Marxist America
June 19th, 2008Marxist America
It’s Closer Than You Think
House Democrats yesterday called for the government to own refineries so it could better control the flow of the oil supply.
Representative Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) said “We (the government) should own the refineries. Then we can control how much gets out into the market.”
Excuse me Rep. Hinchey… It appears that you might need some help removing your head from your ass.
Honestly, who the fuck votes for these imbeciles?
The last thing our country needs is the government owning anything related to oil, gasoline, or refineries.
What is the government’s track record on:
- Public schools?
- Social Security?
- Veterans Hospitals?
- FEMA?
- Balancing budgets?
- Tax code?
- Immigration?
- Border enforcement?
Government control of services and consumer goods has another name by definition: Socialism.
Change
May 20th, 2008Change
Yeah, Right.
The geniuses in Washington D.C. continue to amaze me with their incompetance.
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives (Democrat controlled by the way) passed a bill allowing the U.S. to sue OPEC for high oil prices.
In part:
The House overwhelmingly approved legislation Tuesday allowing the Justice Department to sue OPEC members for limiting oil supplies and working together to set crude prices, but the White House threatened to veto the measure.
The bill would subject OPEC oil producers, including Saudi Arabia, Iran and Venezuela, to the same antitrust laws that U.S. companies must follow.
Yeah, this is going to work out real well…
First, such an action is not enforceable. Does anyone really think the Saudis give a rat’s ass what American courts “order” them to do? They have the oil, they win.
Second, take a guess at how quickly such an action will push OPEC to sell yet more oil to China, and less to the U.S.
All this in order to try to tell voters they did “something” about gas prices. It’s a very sad situation that our representatives have drafted this legislation that has no basis in international law and is so belligerent that even Bush has threatened a veto if it passes due to the obvious consequences.
The members of Congress who drafted this and those who voted in favor should have their balls nailed to the wall - because this is a clear showing of incompetence and lack of understanding of the even basics of Law and Governance.
Stop Hugging Trees
May 17th, 2008Stop Hugging Trees
And The Moose
I don’t want to go off on a rant here, but are you feeling the pinch at the pump yet? Gasoline is a very affordable $3.75 here today. That, by the way, translates into $15 just for my lawn mower gas.
I don’t know about you, but I’ve had about enough of the hemorrhaging of American dollars to the middle east.
Clearly we need to put research and development for alternative fuel sources on the fast track here in the United States.
Auto factories should be pumping out hybrid vehicles faster than Michelle “It’s a vagina, not a clown car” Duggar can spawn new babies. Maybe the geniuses in Washington should subsidize hybrids rather than put forth half-baked “tax rebate” schemes which only pump more money back to Saudi Arabia.
And, for Christ’s sakes we don’t want to further perpetuate the problem by building any more fossil fuel power plants. We need more hydro, more solar, more wind, and obviously more nuclear. Build them now.
Begin building several new oil refineries in strategic locations throughout the country. And, by “strategic” I mean “not in the fucking hurricane alley or on top of a major fault line”, like the current location of some of our refineries. Again, fast track these… You know those thousands of Mexicans crossing the border illegally every day? Round them up and ship them to the refinery construction sites. When the job is complete, give them citizenship - they will have done more for the country than most of our politicians have for the past two decades.
For the short term, drill.
Drill ANWR. Drill off the coast of California, Massachusetts, and Florida. I don’t care if it causes sterile polar bears or dolphins. They’ll survive. Drill the massive oil reserves in North Dakota.
ANWR alone has ample petroleum reserves to supply more than 5% of our oil for at least the next 12 years.
If there is even the slightest chance that any parcel of land might be sitting atop oil, drill it. I don’t care if it’s my back yard or the front lawn of the White House.
Or, you can sit back and wait for oil to hit $200 per barrel and gasoline to hit $5 per gallon, and bitch about how much it costs. At least you know the polar bears will be able to continue their active sex lives up in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Of course that’s just my opinion, I could be wrong…
