Americans are worried. Americans are angry. Soaring gas prices are seriously crippling our economy and hitting us where it hurts the most - in our pockets.
We have a right to be angry, but anger is no longer enough. It#'s time for rage - good, old American rage aimed at those elitist Democrats who prefer to see the folks beggared by soaring fuel prices rather than take the action this very real economic crisis demands.
Drill.
We know that the law of supply and demand is what#'s causing gas prices to soar, but merely knowing the ultimate cause of the crisis is not enough. We need to know why the most obvious remedy - one that promises to increase supply - is being studiously avoided by the powers that be, Democrats in Congress.
Once Americans become aware of that reason, get out of the way because they will be at the gates of Capitol Hill armed with pitchforks and scythes like enraged villagers marching on Dracula's castle, determined do wreak vengeance on the very people who refuse to act in the way current circumstances clearly demand.
The steady increase in gas prices can be stopped dead in its tracks, and rolled back to less onerous levels literally overnight. The Democrats in Congress have in their hands the magic wand they could easily wave, but they arrogantly refuse to use it. And so we continue to pay the price for their refusal to help their fellow Americans when they have the power to do so.
All they need to do is lift all moratoria and restrictions on domestic, offshore and Alaskan drilling for oil. That's all. A quick wave of that magic wand is all that#'s needed. But they will not act, and for that they must be made aware that they will pay a steep price at the polls for their refusal to act when action is desperately needed.
Make no mistake about it, the oh-so-liberal Democrats in the House and Senate, in the pockets of the super-rich environmentalists who scarcely conceal their contempt for their fellow humans and won#'t be happy until every automobile is driven from America#,s roads and highways, simply will not come to our aid.
As Marie-Antoinette is said to have remarked about her starving subjects who were demanding bread, “Let then eat cake,#” our elected Democratic members of Congress are in effect saying of Americans, “Let them ride bikes.”
In their contemptuous sophistry their spokesmen sneer that opening the gates to domestic and offshore drilling would not yield results for 10 years. That excuse for inaction is insultingly deceptive. While it will take years to see our domestic supply of petroleum begin to take up the slack, the very declaration that the floodgates will be opened and America is on he way to independence from foreign oil will strike fear into the hearts of OPEC and the speculators who have driven the price of oil skyward.
Their reaction would be instantaneous - they would increase production to the fullest extent possible, motivated by the knowledge that their stranglehold on supply faces its eventual demise, and gas prices at the pump would fall.
As economist Lawrence Kudlow wrote in his column, “An America First Energy Plan,#” “As soon as you say, #'End the drilling moratoriums#,' it is precisely those traders who will start selling oil contracts - long before the first offshore oil barrels are delivered to market. If they see presidential leadership on oil and shale drilling, they will rapidly turn a bull market into a bear market.'
A partial answer to our immediate problem is at hand. The steady increase in pump prices can be halted and prices somewhat rolled back to a more acceptable level. Yet those Democrats who the people elected to Congress are turning their backs on the voters who sent them to Washington and coldly refusing to lift a finger to help the American people, preferring instead to lay the blame for the problem on big oil, speculators and every place but where it belongs. On themselves. If that doesn#'t enrage you, nothing will.
Payback time comes in November. Drive them out of office and elect people who will do what needs to be done. Drill, Drill, Drill!
Are you listening, John McCain?
Mike Reagan, the elder son of the late
President Ronald Reagan, is heard on more than 200 talk radio stations nationally as part of the Radio America Network
Drill.
We know that the law of supply and demand is what#'s causing gas prices to soar, but merely knowing the ultimate cause of the crisis is not enough. We need to know why the most obvious remedy - one that promises to increase supply - is being studiously avoided by the powers that be, Democrats in Congress.
Once Americans become aware of that reason, get out of the way because they will be at the gates of Capitol Hill armed with pitchforks and scythes like enraged villagers marching on Dracula's castle, determined do wreak vengeance on the very people who refuse to act in the way current circumstances clearly demand.
The steady increase in gas prices can be stopped dead in its tracks, and rolled back to less onerous levels literally overnight. The Democrats in Congress have in their hands the magic wand they could easily wave, but they arrogantly refuse to use it. And so we continue to pay the price for their refusal to help their fellow Americans when they have the power to do so.
All they need to do is lift all moratoria and restrictions on domestic, offshore and Alaskan drilling for oil. That's all. A quick wave of that magic wand is all that#'s needed. But they will not act, and for that they must be made aware that they will pay a steep price at the polls for their refusal to act when action is desperately needed.
Make no mistake about it, the oh-so-liberal Democrats in the House and Senate, in the pockets of the super-rich environmentalists who scarcely conceal their contempt for their fellow humans and won#'t be happy until every automobile is driven from America#,s roads and highways, simply will not come to our aid.
As Marie-Antoinette is said to have remarked about her starving subjects who were demanding bread, “Let then eat cake,#” our elected Democratic members of Congress are in effect saying of Americans, “Let them ride bikes.”
In their contemptuous sophistry their spokesmen sneer that opening the gates to domestic and offshore drilling would not yield results for 10 years. That excuse for inaction is insultingly deceptive. While it will take years to see our domestic supply of petroleum begin to take up the slack, the very declaration that the floodgates will be opened and America is on he way to independence from foreign oil will strike fear into the hearts of OPEC and the speculators who have driven the price of oil skyward.
Their reaction would be instantaneous - they would increase production to the fullest extent possible, motivated by the knowledge that their stranglehold on supply faces its eventual demise, and gas prices at the pump would fall.
As economist Lawrence Kudlow wrote in his column, “An America First Energy Plan,#” “As soon as you say, #'End the drilling moratoriums#,' it is precisely those traders who will start selling oil contracts - long before the first offshore oil barrels are delivered to market. If they see presidential leadership on oil and shale drilling, they will rapidly turn a bull market into a bear market.'
A partial answer to our immediate problem is at hand. The steady increase in pump prices can be halted and prices somewhat rolled back to a more acceptable level. Yet those Democrats who the people elected to Congress are turning their backs on the voters who sent them to Washington and coldly refusing to lift a finger to help the American people, preferring instead to lay the blame for the problem on big oil, speculators and every place but where it belongs. On themselves. If that doesn#'t enrage you, nothing will.
Payback time comes in November. Drive them out of office and elect people who will do what needs to be done. Drill, Drill, Drill!
Are you listening, John McCain?
Mike Reagan, the elder son of the late
President Ronald Reagan, is heard on more than 200 talk radio stations nationally as part of the Radio America Network
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AJ wrote on Jul 5, 2008 6:34 PM:
But he did have a very sound energy policy - WHICH REAGAN REPEALED BY PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE. As I said, had his energy policy been left in place, we would not be in the mess we are in now. YOU CAN PLACE THE BLAME SQUARELY ON THE REPUBLICANS (and I include Clinton in this group) FOR THIS CONTINUED RELIANCE ON MIDDLE EASTERN OIL.
What have you been smoking dd? Whatever it is, it isn't helping you any. "
AJ wrote on Jul 5, 2008 4:57 PM:
brew1234 wrote on Jul 5, 2008 2:02 PM:
dd wrote on Jul 5, 2008 1:36 PM:
dd wrote on Jul 5, 2008 1:35 PM:
AJ wrote on Jul 5, 2008 12:14 PM:
Had Reagan not gutted the money for solar R&D, solar would easily by now be more than competitive with our current electrical generating system, and would eliminate the need for nuclear or coal based power plants in many areas. Wind, which is another form of solar energy, is now competitive but still expensive in up front costs, in spite of the Reagan's curtailing R&D - imagine what it would be like had the R&D been continued?
Another approach would be to release all patents held by the oil companies where there is a conflict of interest in holding back energy efficient technologies. I don't think it is much of a secret that they do hold many of such patents.
It also seems to me that there is no reason why most people could not drive a solar/battery powered electric car. They have made great strides with hybrid vehicles. I envision that there may come a day when they could be powered mainly by solar panels in certain areas of the country like the west and southwest where there is almost always plenty of sunlight, perhaps even on long distance trips.
There is no one solution, and more drilling is NOT the answer or really even necessary in my opinion.
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/
http://www.apolloalliance.org/ "
rd wrote on Jul 5, 2008 11:23 AM:
anonymous wrote on Jul 5, 2008 11:07 AM:
dd wrote on Jul 5, 2008 11:05 AM:
AJ wrote on Jul 5, 2008 11:04 AM:
This article is typical propaganda from a right wing nutcase.
When is the Citizen going to stop publishing his trash? In case the Citizen is unaware, Michael Reagan has regularly advocated violence against those he disagrees with. One would think the Citizen would have enough sense to disassociate themselves with such a whacko. "
Farmer's Gal wrote on Jul 5, 2008 9:05 AM: