Now, why haven't we done this before? Just WHY are we dependent on foreign oil? Thank your local green lobby and irrational, liberal environmentalist. Because of their "green" policies over the past thirty years (years which could have been spent building infrastructure and exploring alternative energy avenues) they have systematically blocked any and all attempts. Yet, they are the ones screaming the loudest about "wars for oil" and "get us off foreign oil".
Well, the time has come to tell them to shut up and sit down. Their policies have failed and failed miserably. We have sufficient oil to last us for centuries on our own shores. These same environmentalists who won't let us drill our own oil in the Gulf or off Florida don't seem to be screaming very loudly when Cuba and China are doing exactly that. We have capped oil wells we can uncap and use while building the infrastructure of new pipelines and new refineries. We can also start building nuclear plants. Nuclear has matured and is clean energy.
I was born in a town with oil reserves--storage tanks for literally MILES full of oil--and a refinery. When we moved to Arizona in 1972, we still payed $0.25 per gallon of "ethyl". There weren't pipeline and transportation costs as the refinery was right there. We competed on the oil company's swim team--statewide against other oil company's teams. I KNOW the oil is here and waiting to be uncapped and used.
The snail darter, the spotted owl, the caribou--they are NOT more important than humans. It's time liberal environmentalists understood that.
Now, I'm providing two buttons for two petitions demanding Congress do something productive by overriding the screeching environmentalists who can't make up their mind on saving some non-human species or getting us off foreign oil and ORDER the wells uncapped, infrastructure built and drilling our own oil. I also suggest you mention they need to repeal the ethanol mandates as ethanol is proving to be a worldwide disaster. You don't burn food for fuel. And for the rest of you who want the real story of the harm caused by the liberal environmentalists, I suggest the following book:
It will be a very interesting read as to the true story of ethanol. the millions dead since the banning of DDT (the only truly effective pesticide against malarial mosquitos), the Yellowstone and catastrophic forest firests, water pollution and the estrogen connections with fish deformaties--and who caused these disasters? That's right--liberal environmentalists with an agenda.
If you're fed up with the screwing around in Washington, if you're tired of depending on foreign oil from countries that hate us (and their instability), if you're tired of the lunatic "green" policies passing as science and costing you more and more money to fund failed policies through your tax dollars, if you're fed up with KNOWING we have the resources here and the liberal environmentalists won't let us utilitize our own resources and if you really want to vent your spleen (POLITELY!) about your feelings to Congress, then go to each of these places and sign the petitions.
Petition No. One:
Petition No. Two:
Go sign the petitions, pick up the book and let your voice be heard. Don't let the followers of the goracle, the hysterical scammers and the insane policies of the liberal environmentalists who really don't give a hoot about the environment bankrupt you or this country any further. It's time to get serious, use our own resources and quit allowing these loons to do their best to turn us into a third world country.