2008 Soap Box Archives

Downright Dangerous

Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and their compatriots are all that stand in the way of America harvesting the plentiful oil reserves we have in Alaska, the lower forty-eight and offshore.

Ms. Pelosi claims she's "trying to save the planet," but I submit to you that her reasons are more numerous and devious than that. She is beholden to the "save the whales" and "kill the babies" crowd, the green weenies who want to see America driving Fred Flintstone cars, the do-nothing, "do as we say, not as we do," crowd of Al Gore liberals with nothing to offer us but global warming and pipe dreams.

Last week, Ms. Pelosi and the Democrats in the House thought that getting an early start on their five-week vacation was more important than doing anything about oil exploration, much to the outcry of a group of Republicans who stayed in the House after it was adjourned in a vocal protest.

What Pelosi and her ilk are doing is not only detrimental to the country it is downright dangerous. Every year we put hundreds of billions of dollars into the pockets of tinhorn dictators like Hugo Chavez and despots in the Middle East who hate our guts.

And she wants to tap into the National Oil Reserve, which, in my humble opinion is dangerous too. The Middle East could literally explode at any time and we would need all the oil we can lay our hands on just to survive.

In essence the policies of Pelosi and Reid are financing our own demise. We are supporting the very people who want nothing more than to reduce the United States of America to a smoking pile of rubble.

Pelosi is from San Francisco, and though I'm sure there are sensible people in the Golden Gate city who vehemently disagree with her, I seriously doubt if there's enough of them to vote her out of office, but Reid is from Nevada and I must say, with all due respect to the good people of that state, I'm a little surprised that they let themselves be represented by, Harry "the war is lost, and the surge is not working" Reid.

If you ask either of them why oil prices took a dip a while back they would probably tell you it was a reduction in use and I agree that was part of it, but did you happen to notice that the dip happened right after President Bush announced a lift on offshore drilling by the executive branch, needing only Congress' approval for the drilling to begin?

Even a threat of producing our own oil sends a tremor through the Middle Eastern oil industry and the speculators who bet on the price continuing to go up.

Why should we send 700 billion dollars overseas every year when we could keep the lions share right here in the USA? Can you imagine what all out petroleum production would do for the economy of this country?

Now before you cherry pickers get your poison keyboards out let me say this.

I am all for finding alternative fuels, if we never had to pump another gallon of gas it would make me ecstatic. I'm very much in favor of nuclear power and love T. Boone Pickens' great idea about wind power and natural gas.

But in the meantime, unless you've found some way to mount an energy-producing windmill on top of your car, you've got to drive to work next week and it will be years before Mr. Pickens' idea reaches fruition.

In the meantime we have to have oil and why in the name of sanity should we pay terrorist states for it when we can get it right here in our own country.

All Pelosi and Reid have come up with is to investigate the speculators and try to levy a windfall profit tax on the oil companies and give the money to poor families to help pay for their energy needs.

Sounds good in the New York Times, but down here where the rubber meets the road and speaking in the cowboy logic vernacular, it ain't nothing but another socialist idea and the bottom line is that it won't produce a single drop of oil.

Ms. Pelosi, when you became Speaker of The House you complained that the airplane they let you use wasn't big enough. Now that's real green talk if I've ever heard it.

I think they should give you another plane. How about a piper cub?

Pray for our troops

What do you think?

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

August 4, 2008