First of all I want to thank all of you who have voted in my polls and posted comments on the site. All of your feedback was very helpful. I apologize for the not so reader friendly text - I'm working on presenting my enlightened ideas in a more visually pleasing manner.
So...... I'm reading the headlines and the price of oil just dropped 9$ a barrel today upon President Bush's decision to remove the current moratorium on offshore drilling in the United States. With oil companies permitted to drill in the oil rich waters in the Gulf of Mexico and off Southern California, an influx of oil to the American market should help reduce prices over the next decade or so. I have to give Bushee a thumbs up for this one as I support increased drilling in order to alleviate the burden of obscenely high gas and home heating oil prices on lower and middle income Americans. Sorry Greenpeace - I love the dolphins, whales, spotted owls, even the fucking Caribou, but I care more about people, namely Americans getting fucked by these prices.
And........ Bush's energy policy kind of stops there. Sure, he's paid lip service and meagerly funded some alternative energy research but he made absolutely no commitment towards ending our dependence on foreign oil or making a transition towards alternative energy sources. You put two oil men in the White House and what the fuck do you expect to happen? Cha Ching$$$$$
Now we get to the part the really pisses me off... When asked whether Americans should attempt to conserve energy, President Bush replied: "They're smart enough to figure out whether they're going to drive less or not." Haha, do you really expect Bushy to ask Americans to conserve? Americans conserve = Big Oil takes less money from Americans = Bush's oil buddies get really pissed off, join the Minutemen, and start shooting Mexicans cause they have to wait an extra year before buying their new fucking G5. So we'd better not get Bush's oil buddies upset by.... gasp.... trying to conserve energy. I mean who gives a fuck if Greenland is melting, storms are getting stronger, fires more severe, and heat waves more deadly? Oh yea, and no matter how much we drill oil won't be around all that much longer. But why conserve? Although nobody really listens to anything Bush says anymore.... my call to my fellow Americans is CONSERVE!!! Help us end our dependence on foreign oil and stop destroying our environment. Anybody can use 15% percent fewer resources in their daily lives without inconveniencing them if they really think about it.
It's a sad fact that during 8 critical years during which America could have taken so many steps to reduce its carbon emissions and decrease its dependence on oil from the Middle East, we have done NOTHING.... Just another way Bush has worked to fuck over America and the rest of the world.... psychotic fuckhead...... Bush's environmental policy is so disastrous that one of John McCain's commercials emphasizes how McCain stood up to Bush on climate change... Even his fellow conservative republicans are kind of pissed off how the Bush Administration took a giant shit on the earth for eight years.
How about a simple energy policy that makes sense? Fuck SUVS.... we need substantial increases in fuel economy standards for all vehicles sold in the US NOW. And we need to make a real commitment towards alternative energy research... a Manhattan Project of sorts in which the greatest scientific minds can work together in order to fix the looming energy and climate crisis facing the world... Just another way for Bush to cement his legacy as one of the worst presidents in American history...
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Alternative energy resources that hopefully do not include Ethanol. So far I'm a fan of Obama's character, but his pathetic pandering to the Ethanol lobby sickens me. Dumping billions into that industry, as he has promised to do, results in a trifecta of shitty results: Massively reducing one of the cheapest food supplies there is, corn, which millions of poor families depend on; delaying the research and funds that could otherwise go to MORE EFFICIENT fuel supplies, as obviously ethanol has a much lower energy output than oil; and screwing over an opportunity to invest nationally (hedging and securing our fucked up budget) in emerging markets, such as switchgrass in the midwestern plains or Brazil's much more efficient cane-based ethanol product. I still believe the opportunity for entrepeneurs to take some initiative and develop a true oil-killer is ripe; gas prices will keep climbing, and soon the American public will only be too glad to make the switch, however inconvenient it is.
Barack really lets me down here. Shows his sycophantic side and reinforces my belief that he actually knows very little about industry. I do think Romney was the only man with actual proficiency in these areas...
-alec
Alec,
Very thought provoking post my friend, much appreciated.
I couldn't agree more on the point about ethanol. It is certainly not the answer to our energy problems and politicians use the issue to pander shamelessly to farmers. In fact, most government farm assistance is bullshit as a lot of it goes to large, highly profitable corporate farms and does nothing to help the quickly disappearing "family farmers" that the money is intended to assist. You have to give Barack credit though on advocating very strick fuel efficiency standards. Reducing consumption is a big part of the equation.
And dude what the fuck, Romney? I don't think we're gonna see eye to eye on that one: the guy's a complete phony who ran Mass as a progressive republican and then pandered to the right wingers in the primaries... no way that reactionary fuckhead is the man for the job... Go Barack!
See, you all were blasting me for putting humanity in front of the spotted owl a few weeks ago. Bastard! :p
It's an issue I feel the Democrats have fumbled... blind environmentalism in the face of human necessity for resources. Sure, saving the whales is great, but when Americans are sliding into economic ruin as a result of higher energy prices, how can you advocate conservation of wildlife?
Granted, your point is well made when you say the Bush Administration (and proponents of drilling in general) are less than enthusiastic about researching viable alternatives for the future. We should definitely begin investing in energy we can transition our infrastructure to. But drilling for now, I support.
Ivey,
I agree with you completely that we need to put human interests above extremist environmentalist concerns. Let's drill this whole fucking planet until we have every drop of its oil but that oil will run out in the not too distant future. I say we need a comprehensie energy policy which includes incentives for drilling but that also puts a greater emphasis on moving passsed an oil/carbon based economy.
-Artie
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