Blame Clinton And The Greens For Gas Prices
By Henry Lamb
April 28, 2008
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Big oil is not to blame for the high price of gasoline; the blame must fall squarely in the lap of the environmental extremists who use propaganda and fear-mongering to block the increases in the production of readily available fossil fuels. There are sufficient reserves of coal to last about 200 years. Despite Jimmy Carter's 1970s declaration that the world would be out of oil by 2000, and considering the anticipated increase in demand, there are enough known oil reserves to last at least 60 years. This energy should be available now.
Of course, research should continue to find abundant, affordable energy supplies for the future. But forcing technology to advance by arbitrarily and unnecessarily prohibiting the use of currently-available energy supplies makes no sense. The price of both existing supplies and alternative technology is artificially increased. To write this foolishness into law is even worse.
Every time government sticks its nose into the market place and attempts to manage it, government makes a mess. The ethanol mandate, for example, inevitably results in price increases for food - for everyone. The arbitrary increase in fuel efficiency standards inevitably results in smaller, lighter automobiles - and more crash-related deaths. The much touted cap-and-trade program for carbon emissions will inevitably result in taking money out of the pockets of wage-earners, and transfer it to the pockets of people like Al Gore, who created the "hot-air" store, and sells his goods only because government forces people to buy them.
Every time a person fills up at the pump, he should visualize the billions of barrels of oil that are waiting in Alaska, and the billions of barrels of oil that are waiting in the Dakotas and Montana, and the billions of barrels of oil that are waiting just off shore - and curse the environmental extremists who are forcing him to pay far more for his transportation than is necessary.
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Henry Lamb is the Chairman of Sovereignty International , and founder of the Environmental Conservation Organization (ECO).
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