Saudis set to boost oil production capacity

Let me preface this by stating that I live in a solar heated home. That I planted 5500 trees on my property (7 acres), that I preheat my hot water using the sun, and that I have 3 high-mileage 4 cylinder cars for transportation. And that those trees I planted are being used for my own personal lifetime supply of firewood (and then some), a truly renewable resource, as they are now self-propagating.

I live a “renewable” energy lifestyle, in other words. In fact, I get 55 percent of my space heating from solar. If I had the house designed and built today (instead of the late 1970′s — remember the solar energy tax credit?), I’d get 80 to 85%.

Having said that. And also being able to claim that I am more than 5 millennium beyond most of you in “Earth Day” tree planting celebrations, let me pour some cold water on the “oil” and “alternate energy” issues that some of you have brought up.

No matter what the environmentalists say, the WORLD is an oil economy and will remain so for the next 200 years, at least. America has a 300 year supply of COAL, for goodness sake. And you can get refinable oil from coal if necessary.

The USA has enough oil on the continent and off-shore to supply us for decades. All that is needed is the political will to go get it. The liberals do not want that.

Their environmentalist allies don’t want that, either.

The hard-core among the environmentalists view humanity as a “virus” and a scourge on Mother Gaea. Even the late, beloved, Jacques Cousteau advocated mass murder as an “environmentally sound” way of managing the population of the planet. The cadre of the Sierra Club, National Wildlife Federation, etc., including their allies PETA, wants a universal lifestyle on par with that of the mid 19th Century. That includes medical science, BTW.

Don’t let their propaganda fool you. Environmentalism is about power. If you can tell people how to live their lives, and force them to do it, you have achieved the ultimate power.

I recommend that you all do some research about the “Wildlands Project” (a US environmentalist response to the 1992 UN Biodiversity Treaty) that intends to turn 48% of the lower 48 United States into wilderness so that the fox and wolves and antelope can “run free” — without people, houses, or even roads. The founder of Wildlands was Earth First! eco-terrorist Dave Foreman and the goal is the eventual forced resettlement of millions of people to reclaim half of the country for Bambi and his friends.

While the liberals simply want to use energy (costs and availability — read that as “rationing”) as a way to control the people.

In other words, all the nonsense from the Democrats about ANWR, oil, fleet milage reductions, “alternate energy sources,” etc., is garbage.

I have nothing against hydrogen cars (which President Bush advocating development of), electrical driven cars, hybrids, or whatever. Their success or failure in the market place will rest solely on their economics, and not their politics.

The existing world-wide oil economy gets in the way of both liberal’s (i.e., Democrats) and environmentalist’s political goals. Hence the political opposition to drilling in ANWR. Regardless of what they say in public, the left (i.e., the Democrats) and the eco-wacks approve of the economic disruption caused by $3.00/gal gasoline), and new off shore drilling — which the Democrats will attempt to REVERSE in the 110th Congress, BTW.

Do not be fooled about claims that the world’s oil is running out. It won’t happen in your lifetime, nor that of your great-grandchildren, either. Don’t be fooled by bogus “pollution” and “greenhouse gas” arguments against petroleum-based energy, because great strides have already been made in cleaning exhausts and there will be more to come.

And don’t fall for the nuclear energy critics line either. Nuclear generated electricity is pollution free and fuel recycling prevents the current ‘waste’ issues. We ought to bbuild many modern, safe, nuclear energy generating stations.

The high electrical energy cost and oil prices are artificial constructs, whose purpose has more to do with social control than economics, as I note. Under normal economic theory, despite high oil taxes charged by the state and federal governments, crude oil prices should be much lower than they are right now, as supply (in terms of provable reserves) are GOING UP, not down. Not only world wide, but in the USA (or those parts of the off shore that we can reach and control).

The Saudis are boosting production FOR THEIR POLITICAL reasons and for no other purpose. And that political reason may have everything to do with Iran’s potential dominance of the middle east.

OPEC was a scam in 1973-4 during the 1st “oil crisis” caused by Israel’s victory in the Yom Kippur war of ’73. It was a scam in 1979 when Iranian mullahs chopped supply to punish us for our support of the ousted Shah. And it remains a scam today.

I live the energy conservationist life because I choose to do so — because it makes sense to me. Yes, I believe in “alternate energy” sources as well as in the oil economy. And it is my choice as a free American to live any lifestyle I want.

But I also own an SUV *AND* a 4×4 pickup truck. Because having them makes it possible to plow my 1000 foot driveway in the winter, tow my general purpose trailer, and haul materials (including groceries and “stuff” back from Wal-Mart) and protect my family with surfooted 4 wheel drive and 4000 lbs of steel mass, and that suit MY lifestyle, too.

Al Gore would have a cow, but I don’t give a damn what that lying moron thinks, anyway.

Okay. I’m done. Thanks for reading.

georgej on January 18, 2007 at 4:26 AM