“The Covert Kennedy” speaks again.
Spare us from this steroid-abusing pinhead.
Arnold, either lead, follow or get the hell out of the way...you dumba$$ Kennedy clone.
Governor Schwarzenegger is an idiot. He’s been listening to his liberal wife too much.
I’m getting sick of politicians acting as though they’ve been elected in order to lord it over the rest of us and tell us how to live our lives. We elect these people to represent us, not tell us what to do.
America has rich oil resources. There are alternative energy sources on the horizon, but that does us little good now. Americans consume as much oil as we do because we are prosperous. Our freedom and our self-dependence has allowed us to prosper in ways that people from other countries can only dream. We categorically rejected early on the concept that an upper-class should be able to hoard the most vital of resources and luxuries to themselves and have always found ways to make them affordable and accessible to everyone.
We have a ton of oil resources that need to be tapped. We need these resources NOW, not later. If new energy resources are just on the horizon, we will certainly have them before our oil runs out. I personally cannot see how we can even manage to develop new power sources if our economy isn’t running at full blast like a well-oiled machine!
These environmentalist arguments boil down to one thing: power. The elites want to hoard resources and luxuries like easy transportation to themselves. At the whole heart of the carbon tax scam is the notion that vital resources should only belong to those whom can more than afford them. They want to raise artificial price controls on these resources so that we “unwashed peasants” can’t afford them. These people, while claiming to be liberals, really have a special sort of contempt for the very everyday common people they claim to champion.
I sure am glad that Governor Schwartzenegger isn’t an American citizen. I’d hate to see what he would do if he suckered the American people into electing him as president.
LLS
the silence is deafening!
why with enough oil & natural gas production and & nuclear power generating electricity, CA could be the energy supplier for all the Americas! And Californians could be receiving royalty checks every year just like the folks in AK!
So what was The Governator’s answer?
More of the “we can’t drill our way out of this” argument. When you get right down to it, the position is so repugnantly defeatist.
How do we know if we don’t try? What does it hurt to do so?
Oh, yeah; it might hurt the anti-America agenda of the defeatist left.
“Addicted to oil” is the 21st century version of Marie Antoinette’s “let them eat cake.” We need that oil to get to work and get kids to school. We need that oil to get goods to our local stores, including the food we eat and the basics we need to live. Tell the tourism industry, the restaurant industry, and the airlines that oil is merely an “addiction.” Calling oil an addiction makes into some sort of luxury or extravagance, and it’s not.
It would be nice to find a VIABLE, cheap alternative source of energy that would work for transportation, but it’s a long way off. But tell that to our wealthy urban politicians who don’t worry about how the little people are affected by rotten energy policies.
Rush is talking about this now. (Might be in a few seconds for those not listening on the Dittocam.)
He sees oil as an “addiction” we must be weaned from. That means he is happy with the expense, and wants it to be MORE expensive so we will have more incentive to “wean ourselves” from it.
You do not talk about “addiction” unless you think it is bad. If there is a corn shortage, we do not say people are “addicted to grain” and that we need to “wean” them from it rather than produce more.
We need to get off of oil because eventually oil will run out, or more importantly supply will not be able to keep up with increased demand.
But that’s not because oil is BAD, just that it isn’t sufficiently available. If you are looking to replace something that is scarce, you don’t fight people who want to produce more of it, even if you think in the long run that more supply is just a temporary measure.
So it comes down to the question — do we want $4.00 gas, or not? Obama says he wants $4.00 gas, just that it got there too quickly. Arnold says we want expensive gas to get us to stop using the “evil oil” that I presume he thinks is destroying the planet.
But they can’t say that — because the average american was happy to fight global warming so long as it just cost the evil corporations. At $4.00 a gallon, the average american could care less about saving the polar bears.
So the democrats pretend that, if we fight global warming, we will enter a new era of cheap energy that doesn’t hurt the environment. And while this will take decades, they refuse any short-term fixes that might make things cheaper for us, because in the end they like the expensive gasoline.
One partial solution would be to recall Arnold and put in a pro energy Governor.
Arnold’s been in LaLa Land toooooo long.
Ahnold, Nobel Peace Prize winner 2008
Energy expert, Ahnold Shwartzentootie said.
These idiot politicians have no frigging idea of the fire they are playing with on this issue.
The days of “we can’t do anything about this” are over!
Would this be a good time to say “Don’t blame me. I voted for McClintock?”
Piss off millionaire! Us regular folks need cheaper gas so we can feed our families.
Damn it all, why couldn’t this clown just stick to acting? He had to stick his nose into the recall race that should have been won easily by McClintock.