The Deadly Season

It is the quadrennial silly season. There is nothing better than a US presidential election to bring out the crackpots, the liars and the masters of doublespeak. And some of us voted these performers into Congress. That’s the silly part of the equation. The rest is deadly.

These elected clowns and their toadies in the media have turned the energy crises into theater of the absurd. Their world must be suspended in ether somewhere between the Twilight Zone and Saturday Night Live. It’s difficult to pinpoint the exact location. But it’s obvious that they live in a parallel universe.

Their definition of truth is whatever they can sell to 51% of the American electorate. Their definition of a fact is any statement concocted from vapor which supports their agenda. And they are gambling with our nation’s economic longevity.

These facts are not in dispute: 1) The US has greater oil reserves than Saudi Arabia, 2) The footprint required to drill in ANWR (Alaska) would be comparable in size to an airport, 3) Including the extraction of oil from shale, the US has greater reserves than the Middle East, and 4) The US must rapidly implement technologies to replace fossil fuels.

Who are these dangerous fools?

Generally speaking, these are the nitwits that dominate the politics in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Washington, Minnesota, Maryland, New York, California and a large chunk of Oregon. They have the same respect for America’s prosperity and security that illegal aliens have for sovereign borders.

If they had an energy flagship, it would be called the USS SinkMe. These twits would have us believe that the US can achieve energy independence without a short term (20 years) fossil fuel solution. They turned off the US spigot with the signature of that incomparable visionary, President Clinton.

These are the doomsayers that rail against coal fired energy in the US. Evidently they aren’t aware that planet earth shares the same atmosphere with the foreign countries that purchase and use this coal for generating electricity.

These are the energy clairvoyants who have blocked the development of nuclear energy, a pollution free energy source used throughout Europe for generations. And for good measure, for over thirty years, they have retarded the construction of oil refineries with esoteric government regulations.

These agrarian society devotees pushed ethanol down our throats without a care about the impact on the price of food. Europe is outraged that the cost of its foodstuffs has nearly doubled since this US taxpayer subsidized boondoggle began.

The flooding in Iowa will compound the cost of grain as millions of acres of crops were destroyed. You can safely bet these myopic fools hadn’t considered the consequences of natural disasters. It is equally clear that they don’t give a wit if American family budgets are hammered into mush.

These are the doom and gloom prognosticators that have willingly, and with malice, handed over the keys of our economic survival to our enemies. These socialists hate this country, they hate capitalism and they are ashamed of our strength and success. That’s why they lie about global warming by pretending to know its cause.

That’s why they are thrilled with the prospect of Senator Obama leading this country into economic ruin. He epitomizes their vision of America’s future.