Showing posts with label Global Warming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Global Warming. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
GOP and Republican Party: The Time is NOW!!!
In Washington state there is a big uproar over some tactics being used by Republican cadidates for state and national offices. In this state, a candidate for such a position can list either Democrat, Republican, or a party moniker of their choosing. So, what is the deal that has Dems in a uproar over how members of the Republican party are on the ballot?
Well, before I tell you what the issue is, in the event you have not heard or understood, let me explain the logic behind the Republican candidates decision to take advantage of this situation.
In America today, 90% of the media (this statistic is based upon my personal impressions, and not that of any legitimate research...so, take that 90% with a grain of salt...but also, try to prove me wrong!) is 100% anti-Republican, 110% anti-Conservative. (Again, opinion-based percentages...yet, I ask you to prove me wrong!) So, the name...the brand, if you will...of the Republican Party has a negative connotation to it. Since the success of liberalism is based upon the voting public's complete closed-mindedness, the label (R) or Republican will be met with an immediate disdain, dislike, and even hatred, regardless of who that Republican might be.
Many liberals who call themselves Christian would immediately leave the church and declare themselves atheist or agnostic if it were proven on NBC or MSNBC that Jesus Christ is a registered Republican. Laugh. Go ahead. Yet, if you look at the mind-numb, ignorant, carrot-on-a-stick-following manner and mania in which most liberals stick to the word of liberal leaders and media, this is not far from the truth.
So, the point is, liberals, and to a point, middle-of-the-roaders, will automatically reject the Republican label. (Usama Bin Laden could win most any election in the United States with nothing more than a (D) next to his name.) However, Washington state has a loophole that allows a chance to take some of the power away from the R word and possibly see elections based on the issues.
In Washington state, many Republicans are distancing themselves, quietly from the name Republican and running as candidates on the "GOP" ticket. Instead of seeing Joe Schmoe (R), you can see Joe Schmoe (GOP) running against John Doe (D). Its a simple rebranding, like when Kentucky Fried Chicken tried to eliminate the negativity surrounding 'fried' foods by just branding itself as KFC.
Dems, of couse, are in an uproar. Keith Olberman is crying foul (no pun intended with my previous KFC reference). Yet, don't they cry to the highest mountain tops EVERYTIME a Republican candidate gets an advantage?
I am all for it. Perhaps the entire Republican party should follow suit. Perhaps we need to rebrand ourselves. Refer to ourselves as GOP candidates and redefine what conservatism is all about. Not redefine as in change the meaning, but make the meaning more clear and abundant. It is time for the GOP to reunite and remind America what it is that separates us from Dem.
First, we need to renew our strength as the party of financial responsibility. Enough of the pork spending and the earmarks. The GOP can no longer afford to allow congressmen and friends of congressmen get rich off tax payer dollars. We have to fight the wasteful spending and invest our money into defense, energy, and education.
Second, we need to make a pact with America, and by proxy our closest allies, that we will be the world leader in creating new, clean, renewable energy sources for the present, as well as for generations to come. In that pact, we will wean ourselves off of foreign fuels and rely only upon those barrels we get from our friends and those that we drill ourselves. We need to push the fuel cell technologies for transportation. We need to build nuclear reactors to provide electricity, especially in our population centers, to prevent power outages that kill the young and old.
We have technology far superior to China and many other oil-drilling nations. Yet, China is drilling off the coast of Cuba, right in our backyard. We cannot sit idly by and let China's drilling suck out all the oil in the Gulf of Mexico seabed. Our technology is so advanced, thanks to the 'evil' oil companies, that we can be in and out of ANWR in setting up the drilling rigs and pipelines with virtually zero disruption to any species' mating seasons. In fact, the warmth of the pipelines in that area may create better survival and mating situations than with the current harsh winters.
We can be good stewards of the Earth and try to respect the beauty and fragility of the world's eco-systems. We have the ability. No matter what a person's stance is on the theory (YES, THEORY) of Global Warming, we can all agree that we should take better care of the planet. However, we must also take care of our economies and national security issues.
The Republican party desperately needs a rebranding. It might be wise for John McCain and the entire party to use the example in the great northwest and use the letters GOP as a catapoult to a rebranding. November 4, 2008, is D-Day for the GOP...D meaning either Do or Die...
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Something has got to give!
Gas is $5 a gallon in California. The national average is now at $4 a gallon. Crude Oil jumped $11 a barrel on Friday alone.
This is ridiculous!
When will Americans unite and stand up to our own government?
When will we DEMAND that we utilize our own resources and technologies?
When will our cries be heard in Washington?
It is time that we unite and DEMAND without equivocation that we drill here, drill now. Cuba is allowing China to set up shop in our backyard. Why can't we drill in the Gulf of Mexico, too?
We have better technology that can protect he environment from spills and slicks and overall upheaval of the Eco-system. The giant oil companies have spend billions of dollars researching and developing new and better ways to extract oil from beneath the surface. They are proving their progress in that absolutely zero oil rigs in the international waters of the Gulf of Mexico leaked during Katrina. Katrina is the strongest storm to hit the US in a long time, the strongest to hit that particular region in generations. And yet, no oil leaked from the rigs in place owned by the big, bad oil companies.
Don't you think they could extract oil from ANWR and off the coast of the US with the same sturdy technology? Even taking greater care of the Eco-system in each drilling location?
It is far past time for the United States to become energy independent. We should not have to rely on the good will of pseudo-friends like OPEC, Saudi Arabia, and other oil-producers. It is time we tap into our own resources.
Our economy will start to collapse in a matter of months. With energy costs this high, we are on the verge of a new depression. It is time for all Americans to get on the phone, to email, to snail-mail, and any other possible way contact our leaders in Washington, DC, and DEMAND change. Now.
We need to drill and refine our own oil. The second the trucks start rolling to drill our own oil and leave OPEC in the dust, the price of crude oil will plummet. From $150 a barrel to $70, $60, or even less. I guarantee it. Everyone who knows anything about the oil market will tell you that the second the United States sends trucks and equipment to Alaska, off the coast of Florida, and other beds of untapped crude, the very second, oil will drop in price because the OPEC countries will be desperate to keep the US as a customer and prevent an American profit on their market.
Once we pass legislation that allows the extraction of our own oil, we need to then work with, and not against, the oil companies and power companies to develop a 10-year, a 25-year, and a 50-year plan for complete energy independence and an elimination of fossil fuels.
Wind turbines, nuclear power plants, solar power, and all the other "green" technologies need to be pursued with a vengeance even if oil drops in price. Oil will dry up. Oil will rise once again. We need to plan and protect the American economy and American families from suffering as they are now.
It is time. I believe the 1980's should have been the real decade of energy independence, but we never took the time to really look ahead. We have wasted over 30 years since the gas rations and oil shortages and have made no real progress to prevent this economic disaster.
Newt Gingrich is a major figurehead in a new campaign to get the word out and organize Americans to lead us out of this trying time. We need to show the elected leaders that they are on the hot seat. We need solutions from those in power, or we need to elect people who will create those solutions.
Visit American Solutions and sign the petition, follow the links, and email your elected officials.
We cannot wait for them to do it on their own. It is now time. Get off your laurels and join the movement and become a part of the solution.
This is ridiculous!
When will Americans unite and stand up to our own government?
When will we DEMAND that we utilize our own resources and technologies?
When will our cries be heard in Washington?
It is time that we unite and DEMAND without equivocation that we drill here, drill now. Cuba is allowing China to set up shop in our backyard. Why can't we drill in the Gulf of Mexico, too?
We have better technology that can protect he environment from spills and slicks and overall upheaval of the Eco-system. The giant oil companies have spend billions of dollars researching and developing new and better ways to extract oil from beneath the surface. They are proving their progress in that absolutely zero oil rigs in the international waters of the Gulf of Mexico leaked during Katrina. Katrina is the strongest storm to hit the US in a long time, the strongest to hit that particular region in generations. And yet, no oil leaked from the rigs in place owned by the big, bad oil companies.
Don't you think they could extract oil from ANWR and off the coast of the US with the same sturdy technology? Even taking greater care of the Eco-system in each drilling location?
It is far past time for the United States to become energy independent. We should not have to rely on the good will of pseudo-friends like OPEC, Saudi Arabia, and other oil-producers. It is time we tap into our own resources.
Our economy will start to collapse in a matter of months. With energy costs this high, we are on the verge of a new depression. It is time for all Americans to get on the phone, to email, to snail-mail, and any other possible way contact our leaders in Washington, DC, and DEMAND change. Now.
We need to drill and refine our own oil. The second the trucks start rolling to drill our own oil and leave OPEC in the dust, the price of crude oil will plummet. From $150 a barrel to $70, $60, or even less. I guarantee it. Everyone who knows anything about the oil market will tell you that the second the United States sends trucks and equipment to Alaska, off the coast of Florida, and other beds of untapped crude, the very second, oil will drop in price because the OPEC countries will be desperate to keep the US as a customer and prevent an American profit on their market.
Once we pass legislation that allows the extraction of our own oil, we need to then work with, and not against, the oil companies and power companies to develop a 10-year, a 25-year, and a 50-year plan for complete energy independence and an elimination of fossil fuels.
Wind turbines, nuclear power plants, solar power, and all the other "green" technologies need to be pursued with a vengeance even if oil drops in price. Oil will dry up. Oil will rise once again. We need to plan and protect the American economy and American families from suffering as they are now.
It is time. I believe the 1980's should have been the real decade of energy independence, but we never took the time to really look ahead. We have wasted over 30 years since the gas rations and oil shortages and have made no real progress to prevent this economic disaster.
Newt Gingrich is a major figurehead in a new campaign to get the word out and organize Americans to lead us out of this trying time. We need to show the elected leaders that they are on the hot seat. We need solutions from those in power, or we need to elect people who will create those solutions.
Visit American Solutions and sign the petition, follow the links, and email your elected officials.
We cannot wait for them to do it on their own. It is now time. Get off your laurels and join the movement and become a part of the solution.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Pizza Prices are outrageous!!!!
On an island, not far from the United States, lives a family of 10 people. There are three generations of Libbies represented in this household. Their lifestyles, happiness, and desires are based upon the availability of pizza.
For years, the Libbies bought their pizza from distant lands. The cost started off modest, making investing in making their own crusts not so worthwhile. They loved their foreign pizza.
They had pizza from neighbors. Pizza from places that did not like the Libbies, but their pizza wasgood and plentiful, so money was the key to that relationship.
These places where the pizza was plentiful started getting more and more, and even more, customers. Suddenly, the modest price of each pizza started to climb higher and higher.
The Libbies grumbled, mumbled, and moaned over the rising price of their beloved pizza. Instead of $5 a pie, it prices soared to $12, then to $15, then to $19. Instead of doing something about the cost of their pizza, they cut back on other expenses. They cut out going to the movies, flights abroad, concerts, vacations, big screen TVs, and other spending. They needed their pizza.
Sadly, these people continued towards financial ruin. Even more upsetting is the fact that they had all the necessary ingredients to make their own, terrific pizzas. All they needed to do was invest in a new oven and get the rollers to roll out the dough, and they could live on all the pizza they could ever want and need.
The Libbies let neighborood wack-os claim that baking their own pizza would pollute the neighborhood. They claimed that the extra power they would use for making their own pizza would be too costly, both financially and to the environment.
The wack-os never complained about the other pizza places and their pizza producing techniques. They only held the Libbies back. The Libbies bought into this wild, unprovable theory of weather change, and let that theory be the cover for why they did not cook their own pizza.
The Libbies farm had a thousand head of cattle, whose milk could make the cheese for the pizzas. The Libbies farm had the ripest, sweetest tomatoes. They had the most nutritious, wholesome wheat and grain growing on their farm. Their pigs could produce the greatest sausage in the world.
All they need to do is invest in a new oven as well as the mixing and prep equipment to make their own pizza. The Libbies are smart, resourseful people. They have the ability and technology to create and use equipment in such a way that would virtually eliminate any environmental disturbances.
In fact, they could even prevent the smell of the fresh-baking pzzas from getting out into the neighborhood.
Not to mention the fact that as soon as it would be known that the Libbies are cooking their own pizza, the cost of pizza would freefall around the world. They wouldn't even need to be in production yet. The fact that they were moving toward their pizza inependence would cause a ripple effect.
If the Libbies would only make their own pizza, they would be able to restore their financial strength and independence. They would also strengthen their family security. They would also buy time to find an alternative food that would eventually replace pizza.
Its such a shame that the Libbies would rather see themselves starve than create their own pizza.
For years, the Libbies bought their pizza from distant lands. The cost started off modest, making investing in making their own crusts not so worthwhile. They loved their foreign pizza.
They had pizza from neighbors. Pizza from places that did not like the Libbies, but their pizza wasgood and plentiful, so money was the key to that relationship.
These places where the pizza was plentiful started getting more and more, and even more, customers. Suddenly, the modest price of each pizza started to climb higher and higher.
The Libbies grumbled, mumbled, and moaned over the rising price of their beloved pizza. Instead of $5 a pie, it prices soared to $12, then to $15, then to $19. Instead of doing something about the cost of their pizza, they cut back on other expenses. They cut out going to the movies, flights abroad, concerts, vacations, big screen TVs, and other spending. They needed their pizza.
Sadly, these people continued towards financial ruin. Even more upsetting is the fact that they had all the necessary ingredients to make their own, terrific pizzas. All they needed to do was invest in a new oven and get the rollers to roll out the dough, and they could live on all the pizza they could ever want and need.
The Libbies let neighborood wack-os claim that baking their own pizza would pollute the neighborhood. They claimed that the extra power they would use for making their own pizza would be too costly, both financially and to the environment.
The wack-os never complained about the other pizza places and their pizza producing techniques. They only held the Libbies back. The Libbies bought into this wild, unprovable theory of weather change, and let that theory be the cover for why they did not cook their own pizza.
The Libbies farm had a thousand head of cattle, whose milk could make the cheese for the pizzas. The Libbies farm had the ripest, sweetest tomatoes. They had the most nutritious, wholesome wheat and grain growing on their farm. Their pigs could produce the greatest sausage in the world.
All they need to do is invest in a new oven as well as the mixing and prep equipment to make their own pizza. The Libbies are smart, resourseful people. They have the ability and technology to create and use equipment in such a way that would virtually eliminate any environmental disturbances.
In fact, they could even prevent the smell of the fresh-baking pzzas from getting out into the neighborhood.
Not to mention the fact that as soon as it would be known that the Libbies are cooking their own pizza, the cost of pizza would freefall around the world. They wouldn't even need to be in production yet. The fact that they were moving toward their pizza inependence would cause a ripple effect.
If the Libbies would only make their own pizza, they would be able to restore their financial strength and independence. They would also strengthen their family security. They would also buy time to find an alternative food that would eventually replace pizza.
Its such a shame that the Libbies would rather see themselves starve than create their own pizza.
Saturday, May 24, 2008
If I Were Running for President, Part 4 of 5
So, now, on to the biggest, world-wide hoax in the history of mankind.
GLOBAL WARMING!
For billions of years, there has been fluctuations in the Earth's worldwide climate. There have been hot periods. There have been cold periods. There have been times when the climate of an entire continent has changed. Yet, in just the last 100 years since automobiles and industry has entered world dominance, somehow we humans have done more damage to the Earth than 6 billion years of eruptions and wildfires.
There is no evidence of a Global Warming. Temperatures now are lower than they were in 1998. Scientists in Australia have predicted a global COOLING for the next 15-20 years. The ice caps are NOT melting. Ocean levels are NOT rising. Hurricane Katrina was not the tip of the hurricane iceberg. 2007 did set a record for hurricane activity...or should I say, 2007 set a record for hurrican/tropical storm INactivity.
Yet, Hillary Clinton, Barack Hussein Obama, and the Sherriff John McCain are all touting anti-global warming agendas. There is MORE science to DISprove global warming than there is to prove its possibility.
I am all for conserving resources, slowing the waste, recycling, slowing the amount of pollution in the air, water and soil. However, this propagandized phenomenon of global warming is a JOKE.
We have seen a decline in the amount of hurricane activity. The recent barrage of tornado activity is due to a huge COLD air mass over North America...yes, a COLD air mass.
Let us not forget that Arizona and New Mexico have not always been deserts. The Grand Canyon was caused during an Ice Age. Greenland used to be green and flourishing with plant life. Iceland used to be covered in ice. There are preserved bodies in the ice of Antartica and the North Pole, meaning life was at the poles at some time.
The Earth works in cycles. Over billions of years, climates rotate from land mass to land mass. Its happened since long before humans crawled out of the primordial swamp. It will happen long after we give up our control of the planet. Climate change is cyclical. We have very little control.
I am not saying we are not, and have not, damaging the Earth in some ways. However, weather and the animal eco-system are all designed to gradually wash away and eliminate much of that damage.
Besides, how do you damage and destroy the planet with a substance it already has and needs? Carbon Dioxide is a naturally occurring substance. How is it so deadly to the planet?
As a Presidential candidate, I would vow to encourage the development of better technologies to reduce the impact of industry and energy consumption. However, I would not allow the crippling of the world's economy by forcing and taxing companies and consumers who use energy.
I would fight to inform the world the TRUTH of the hoax of Global Warming. I would make sure that people had the option of resorting to more ecologically beneficial energy consumption, and not force it upon them. I would not try to create government revenue off of industrial energy usage. Why? Corporations do not pay taxes. Instead, they increase the cost of their goods because their taxes are part of their cost of operation, part of the cost of the goods they produce.
So, essentially, a tax on a corporation is a tax on the consumer.
As President, I would work to create energy alternatives. I would work to create more economically sound options to create less pollution. I think we should be good stewards of the planet and leave it in good shape for future generations. However, we have to keep our economies strong in order to survive. Forcing companies to follow guidelines and to pay extra taxes for using energy will cripple, if not kill, the world economy.
Senator McCain's "Cap and Trade" proposal recently is ludacris. He will kill the economy. I hope he picks an economically intelligent Vice President and cabinet to keep him in check.
GLOBAL WARMING!
For billions of years, there has been fluctuations in the Earth's worldwide climate. There have been hot periods. There have been cold periods. There have been times when the climate of an entire continent has changed. Yet, in just the last 100 years since automobiles and industry has entered world dominance, somehow we humans have done more damage to the Earth than 6 billion years of eruptions and wildfires.
There is no evidence of a Global Warming. Temperatures now are lower than they were in 1998. Scientists in Australia have predicted a global COOLING for the next 15-20 years. The ice caps are NOT melting. Ocean levels are NOT rising. Hurricane Katrina was not the tip of the hurricane iceberg. 2007 did set a record for hurricane activity...or should I say, 2007 set a record for hurrican/tropical storm INactivity.
Yet, Hillary Clinton, Barack Hussein Obama, and the Sherriff John McCain are all touting anti-global warming agendas. There is MORE science to DISprove global warming than there is to prove its possibility.
I am all for conserving resources, slowing the waste, recycling, slowing the amount of pollution in the air, water and soil. However, this propagandized phenomenon of global warming is a JOKE.
We have seen a decline in the amount of hurricane activity. The recent barrage of tornado activity is due to a huge COLD air mass over North America...yes, a COLD air mass.
Let us not forget that Arizona and New Mexico have not always been deserts. The Grand Canyon was caused during an Ice Age. Greenland used to be green and flourishing with plant life. Iceland used to be covered in ice. There are preserved bodies in the ice of Antartica and the North Pole, meaning life was at the poles at some time.
The Earth works in cycles. Over billions of years, climates rotate from land mass to land mass. Its happened since long before humans crawled out of the primordial swamp. It will happen long after we give up our control of the planet. Climate change is cyclical. We have very little control.
I am not saying we are not, and have not, damaging the Earth in some ways. However, weather and the animal eco-system are all designed to gradually wash away and eliminate much of that damage.
Besides, how do you damage and destroy the planet with a substance it already has and needs? Carbon Dioxide is a naturally occurring substance. How is it so deadly to the planet?
As a Presidential candidate, I would vow to encourage the development of better technologies to reduce the impact of industry and energy consumption. However, I would not allow the crippling of the world's economy by forcing and taxing companies and consumers who use energy.
I would fight to inform the world the TRUTH of the hoax of Global Warming. I would make sure that people had the option of resorting to more ecologically beneficial energy consumption, and not force it upon them. I would not try to create government revenue off of industrial energy usage. Why? Corporations do not pay taxes. Instead, they increase the cost of their goods because their taxes are part of their cost of operation, part of the cost of the goods they produce.
So, essentially, a tax on a corporation is a tax on the consumer.
As President, I would work to create energy alternatives. I would work to create more economically sound options to create less pollution. I think we should be good stewards of the planet and leave it in good shape for future generations. However, we have to keep our economies strong in order to survive. Forcing companies to follow guidelines and to pay extra taxes for using energy will cripple, if not kill, the world economy.
Senator McCain's "Cap and Trade" proposal recently is ludacris. He will kill the economy. I hope he picks an economically intelligent Vice President and cabinet to keep him in check.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
If I Were Running for President, Part 1 of 5
If I were 36 years of age, or older, and able to run in the 2008 Presidential Election, the following paragraphs would be my platform. I believe in America and believe our best days are ahead of us...depending on the outcome of the next Presidential Election and then Mid-Term Elections, our worst days could also be ahead of us.
There are many issues facing this nation today. The first and foremost for every American today would have to be the price of gas. A close second, of course, is the two-pronged war on terror. Then, the major issues behind those would be the economy (which is directly related to gas prices), immigration, education, and jobs, also related to gas prices and the economy.
Over the next few blogs, I am going to explore and explain what would be my platform for running for President. While most of this may not be new to those that frequent my blogs, I do hope to convince a few voters to see the light and cast the correct votes this November, as well as in 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, and so on and so forth.
Today, let's talk about gas prices. No, gas is not approaching $4 per gallon because Bush is in the back pocket of the oil companies. The oil companies could possibly do more to lower the cost of gas, but we can't expect Exxon and Cheveron to voluntarily give up their profits when we don't expect Snickers to voluntarily drop the price of candy bars. What we need to look for is answers as to what is really driving costs up.
The cost of oil is going up for the simple fact that there are billions more people using it today than they were 25 years ago. The shift from the stone age to the modern age over the last 20 years in China has drastically increased the need and demand for oil and gasoline. More demand, more cost. Simple economic fundamentals. If no one wants what you are selling, you can't give it away. But if your product is demanded and essential to survival of billions of people, prices skyrocket.
Countries like our good friend Saudi Arabia and Iran and Venezuela are holding the world economy hostage through OPEC, who controls most of the world's oil. They refuse to up oil production and sit back and watch the money roll in to their already overflowing pockets.
Our problem in America is our dependence on foreign oil. Our problem is that we have our own oil but refuse to use it. The United States is one of thousands of hands out in the oil market, like the masses crowding at the door of a soup kitchen during the Great Depression. We are like a farmer who won't sow his own oats and wheat, instead waiting in line for a crust from someone else, and paying steeply for it.
We have enough oil in Alaska to last a minimum...A MINIMUM!...of 30 years. Alaska can fuel our country's entire need for fossil fuel for over a generation! Yet, the environmental wack-os freak out and buy the best liberals available everytime we talk about drilling. ANWR (pronounced in the news an-whar), the Alaskan National Wildlife Reserve, is a place of pristine beauty where rare and endangered wild life roam freely. ANWR is roughly the size of the state of South Carolina. The area that would need to be impacted would be roughly equivalent to the size of a large international airport. A large area, but hardly enough to show up on an atlas.
Plus, in the 30 years since drilling in ANWR was first killed by liberals, drilling and conservation technologies have progressed by lightyears. We have the technology to drill with minimal impact on the environment. Today's technology would provide more efficient and successful oil extraction while the spotted butt caribou can live on without a care in the world.
We need to drill our own oil in Alaska and other places. We have territory off of our Pacific and Atlantic coasts that would also provide oil for our country. Yet again, we are being held up by liberals who fight for environmentalist wackos and their slanted agendas.
Our nation has not built one new oil refinery in over 30 years. Why? You guessed it...liberals.
We have new, improved, environmentally safe technology to drill oil with virtually no impact on the areas inwhich we would drill. We have abundant oil to get us through an entire generation.
The second we pass legislation to start to drill and produce our own oil, I guarentee you that we will see OPEC change their tune and start lowering oil prices. They need the US as a customer too much to force us to pull out of OPEC completely once our own oil is on line.
Next, we need to invest in more nuclear power plants. We have the technology to make it the safest, most abundant and renewable source of energy. It would replace coal and oil power, thus alleviating the demand for those fossil fuels. Nuclear power would also help fuel cars that run on electricity, thus eliminating even more Carbon waste.
We have our own power sources...just need to get the people in power to allow us to tap into those resources. Once we lower our energy costs, inflation and the cost of every other product we use and need will likewise go down.
In my next blog, we will further explore what is slowing down our economy, both including skyrocketing fuel costs and other factors.
There are many issues facing this nation today. The first and foremost for every American today would have to be the price of gas. A close second, of course, is the two-pronged war on terror. Then, the major issues behind those would be the economy (which is directly related to gas prices), immigration, education, and jobs, also related to gas prices and the economy.
Over the next few blogs, I am going to explore and explain what would be my platform for running for President. While most of this may not be new to those that frequent my blogs, I do hope to convince a few voters to see the light and cast the correct votes this November, as well as in 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, and so on and so forth.
Today, let's talk about gas prices. No, gas is not approaching $4 per gallon because Bush is in the back pocket of the oil companies. The oil companies could possibly do more to lower the cost of gas, but we can't expect Exxon and Cheveron to voluntarily give up their profits when we don't expect Snickers to voluntarily drop the price of candy bars. What we need to look for is answers as to what is really driving costs up.
The cost of oil is going up for the simple fact that there are billions more people using it today than they were 25 years ago. The shift from the stone age to the modern age over the last 20 years in China has drastically increased the need and demand for oil and gasoline. More demand, more cost. Simple economic fundamentals. If no one wants what you are selling, you can't give it away. But if your product is demanded and essential to survival of billions of people, prices skyrocket.
Countries like our good friend Saudi Arabia and Iran and Venezuela are holding the world economy hostage through OPEC, who controls most of the world's oil. They refuse to up oil production and sit back and watch the money roll in to their already overflowing pockets.
Our problem in America is our dependence on foreign oil. Our problem is that we have our own oil but refuse to use it. The United States is one of thousands of hands out in the oil market, like the masses crowding at the door of a soup kitchen during the Great Depression. We are like a farmer who won't sow his own oats and wheat, instead waiting in line for a crust from someone else, and paying steeply for it.
We have enough oil in Alaska to last a minimum...A MINIMUM!...of 30 years. Alaska can fuel our country's entire need for fossil fuel for over a generation! Yet, the environmental wack-os freak out and buy the best liberals available everytime we talk about drilling. ANWR (pronounced in the news an-whar), the Alaskan National Wildlife Reserve, is a place of pristine beauty where rare and endangered wild life roam freely. ANWR is roughly the size of the state of South Carolina. The area that would need to be impacted would be roughly equivalent to the size of a large international airport. A large area, but hardly enough to show up on an atlas.
Plus, in the 30 years since drilling in ANWR was first killed by liberals, drilling and conservation technologies have progressed by lightyears. We have the technology to drill with minimal impact on the environment. Today's technology would provide more efficient and successful oil extraction while the spotted butt caribou can live on without a care in the world.
We need to drill our own oil in Alaska and other places. We have territory off of our Pacific and Atlantic coasts that would also provide oil for our country. Yet again, we are being held up by liberals who fight for environmentalist wackos and their slanted agendas.
Our nation has not built one new oil refinery in over 30 years. Why? You guessed it...liberals.
We have new, improved, environmentally safe technology to drill oil with virtually no impact on the areas inwhich we would drill. We have abundant oil to get us through an entire generation.
The second we pass legislation to start to drill and produce our own oil, I guarentee you that we will see OPEC change their tune and start lowering oil prices. They need the US as a customer too much to force us to pull out of OPEC completely once our own oil is on line.
Next, we need to invest in more nuclear power plants. We have the technology to make it the safest, most abundant and renewable source of energy. It would replace coal and oil power, thus alleviating the demand for those fossil fuels. Nuclear power would also help fuel cars that run on electricity, thus eliminating even more Carbon waste.
We have our own power sources...just need to get the people in power to allow us to tap into those resources. Once we lower our energy costs, inflation and the cost of every other product we use and need will likewise go down.
In my next blog, we will further explore what is slowing down our economy, both including skyrocketing fuel costs and other factors.
$135 a barrell and up....SAVE US OPEC!!!
Dear OPEC, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and other oil producing companies/nations:
Please save America. We need more oil at cheaper prices from you. Only you can save our nation. Only you can save the American, and thusly, the world's, economy.
We do have the technology, man power, and care to drill, refine (after building green refineries), and produce our own stockpiles of crude oil. We are fully capable of competing with you on the oil market. We have that capability. Yet, we are a true superpower and nearly half of our leaders feel guilty about that success.
So, we need your help to remain on top. We need you to produce more oil and lower your current asking prices. We know you have improved your production over and over again over the last 8 years. We know you have helped us in the past. It hasn't been the extensive, economy-saving help we have asked for or needed, but we do thank you for everything you do.
We will send our lame-duck President to grovel at your feet. He will marvel at the 24K gold, diamond-encrusted, platinum-coated-engined Mercedes-Benz. He will praise the beauty and success of your country, ignoring the starving masses five kilometers from your palace. He will comment, "What opium-producing farms are they talking about here?"
We listen to environmentalist wack-os who tell us oil is evil...and watch them drive away in their gas-guzzling Suburbans, Escalades, and Tahoes. We will let the Democratic party lay roadblocks to our independence from your oil because yours is so much cleaner and more environmentally safe than we could ever drill and produce.
Our national security and our economy will play second fiddle to the unproven and unrealistic Global Warming phenomenon. We will rely on semi-friendly psuedo-allies for our energy needs instead of harvesting our own resources.
We need your help. If you so choose. If not, we will just continue to pay whatever you ask, because we need you.
We just are content to let our own oil sit 200 feet beneath our land. We are content to hope that you will have mercy on us out of the goodness of your hearts.
Sincerely,
The Citizens of America
Please save America. We need more oil at cheaper prices from you. Only you can save our nation. Only you can save the American, and thusly, the world's, economy.
We do have the technology, man power, and care to drill, refine (after building green refineries), and produce our own stockpiles of crude oil. We are fully capable of competing with you on the oil market. We have that capability. Yet, we are a true superpower and nearly half of our leaders feel guilty about that success.
So, we need your help to remain on top. We need you to produce more oil and lower your current asking prices. We know you have improved your production over and over again over the last 8 years. We know you have helped us in the past. It hasn't been the extensive, economy-saving help we have asked for or needed, but we do thank you for everything you do.
We will send our lame-duck President to grovel at your feet. He will marvel at the 24K gold, diamond-encrusted, platinum-coated-engined Mercedes-Benz. He will praise the beauty and success of your country, ignoring the starving masses five kilometers from your palace. He will comment, "What opium-producing farms are they talking about here?"
We listen to environmentalist wack-os who tell us oil is evil...and watch them drive away in their gas-guzzling Suburbans, Escalades, and Tahoes. We will let the Democratic party lay roadblocks to our independence from your oil because yours is so much cleaner and more environmentally safe than we could ever drill and produce.
Our national security and our economy will play second fiddle to the unproven and unrealistic Global Warming phenomenon. We will rely on semi-friendly psuedo-allies for our energy needs instead of harvesting our own resources.
We need your help. If you so choose. If not, we will just continue to pay whatever you ask, because we need you.
We just are content to let our own oil sit 200 feet beneath our land. We are content to hope that you will have mercy on us out of the goodness of your hearts.
Sincerely,
The Citizens of America
Monday, March 5, 2007
ALgore and the hypocrasy of the Liberal Left
To hear Al Gore and the left tell it, you and I average Americans are the only ones responsible for any possible pollution and damage to the Earth and this mystery called "Global Warming."
In 30 years, we went from a Global Cooling and possible Ice Age on the horizon to a Global Warming of catostrophic proportions. And it is you and my fault...and not anyone on the left.
And to compensate for our misuse and abuse of the Earth, they are now buying and selling Carbon Offsets.
What is a Carbon Offset? It is a deed or activity done to offset the damage done by one's carbon emmissions. You drive an SUV and emit so much carbon exhaust, you can pay a company to offset those emmissions by planting trees or "researching" ways to trap methane from cow flatulence...yes, you could offset your damage to the Earth by paying a company to figure out how to TRAP COW FARTS.
I am not a psychic, but I do see some cow emmissions...but its from a bull and its not in gaseous form, if you catch my drift.
Yet, with near unlimited financial resources and connections, these same preachers of the gospel of anti-carbon emmissions and carbon offset purchases, these same people do anything but try to lead by example. They drive their Hummers and Escalades and stretch limos...fly in private jets and private jumbo jets...air condition barns full of their own movie and personal memorabelia...air condition or heat empty homes that they stay in only once every so often. The cast of your average Hollywood production emits more carbon and pollution that the rest of the country combined...yet they dare preach to us.
The city of Hong Kong uses twice as much energy as the United States...yet why doesn't Al Gore fly there in his fuel-guzzling private jet to preach to them about carbon offsets? Why? Because the Chinese would see through his B.S. and laugh his psycho comb-over out of the country.
Yet here, Leo DiCaprio and Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn all jump on this bandwagon and cheer for the idea that paying a for-profit company to research trapping cow farts will offset their wasteful use of energy, gas, and other resources.
Why do people buy into the hypocrasy without question? I don't get why America doesn't tell these morons to shut up and get off my TV.
In 30 years, we went from a Global Cooling and possible Ice Age on the horizon to a Global Warming of catostrophic proportions. And it is you and my fault...and not anyone on the left.
And to compensate for our misuse and abuse of the Earth, they are now buying and selling Carbon Offsets.
What is a Carbon Offset? It is a deed or activity done to offset the damage done by one's carbon emmissions. You drive an SUV and emit so much carbon exhaust, you can pay a company to offset those emmissions by planting trees or "researching" ways to trap methane from cow flatulence...yes, you could offset your damage to the Earth by paying a company to figure out how to TRAP COW FARTS.
I am not a psychic, but I do see some cow emmissions...but its from a bull and its not in gaseous form, if you catch my drift.
Yet, with near unlimited financial resources and connections, these same preachers of the gospel of anti-carbon emmissions and carbon offset purchases, these same people do anything but try to lead by example. They drive their Hummers and Escalades and stretch limos...fly in private jets and private jumbo jets...air condition barns full of their own movie and personal memorabelia...air condition or heat empty homes that they stay in only once every so often. The cast of your average Hollywood production emits more carbon and pollution that the rest of the country combined...yet they dare preach to us.
The city of Hong Kong uses twice as much energy as the United States...yet why doesn't Al Gore fly there in his fuel-guzzling private jet to preach to them about carbon offsets? Why? Because the Chinese would see through his B.S. and laugh his psycho comb-over out of the country.
Yet here, Leo DiCaprio and Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn all jump on this bandwagon and cheer for the idea that paying a for-profit company to research trapping cow farts will offset their wasteful use of energy, gas, and other resources.
Why do people buy into the hypocrasy without question? I don't get why America doesn't tell these morons to shut up and get off my TV.
Monday, September 11, 2006
Five Years Ago...
Five years ago today, I was sitting at the controls of WWJD Eagle 91.7 FM, Alice Lloyd's college radio station. My friend Aaron Goff and I were hosting a morning show and just having a good time trying to entertain. At a little past 9 am, we get word that the World Trade Centers are on fire.
We start to watch the news. We see plane number 2 hit. We see the split screen where a plane has hit the Pentagon, but at first we thought it was just a different view of what is going on. The whole time we are so confused. What is going on? Then, the tower fell. Then the second. I knew that we were at war.
I was sad. I was confused. I was pissed off. I was running in circles wanting to help. What could I do? Drive to DC or NYC and just pitch in? Here is the greatest tragedy in American history and I am powerless to help.
There is rarely a day that goes by that I don't think about that day and the anger, rage, sadness, and fear I felt. Being a child of the 1980's, the movie Red Dawn kept playing in my head. I knew that if it came to that, I would definitely be a Wolverine. But, I was stuck in Kentucky powerless to do anything. All we could do was pray, talk to each other, and be scared, sad, and mad.
As did most Americans, we did what we could. There was no way I could drive my car 1,000 miles to NYC to help. Most likely, I would be sent home and be kicked out of school. So, I did, and continue to do so, what I can do to make sure that 9-11 isn't just a bump in American history.
Every year I watch a 9-11 Documentary and every year I will help spread the word and spread the reminder of what we lost that day. Sadly, more and more people are tuning out their initial response to 9-11. People are forgetting. They are ignoring. They are letting 9-11-01 drift into historic obscurity.
We cannot forget. There are still empty chairs at dinner. There are holes in family trees. There are broken hearts still healing. There is a gaping hole in the middle of Manhattan that resembles the hole in America. We cannot forget the true meaning of what happened 5 years ago. Remembering is the best way to prevent it from happening again.
People ask for a national day of rememberance, a day of no work and no school. I think that is stupid.
9-11 should be the one day where attendance is 100%. As a nation, we should simply show up. Go to work. Go to school. Do what you normally should be doing. Attendance has to be 100%. The reason 9-11 happened was a bunch of renegade animals who have corrupted a peaceful religion decided to interfere with America and our daily lives. They wanted to scare us into our homes and scare us from going through our normal routine. So, in response to that, we should, as one nation UNDER GOD, show up. And, in one voice, tell those scum that we will not surrender, we will now cower to their cowardly attacks. We are Americans, dammit, and there's not a damn thing you can do to stop us.
We start to watch the news. We see plane number 2 hit. We see the split screen where a plane has hit the Pentagon, but at first we thought it was just a different view of what is going on. The whole time we are so confused. What is going on? Then, the tower fell. Then the second. I knew that we were at war.
I was sad. I was confused. I was pissed off. I was running in circles wanting to help. What could I do? Drive to DC or NYC and just pitch in? Here is the greatest tragedy in American history and I am powerless to help.
There is rarely a day that goes by that I don't think about that day and the anger, rage, sadness, and fear I felt. Being a child of the 1980's, the movie Red Dawn kept playing in my head. I knew that if it came to that, I would definitely be a Wolverine. But, I was stuck in Kentucky powerless to do anything. All we could do was pray, talk to each other, and be scared, sad, and mad.
As did most Americans, we did what we could. There was no way I could drive my car 1,000 miles to NYC to help. Most likely, I would be sent home and be kicked out of school. So, I did, and continue to do so, what I can do to make sure that 9-11 isn't just a bump in American history.
Every year I watch a 9-11 Documentary and every year I will help spread the word and spread the reminder of what we lost that day. Sadly, more and more people are tuning out their initial response to 9-11. People are forgetting. They are ignoring. They are letting 9-11-01 drift into historic obscurity.
We cannot forget. There are still empty chairs at dinner. There are holes in family trees. There are broken hearts still healing. There is a gaping hole in the middle of Manhattan that resembles the hole in America. We cannot forget the true meaning of what happened 5 years ago. Remembering is the best way to prevent it from happening again.
People ask for a national day of rememberance, a day of no work and no school. I think that is stupid.
9-11 should be the one day where attendance is 100%. As a nation, we should simply show up. Go to work. Go to school. Do what you normally should be doing. Attendance has to be 100%. The reason 9-11 happened was a bunch of renegade animals who have corrupted a peaceful religion decided to interfere with America and our daily lives. They wanted to scare us into our homes and scare us from going through our normal routine. So, in response to that, we should, as one nation UNDER GOD, show up. And, in one voice, tell those scum that we will not surrender, we will now cower to their cowardly attacks. We are Americans, dammit, and there's not a damn thing you can do to stop us.
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