Recharging Our Batteries Part I, The Energy Mess

Go out to your local high school and walk over to the sports complex. Find the football field, and go sit in the bleachers, about half way up, on the fifty yard line. Now, close your eyes, and have a friend walk out on the football field somewhere, and lay down a standard U. S. postage stamp. When he/she comes up in the bleachers to where you are and taps you on the shoulder, open your eyes and look for the stamp. While you’re looking, consider this: the area you’re searching represents the ANWR, and the postage stamp represents the drilling area for oil.

That’s one thing the envirofreak save the caribou idiots won’t tell you. Here’s another. Guess how many species will actually be threatened, if that postage stamp area is drilled. Well, when you’re done listening to the morons and doomsayers, the end result will be none. Nada. Niente. The simple fact is, there is no hard evidence that drilling in the ANWR in the planned area represents any tangible threat to any species. I’m not talking tame biologists, Hollywood actors, activist tree huggers, or mentally deficient people who, when presented with facts, run and hide in a corner with a blanket of 100% recycled paper to hide under, I’m talking about real threat. In fact, the last real threat to Alaska’s wildlife, was a way to move oil to the coast, for loading in tankers, according to the enviromorons.

The Alaska pipeline. Remember that? The environmental mental masturbators threatened extinction of half the wildlife in Alaska. (Not including late night partiers in Juneau or Fairbanks) It never happened. In fact, using the caribou herds as an example of a threat to the wildlife of Alaska, the environazis said they would suffer major change. Well, the idiots were right for a change, but not in the way they expected. The caribou herds found that the pipeline provided a safe route north to south in the winter, as well as shelter for calving females. The Alaska Wildlife Department noted that the herds have, in fact, increased in size. Notice that the environerds don’t mention the pipeline any more, when they talk about threats to wildlife. They’re still getting the egg off their faces about that faux pas.

OK, here’s another argument that the envirosickos use. They argue about the amount of crude oil that is available to be pumped out of the ground. Guess what? They don’t know, they’re only guessing, and, dear reader, if you’re intelligent enough to follow an argument, they’re deliberately guessing on the low end, because it fits their agenda. Now, to be fair, let me point out that the people who want to drill in the ANWR are guessing too, and they’re guessing on the high end. Now let me present you with two pieces of information. Number one is, the pro-drillers and the anti-drillers are both wrong. Until we actually start drilling, we don’t know how much oil there is to retrieve. So, if you find yourself believing either side, well, sorry to hurt your feelings, but you’re engaged in foolish thinking. Cut the politicized crap, and engage your brain, friend. Number two is simple. I know for a fact how much oil is available in the ANWR, down to the last drop. No, I’m not a super-geologist, I didn’t come here from the future, and I don’t use a Ouija board. You want to know how much? Simple! More than we have being pumped now, domestically, but not enough to solve our needs.

What the oil in the ANWR, and the oil in the Gulf of Mexico that we’re not pumping yet, and the oil available off the coast of California that we’re not going after yet represents is a source or sources of oil that will give us the breathing space we need to make some serious changes. If we want to survive, we need to make changes, and those changes will have to start, not in Alaska, not in the Gulf of Mexico, not off the coast of California, and, most definitely, not in Hollywood. We the People need to tell our Congress and our President that change is needed, and we need to start using our voting power to enforce the changes. Congress has the authority to regulate interstate commerce, folks, a power granted by the Constitution, and the energy industry is nothing if not interstate commerce.

Come back to Capitol Hill Coffee House, folks, in part II of this column I’m gonna present a plan to get us back on track and self sufficient as a country.

Copyright© April 14, 2005
By Dave Hoffman

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