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One Opinion: I agree with Obama
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Elaine Kolodziej is responsible for this content, which is not edited by the Wilson County News or wilsoncountynews.com. |
February 24, 2012 | 1409 views | 58 comments
Life according to President Barack Obama is really simple: Check the air in your tires, paint your roofs white, don’t allow students to drop out of school, allow your children to stay on your insurance plan until age 26, set your thermostats appropriately, and extend unemployment benefits.
None of these actually solves a problem or creates jobs, but kicks the can down the road -- or buys votes for the administration.
Gasoline prices have never been so high. When George Bush was president, it was the fault of the “rich Republicans who were in bed with big oil.” Or it was all Dick Cheney’s fault because of his association with Halliburton. There was no doubt about it.
Now that fuel costs continue to rise unchecked, they can’t blame Bush and Cheney, so the cause is “instability in the Middle East.” To stabilize prices, Obama says we need to spend more on alternate energy sources. We’ve tried ethanol and that ran up the cost of corn so that people almost couldn’t afford to buy it for food consumption; it was all being made into fuel.
“There is no silver bullet,” the silver-tongued Obama told us in his energy speech last week. He ridiculed the idea that drilling could bring down the cost of oil. “It would take too long,” he said, and besides, that idea “has been around for 30 years.” Indeed, it has.
If we had begun drilling 30 years ago during the Carter administration, oil would be abundantly cheap in America, and instability in the Middle East would not affect the cost of fuel. Instead, environmentalists and Democrats have blocked drilling, canceled leases, and placed increased restrictions on any new drilling.
But now, there is hope. In Obama’s energy speech last week between campaign stops, he said he has found a way. He will spend $14 million on finding ways to use algae for transportation fuels.
“We could replace up to 17 percent of the oil we import for transportation with this fuel that we can grow right here in the United States,” he said, almost breathless at his brilliant idea.
So, we agree on the use of algae for producing energy. I’ve often thought that if the pond scum growing so prolifically in my fishpond could be harnessed into making some sort of fuel, our energy shortage would be solved!
We may have the same idea, but the difference is, I am not spending millions of taxpayer dollars to try to prove that my idea is viable for development, and I am not risking our future energy supply to prove a pie-in-the sky idea.
Sadly, he is.
“If we can figure out how to make energy out of that, we’ll be alright,” he said. |
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