Don’t expect to convince the public on the simplicity of the Democrats strawman arguments. I know lots of seemingly intelligence people who are easily fooled by those simplistic arguments. Just look at CyaNeos (well I am giving his intelligence the benefit of the doubt), he tells us the amount of recoverable oil in the United States is negligible and that a massive effort on the part of Government is needed to fix the problem. He tells us we should have made the effort in the 1970s. It takes knowledge to see through the strawman but today ignorance reigns in the general population.
The Carter administration poured billions of dollars into alternative fuels that did not provide one btu of usable energy. Your typical CyaNeos type person does not know that the United States has at a minimum over 100 years of recoverable oil reserves in conventional and non-conventional source like oil shale using known and proven technologies. Given the facts the strawman will be burned down. The question is will the MSM, the information store for the American public, stock its shelves with facts or with Obama talking points.
