Sarah Palin lays out the fraudulent nature of Obama’s oil drilling program:
Many Americans fear that President Obama’s new energy proposal is once again “all talk and no real action,” this time in an effort to shore up fading support for the Democrats’ job-killing cap-and-trade (a.k.a. cap-and-tax) proposals. Behind the rhetoric lie new drilling bans and leasing delays; soon to follow are burdensome new environmental regulations. Instead of “drill, baby, drill,” the more you look into this the more you realize it’s “stall, baby, stall.”
Today the president said he’ll “consider potential areas for development in the mid and south Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico, while studying and protecting sensitive areas in the Arctic.” As the former governor of one of America’s largest energy-producing states, a state oil and gas commissioner, and chair of the nation’s Interstate Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, I’ve seen plenty of such studies. What we need is action — action that results in the job growth and revenue that a robust drilling policy could provide. And let’s not forget that while Interior Department bureaucrats continue to hold up actual offshore drilling from taking place, Russia is moving full steam ahead on Arctic drilling, and China, Russia, and Venezuela are buying leases off the coast of Cuba….
This does seem to be mere cover for “cap and trade” and, of course, as a way of deflecting blame if gas prices rocket up this summer (we’re already over $3 a gallon for premium out here in Las Vegas – and this with significant reductions in American gasoline consumption…we’re really in for it this summer, it seems). Its all just smoke and mirrors – as most of Obamunism really is, upon close inspection. The only thing for real about this guy is his desire for government control – outside of that, its all eyewash.
We have the oil to significantly reduce our imports as we do the generational transition away from gasoline-powered transportation. All we lack is the political desire to exploit our own wealth. This is all just part of something Chesterton observed – the plutocratic origins of progressive fads.
Saving the world is a grand thing – but its not to be saved for the average man or woman. No, they are to be jammed in to noisome cities where they can take public transit to the job or welfare office, as appropriate. Just as it was rich progressives who first figured we didn’t need private property – because it prevented the development of what the rich progressives believe is the good life, for us – so the rich progressives figure we don’t nee cheap energy. Having such just wrecks the world, you see?
It is time to take America back and make it, once again, the land of the common man. It is our nation – it is to be used by us for our own benefit; not to be locked away because some rich progressives feel its in our best interest to be kept out (while they, of course, are allowed in). Who cares about a pristine landscape if you can’t go see it? Fish in its streams? Hunt in its forests? What good is countryside if there isn’t a farm on it? To what purpose is a world saved, if the people who live on it are forbidden to enjoy it?
We are to be stewards of this world – we are not to take God’s gift and bury it, fearful lest any harm should befall. It is time we set aside the absurd fear-mongering of environmentalists and start to use what is ours for our own benefit.
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