Your Energy Future Under the Democrats

American Thinker ^ | May 19, 2008 | Larrey Anderson

[kingattax]

the dimoRATS want americans to look like the chinese did 20 years ago: everyone walks or rides a bicycle.

it's obvious they want to kill america. will they be stopped or allowed to succeed ?

[kingattax]

PING

[FlingWingFlyer]

The boneheads living in this country better figure out, and quickly, that “hope” doesn’t pay electrical bills.

[agooga]

My energy platform were I to be running for Prez would be:

1. Start drilling domestically.
2. Fast track nuke plant construction
3. Build refineries

I would also have the lesser goal of building the infrastructure and incentives to make electric cars (not hybrids) the norm in our cities— and that would include the nuclear plants. The more cars running on nuclear generated electricity the better.

[Chode]

can't wait for the RATs... so i bought a omnivore stove

it burns coal, wood, corn or anything else i feed it

[kingattax]

The boneheads living in this country better figure out, and quickly, that “hope” doesn’t pay electrical bills.

the "oprah groupies" swooning at the obama rallies are mindless zombies that couldnt find their butts with both hands and a flashlight. its not likely they will be figuring anything out soon.

[The Great RJ]

The Democrats solution ...$5+ per gallon gasoline as new taxes are passed along to consumers and long lines at the pump due to shortages as the oil companies cannot make any capital expansions. Of course this will all be blamed on George Bush. I hope President Obama has a nice sweater to wear in the White House just like Jimmy Carter.

[Aglooka]

We are headed for a rationing system where everyone can use only so much energy per year or expend so many “carbon points.”

The liberals want a collectivist, centrally planned, society.

[EagleandLiberty]

The Democratic PLAN — NATIONALIZE the OIL COMPANY. (Jay Rockefeller would love to head it!)

[jaz.357]

I hope President Obama has a nice sweater to wear in the White House

[Marine_Uncle]

Perhaps Larrey Anderson should have examined the Republican Senate bill just shot down again (earlier this week... see CSPAN) by the majority to drill off shore, in the interior (shale oils), just about anywhere oil and gas are allowed to be drilled on public lands, as well as all the suggestions they proposed to support clean coal processes etc..
There are Republicans as well as some conservative oriented Democrats who are more then willing to let our oil companies start what should have never been allowed to stop.
The Democrats yet again voted along party line agendas to defeat this newest bill from being passed.
At this time the 2 hour CSPAN session by the Senate Republican Conference Energy Forum can be viewed on the third page of available videos at:
Senate Republican Conference Energy Forum
There are numbers of Republicans that would love to see this nation wake up and allow for us to start working toward becoming energy sufficient once again.

[TruthConquers]

Nowhere in the Democrat plan is there a strategy to provide this energy.

This is their purpose. To tax us out of our cars, and cram us into high density apartment complexes.

Their plan is the KEEP ON TAXING US with higher taxes to economical kill this country. They haven't had ANY intention to increase the supply of energy to help this country since the 1970's.

[Realism]

This is a crucial point and very few people seem to understand it. We cannot solve the energy crisis by talking about the creation of, say, hydrogen fuel cells for cars. We must have a fully functioning economy in the intervening thirty or forty years that it will take to "develop energy alternatives" like hydrogen fuel cells. In other words, the pressing question is not "What energy alternative will we be using in forty years?" The real question is: What energy alternative will we be using tomorrow that will allow us the economic prosperity to create future alternative energies much further down the road?

Kinda says it all. We should have started and stayed with it 30 yrs ago, but hey, there was no need to, the crisis ended and may be it will again. May be not....

[Brett66]

Don’t worry, Obama and McCain will give us “green collar jobs” where we all slave away on assembly lines making solar cells for $8.50 an hour while riding to work on our bikes.

[kingattax]

Don’t worry, Obama and McCain will give us “green collar jobs” where we all slave away on assembly lines making solar cells for $8.50 an hour while riding to work on our bikes.

$8.50 an hour ? the brainwashed masses would feel guilty and think that was too much

[Realism]

$8.50 per hour? We could never compete with China, India, etc with those labor rates.

[ExTexasRedhead]

If Americans don’t wake up, Liberals with the aid of Hussein Osama Obama will turn our country into a third-world toilet.

[CharlesWayneCT]

At five dollars a gallon a typical low-income family will spend nearly 20% of total income on gasoline each year. At ten dollars a gallon these people will not get to work -- especially in rural or suburban America where a car is an absolute must.

I drive about 15,000 miles per year. At 45 mpg, that's about 333 gallons of gas, which at 5 bucks would be about $1600.

I live 3 miles from where I work. But I also drive to theme parks on a lot of weekends, and will have a trip to Ohio and through Canada and Pennsylvania over the summer (otherwise, I'd drive 7500 miles or less, and spend less than $800 on gas).

I don't do anything to cut my mileage, other than the sane choice of living near where I work rather than tens of miles away.

Assuming a poor family is making $30,000 a year, and assuming they are stuck with a small old car (if they were stupid enough to blow their money on a 10 mpg SUV then there's little holpe for them), then 20% would be $6,000, which would be 24000 miles at 20 mpg, or 36,000 miles at 30 mpg.

Any poor person who thinks they should be driving 24,000 miles in a year doesn't understand the concept of poor. Throughout most of our recorded history, people would go a lifetime and never travel 24,000 miles.

[AlaskaErik]

When B Hussein Obama is sworn in next January the Republican Party had better get back to core Republican values that gave us Ronald Reagan in the 80’s and a Republican Congress in the 90’s. Otherwise we are doomed to a Soviet era lifestyle under the DemocRATS..

[neverdem]

BTTT!