Re: Discover who is REALLY behind the oil prices


"Horatio Fudruckerton" <none@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Pudsucker


> It's the liberal/marxists of this country. They have been
> working for years to destroy this country and they are
> coming mighty close.
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> WHO'S REALLY BEHIND
> SOARING OIL PRICES?
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> By: Phil Brennan
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> When you stand at the gas pump and watch those numbers spin by so fast
> you can't read them keep in mind that the soaring price of gasoline is
> no accident - it is the work of a new fifth column.
>
> Back in the 30s and 40s people who aided and abetted the enemy were
> known as Fifth Columnists - a term coined during the Spanish Civil War
> when rebel sympathizers inside Madrid worked against their
> Soviet-backed enemy from within, while four columns of fellow rebels
> were attacking the city from outside.
>
> For many years the United States has been the target of another brand
> of fifth columnists, covert Marxists who by their subversive
> activities, clothed in the mantle of citizens concerned with the
> environment, have played havoc with the economy of this nation and the
> freedoms of the American people.
>
> While their campaigns have for the most part been carried out in the
> open, their sinister motives and behind-the-scenes manipulations have
> been well hidden and can be discerned only by observing the damage
> they have done, such as ruinous hikes in the cost of gasoline and
> heating oil and the deliberately created scarcity of abundant energy
> resources.
>
> This fifth column is rich and powerful. Just one environmental group,
> the Sierra Club, can boast of an annual budget of tens of millions of
> dollars and almost 600,000 members. Their political contributions
> reach into the millions. A Sierra Club attack on a Congressman's
> environmental voting record no matter how distorted can be a kiss of
> death. As a result when the Sierra Club talks, Congress listens - and
> acts. And another set of regulations ruinous to the economy and the
> individual freedom of Americans gets on the books.
>
> And the Sierra Club is just one of the many so-called "Green" lobbying
> groups busy savaging the economy and putting shackles on ordinary
> Americans powerless to resist the flood of restrictions imposed on
> them from above by bureaucrats who are forced to comply with the
> thousands of regulations and laws affecting their agencies, that have
> been imposed on our national economy, affecting all the rest of us.
>
> As Alan Caruba has observed "One of the first actions 'the government'
> took was the Environmental Protection Agency announcement that it was
> suspending the idiotic mandates requiring countless different
> formulations of gasoline, to insure that a sufficient supply was
> available nationwide. In one state after another, these mandates
> insure that different formulations are required in different areas of
> the same state."
>
> Those idiotic regulations are the result of the environmental fifth
> column's political clout.
>
> To get to the heart of the matter it is important to understand what
> got us into this mess, and the part that the fifth column played in
> it.
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> The sudden rise in the cost of oil which translated itself into pump
> prices was the application of the law of supply and demand - there are
> more and more consumers of petroleum without a corresponding increase
> in the supplies of black gold. The Chinese, for example have abandoned
> rickshaws in favor of gas guzzling automobiles and their demand for
> oil is getting astronomical.
>
> That was bad enough, but along came Katrina and Rita both of which
> curtailed refining of crude oil supplies from here and abroad. That's
> the part of the story of our present situation. But it's only a tiny
> part of the energy crisis now afflicting the U.S.
>
> Thanks to the environmental fifth column the United States has been
> unable to take advantage of its own crude oil supplies. Abundant
> supplies of crude oil beneath the U.S. mainland and offshore, locked
> in shale deposits, and in Alaska's North Slope remain untapped thanks
> to the environmentalists who have stopped development of our natural
> oil resources.
>
> Given an abundant supply of crude oil however, we are still in
> trouble. Crude oil must be refined before it can become gasoline or
> fuel oil. Thanks to the fifth column, which has managed to have
> Congress and local governments impose crippling regulations on their
> construction and operations, we have not built a refinery in over 30
> years and even if we cut all the red tape and start now with a crash
> program of refinery construction it will be years before they can come
> on line. In the meantime, gasoline and heating oil will be one of the
> biggest items on our household budgets.
>
> The environmentalist lobbies and their Democrat and liberal allies
> keep chanting about the need for the development of new sources of
> energy while at the same time having done everything in their power
> for years to prevent the use of an alternative technology long
> available - nuclear energy.
>
> The electric power industry is one of the nation's prime consumers of
> petroleum - cut power plants out of the chain of petroleum consumers
> and the availability of gasoline and fuel oil increases by multiples
> that boggle the mind. And the more gasoline and fuel oil on the
> market, the cheaper it gets.
>
> Nuclear power can do the trick. It's been there for decades - a
> resource spurned because of the scare tactics of the environmentalist
> fifth column - tactics that have created false alarms about the
> imaginary dangers posed by nuclear power plants.
>
> In 1954 the late Admiral Lewis Strauss said that atomic energy would
> make electricity "too cheap to meter." Providing that energy however,
> proved to be anything but cheap.
>
> According to Tom Bethel in the September issue of the American
> Spectator, since 1979, no new nuclear facilities not already under
> order have been built. We had the magic wand for the energy crisis,
> and we simply threw it away.
>
> Two events contributed to the decision to walk away from the nuclear
> solution - the explosion of a nuclear reactor in Chernobyl in the
> Ukraine and the incident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant
> in Pennsylvania.
>
> The environmental fifth columnist exploited both incidents, ignoring
> the facts. In Chernobyl the plant lacked even a semblance of the
> protections built into U.S. power plants and at Three Mile Island
> there was only a small release of radioactivity that harmed not a
> single human being.
>
> Wrote Bethel "No one was hurt, but the anti-nukes, who had been
> opposing nuclear power with every trick in the book, it was a dream
> come true. Loony-bin activists took to the streets. *** Gregory
> pledged at a demonstration that he would eat no solid food until all
> nuclear pants in the U.S. were shut down."
>
> He must have gone back on that pledge because he's still chomping away
> on veggies despite the fact that there are 104 nuclear power plants
> now functioning in the U.S. and providing 20 percent of our electric
> power.
>
> The U.S. did not give up on nuclear power. Bethel points out that
> there are 83 ships equipped with 105 reactors sailing the seas today,
> and there has not been a single accident.
>
> Bethel says that some environmentalists are now getting on the side of
> nuclear power, but over the past half century they were the main
> reason why we never took advantage of a cheap, clean non-polluting
> source of energy.
>
> How did they do it? Simply by scaring the wits out of the American
> people. Nuclear power always had one great vulnerability," Bethel
> explained. "Many people find it difficult to distinguish between
> nuclear power and nuclear weapons."
>
> It is a false idea, easily disposed of by those who understand the
> nature of both but difficult and complicated to explain - a perfect
> situation for demagogues anxious to exploit public fears even though
> they are irrational. Bethel launches into a long explanation of the
> difference between nuclear power and nukes but it boils down to this:
> With a small amount of an enriched blend of U-238 - nukes deal with
> dangerous U-235 - the chain reaction created occurs slowly. Instead of
> exploding as in a nuke, Bethel explains that "it merely fizzles. Heat
> is generated and if this [uranium rod] heating element is immersed in
> water, the water boils. That creates steam, which drives a turbine,
> which generates something useful, called electricity. And that's all
> there is to it. A nuclear reactor is a big kettle. It's internal
> element, consisting of uranium rods, heats up and boils water."
>
> The eco-fifth columnists at the top of the environmental movement know
> all this, but that has not stopped them from creating a frightening
> scenario based on nothing but their desire to deceive their nuclear
> uninformed and trusting followers and the general public, who would
> not know a nuclear reactor from a coffee grinder.
>
> The next time you stand at the pump and watch your hard earned dollars
> go gushing into your car's fuel tank, remember who did this to you.
> And this is hardly the least of the crimes committed by the
> environmental fifth column. In the name of the socialist doctrine they
> conceal within their breasts, they have imprisoned you and our fellow
> Americans in a web of destructive regulations that are slowly
> strangling out economy.
>
> And that's what they want. When the economy hits bottom, they have
> Karl Marx waiting in the wings to take charge.
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> "Published originally at EtherZone.com : republication allowed with
> this notice and hyperlink intact."
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> http://www.etherzone.com/2005/bren092805.shtml
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> Republicans Rule - Dims Drool
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> A vote for a liberal is a vote
> FOR COMMUNISM !!!


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