Re: NOT ON TOPIC - Blame Clinton, greens for high gas prices

On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:27:15 -1000, "W. Maynard tawanda11@xxxxxxxxxxx"
<tawanda11@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Blame Clinton, greens for high gas prices
Posted: April 26, 2008
1:00 am Eastern

© 2008

With gas prices now yon-side of $3.50 per gallon, wouldn't it be great to
have an extra million barrels of domestic oil flowing daily into the
American pipeline? Blame William Jefferson Clinton, who vetoed a bill in
1995 that would have opened the Alaska reserves that could have been
producing much-needed domestic energy today.

Blame the green environmental extremists who block every effort to expand
domestic energy supply, whether in offshore oil reserves, expansion of
clean coal production, or the construction of new nuclear energy
facilities. It's just plain dumb to allow the shortage of readily available
energy to drive prices so high that the entire economy and food supply are
in jeopardy.

The fear-mongering extremists bring up the "global warming" hobgoblin every
time a new initiative is introduced to increase the energy supply.
Atmospheric carbon dioxide from human activity makes little or no
difference to the climate.

The one thing on which scientists agree is that atmospheric carbon dioxide
is currently about 375 parts-per-million. Eighty percent of this carbon is
naturally occurring and would be in the atmosphere had oil never been
discovered. The remaining 20 percent, or about 75 ppm, is generally
attributed to all the smokestacks and automobiles and lawnmowers humans
have created.

Could all carbon dioxide produced by humans be eliminated from the
atmosphere, the difference would be undetectable. Visualize an Olympic-size
swimming pool containing the standard 660,253.9 gallons of water. The
average depth would be 7.48 feet. Remove the percentage of water equal to
manmade carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and the new average depth of the
pool would be 7.452 feet. Undetectable!

A reduction of 75 ppm of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would make no
difference on any thermometer. And it would take total elimination of all
manmade carbon dioxide to achieve this number. The Kyoto Protocol, had it
been fully implemented, would have reduced carbon dioxide by only about 1
ppm.

These results are simply not worth banning the use of fossil fuels.

Environmental extremists prefer to mandate the expanded use of ethanol,
rather than using abundant oil supplies. This alternative produces less
energy per gallon of fuel than gasoline, while driving the price of food
upward, causing riots and forcing the cultivation of more land where
wildlife can no longer flourish.

Environmental extremists wring their hands and cry crocodile tears at the
thought of "ruining" the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge by using only
2,000 of the 18 million acres for oil production. But they seem to have no
problems with the idea of covering millions of acres in the southwest with
solar panels.

Environmental extremists celebrate their victory in banning DDT to save
birds. But they have no problem with miles and miles of wind turbines that
slaughter millions of birds every year. Nor do they seem to have any
sympathy for the millions of people who have died from malaria as a direct
result of the ban on DDT.

Big oil is not to blame for the high price of gasoline; the blame must fall
squarely in the lap of the environmental extremists who use propaganda and
fear-mongering to block the increases in the production of readily
available fossil fuels. There are sufficient reserves of coal to last about
200 years. Despite Jimmy Carter's 1970s declaration that the world would be
out of oil by 2000, and considering the anticipated increase in demand,
there are enough known oil reserves to last at least 60 years. This energy
should be available now.

Of course, research should continue to find abundant, affordable energy
supplies for the future. But forcing technology to advance by arbitrarily
and unnecessarily prohibiting the use of currently available energy
supplies makes no sense. The price of both existing supplies and
alternative technology is artificially increased. To write this foolishness
into law is even worse.

Every time government sticks its nose into the marketplace and attempts to
manage it, government makes a mess. The ethanol mandate, for example,
inevitably results in price increases for food ? for everyone. The
arbitrary increase in fuel efficiency standards inevitably results in
smaller, lighter automobiles ? and more crash-related deaths. The much
touted cap-and-trade program for carbon emissions will inevitably result in
taking money out of the pockets of wage-earners and transfer it to the
pockets of people like Al Gore, who created the "hot-air" store and sells
his goods only because government forces people to buy them.

Every time a person fills up at the pump, he should visualize the billions
of barrels of oil that are waiting in Alaska, and the billions of barrels
of oil that are waiting in the Dakotas and Montana, and the billions of
barrels of oil that are waiting just off shore ? and curse the
environmental extremists who are forcing him to pay far more for his
transportation than is necessary.


This is a football newsgroup asswipe! If it's not on topic, then put
it where it IS on topic, you dimwitted fuckball!
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