Mr. Bush, Lead or Leave
This is a great Op-Ed all should read!
NYT-Two years ago, President Bush declared that America was “addicted to oil,” and, by gosh, he was going to do something about it. Well, now he has. Now we have the new Bush energy plan: “Get more addicted to oil.”
Actually, it’s more sophisticated than that: Get Saudi Arabia, our chief oil pusher, to up our dosage for a little while and bring down the oil price just enough so the renewable energy alternatives can’t totally take off. Then try to strong arm Congress into lifting the ban on drilling offshore and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
It’s as if our addict-in-chief is saying to us: “C’mon guys, you know you want a little more of the good stuff. One more hit, baby. Just one more toke on the ole oil pipe. I promise, next year, we’ll all go straight. I’ll even put a wind turbine on my presidential library. But for now, give me one more pop from that drill, please, baby. Just one more transfusion of that sweet offshore crude.”
John,
Why do you support all the liberal, high regulation policies advocated by Tom Friedman in this op-ed?
Bart
What part of this do you disagree?
NYT-Two years ago, President Bush declared that America was “addicted to oil,” and, by gosh, he was going to do something about it. Well, now he has. Now we have the new Bush energy plan: “Get more addicted to oil.”
Actually, it’s more sophisticated than that: Get Saudi Arabia, our chief oil pusher, to up our dosage for a little while and bring down the oil price just enough so the renewable energy alternatives can’t totally take off. Then try to strong arm Congress into lifting the ban on drilling offshore and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
It’s as if our addict-in-chief is saying to us: “C’mon guys, you know you want a little more of the good stuff. One more hit, baby. Just one more toke on the ole oil pipe. I promise, next year, we’ll all go straight. I’ll even put a wind turbine on my presidential library. But for now, give me one more pop from that drill, please, baby. Just one more transfusion of that sweet offshore crude.”
That’s it John……take the usual liberal viewpoint without offering a SINGLE solution. How about we levy a 100% tax on all “big oil” profits John. How much gas will that put in your tank?
The whole environMENTAL thing is a sham perpertrated by the socialists like Algore and George Soros. All the crap about the Caribou turned out to be wrong, polar bears are increasing in numbers and even NASA scientists agree there is NO global warming taking place. Why NOT drill here and drill NOW?
I don’t know about anyone else, but I like my SUV and it takes gas to run it.
John,
I asked first…why do you support the liberal policies of Tom Friedman and the dem congress (excerpt from column follows summation of big regulations you support):
- Miles per gallon regulations on private industry
- more “conservation” (tree hugger code word for more regulation, higher taxes, less capitalism)
- Increase power of EPA (conservatives would abolish the EPA John)
- Support HR6049, large tax increases, higher fuel taxes, more big government…opposed by clear thinking conservatives
Excerpt:
This from a president who for six years resisted any pressure on Detroit to seriously improve mileage standards on its gas guzzlers; this from a president who’s done nothing to encourage conservation; this from a president who has so neutered the Environmental Protection Agency that the head of the E.P.A. today seems to be in a witness-protection program.
But, most of all, this deadline is from a president who hasn’t lifted a finger to broker passage of legislation that has been stuck in Congress for a year, which could actually impact America’s energy profile right now — unlike offshore oil that would take years to flow — and create good tech jobs to boot.
That bill is H.R. 6049 — “The Renewable Energy and Job Creation Act of 2008,” which extends for another eight years the investment tax credit for installing solar energy and extends for one year the production tax credit for producing wind power and for three years the credits for geothermal, wave energy and other renewables.
Lead is for high-test.
Dubious should just go, and take Chain-gun Cheney with him.
Bart and Sgt Mac
Do you care anything for future generations?
“The whole environMENTAL thing is a sham perpertrated by the socialists”
You’re ignorant.
Every single large-scale mine in the U.S. is (or will be) a superfund site. I live in mine country and can tell you that the toxic tailing ponds left behind by the mining companies will be around for decades if not centuries.
There’s a balance between harvesting resources and being a good steward for future generations. The idea that environmentalism is a fringe set of values is the epitomy of ignorance.
“I don’t know about anyone else, but I like my SUV and it takes gas to run it.”
Keep driving it. Regardless of whether there is more drilling (domestic or abroad)… you’ll go broke driving it.
John,
You start a thread by advocating a very liberal column by Tom Friedman. Why can’t you answer simple questions about your own f’n thread?
What part of more regulation, higher taxes, unfettered spending and onerous bureaucracy benefits “future generations”?
Bart
I never said I supported his plan. But I will say Bush and McCain have no plan other than helping the oil business!
“What part of more regulation, higher taxes, unfettered spending and onerous bureaucracy benefits “future generations”?”
The part that keeps profit-seeking corporations from polluting the land beyond repair and not having to pay for the cleanup cost.
Corporations in the business of resource extraction have an abysmal record of cleaning up when the resources are depleted.
Corporations seek shareholder return. They could care less about the common good. In fact they have a fiduciary responsibility to look after the shareholders financial return. All the marketing in the world doesn’t change the basic capitalist business model. That’s their reason for being. The common good is the domain of government. This is why concerned citizens organize governments.
Jeez, go take a civics course and economics 101 bb. This is 10th grade stuff that you don’t seem to get.
Soaring Oil Prices Put Focus on Speculators
Offshore Drilling May Have Little Effect on Oil Prices
Great comeback John, a Harvard professor against oil drilling…imagine that.
Your tag line on this thread — “This is a great Op-Ed all should read!”
You tout this as a “great” op-ed, but do not agree with it????? Come on John, your liberalism is showing…again.
Bart
I ask again!
What part of this do you disagree?
NYT-Two years ago, President Bush declared that America was “addicted to oil,” and, by gosh, he was going to do something about it. Well, now he has. Now we have the new Bush energy plan: “Get more addicted to oil.”
Actually, it’s more sophisticated than that: Get Saudi Arabia, our chief oil pusher, to up our dosage for a little while and bring down the oil price just enough so the renewable energy alternatives can’t totally take off. Then try to strong arm Congress into lifting the ban on drilling offshore and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
It’s as if our addict-in-chief is saying to us: “C’mon guys, you know you want a little more of the good stuff. One more hit, baby. Just one more toke on the ole oil pipe. I promise, next year, we’ll all go straight. I’ll even put a wind turbine on my presidential library. But for now, give me one more pop from that drill, please, baby. Just one more transfusion of that sweet offshore crude.”
#1 Post (I asked first) —
John,
Why do you support all the liberal, high regulation policies advocated by Tom Friedman in this op-ed?
Did you change your mind since yesterday when you considered Friedman’s column to be “great, a must read!”?
Do you not think the OP-ED did a great job defining the issue.
John,
I think one must agree with an op-ed to call it “great” and a “must read”.
Everybody (except you) knows that you support big govt. policies like those touted in the Friedman column…let us know when you want to just admit it.
SUVs are one of those great examples that prove Darwin was right.
Stupid gas mileage.
Stupid safety factors.
Total lack of “intelligent design.”
Why don’t they just bust up some of these conglomerates. They’re controlled from the top with CEOs in bed with the politicians. And you would have to be a moron to not recognize these folks in the White House are part of the global oil club. ART-I-FI-CIAL-SCAR-CI-TY!!
Davey – Darwin was a fool. You’re living proof that evolution is a misnomer.
Enjoy the rick-shaws.
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