America's Energy Policy: Obstruct Supply, Marvel at Price

HUMAN EVENTS ^ | Jan 30, 2006 | Mac Johnson

[oh8eleven]

Our policy is clear and has been unchanged for thirty years or more: produce little, use lots, and wonder why things never get better.
He's right and it's a shame because the GOP is just as guilty as the Dims.

[A message]

BTTT.

sigh :(

[Rummyfan]

Energy, it seems, is icky.

The left's position in a 'nut'shell! They don't even want windmills spoiling their local vistas!

[roaddog727]

Spot on.

Neither side of the aisle has the backbone to make the correct decision - to become ENERGY INDEPENDENT BY ALL POSSIBLE MEANS.

[The_Republican]

Great Post!

Great Article!

President should borrow some for tomorrow night!

[NonValueAdded]

Wow, that is positively Steynian writing! Great piece!

[subterfuge]

we will continue to live in a fantasy world in which we do not develop our own oil, coal, gas, hydropower, wind power or nuclear and instead dream about hydrogen and ethanol and solar

Pretty well sums it all up right there. There are some pretty funny lines in the article though. thanks.

[TheCrusader]

"Our policy is clear and has been unchanged for thirty years or more: produce little, use lots, and wonder why things never get better."

Doesn't this also pertain to every other product we Americans use? It's all about international trade and one-worldism. Whether Bill O'Reilly's thoughts or yours are the closest to the truth, you just can't get away from the fact that it's the few controlling the lives of the many.

[PogySailor]

Man, that's a good article.

[MonroeDNA]

Communists never sleep. They are behind the anti-energy movement.

[oh8eleven]

President should borrow some for tomorrow night!
With all due respect ... why? Unless he's willing to override the enviro-whackos there's not much left to be said.
Same goes for all the oil companies who said they're not drilling/pumping domestically because it's not profitable. BS.

[Sabatier]

The people on the Left scream and howl at using our
natural resources and then scream and howl at Bush
for "fighting a war for oil." This country's future
has been hi-jacked by the prissy Left rich whose lives
resemble those of sniffy country squires residing in
private parks, safely removed from the dirty, disgusting
hoi polloi. "Let them eat cake" has become "let them
ride mountain bikes".

[neverdem]

Man, that's a good article.

I thought so too. It seems to have covered all the bases with satire to boot. Yet it got yanked from the editorial sidebar. Go figure. Someone should post it there again.

[antiRepublicrat]

Expensive and impractical in most places, so it’s currently a favorite. It would be perfect for providing electricity to isolated areas -- a market that could fuel the development and practicality of the technology for use elsewhere.

Still not a favorite in scales that matter. Solar Two can pump 10 megawatts on average, and actually supplies power 24 hours a day, and it's only a technology test bed. But it takes several acres of land covered with mirrors and has a huge tower and a couple of big tanks in the middle of it, so the environuts aren't too happy.

A cool side benefit is that Sandia (which runs Solar Two) has used the mirror array to heat-test things for the DoD, and cooperation with the military is a definite no-no for the environuts.

Speaking of that, when these things go online, computer security should be paramount. Imagine some one hacking in to redirect the mirror array's multi-megawatt beam at a low-flying airplane. Okay, inverse square says at 20,000 feet the beam wouldn't be nearly as strong, but it could still be damaging.

[dirtboy]

A fine bit of satire.

[citizen]

Excellent article. We've been trying to drill in ANWR for, what, two decades? I despise liberal whackos.

[oh8eleven]

This country's future has been hi-jacked by the prissy Left rich whose lives resemble those of sniffy country squires residing in private parks, safely removed from the dirty, disgusting hoi polloi.

(I'm an equal opportunity finger pointer.)

[Mind-numbed Robot]

He's right and it's a shame because the GOP is just as guilty as the Dims.

You guys aren't paying attention. The Republicans have been trying to change this for years. Most of it is in the President's energy proposal he sent to the hill. I think the House passed it but don't know about the Senate.

I happened upon Bill O'Reilly's radio program yesterday . I had never listened to him and I knew the voice sounded vaguely familiar but I thought it was some local liberal. He was complaining that the government didn't dictate what kind of cars we could drive and bashing "big oil". I thought this is the most ill informed and illogical idiot I ever heard. Several callers had called him Bill but that didn't ring a bell. Finally one called him O'Reilly and the light went on.

[talleyman]

Great post!