As I noted in the prior post, at least one Democrat in Rezkoland, also known as Illinois, is panicking. The caveperson doodling reads, "Vote Republican, it's easier than thinking." You can find it, at least until the next time it rains, on the North Branch Trail, in Glenview, just south of Lake Avenue. This is in a Republican part of Cook County. Yes, such places exist.I encountered this graffiti during my afternoon run. I turned around a quarter-mile later, and I saw a gas station on the corner of Glenview and Harms Roads, where I reminded that gasoline is now over $4 a gallon. Again.
One year ago, gas was about a dollar less.
That got me thinking. Yes, Republicans can think. John McCain strongly supports offshore drilling for oil. After facing his first noticeable decline in poll numbers since clinching the Democratic nomination for president, Barack Obama flip-flopped--he now favors "limited" offshore drilling--whatever that is.
Obama claims to support nuclear power, but if he's elected president, don't look for the Cult of Change leader to put his fuel rods where his mouth is. The environmentalists, whom the Democrats feel compelled to coddle, will never let him do it.
Coal? Puh-leaze! Obama promised downstaters he'd revive Illinois' moribund coal industry. He's done nothing.
Drill here. Drill now. Mine here. Mine now. Fire up those nuclear plants. Pay less. Think. Vote Republican.
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If we're going to drill in protected natural areas and ruin coastal states' tourism industries, the least we can do is keep American fuel for the American people. Sadly, Republicans are already all for selling our fuel off to the Japanese and who knows who else.
ReplyDeleteOr maybe those Republicans were thinking of a different kind of drilling...
Write back when gas drops a penny or two because a few new drills are producing something... in a decade or more. Meanwhile, our nation will have lost another ten years and who knows how many billions of dollars that could've gone toward actual energy-independence.
The long-term answer isn't to keep doing the same thing when long after you realize it doesn't work as well anymore... Instead, strategic thinking calls for a change and innovation to develop existing technologies into the sustainable technology of the future.