The Moral Imperative For Drilling

[Dee_Dee_King]

our democracy is gone because of special interests, big buisness globalization and giant government. no longer does the common middle class man have a say in what happens. we’re ruled by the marxist left and globalist right.

no sane person would be opposed to all offshore drilling. only the fanatical fringe and our congressmen. you think with gas prices as high as they are, we would be pressing our congressmen into drilling domestically.

we are sheep led by the blind. we have lost control as a result of materialism.

 

[toekneemac]

our democracy is gone because of special interests, big buisness globalization and giant government. no longer does the common middle class man have a say in what happens. we’re ruled by the marxist left and globalist right.

no sane person would be opposed to all offshore drilling. only the fanatical fringe and our congressmen. you think with gas prices as high as they are, we would be pressing our congressmen into drilling domestically.

we are sheep led by the blind. we have lost control as a result of materialism.

And what are you prepared to do about it? Anything? Are we too afraid? Do we really care about or system? About our freedoms? About our democracy? Or are we just whining?

 

[Dale_M]

So, there is a moral imperative for drilling. It is to subdue the unatural discrimination against the citizens in the lowest disposable income bracket.

LOL!

If we really wanted to help persons in poverty, drilling for oil isn’t the answer. Increasing access to medical care and increasing educational opportunities, just to name two, will help. But how much will saving a few pennies per gallon on gas really help persons in poverty?

Lets get real. If we want to help poor people, lets do so. But don’t substitute false help in order to further a different agenda.

 

[KathleenElsie]

LOL!

If we really wanted to help persons in poverty, drilling for oil isn’t the answer. Increasing access to medical care and increasing educational opportunities, just to name two, will help. But how much will saving a few pennies per gallon on gas really help persons in poverty?

Lets get real. If we want to help poor people, lets do so. But don’t substitute false help in order to further a different agenda.

Well a few pennies could add up to a gallon of milk or a loaf of bread. Or maybe enough gass to get to the cheaper food store.

Health care is wonderful and necessary. But the scenario you set up is apples and oranges. Getting to work to afford the other items is not the last thing we should do but one of the first.

 

[mary_bobo]

Absolutely not true.

Government now is bigger than at any time in the past.

It is the government, our bureaucracy and our Liberal Congress, that has prohibited us from drilling AND that has both encouraged and financed lawsuits by advocacy groups that have combined to stop development of drilling and of building new refineries.

We have far more government and more intrusive government now than at any time in the past.

The courts are making decisions that are none of their business. Just recently, courts in one of the midwestern states decided that they can’t build a coal-fired electric generating plant.

More money is being spent on schools than ever before, but we have far far less to show for it. More bureaucracy. The education of the kids takes second place to propagandizing the kids.

If you want to read something really horrific, read None Dare Call It Treason by John A. Stormer.

Click here and then mouse around for his other books.

amazon.com/None-Dare-Call-Treason-Stormer/dp/0899667252

He published an update 25 years later.

But seriously, read that book. He names names.

Hopefully, it will get your blood properly boiling.

As usual, Al, a reasoned and thoughtful post. I have read the book you refer to, and it is, indeed, interesting and thought provoking. But you have to read it with an open mind and some of our liberal posters are not open to hearing the other side. Congress is so beholden to their interest groups that they dare not go against them. The far left environmentalists are not open to reason. They want us all to go back to the frontier days, but wait, we can’t burn wood in our stoves, it might polute the air. And don’t even get me started on the school system. It gets worse year by year while the cost goes up year by year. Compare this to the Catholic schools you know about and you will find that they operate on a smaller budget and with far more excellence than the public schools. If those administrators and teachers were in private industry, most of them would be fired. But we can’t get rid of the bad ones or pay the better ones more because of the unions.

In summary, we have the government we vote for. Our future IMO does not look bright.

 

[toekneemac]

The moral imperative is for the good of the whole nation, not just the poor. Without oil or high oil prices, we will all be in poverty. Gasoline is one thing, the cost of other petroluem based goods and more importantly, the cost of food, are another. Green is bad, oil is good. Green is a feel good political tool. Oil is practical.

Green is responsible for the Mexican tortilla riots.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6319093.stm

Green is making food prices rise, hurting the poor. Green will mean higher taxes and depandancy on the government.

Farmers are not gunna plant soy beans, but corn instead for ehtanol. Now, soy bean based products will rise in price, including infant formula.

Drill more and refine more. Build nuke plants. That is the key. For the long term, research alternative fuels, but do not make them the knee jerk soultion.