Energy Independence: A Reality By Drilling For Oil on American Soil
Ronald Reagan had the solution to America’s energy independence: Drill Here! Drill Now! Pay Less!
But the Leftists in our Congress do not feel nor do they care about your pain at the gas pump. Leftist energy “solutions” are: Not Here! Not Now! Pay More!
Regulations attempting to control global warming and limit so-called greenhouse gases is a liberal ideology that adds hidden costs to every American citizen. High energy prices aren’t theoretical, they have costly consequences for all Americans. The price of energy will continue to go up unless and until Congress passes common sense legislation in favor of drilling for oil on American soil. We know where the oil is right now. We know this, but the Leftest in Congress are “Naysayers” when it comes to energy independence. And as a result, Americans will continue to pay a higher price for fuel. The enemies of energy independence are blocking our drilling for oil by “no” vote. Environmental extremists falsely claim that anything that comes out of the soil, be it oil or coal, will hurt the environment. Not so! Fossil fuels are there for the harvesting. All we have to do is drill or dig for them. There is no shortage of energy in the world, only a shortage of common sense and sound environmental and economic policies in our government.
Leftists Vote Against Energy Independence
Who’s to blame for America’s high gas prices? Not your SUV. Not the oil companies. Not the Saudis. Not OPEC. The answer, unfortunately, is as close as the Leftists in our own Congress. This is outrageous! Liberals are the domestic enemies of America! It’s tragic, but Liberalism has a long history of death and destruction. Read the non-revisionist history books. Liberalism in America began in 1913 with Democratic President Woodrow Wilson. And every Democratic President since Wilson has betrayed our country.
Newt Gingrich has pointed out that, according to the Investors Business Daily, there are an estimated 1 trillion barrels of oil trapped in shale in the U.S. and Canada. Retrieving just a tenth of it would quadruple our current oil reserves. Yet liberals on the Senate Appropriations committee recently voted to block environmentally sound development of oil shale in Colorado. We need to throw these traitors out of office.
Just last week, liberals in Congress voted for the equivalent of a $150 billion tax increase. They voted to make your next trip to the gas station more expensive; to make your next airplane ticket more expensive; to make heating your home more expensive; and even to make feeding your family more expensive by rising food prices.
How did they do it? By voting to block environmentally sound production of U.S. energy in favor of continuing to be held hostage to oil from foreign dictatorships. The Left just doesn’t seem to get it. There seems to be a cloud of stupidity over their heads.
As Americans, we all need to ask ourselves the following: why do we allow liberals and leftists to destroy our great country? Congress can and should vote “yes” to allow us to drill for oil on American soil. This one vote will lower our energy and food prices. The greater obstacle to energy independence and our national security is energy dependence.
The Left’s Answer: Pain, Not Production
The higher energy prices Americans are paying are the equivalent of a huge tax increase. One economist calculated that the price of oil rising from $80 a barrel to $100 a barrel had the same effect on Americans’ pocket books as a $150 billion tax increase — and the price of oil has risen an additional $27 a barrel since then!
The liberals in Congress, when faced with an opportunity to lessen the economic burden on Americans, outright rejected the real solution to energy independence without a second thought. Even Senator Barack Obama believes in the kind of change Jimmy Carter could believe in: less is better. In February of 1977, then President Carter called the energy shortage “permanent” and asked Americans to turn their thermostat down to “65 degrees in the daytime and 55 degrees at night. Thankfully, the energy shortage was not permanent. It was an artificial creation of liberal stupidity in government policies.
Ronald Reagan’s first official act as a true conservative President was to deregulate the oil industry. Guess what? Oil prices soon dropped. But liberals are telling the next generation of Americans that they can’t have the same lifestyle that their parents enjoy. This is defeatist and backwards. Liberalism is a rejection of the energy, optimism and innovation that made this nation great. In order for our great country to remain good, strong, prosporous, and free, all Americans must reject liberalism!
Conservatives have a solutions-oriented agenda that offers real solutions to real problems, while Liberals have a regulation-oriented agenda that not only blocks real solutions to real problems, but actually causes more problems on top of the already existing problems.
Americans Must Control Our Own Energy Destiny
Our energy challenge is real, not because of the shortage oil in our soil, but because of the controlling regulations imposed on our economic growth through unnecessary evironmental regulations and policies passed by the defeatist Leftist and Liberals in our Congress. They have created our present energy crisis. This should not be, because America has the technological know-how and the entrepreneurial spirit to overcome our energy problems. Americans overwhelmingly support more domestic production of energy to help ease gas prices.
“We the people” must control our energy future, not the Saudis or the oil companies. What we need to do is remove the road blockers in Congress and elect good conservative leaders with the political will to vote “yes” for oil drilling and energy independence.
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