Enviro-freaks get ready for the backlash

Who is denying the American people access to their natural resources? Could they be the same people who want you to drive,eat,live and work under their idea of how “you’ should live your life? Who are these people who have their hands so far up your arse that it is reaching the elbow? Does it hurt yet America? Maybe the leftist eviromarxists have bit off a little more than they can chew. Waking the sleeping giant can be a jolt to many. It has happened before.

In 1995 Bill Clinton vetoed a bill that would have started the drilling in Alaska. His problem with the bill was that it would take 10 years for us to see the first drop. Which would be 2005 three years ago. Nice call Bill. But the GOP had a chance to pass drilling in ANWR during the 2002 through 2006 years. Why didn’t they do anything? How did we get to the point that every competitive country in the world is accessing their natural resources except the US?

The most used Democrat talking point is: “Drilling for more oil will only prolong our reliance on it.. The debate shouldn’t be about drilling, it should be about increasing technology.”
Does that make sense? What do we do until the new technology is invented?
No matter what happens, oil will be the main form of energy for the next 50 years. That is a fact. The transition to a new form of energy will take decades.

Boeing has orders for new airliners booked for the next 10 to 20 years. Those aircraft will be in service for the next 30 years. Does anyone think the major Airlines are going to trash all the money they spent on those aircraft? Those aircraft run on gas and they will be in use for the next 40 to 50 years regardless of technology.

The Electric car is realistically 10 to 20 years away before any real impact on energy use could be realised. In a perfect world the electricity would come from Solar, aero-electric and hydro-electric production. However currently much of it will come from dirt burners and nuclear power. The big tech to watch and the one that shows most promise is that of the Hydrogen Fuel Cell. The chemical conversion of hydrogen to electricity shows a lot of promise and will be a viable product in 10-15 years. GM already has a platform for a new car (series of cars) that utilizes this technology.

As a public service miamipress.net will print a quick lesson on demand and supply which is the basic concept of the “free market.” From investopedia: Supply and demand is perhaps one of the most fundamental concepts of economics and it is the backbone of a market economy. Demand refers to how much (quantity) of a product or service is desired by buyers. The quantity demanded is the amount of a product people are willing to buy at a certain price; the relationship between price and quantity demanded is known as the demand relationship. Supply represents how much the market can offer. The quantity supplied refers to the amount of a certain good producers are willing to supply when receiving a certain price. The correlation between price and how much of a good or service is supplied to the market is known as the supply relationship. Price, therefore, is a reflection of supply and demand.

We know that many people hate the concept of the free market. The Dems long term plan only involves the demand end of the American economic model. Since the Dems plan is to force Americans to use less gas and drive smaller cars they must keep supply down and demand high, so drilling is not an option See:

The Law of Demand
The law of demand states that, if all other factors remain equal, the higher the price of a good, the less people will demand that good. In other words, the higher the price, the lower the quantity demanded. The amount of a good that buyers purchase at a higher price is less because as the price of a good goes up, so does the opportunity cost of buying that good. As a result, people will naturally avoid buying a product that will force them to forgo the consumption of something else they value more. The chart below shows that the curve is a downward slope.

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Equilibrium
When supply and demand are equal (i.e. when the supply function and demand function intersect) the economy is said to be at equilibrium. At this point, the allocation of goods is at its most efficient because the amount of goods being supplied is exactly the same as the amount of goods being demanded. Thus, everyone (individuals, firms, or countries) is satisfied with the current economic condition. At the given price, suppliers are selling all the goods that they have produced and consumers are getting all the goods that they are demanding.

This is not what the Democrats and some Republicans want. The problem is that they want Americans to pay more and more for fuel until they can no longer afford to drive an SUV anywhere other than work and that is still not enough for some of them. But lawmakers may have overplayed their hand and prices rose faster than they expected. Still many elite in power want gas to reach 10.00 a gallon.

From Tampbay.com: In the United States combined state local and federal taxes average 47 cents a gallon. In Germany taxes are $6.15 per gallon, in the United Kingdom, $5.20; in France, $4.50. And in the Netherlands they are even higher. In other words, their gas — with taxes — is already around $10.

Yet of these five nations, the United States has the highest per capita income. We earn more, but pay much less for each gallon of gas. Painful as it may be, Americans can afford to pay more.

The columnist Charles Krauthammer, who has been advocating much higher gas taxes for years, recently suggested that the government announce a schedule of gas tax hikes of 50 cents every six months for the next two years as a way to transform U.S. energy habits and keep that money in domestic coffers rather than sending it abroad in profits for OPEC. The point he didn’t stress, though, is that Americans may not believe it, but they can afford it.

So who do we blame for what is an energy debacle that has threatened our security and way of life? Look in the mirror. Are we in deep sh*t or what…..mpress

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