Elites Denying Affordable Energy To Average Americans
By Deneen Borelli
October 9, 2008
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In its September 2008 report, the federal Energy Information Agency predicted a 25 percent rise in heating oil prices and a 17 percent rise in natural gas prices this winter as well as a 9.5 percent projected increase in electricity costs in 2009. Adding that gasoline still hovers near $4 a gallon, the public demands more domestic energy production. A recent Rasmussen poll of likely voters found that 67 percent supported new offshore fossil fuel exploration.
Our nation is blessed with an abundant supply of natural resources. The problem is that Congress, at the demand of Club Green, blocks access to these resources at the peril of families.
What's highly disturbing about Club Green is that, like Gore, many of its leaders are among the elite. They are the wealthy, famous and politically-connected people who are largely immune to the sticker shock of high energy costs.
Something is terribly wrong, because the wealth and the political access of a few are being used to dictate how everyone should live - effectively denying the majority their right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
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Deneen Borelli is a fellow for the Project 21 black leadership network. Comments may be sent to DBorelli@nationalcenter.org. Note: New Visions Commentaries reflect the views of their author, and not necessarily those of Project 21.
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