Strike While the Iron is Hot

If thee US Congress wants to pass some legislation that will do the US some good, in the long run, pass legislation to drop the environmental restrictions so we can get some new oil refineries built, in this country, in order for us to have the gasoline we need. Plus, legislation to allow drilling in ANWR and off all the coasts of the US. Pass legislation that will give the oil companies the authority to process the coal; we have, to get the petroleum out of it, and to squeeze the shale rock to get that oil. Heck, we have enough oil for about a 100 years… right here in America. The Congress just doesn’t have to guts to go against the “Greenies”, the “environazis” to get it.

We have the world’s largest deposits of coal and we have the world’s largest deposits of shale oil… plus the pools of oil beneath that Artic Desert called ANWR and beneath the continental shelves all along or coasts. Its there! It’s just waiting for somebody to come get it.

If we don’t go get it, we are headed for an economic tragedy, in this country, that will make the 1930’s look like a Sunday School Picnic. Oil is the fuel of our economy, period! Without it, or even with it, at extraordinary prices, our economy will fail.

This “slowdown” is just a precursor for things to come, if we don’t get the oil. Wait ‘til this winter’s “weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth”, when people get their fuel oil bills, or their gas bills, or their electric bills. A lot of us are going to have a cold, cold, winter.

And it doesn’t have to be this way! That’s what makes me so mad!

I’d like to see the President proclaim a National Emergency and send the oil crews up to ANWR and knock holes in that tundra, and suck that oil out, and begin convoying it back to those refineries, we still have operating, while at the same time authorizing the construction of about 12 new refineries… just to handle the increase in oil availability.

And another thing, I’m really P.O’ed at him for asking Clinton to come in, with his Dad, to start a fund raising drive as they did for the tsunami victims! The absolute last thing we need is a CLINTON anywhere near this mess! My God, has the President lost his mind? It took us eight years to get rid of Clinton and now, we have to have him front and center… AGAIN! I don’t know who is advising the President on this matter, but they are wrong! Absolutely wrong!

Let’s hope the Congress, and the President, will strike while the iron is hot and get the necessary legislation passed to put this oil crisis behind us for decades to come.

“Longstreet”