What Now Mr. President?

by Jack Lee

Oil prices threaten the American economy and we’re helpless to do anything about it or so says our President. In his mind set we’ll just have to rely more on public transportation, give up those cars, ride bicycles -so we can ALL fight global warming! This chaotic situation is a greeny’s socialist dream come true.

This is a great time for Obama and his democrat minions who have prayed for $5 a gallon gasoline. And the best part is they had to do so little to help it edge toward a reality. It was all about doing…nothing. They’re actually on the verge of success, well there’s a first for this White House! But, this is not a battle most Americans wanted to win, however being independent of foreign oil is!

The lestist plan was simple, as most good plans are, obstruct everything – curtail drilling in the most promising areas; make it difficult to introduce alternative fuels like ethanol. A tariff fixed that! Next, cater to the corn lobby. Corn produces too little fuel to be meaningful, but the lobbyist money lines the pockets of far leftist bureaucrats who endorse them and give them back lavish subsidies with your money. Next, engage in a battle of regulations (leftists love regulations) using the power of the big boys like the Dept. of Transportation, EPA, and Dept. of Interior, to mention but a few of our overlapping federal agencies. Soon every American will be forced into riding the bus to work (if they can afford bus fare).

Meanwhile, we continue to avoid using saw grass which yields well over twice as much ethanol as corn and it’s cheaper to harvest. It has no impact on the food supply and it’s also a better grade of ethanol! Unfortunately there is no saw grass lobby, so it goes unnoticed.

In Brazil they have just discovered a way to triple the production of ethanol from sugarcane using a bacteria. Good news for us right? No. Doesn’t matter how cheap they can make it because America is prepared to raise the protective tariff to keep our costly corn ethanol competitively priced. Our rich oil fields in Alaska, off shore fields from Florida to California, the shale fields of the Midwest, the vast oil fields of the gulf all go under utilized and some not at all. The president talks about creating jobs – how about some oil field jobs – how about some jobs building refineries – how about jobs building cars people actually want to buy? There are a lot of jobs that would be created overnight if we acted smarter and moved away from corn based ethanol to produce more a economical ethanol. Between drilling, developing new extraction methods and alternatives fues we could become energy independant.

Imagine pump prices at $2.50 a gallon, think that would help the economy? Now imagine fuel prices at $9 a gallon like some places in Europe and vote for the one you want.