America is NOT addicted to oil!
Posted by: The BoBo // Category: Global warmongering, Liberals, Obama, Politics, energy, gascompulsive need for and use of a habit-forming substance (as heroin, nicotine, or alcohol) characterized by tolerance and by well-defined physiological symptoms upon withdrawal; broadly: persistent compulsive use of a substance known by the user to be harmful.
Notice the key words in the definition – compulsive need, habit-forming, withdrawal, harmful.
The connotation of addiction is always negative. The left consistently points to our use of oil and fossil fuels as an addiction – a negative. America is NOT addicted to fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are, in fact, the life blood of our economy. There is no compulsive use – it is not a habit – there would be no physiological affects of a withdrawal from oil – and – the most harmful thing for America right now would be to stop using fossil fuels. It would doom our economy and our way of life. We need to change the dialogue and stop referring to our use of fossil fuels as an addiction. We need to think of fossil fuels as life-sustaining resources such as food & water. Oil IS the food and water of our economy. Without it, our economy dies. Are there alternatives? Yes – but – they are not viable right now.
Oil is akin to water in our economy. Solar and Wind power is akin to our oceans filled with salt water. Fresh water is immediately available. Salt water – while abundant – requires a lot of energy and processes to become potable. Same thing – oil – with little refining is immediately available for literally hundreds of uses in our economy. Solar and wind power requires more refining in order to make it a viable option. While we do have desalination plants to provide us with potable water from ocean water – they are not the mainstream source for our water yet. Until that technology is better and more refined – we still get the majority of our life sustaining fresh water from other sources. Same with oil – until Solar and other alternative powers become more sustainable and the technology cheaper – we need to be tapping as much of our readily available fossil fuels as possible while we move towards those technologies.
I watched the President’s speech last night and I was just waiting for that term – “addicted to oil” – and sure enough, he did not fail me. America is dependent on FOREIGN OIL because of Jimmy Carter and his creation of the Department of Energy. Rather than move to tap our own resources – the leftist eco-whackos through the DOE, in collaboration with the EPA, made it harder. We even stopped building nuclear plants. There is a mountain of paperwork that oil companies must go through now just to get approval to explore for oil. It takes 7 – 10 years to get through the regulatory red tape to bring a single drop of oil in to a barrel.
If the use of fossil fuels is such a national security issue due to our dependence on foreign oil – doesn’t it make sense to tap every existing resource available to break that dependence? Doesn’t it make sense to bring MORE nuclear power plants on line? Doesn’t it make more sense to become totally independent as a nation and THEN work on alternatives while we are prospering economically?
America is NOT addicted to oil. The ENTIRE FREAKIN’ WORLD ECONOMY runs on oil! We must stay vigilant and not allow our idiot politicians to use the gulf oil spill as an excuse to push a bogus cap-and-trade bill on us that will further harm our economy. What we need is for some real solid policies that include moving the wells closer to shore to avert future disasters as what is happening in the Gulf. We need policies that say open up more of the oil and natural gas reserves. We need policies that will allow more expedient building of nuclear power plants and oil rigs. If you don’t think this would help our economy – look at all the oil-rich Arab nations. They are like oases in the deserts. By having sound energy policies – more jobs would be created, energy prices would come down, and our economy would recover.
Unfortunately, we have leftist eco-whackos running the show in D.C. at this time. Until we get rid of them – we will continue to have bullshit rhetoric like this and a slow, foreign energy dependent, economy that indeed lends to national security vulnerability.






























