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July 25, 2008

Exclusive: Yes, We Can Drill Our Way out of This Mess

J.D. Longstreet

You know what is frustrating? Having a problem and having the answer to that problem within reach but being prevented, by the government, from utilizing that answer to solve the problem. And it happens to be right where we Americans find ourselves today.

We don't have enough oil. Well, actually we do have enough oil, only the government won't let us get at it. You see, we currently have a bunch of intellectual midgets in charge of the U.S. government and they are driving our country to ruin… and seemingly loving every minute of it!

If you think the American economy is bad now, you ain't seen nothin’ yet! And, listen up, citizens of the world! If America goes down… you go down, too.

Oil is the fuel that powers the American engine of democracy. It drives everything about this republic. The business of America is business. We're a capitalist society. If business suffers, America suffers. Businesses closing down because of high fuel costs means there will be Americans out of jobs. Americans out of jobs means higher unemployment rates and a bigger drain on the U.S. treasury, which means, inevitably, higher taxes for all of us, which means more small businesses will have to close their doors because they cannot afford to do business, which means more Americans out of jobs… and the cycle continues. No matter how you dissect it, the business of America is business. Without it, we will implode and fairly quickly.

We are on the edge of the precipice these days and we have no leadership in Washington we can count on to do what is truly needed. Since the inception of the 110th Congress, America seems to be grinding to a halt. Their emotion-based decisions and feel-good tendencies look good on paper (to some) but are totally worthless when there is an attempt at implementation. Common sense has no place in a world of "make believe" such as the liberals are busy constructing.

Those of us who live out here in the real world can't survive on the good intentions of a Congress so out of touch with reality as the one we have now.

Out here in the real world, we need oil. We know we already have sources of oil on lands owned by the people of America to satisfy those needs and yet the… er… leaders… in D.C. deny us that oil, thereby forcing us to purchase the oil we need from nations that despise us and "soak" us for every penny they can squeeze out of us for a barrel of oil. The fault for the awful prices at the gas pump and fuel to heat our homes can be laid directly at the feet of the U.S. Congress. See, they are going to save us from ourselves. They are going to save the world from as yet unproven man-made global warming, which (in my opinion) is another scam dreamed up by an international cabal of con men.

The U.S. needs oil, a fact of life as we know it. Without it, America will implode. We won't be able to produce and transport food from the farm to our tables. Many medicines depend on petroleum. Take a look at the labels in the clothing you are wearing: chances are very good that the fabric is made, at least partly, with a petroleum product - even the shoes on your feet.

Financially, I will venture to say America will have a recession on a scale much larger than anything Americans living today have ever experienced. It will be crippling nationally and personally. Have you looked at your 401K lately? I looked at mine and I shuddered.

We have the oil we need and plenty of it. The oil is off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, on the outer continental shelf, in ANWR, in shale rock in our western states and in tar sands, but our "leaders" have put drilling off shore and in federally controlled lands off-limits. Sen. Orin Hatch, Republican of Utah, is quoted as saying,"We have as much oil in oil shale in Utah, Wyoming and Colorado as the rest of the world's oil combined." 

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