Energy

Of all the diverse forms of energy, oil is the most vital ingredient necessary to keep the American industrial and economic machinery operating. Since we have allowed environmentalists to limit our own ability to satisfy our requirements from this energy source, we have knowingly placed ourselves into a position of dependency on foreign markets. All of whom, would rather see us collapse as the world’s most powerful nation then sell us a single drop.

There is no doubt that we must continue to find alternate sources of energy, but in the interim we must continue our dependency on oil until we are able to do so. That means drilling in new places. As we speak, China is down in our gulf of Mexico drilling and pumping in a vast new petroleum discovery. I see no difference if China contaminates the environment burning that oil, or if we do.

I have been to Alaska many times and I can tell you from personal experience, that Canada has been pumping oil in the Arctic circle for many years and within a relatively short distance from Anwar and Prudhoe Bay, and then sell it to us.

Why don’t we pump that oil ourselves you might ask? We are going to burn it anyway, and it would mean less cost to us at the pump. It is because we have a gutless Congress and White House that could start the process by executive order, but they are afraid of an agency (i.e. the E.P.A.) This agency is a government within a government and has taken on a life of its own by straying from Congressional control without restraint. Then there are the speculators, stock market middlemen, who unnecessarily trade imported oil on the market a half a dozen times before it gets to the pump. We can stop this multi- layered profiteering by eliminating that one commodity from the stock market speculators and place it under the energy department for simplified distribution to the major oil distributors. That is not price control. We all know that does not work. It is executing emergency measures in a time of national crisis. We have set that precedent many times during World War II when we went through a period of rationing which included rubber and all petroleum based products. Remember the 70's and the gas shortage.

There is an old saying that "Necessity is the mother of invention." We are now entering a period of necessity. There is no reason why we can’t encourage individuals and small business to invent new ways to produce bio-diesel and methane gas from organic products without threatening them with back taxes on their use, as the I.R.S. has done in the past. We give huge rewards to Nobel prize winners. Why not the same for new concepts in energy production? We can and must break the hold the Oil Cartel has on us. If alternative energy, even partially replaces petroleum, the large foreign oil producers will lose their aggressive arrogance. Here’s another benefit, war, will become a less attractive undertaking for all peoples of the world.

If you agree we need to work to change policy here, help me by electing me to office.