Let Them Ride Bikes

If you think for a minute that Barack Obama gives a rip about any of the economic strife going on in this country think again. If you think for a minute Barack Obama gives a rip about high gas prices, you need to think again and again and again. Not only does he not care about high gas prices, he approves. He is an ideologue, and that is his ideology.

Obama did the two-step yesterday and today on the now rapidly escalating cost of gasoline. He stood there and lied to the American public. He is not going to increase leasing. He is still closing off land to drilling. He said he is going to double down on green energy and make gasoline from algae. Oh boy!!! Where do I get some of that?

I am not opposed to making fuel from algae. I am not opposed to any green initiatives except those that are given to his friends who then steal the money ala Solyndra. I am for alternative energy. It is a good idea. But it doesn’t help us now. Sooner or later we will get there as oil supplies begin to deplete and it becomes economically feasible to do so. And yes, the government should fund research to allow this wondrous thing to happen. Brazil gets its all of its fuel for cars from sugar cane. It is a doable project. But we are years away from an practical implementation.

And it does nothing for the economic shock to our already fragile system that is coming over the next few months. We cannot tolerate another round of high fuel prices. I have written over and over and over again, energy is the key to the American economy. The financial industry was the fire that almost destroyed the American economy in 2008, but it was $4.00 plus gas that lit the fuse. Energy is THE center of our economy.

Obama hates fossil fuels. His ideology is not based on providing fuel for our cars. His ideology is based on redistribution of income and resources, and global warming. Fossil fuels, any fossil fuels, are anathema to him. He will pay lip service to taking care of the high cost of gasoline, but as in all things Obama, look at what he does, not what he says. He wants high gasoline prices to feed his ideological belief system. In the process, he may “open” areas for drilling, but the permit process will stop any drilling in its place. He is about to raid the big, bad oil companies. Public Employee Pension Funds…beware!!! You own the stock in those big bad oil companies. And he will continue his tax breaks for cars that take 12 hours to charge so you can drive 20 miles without gas. Of course, he hasn’t figured out what to do with those environmentally unsafe batteries when they wear out. Maybe he can store them with the spent nuclear reactor rods. Wait a minute. He hasn’t figured out where to put those either, or how to transport them without the environmental whack jobs laying across the train tracks.

Now he is mocking Republicans and their drilling proposals.  It will take 5 years before they produce any oil.  Guess what!!!  That's what they said five years ago, and five years from then is now.  Of course, approving the Keystone pipeline doesn't take any time at all. 

All energy is important from whatever the source. Right now, we need Drill Here…Drill Now!!! But don’t hold your breath…just hold onto your wallet when you go to vote in November. Anyone got a bike?