If anyone is awake these days while looking at what is happening in congress, it isn't difficult to see who is standing in the way of America becoming energy independent. Liberal Socialist Progressive Democrats.
Nancy Pelosi lead the Democrats out of congress on recess before voting on the energy bill that would have opened new areas expanding our energy resources. She refuses to allow a vote as she knows that all, or all most all of the Republicans will vote for as well as a significant number of Democrats.
The bottom line is the bill would pass which would be a defeat for Marxist liberals Democrats and that is unacceptable. The liberal socialist contingent in our congress doesn't care what happens to the country or it's people as long as they gain and retain power to control us.
I have been down this road many times but I guess it can't be overstated, the Marxist socialists in our government, along with weak moraless Republicans, want to establish a new government based on a big government that will control everything we do, say or think. Marxist socialism.
By not allowing us to open our abundant lands to new resources of energy, Pelosi and her Marxist minions believe the country will suffer economic collapse to such a degree the people will do anything to regain their former lives which, the liberals believe, includes voting them into office in mass. This, of course, can happen if we allow the liberal Democrats to succeed.
Oil effects everything in our lives from food to transportation to jobs. Everything!! With a sound energy policy that opens all avenues to new and old resources of energy to development, our economy and our country will rebound to heights while the socialist, wishing us reduced to 'third world' status, will be defeated.
We need the energy plan to start now and I mean right now - not next week of next year. If the liberal socialist progressives gain power in November, we are in for hard times. We can not allow this to happen for our selves or our offspring as this will effect us for decades to come.
Again, keep the faith in the American dream - never believe it's too late to join the battle for our existence as a free nation. You must believe we are at risk of losing it all in our life time.
Answering Russia
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Posted Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Russia's bloody invasion of a smaller neighbor whose territory includes a vital oil pipeline has left many people wondering: What can we do? Plenty, it turns out — including some things right here at home.
Russian President Dmitri Medvedev announced he was halting Russia's air and ground attack on Georgia, but someone forgot to tell Russia's military. It has continued its brutal assault, with news reports that Russian troops have started looting, raping and savagely attacking Georgian civilians.
It's clear former President Vladimir Putin, not his handpicked successor Medvedev, is calling the shots. Putin's made no secret of the fact that he wants to depose Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and set up a pliant puppet regime, giving him de facto control of Georgia's oil pipeline — the main conduit to Europe from the oil-rich Caspian Sea that's not on Russian soil.
Why would Russia do this? As we note elsewhere on this page, roughly a quarter of Europe's energy comes from Russia. This tightens Putin's stranglehold on Europe's economy and gives him all the diplomatic leverage he needs. If you don't believe this, look at the EU's weak response to the crisis in Georgia. It "brokered" a cease-fire that is essentially a total capitulation by Georgia to Russian demands. Appeasement is back.
After Putin's bullying, Europe is less likely to object to Russia's profiteering from Iran's nuclear program, or Russia's brutal war against Chechnyan separatists, or its intimidation of Eastern European countries. Europe has no sticks for Russia — only carrots.
That's not the case with the U.S. Start with President Bush's pledge Wednesday to support Georgia, an ally in the war on terror, and send it aid. Bush warned Russia the U.S. might not support its "aspirations" to join diplomatic, economic and security groups. We've already canceled joint NATO-Russia naval exercises, scheduled for this weekend. And we can turn the G-8 nations back into the G-7.
Russia has shown that it doesn't deserve to be counted among democratic, economically free nations. But there's more we can do:
• Russia wants badly to join the World Trade Organization. Put that on a back burner until it starts behaving.
• Russia is scheduled to hold the 2014 Winter Olympics at the resort of Sochi, 15 miles from Abkhazia, the other Georgian province that Russia just invaded. Cancel it, and give it to a more deserving host.
• We're building a missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic. We should accelerate our plans, and broaden participation.
• Russia took in about $27 billion in foreign investment last year. We should limit capital flows to make sure Western capital and technology aren't used to build Russia's military. In short, if Russia wants a Cold War, we can give them one.
One other thing: Congress should, as a matter of national security, pass a broad energy bill that includes drilling on all federal lands and offshore, plus the development of alternative energy.
When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Democrats deny the U.S. badly needed sources of new energy, they make America more vulnerable to energy blackmail. Russia's gambit should remind us that energy policy is too important to be held hostage to special interests and domestic politics.
We have huge amounts of potential energy to be developed — at least 130 billion barrels of conventional oil reserves, 800 billion more in oil shale, massive supplies of natural gas, coal, burgeoning solar and wind technologies, and the technological ability to build the world's most efficient and safe nuclear power plants.
Yet today, Americans get nearly 70% of their oil from overseas, making us vulnerable to blackmail by the likes of Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Nigeria, Iran and now even Russia. Developing the full range of energy sources we have available may be the single most effective way of ensuring our nation's security.
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