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The case for drilling

Repeatedly, the democrats and political pundits state “drilling won’t solve the problem”. That’s true as far as making us immediately oil independent.  But it well might reduce gas prices in fairly short order because it will change the future “supply” aspect of the oil picture.

 The Arabs are grinning ear to ear at our stupidity in not accessing our own rich oil deposits, which far outstrips theirs.  We are being held captive by foreign nations who support terrorism, don’t like us, in fact hate us, and are more than happy to exploit our very poor judgment. Not only are we being ripped off at the pumps, but we are sending billions of our tax dollars, every year, to terrorist sponsoring nations.  It is not impossible or improbable that a good deal of those billions is actually going into the pockets of terrorists, thereby financing people who would love to wipe us off the planet.

Ahmedjenedad has suggested that destroying our economy would be the most efficient way of destroying us; Collapse our economy, collapse our culture; render us impotent. How can this happen?  Easy; quit selling us oil.  Given that we’ve allowed our brain trusts in Congress, in cahoots with the environmentalists, to keep locks on drilling and refining of our own oil supply for the past quarter century, we are sitting ducks for such an action. 

If Obama gets in office and withdraws our troops prematurely, Iran, who is on the verge of nuclear bomb capability, will suck up Iraq, mass murder the Iraqi nationalists who have participated with us in trying to achieve a better safer life situation and blow Israel away.  Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Libya and non Arabic North Korea, who are watching us closely to see if we have the political will to stay and win or walk away from the war on terror,  will fall into lock step with Iran.  The very idea of the Middle East with nuclear capability marching to the tune of maniacal Ahmedjenedad makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck. Cutting us off from oil would just be the beginning of our troubles.

Try to imagine what will happen to our economy without oil; how would we maintain manufacturing, transportation, law enforcement agencies, home heating and all the other benefits that we take for granted that are dependent upon petroleum products.  How would we maintain our Military? Without a functional military, who’s going to protect us?

Why are we allowing Environmentalists and their buddies in congress to call the shots for the whole country?  It’s insanity. Have these nutty Environmentalists and/or congressmen never passed a pasture where an oil rig was pumping away while cows, birds, goats and other animals were milling around care free and unharmed just feet away from the rigs? Haven’t they noticed that hurricane Katrina, with all her force, didn’t result in oil spills along the coast?  Are they ignorant of the vast improvement in oil exploration, recovery & refinery technology? Have they forgotten that God gave human beings dominion over the earth and all that is in it, including animals; that the welfare of the two legged species with opposing thumbs takes priority over the rest, per God’s instruction?  Who do environmentalists think they are; withholding God given resources from the whole of our society?  It’s one thing to take care of our environment, as certainly we should, but quite another to sacrifice the welfare of the human race for the sake of some imagined risk to trees, plants and/or animals.

Environmentalists don’t speak for all of us, but Congress does work for all of us.  We need to demand responsibility from both of them. True responsibility requires a measure of common sense. Radical emotionalism over what might happen to some plant, insect or animal should not take priority over what is happening to the American public.  Congress needs to attend to problems of the people that put them in office and quit catering to the hysteria of special interest groups. They need to lift the ban on drilling.

There is a petition on http://americansolutions.org that you can sign to “Drill here, Drill now, Pay Less”. If you agree that we need to access our own oil supplies, clicking on the link and signing the petition is an easy way to have your voice heard.

Bobbie Kelley