When Is Enough, Enough

June 9th, 2008

Everyday we hear our Government wants to place more restrictions on our civil liberties in the name of the environment.

When I was a child it was save the Whales. That seemed harmless enough. After all they just wanted folks to stop hunting Whales. I was not a Whale hunter why would I care. So go ahead and save them.

Then it was the spotted Owl. Some goofy story about how we could not cut down old mature trees. Then tell us that the Owls were too picky to nest or raise their young any other place except three hundred year old trees. That is until one was found nesting in a Kmart sign.

On and on until save the environment has become big business. Environmental wack nuts like Al Gore make millions of dollars a year running around in private jets, (which by the way burn thousands of gallons of fuel a minute.) screaming the sky is falling, the sky is falling.

Fast forward to today. Gas is $4.00 a gallon and I am told $6.00 to $8.00 a gallon gas, is not out of the question. The cost of food is up 30% to 40%. Companies are laying off, shutting down, or struggling to stay afloat. Unemployment is on the rise. and why do you ask? Because every product, and every thing you touch must at sometime move by truck. The average distance is 1500 miles. As a matter of fact, every part of our economy is fueled by oil in some way, shape, or form.

Now I would love to wave a magic wand and replace oil with another form of energy, but there isn't anything at this point that will handle the load. Not that I am saying we should not continue to try. By all means keep trying. Until we make a break through oil is what we have. And what we have is trillions of barrels of oil in this Country and off shore. The Chinese are drilling sixty miles off of our coast right now.

Don't tell me it is about the environment. Nuclear plants could provide cleaner and cheaper energy, but the Environmentalist and your local Democratic Party stops us every time.

Wind could provide free safe energy for not all, but much of our needs. Right now on the Kennedy Ranch here in Texas they are trying to put in a wind farm, and the Environmentalist are trying to stop it. Why? You say, they think birds are too stupid to fly around them.

Even if we were to reach the utopian dream, of not ever hurting the environments feelings. It would not do any good because India, China, Mexico, and other growing third world nations are doing nothing.

It is time to save humans and let the environment limp along as best as it is able. We have done all that is reasonable to do.

Now I don't want to be accused of whining with no solutions.

So here it is:

1. For at least one year starting now, stop all fuel taxes. We don't need to fix roads if we cannot afford to drive on them.

2. Here in Texas as well as other places there are wells we have capped that are filling up. Uncap and pump then dry again.

3. Start drilling everywhere there is oil. Make Alaska, the Ocean floor, and the lower 48 look like Swiss cheese. Have all Governors dispatch the National Guard to protect drilling just in case some nut ball Judge gets their panties in a wad, and tries to stop us. This is a point of National Security.

4. And here is the one I like the best. Defund all environmental research or environmental organizations we are sending money to and put it toward the building of wind farms and nuke plants.


And that's what I think!

Phil Haikey