Glenn Beck, if you haven’t heard of him, has a show on headline news. Glenn is a “cut to the chase” kind of guy. You should check out his show on CNN Headline News at 7pm or 9pm EST (I believe it also airs throughout the night). Glenn is probably hated by our politicians because he shows how stupid and without common sense most of them are. I’ve written before about drilling for oil here in the US where there are actually two schools of thought. One being the “Boone Pickens” interview Glenn did a month or so ago. Boone says the only thing left for Americans is to aggressively develop alternative fuels because peak oil production topped out in 2006 and it is now on a downward spiral. Since then there have been other experts who say the US has enough oil in Alaska and offshore to last us 125 to 150 years without any reliance on foreign oil. Regardless of who is correct, is it going to hurt us to drill in the areas around the US to find out? A Democratic subcommittee voted yesterday to basically kill drilling for oil off shore on the outer continental shelf. According to a government report from 1998 there are 78 billion barrels of recoverable oil there. 78 billion barrels would last the US 34 years with no reliance on foreign oil. Get it? We wouldn’t have to buy oil from people who want to kill us. This is not including inland places such as ANWR and the recent finds in the Dakotas where there is even more recoverable oil. Sure, this is not a permanent fix, but it would release us from dependence on foreign oil and allow us to aggressively research and put into use alternative fuels. Oh, and by the way, President Clinton received this report in 1998 about the time he had his mind on Monica. He started it then (not drilling for oil in and around the US) and Democrats are continuing it today. Their reason for not drilling off shore; there could be more chances for oil spills into the ocean. That doesn’t even make sense. I’m just a dumb ole southern boy and I can see where an oil tanker coming from the Persian Gulf (half way around the world) has more chances of colliding with something than it would if it were only traveling 500-1000 miles.
If you’re a reader of this blog you know that I am a no nonsense guy. When I see something stupid happening I want to do something about it.
I found a place where we can do a little something about it. It is a site developed by Newt Gingrich (why isn’t Newt running for president?) called American Solutions. You can go there and sign the Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less petition. There are already more than 700,000 people who have signed it. Just think if we get 1 million + to sign the petition Congress has to pay attention.
Wonder what our presidential candidates are saying about gas prices?
Obama yesterday said the price of gasoline isn't the problem. $4 a gallon for gasoline isn't the problem. The high price of oil is not the problem. The problem is it's just risen too quickly. Huh!? Does he even have a clue? And to think people are actually going to vote for him!
McCain (I hope he changes his mind) is for cap and trade, which basically penalizes oil companies for making too much money. They don’t penalize Microsoft for making too much money, why should they penalize oil companies.
I could write all day about this, but for now I’m just going to give Glenn Beck my vote. Wait just a minute. I can’t because he isn’t one of our politicians. He makes too much sense. God Bless the USA!
