RADICAL LEFTISTS ARE KEEPING GAS PRICES HIGH
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- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:46:11 -0700 (PDT)
RADICAL LEFTISTS ARE KEEPING GAS PRICES HIGH
By: John Bender
Colorado Senator Ken Salazar, a Democrat, got pissy last week after
broadcast journalist and political commentator, Rush Limbaugh, rightly
pointed out that Salazar and other political hacks are preventing
America from tapping our vast domestic resources and becoming energy
independent, lowering gasoline prices, and creating new high paying
jobs. Nor did he like it that Mr. Limbaugh pointed out that Salazar
campaigns under the false flag of a moderate but once in office votes
with the radical leftists like Reed, Palosi, Boxer, and Obama to keep
America dependent on imported oil.
The United States has more oil deposits than the entire Middle East,
but liberals don’t want the American people to know that. Just the
shale oil in Colorado and parts of Utah that Salazar is keeping us
from tapping is enough to make us oil independent and to drive prices
down.
“Colorado and Utah have as much oil as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq,
Venezuela, Nigeria, Kuwait, Libya, Angola, Algeria, Indonesia, Qatar
and the United Arab Emirates combined.
That's not science fiction. Trapped in limestone up to 200 feet thick
in the two Rocky Mountain states is enough so-called shale oil to
rival OPEC and supply the U.S. for a century.
Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp., the two biggest U.S. energy
companies, and Royal Dutch Shell Plc are spending $100 million a year
testing new methods to separate the oil from the stone for as little
as $30 a barrel.” - Oil shale — Colorado, Utah deposits rival OPEC,
By Joe Carroll, Bloomberg News, Published: Sunday, June 10, 2007
That vast supply of domestic oil doesn’t include the massive deposits
in ANWAR, or off our East and West Coasts or the huge supply of oil in
U.S. waters off the Gulf of Mexico. Nor does it include the even more
massive deposits of oil in North and South Dakota and Montana. The
Energy Information Administration (EIA) conservatively estimates just
the Bakken Field reserves at 503 billion barrels.
While Pelosi flits around in a taxpayer supplied 757 that burns
150,000 gallons of fuel per round trip from D.C. to California with
her family and friends and a crew of 16 to wait on them hand and foot
and uses more fuel in a year than a small U.S. city, she, Salazar,
Boxer, Reed, Obama and other radical leftists are blocking drilling
our vast domestic supply of oil. Their answer to their subjects being
stuck with $4.00 plus per gallon gasoline is to raise mandated
Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFÉ) standards.
But every study by reputable organizations and the government show
that CAFÉ standards cause traffic deaths. A National Research Council
report found that the standards implemented in the 1970s and 1980s
"probably resulted in an additional 1,300 to 2,600 traffic fatalities
in 1993. A Harvard Center for Risk Analysis study found that CAFE
standards led to "2,200 to 3,900 additional fatalities to motorists
per year. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's 2007 data show
a correlation of about 250-500 fatalities per year per MPG.
So, since a Democrat controlled Congress imposed CAFÉ standards in
1975 they have killed more Americans than wars or terrorists have in
that same period. Now, their answer to high gasoline prices and our
dependence on imported oil is to kill even more Americans. Maybe they
think that having fewer living Americans will decrease demand for oil.
But probably not, since there is no evidence whatsoever that Salazar,
Pelosi, Reed, Boxer or Obama has any understanding of the law of
supply and demand.
We have plenty of oil. There are huge oil discoveries around the
world on a regular basis. We also have more coal than anyone else in
the world (about a 200 year supply) and abundant supplies of natural
gas. All we need is the political will to replace the radical
leftists who are standing in the way of harvesting those assets with
politicians who put the good of the country and the people ahead of
their radical political agenda.
There is no energy crisis. There is a political crisis. Radical
political hacks are manipulating the supply of oil to advance their
own agenda. We can drill our way out of this mess if we take care of
the political problem.
"Published originally at EtherZone.com : republication allowed with
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John Bender is a freelance writer living in Dallas, Texas. He is a
former staff writer for EtherZone and his columns have appeared in
various print and internet publications.
John Bender can be reached at: jbender@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Published in the July 28, 2008 issue of Ether Zone.
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