John McCain is going to lose this election, not because he’s a bad person, but because he is a terrible campaigner. Some of his policies are misguided and wrong, either that or he’s just plain clueless.
We, as a country, have what are probably the largest reserves of oil and natural gas, but we’ve put them off limits. There are approximately 16 billion barrels of oil just off shore in the Gulf of Mexico, on the continental shelf off of Georgia/North & South Carolina, off of the southern coast of California. There are approximately 10 billion barrels of oil in ANWR, but we’ll not touch that either. In the shale deposits that stretch from southern Colorado to norther Saskatchewon (sp?) there exist as much as 200 BILLION barrels of oil…but we’ll not touch that either.
All of these can be reached without disturbing the environment, despite the fears of many people. In Hurricane Katrina, which demolished a number of oil platforms in the Gulf, there were NO OIL SPILLS!!!! Get that? None.
Our refineries are operating at full blast, and cannot increase their output any more, but we’ve made it virtually impossible to build more, much less expand those that are already existing.
We have some of the largest reserves of uranium on the planet, yet we have made it impossible to build more nuclear power plants. They are safe and as green as green can be. The founder of Greenpeace, has recently come out and stated that he, and his “movement” are wrong for their opposition to nuclear power. He stated in effect, that nuclear power was the only green power source we have.
Ted Kennedy worked tirelessly to wreck the wind turbine plant that would have begun construction in Long Island Sound this summer because it “would ruin the view” of his very wealthy family’s compound in Hyannis Port, MA. Yet, he complains about global warming…
This sort of hypocracy will bring this nation to its knees, unless, we as a country wake up and begin to do something responsible:
Begin Drilling all available reserves;
Begin building wind turbine farms;
Begin building nuclear power plants;
Begin real research into alternative fuel sources
(hydrogen cells that don’t require oil to separate it out)
But basically we must remove our craniums from anus’ before we become a 2nd rate country…
This should be the energy policy of the Republican Party, but I doubt that it will be adopted by them. After all, this was the party out spend it’s way into a permanent majority though earmarks!
