Every reason these people are now trotting out, one by one, is intellectually or morally bankrupt.
Peter Ferrara tells us how phony all of it is.
Excerpts:
"THAT IS WHY the bold Republican initiative to expand oil production and other energy supplies, originally developed by Newt Gingrich, is so effective, and so threatening to liberals. Polls show increasingly overwhelming public support.
As a result, liberals are flailing about offering increasingly absurd distractions. One argument is that even if we started drilling for oil now, we wouldn't get any increased supply, and any reduction in gas prices, for 10 years or more. One popinjay from the misnamed Center for American Progress was recently spouting on TV that there would be no effect until 2030.
Well, let's see. On Friday, July 14, the price of a barrel of oil hit $147. On Monday, July 17, President Bush withdrew the Executive Order banning offshore drilling. That doesn't even start any new drilling because there is still a Congressional ban in place. Nevertheless, by Friday, July 21, after 4 straight days of decline, the price of oil had plummeted to $128, a decline of 13% on a symbolic action alone. The Center for American 'Progress' was only off by 21 years, 51 weeks."
.....and:
"Remember Obama's famous quote:
'We can't just keep driving our SUVs, eating whatever we want, keeping our homes at 72 degrees at all times regardless of whether we live in the tundra or the desert, and keep consuming 25 percent of the world's resources with just 4 percent of the world's population, and expect the rest of the world to say you just go ahead. We'll be fine. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.'
What he means by this is that the current standard of living of the American people is unfair. It represents massive inequality in comparison to the rest of the world. So here we have a leading Presidential candidate who thinks truth and justice requires a reduction in our opulent middle class living standards. Good luck, and good night."
And for the foolish who are once again turning Carteresque on us and calling for the "Double Nickle" speed limit the National Motorists Association had this to say. It Estimates that 95 percent of drivers regularly exceeded the federal speed limit(55mph) when it was in effect. In other words, it worked almost as well as Prohibition. Maybe that’s why it was repealed in 1995. Some western states, realizing what a ridiculous law it was, put common sense first. Montana limited speeding tickets to $5, and in Wyoming, state troopers would tell drivers to hang on to tickets because they were good all day. Sure, driving slower saves a bit of energy, but the law also cost Americans an extra one billion hours in their cars each year. If liberals want to feel good about themselves by driving slower, they are welcome to do so... in the far-right lane, of course.
ReplyDeleteHmmm. lets see, spending and extra one billion hours in our cars per year would save how much gas???
Hello Al and the rest of the Gorelarmist are you listing????? Dang sure you ain't thinking but it feels good to suggest such doesn't it?