Posted on 12 August 2008
Tags: 2001, 911, Afghanistan, Alaska, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Drilling, Environment, Gasoline, Gasoline Prices, Immigrants, Immigration, Iraq, Lou Dobbs, Offshore Drilling, Oil Spills, Panic, Panic-Thinking, Republican, Sept. 11, terror, Terror Alerts, Terrorism, War
Writes: Bruce Barnbaum - Granite Falls, Wash.
‘Panic thinking’ about gas prices stalls progress
When panic sets in, thinking ends. After Sept. 11, 2001, the American public fell for the lies about Iraq being a major threat to the U.S. and supported the invasion. Panic ruled the day. It has taken years for a majority of the public to turn against the unjustified war.
Today, with gasoline prices hovering around $4 per gallon, the public is again in the throes of panic-thinking. This phrase, of course, is an oxymoron, for there is no thinking when panic takes hold.
After years of sensibly opposing offshore drilling and drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge because of its potential effect on the environment, panic is pushing the public toward support of such drilling.
Studies show that opening those areas to drilling would have no significant effect on gasoline prices for at least 10 years. At that time, the effect of drilling in Alaska would save roughly 2 cents per gallon at the pump, along with possible devastating oil spills. Of course, by then gasoline could be $10 per gallon or more.
Obviously, drilling would do nothing to lower prices. But when panic takes over, people cannot see facts or common sense. It matters little what the issue is. Panic trumps thinking every time.
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Posted on 23 June 2008
Tags: Addict-in-Chief, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Bush Energy Plan, Crude Oil, Dick Cheney, george bush, Iraq, Iraq War, john mccain, Middle East, oil, Renewable Energy, Republican Party, Saudi Arabia
…..Actually, it’s more sophisticated than that: Get Saudi Arabia, our chief oil pusher, to up our dosage for a little while and bring down the oil price just enough so the renewable energy alternatives can’t totally take off. Then try to strong arm Congress into lifting the ban on drilling offshore and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
It’s as if our addict-in-chief is saying to us: “C’mon guys, you know you want a little more of the good stuff. One more hit, baby. Just one more toke on the ole oil pipe. I promise, next year, we’ll all go straight. I’ll even put a wind turbine on my presidential library. But for now, give me one more pop from that drill, please, baby. Just one more transfusion of that sweet offshore crude.”
It is hard to find the words to express what a fraudulent, pathetic excuse for an energy policy President Bush’s new plan is…..[MORE]
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