Most people have their own agenda, their own sacred cows, and their beliefs about what ought to be done about X or Y. However, good leaders surround themselves with people who can help them find what really is the best option, not just those who parrot their own beliefs, particularly if their pet plan proves poor. Our President demonstrates a foolish adhesion to a narrow field by refusing to pursue every option available.
It is clear that Obama prefers some things over others. What is perhaps unsettling is that he prefers those things to the exclusion of all others. In anyother arena of choice, that's termed discrimination, but Obama calls it 'progressive thinking'. Obama says he’s for cheaper energy while he resists the cheapest forms of energy, and the energy policy of his administration seems predicated on teh notion that some day soon we won't need oil.
He will force ‘green energy’ down your throat whether you like it or not, whether you can afford it or not, and whether it works or not. Solyndra is just one of a growing list of environmentally friendly initiatives into which he has pumped billions in taxes that have paid high sums to executives and then collapsed. Although Obama talks about lowering the cost, his own energy secretary talks about matching europe's gas prices. Even though technology has made it cheaper, the prices of energy continue to rise, at least partially due to government intrusion. Despite his claims to have increased domestic energy production, Obama has pened up areas that are isolated and remote, where companies are unlikely to go there or places where there is unlikely to be any oil, and his bureaucracy slaps lawsuits and regulations on that are so expensive to meet that companies won't go looking for oil.
Obama's pro-environmental policy is even a sham. They fight a pipeline from Canada while they tout independence. It cost us lots of domestic jobs and forced Canada to put it on ships and sail it to distant markets, putting the environment that he so richly treasures.
I am not saying things like wind and solar and algae are never going to work or be affordable. They are not feasible options NOW. What is however cheap and easy and plentiful is carbon-based fuels like oil, coal, and natural gas. In spite of his administration we are producing. When the oil rig went down years ago, it came to light that the rigs approved by his predecessors were fine. They always talk about how oil is five years away if we drill, but if we’d drilled, it would be available now as opposed to the so-called green energy sources that for all of his expenditures have yet to factor in in any significant way. Also, they tell us that oil is evil, but they have not banned it. They ban other things that are bad, but notice that cigarettes, french fries, and schnapps are all legal despite their links to horrible human health. It's duplicitous; it's a crusade.
Furthermore, Obama talks about how we can’t drill our way to energy independence on one platform and then in another breath claims credit for all the new drilling that has relieved us from reliance on foreign powers. I cannot imagine how you can be fooled by these contumelies. On one hand, there’s no quick fix. On the other, he claims that he has a quick fix.
It seems to me that if you are serious about fixing a problem that you focus on everything that might work as a solution. We have oil in this country and coal and natural gas. I know they claim we have 3% of the world's reserves, but that depends on how you estimate that. Have the people who came up with that figure explored the entire face of the earth or for that matter every inch of the nation? People continue to buy cars that run on gas, heaters that run on oil, and cooking appliances that either directly burn propane-based fuels or depend on coal for electricity. Plus, our military depends on fossil fuels. The last time a major military power relied on the wind was the British Navy over a century ago. Pursue every option. Get us oil now, and work on the other options, but ignoring oil just shows how foolish the president really is.
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