Progressives Treat American Energy Independence as a Political Tool

The tinderbox Middle East sees spark after spark and progressives don't seem too awful concerned about the future of American energy. Are they just cool as a cucumber, or are they showing their hand for us to once again see in the light of day?

As Libya descends to anarchy and the House of Saud quakes in fear for the potential unrest they might see, oddly our president and his ideological sycophancy are fine with it. What does it say about progressive's in general and specifically our Man Child in Chief as to their motivations, beliefs and competence? Do they really see this nation so desperately in need of "fundamental transformation" that we need $8.00 a gallon gasoline?

America has vast oil reserves. Add in the potential of oil shale and the US is not energy poor by any stretch. We are the world's Saudi Arabia in coal and have natural gas out the wazoo...pun intended. But I want to specifically address one talking point of progressives and energy - "our oil dependence on the Middle East funds terrorism." What happened to this talking point they vomited upon us ad infinitum? Heard this one lately? No? Hmmmm? Remember, this was one of their justifications for Cap & Trade and all the rest of their nonsense.

If our cash flowing to the Middle East does fund terrorism why are we not drilling our own oil and turning our shale into fuel? Why not convert more cars to run on natural gas, of which we have tons and tons? If oil is a problem why not convert any oil energy generation to coal fired energy generation? We have more coal than will be used in ten generations.

As energy price history clearly and undeniably shows when oil rose to $147.00 a barrel in 2008 what did Bush do? He lifted the oil drilling moratoriums in the US and what happened? The price of market crude fell from $147.00 down to around $35.00 a barrel in about 6 months and that was only with the LIFTING the ban...not a single drop of that oil reached markets in that time. Is this not proof positive that speculation drives most of this? Why do progressives simply refuse to accept the market evidence of this clear and undeniable fact?

Simple...they know that one of the tools of their getting what they want is backdoor redistribution of wealth. Sending our money to foreign nations for their oil is a great way of accomplishing that goal as well as a great way of keeping unemployment artificially high here at home. How clever of them! High unemployment plays into the progressive "big government will take care of you," mantras, as do high energy prices. Such conditions spur fools to demand more government to "do something" to fix the ills.

Artificially inflating energy prices is a wonderful way of creating market instability. It assists progressives in their talking points about the dire need for their green agenda which is basically a taxation scheme to redistribute American's wealth from private hands to government. Every penny government can gather adds to their power and progressive's are clear they believe government needs to be larger and larger, no matter how much the governed in this nation scream "No!" Remember, we have the audio tape of Obama saying "I will bankrupt [the coal industry]."

I am tired of pussy footing around with these clowns and specifically the Clown in Chief. Obama has a rather un-American agenda. Truly his actions seem as if he hates this nation and I don't really care how many times he pays lip service to any idea counter to that fact. Talk is cheap and so is Obama. Actions always speak louder than words, especially the words of politicians and even more so the words of progressive politicos. Only to a fellow progressive does any of this make sense. For those of us lacking a hopeful ideological outcome to foreign energy dependence, none of this makes a single lick of sense.

2012 can't come soon enough for me. I only hope they can't break us before we can send them back to whatever level of Hell from which they emerged.