping that geologists from every single company would have to do would be very destructive. Every 1,100 feet, they map. Each caravan takes eight vibrating and seven recording vehicles accompanied by personnel carriers, mechanic trucks, mobile shop trucks, fuel tankers, an incinerator, plus a crew of 80 to 120 people, and a camp train of 20 to 25 shipping containers. This is intrusive and the scars are permanent."
Now two things spring to the Gunny's razor sharp mind here. One, oil companies explore and drill for oil ALL OVER the world and yet HOW MANY major disasters have we seen? (enter crickets chirping...) It's obvious to ANYONE with a functioning brain that these professionals know how to do this with a minimum of impact. Two, back in the Alaskan pipeline days, the liberals moaned and bleated that the pipeline would damage the environment, that the caribou herds would suffer, and the whole ecological system would collapse. Guess what? The REVERSE happened. The region has flourished, caribou herds still migrate, and the ecosystem is perfectly fine. People have jobs and we have oil. Yet ANOTHER liberal bunch of bullsqueeze exposed for pablum. Malarkey and Johnson are simply lairs and anti-American scum.
Alaskan Congressman Don Young (R.) hit the nail on the head when he stated that ANWR was set aside for oil exploration to begin with! Young also reasoned, correctly, that sending our money to the Middle East (where they hate us by the way) is WRONG when we can develop our own energy here. Young said: "How anybody can take and send money abroad to Saddam Hussein and not develop our own oil, I cannot understand that mentality." Sir, it's easy when you realize that liberals are actively working AGAINST America with everything they say and do. Once you understand that point, their agenda is easily understood from then on out. What really makes the liberals look more like absolute morons than they already are, is that they yammer about high gas prices and then prevent us from drilling to get it! Instead of working TOWARDS energy independence, instead of working FOR our national security interests, liberals HAMSTRING us at every turn!
The intelligent use history to prevent repeating the same mistake(s) twice, but to the dumba** liberals, who seem to start everyday with a fresh slate, unmindful of the mistakes they leave in their wakes, they make the same mistakes, over and over. For example, in the 1970's, a libmoron by the name of Carter slapped a windfall profit tax on the oil industry. Jimmy the Dhimmi called it the Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax Act and it taxed the oil companies a whopping SEVENTY PERCENT on the difference between the price of a barrel of oil as determined by the market and the false price set by the U.S. government (at a far lower rate!) Nothing like a rigged game. In its lifetime, this liberal created tax STOLE over $82 BILLION dollars of oil industry profits. The profits which COULD have been used to pay for exploration, drilling, and the building of more pipelines and newer refineries. Oddly enough, NO ONE could account where the money went AFTER the grubby liberals in DC got their hands on it. We also managed to produce 1.6 BILLION FEWER barrels of oil, we had gas rationing, gas lines, gas prices rose dramatically, and our dependence on foreign oil rose almost 20%! While Reagan the Smart AXED that crap, Obamination and Hitlery are using this as the "new" economic policy to punish the evil oil companies who made record profits from SPECULATORS, not their own actions. Supply and demand is an economic term that liberals cannot seem to understand but the Gunny's 7th grade son understands well! The same economic illiteracy that Carter possessed seems to flow through the DNC like a river of raw sewage and Shrillary and Obomination are drinking deeply from that river and liking it.
The liberals have stood in the way of the oil companies and punished them, but why? Congress has forbid them to drill where the oil IS, Congress has forbid them to BUILD new refineries (since 1975), and Congress taxes them FOR producing gas, getting their cut for doing NOTHING! Once the US had over 300 refineries pumping out the gas for the economy, making us the world's economic JUGGERNAUT! Liberals worked overtime to end that. If the Congress, and liberals in particular, since THEY are responsible for creating this mess in the first place, were serious about helping America and Americans, they would do the following:
1. Expand our supply. DRILL where the oil is. If a company spills, THEY PAY for the cleanup, it's that simple.
2. Permit oil exploration in ANWR, the Outer Continental Shelf, Utah, and North Dakota.
3. Expand our refinery capacity to process more crude oil using NEW technology.
4. Let the FREE MARKET work to determine the price that WE pay for gasoline.
5. STOP CONGRESS FROM USING LEASED CARS that WE PAY FOR!
6. GET the H*LL out of the way.
Even if we started drilling RIGHT NOW and building new refineries RIGHT NOW, it would take about THREE YEARS for the first gallon to come out of the spigot! Had we started this in the 1990's like Conservatives WANTED TO, we'd be paying a buck or two per gallon, gas taxes would be flowing into the Federal coffers unchecked, and the Saudis would be rotating on their thumbs. Liberals say that Bush is in the pocket of the Saudis yet THEY have done MORE to keep US on the Saudis oil leash so one has to wonder, WHO OWNS WHO? Seems to the Gunny that the Saudis own the libs since THEY have worked AGAINST us for decades on this issue. But hey, the allies of the dhimmicrats, the RINOs got the polar bear on the "threatened species" list, that's a start right? Game, set, match to the environuts. The Gunny figures that once REAL CONSERVATIVES wise up, RINOs will be on the endangered species list, and rightly so. May the knives start flashing in the RNC SOON! Indeed, maybe a few years wandering in the wilderness will wise these jokers up. God KNOWS we cannot count on the libs to help America unless it's helping us become a Socialist Nanny-State!