Ethanol - False Hope Causing Hunger and Bitterness!
The major cause for the high gas prices at the moment is mostly speculators on the futures market. Remember how Hillary made $100,000 with only $1000 as seed money - all without help from Tyson foods. Can you believe it? Finally economists are seeing what is happening to food prices because of the ethanol processed from corn, wheat, and soybeans. Should the prices of food and energy keep rising at the current rate, you will start seeing hunger becoming a major problem for this country. Counting on solar and wind power for our energy is without a doubt stupid, even to think about.
There are 200 acres in the desert with glass and mirrors, they say can power 35,000 homes. I don’t believe there are many small cities with 35,000 homes near the desert, and of course that wouldn’t include power for air conditioning, retail stores, small businesses, and manufacturing plants. The northeastern states certainly don’t have enough sunlight to make any appreciable difference in energy needs, and as far as wind, you saw what happened when a company wanted to install a windmill farm off of Cape Cod. The production and use of ethanol will have such an inflationary influence on food prices, it will cause hunger and bitterness in the general population, and let them eat cake statements will not suffice.
This country has never faced hunger except during the great depression, and when it starts due to the use of the great savior ethanol, pushed by the environmentalists, there will be blood, and Congress and the Senate will pay a price! How the American people have allowed their representatives to play silly games, kowtow to the environmentalists, and fail to do their jobs amazes me. It seems they are too concerned with baying like a pack of dogs at the heels of Roger Clemens.
Now our government, with all the needs of the country at stake in many ways, wants our FBI to start investigating Roger Clemens and whether or not he lied to Congress. In my opinion, Congress doesn’t merit any consideration as to whether someone lies to them or not, as most of them are liars and thieves themselves. Congress doesn’t even want to pass a terrorist phone surveillance act. I guess they feel it, as one of the MSNBC anchors called it, would be a domestic spying bill.
Between the media, environmentalists, and the Democrats having control of Congress, the country is facing dangerous times. When a President named Clinton lied to the entire country, the Democrats stood by him to the shame of the country, but Roger Clemens is so important that he takes priority over our immigration problem, tracing terrorists, enforcing laws, and other mundane matters. If I sound bitter, I am. The Congress and Senate are not and have not been tending to their business, but instead are figuring out ways to keep their positions with campaign finance laws and keeping the pork flowing to their constituents back home, especially to those who contribute to their political campaigns. I have no respect for our legislative body and think they should be ashamed of themselves and each other. I don’t see how they have the audacity to even face the voters back home.
Now we need to cover another of Hillary’s flip-flops - it’s called NAFTA. She and Obama now say they will see to it that NAFTA is changed, and if not they will cancel it. Does that mean that the legislative arm of the government has no say? I would think they would have to approve this. After all, Bill Clinton, when it was passed, is not the one who passed it. He only proposed it and Congress had to approve it. Both Hillary and Obama say all the things they will make happen, but we do not have a dictatorship. How will they unilaterally do all these things? I think they should be honest as McCain was.
I heard with my own ears today, McCain’s words when he said he was a Conservative liberal!
May God continue to bless the USA!
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FIGHT ETHANOL!
Drill! Drill! Drill!
June 12, 2008; Page A15
Charles de Gaulle once wrote off the nation of Brazil in six words: “Brazil is not a serious country.” How much time is left before someone says the same of the United States?
One thing Brazil and the U.S. have in common is the price of oil: It is priced in dollars, and everyone in the world now knows what the price is. Another commonality is that each country has vast oil reserves in waters off their coastlines.
Wonder Land columnist Daniel Henninger says America needs to get serious about its oil and gas resources. (June 11)
Here we may draw a line in the waves between the serious and the unserious.
Brazil discovered only yesterday (November) that billions of barrels of oil sit in difficult water beneath a swath of the Santos Basin, 180 miles offshore from Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. The U.S. has known for decades that at least 8.5 billion proven barrels of oil sit off its Pacific, Atlantic and Gulf coasts, with the Interior Department estimating 86 billion barrels of undiscovered oil resources.
When Brazil made this find last November, did its legislature announce that, for fear of oil spills hitting Rio’s beaches or altering the climate, it would forgo exploiting these fields?
Of course it didn’t. Guilherme Estrella, director of exploration and production for the Brazilian oil company Petrobras, said, “It’s an extraordinary position for Brazil to be in.” Indeed it is.
At this point in time, is there another country on the face of the earth that would possess the oil and gas reserves held by the United States and refuse to exploit them? Only technical incompetence, as in Mexico, would hold anyone back.
But not us. We won’t drill.
California won’t drill for the estimated 1.3 billion barrels of recoverable oil off its coast because of bad memories of the Santa Barbara oil spill – in 1969.
We won’t drill for the estimated 5.6 billion to 16 billion barrels of oil in the moonscape known as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) because of – the caribou.
In 1990, George H.W. Bush, calling himself “the environmental president,” signed an order putting virtually all the U.S. outer continental shelf’s oil and gas reserves in the deep freeze. Bill Clinton extended that lockup until 2013. A Clinton veto also threw away the key to ANWR’s oil 13 years ago.
Our waters may hold 60 trillion untapped cubic feet of natural gas. As in Brazil, these are surely conservative estimates.
AP
While Brazilians proudly embrace Petrobras, yelling “We’re Going to Be No. 1,” the U.S.’s Democratic nominee for president, Barack Obama, promises to impose an “excess profits tax” on American oil producers.
We live in a world in which Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez use their vast oil and gas reserves as instruments of state power. Here, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid use their control of Congress to spend a week debating a “climate-change” bill. This they did fresh off their subsidized (and bipartisan) ethanol fiasco.
One may assume that Mr. Putin and the Chinese have noticed the policy obsessions of our political class. While other nations use their oil reserves to attain world status, we give ours up. Why shouldn’t they conclude that, long term, these people can be taken? Nikita Khrushchev said, “We will bury you.” Forget that. We’ll do it ourselves.
Putin intimidates Ukraine, Georgia, the Baltic states and Poland with oil and gas cutoffs, while Chávez uses petrodollars to bankroll Colombian terrorists. Cuba plans to exploit its Caribbean oil fields within a long tee shot of the Florida Keys with help from India, Spain, Venezuela, Canada, Norway, Malaysia, even Vietnam. But America won’t drill. Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida said just last month he’s afraid of an oil spill. Katrina wrecked the oil rigs in the Gulf with no significant damage from leaking oil.
Some portion of the current $4-per-gallon gasoline may be attributable to the Federal Reserve’s inflationary monetary policy or even speculators. But we can wave goodbye to the $1.25/gallon gasoline that in 1990 allowed a President Bush to airily lock away the nation’s oil and gas jewels. This isn’t your father’s world of energy. New world powers are coming online fast, and they need energy. We need to get back in the game.
The goal shouldn’t be “energy independence,” a ridiculous notion in an economically integrated world. It’s about admitting the need to strike a balance between the energy and security realities of the here-and-now and the potentialities of the future. Some of our best and brightest want to pursue alternative energy technologies, and they should be encouraged to do so, inside market disciplines. But let’s at least stop pretending the rest of the world is going to play along with our environmentalist moralisms.
The Democrats’ climate-change bill collapsed last week under the weight of brutal cost realities. It was a wake-up call. This is the year Americans joined the real world of energy costs. Now someone needs to explain to them why we – and we alone – are sitting on an ocean of energy but won’t drill for it.
You’d think the “national security” nominee, John McCain, would get this. He’s clueless – a don’t-drill zombie. We may mark this down as the year the U.S. tired of being a serious country.