[speedgibson] Speed Gibson: Who's in Charge?

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Posted by Speed Gibson:
Who's in Charge?
http://speedgibson.powerblogs.com/posts/1210207305.shtml


   I can't track down the exact quote, but I heard Senator Barack Obama
   decrying the failed Republican energy policy written by the oil
   companies with Dick Cheney. Now wait just a minute, here. Whose policy
   is in effect? The Democrats, thanks to some mushy Republicans like our
   own Senators Norm Coleman and John McCain.
   We want to drill, in Alaska, offshore, North Dakota, wherever the oil
   is. Despite the small and ever decreasing environmental risks, they
   don't.
   We want to build new oil refineries. Despite the construction and
   manufacturing jobs that would also create, they say no.
   We want to kill biofuels, to stem it's now obvious ripples of poverty,
   starvation, civil unrest, all with increased atmospheric carbon
   dioxide levels. They have a dream.
   We can do the math on wind and solar. They still think this can be
   significant, assuming the environmentalists and the elite will let you
   erect such garish structures in their back yards.
   We agree with the French: nuclear power is safe and efficient. They're
   still watching The China Syndrome reruns.
   We like coal, especially now that we have clean burning technologies.
   They shriek how that's pure CO[2], still preferring Al Gore to M.I.T.
   research.
   We don't like energy taxes, but we're willing to pay them if they
   truly go for related infrastructure like roads and bridges. They
   earmark much of the money for light rail and other pork.
   We do like freedom. Freedom to pull heavy boats up north to the cabin
   or resort. Freedom to drive past the stores "they" want you to
   patronize. Freedom to set our own Cylinder Index and miles per gallon.
   Freedom not to take public transit. Gasoline is freedom. Guess which
   side "they" are on.
   To sum up, our current defacto energy policy is theirs, not ours. The
   only complaint they might have is that we haven't given in completely,
   by imposing fascist control over the entire energy industry like
   Senator Hillary Clinton advocates.