the Day the US stood still…
I am a big sci-fi fan. I love old black and white movies because movies then had a plot and didn’t rely on special effects. So I recently watched one of my favorites, it was The Day the Earth Stood Still. In the movie, Klatu the man from outer space caused the whole planet to shut down electrically for 30 minutes. This caused everything that had any reliance on electricity to stop and thus disrupting all societies worldwide.
After the movie I saw a news report that oil had gone to 102 dollars a barrel. With that we could soon expect 4 dollars a gallon for gas. I thought we are rapidly approaching a time when this country could stand still because of high gas prices. Now for you liberals and environmentalists I want to say prices are not high because of Bush. They are not high because we are in Iraq or Afghanistan or any other region. They are high because OPEC can charge whatever they want and we will pay it. They won’t increase production because they make billions on us. Why increase production and give up the golden goose..us!. The high gas prices take huge amounts of money out of our economy, money that could be spent on products and services that keep other Americans working. But the high prices take a toll in other ways also. They drive up the cost of shipping products, which forces the manufacturers to raise prices to offset shipping costs. Products we manufacture cost more like plastics, rubber and anything that has or uses oil in its production. So your tires will cost more. Those toys for you kids also.
Oil prices are also high because we will not develop our own sources. They are high because we have gutless politicians that will not tell the radical environmentalists to go take a flying leap. We have activist judges that go along with the environmentalist in blocking anything that even resembles drilling, mining or anything that resembles oil or resource development. We won’t build a single new refinery, to refine that 102 dollar oil.
They are high because we have an electorate that is more interested in what Britney did than what our legislators are doing or not doing. Developing fuel efficient cars is great, but we are not going to replace 300 million cars overnight. And this doesn’t even account for the many thousands of large transport trucks.
So when we are paying 5, 6, 7 dollars a gallon, don’t blame it on Bush. By then we will have another president anyway. Don’t blame it on Clinton, Obama or McCain either, although they are part of the problem and will be no part of the solution. No the blame goes right where it belongs. Who is that you say….just look in the mirror. We are the problem, we let it happen.