Obama: Crushing The Country Via Energy Stupidity

Energy: it's about prices and availability.

I hope to build on yesterday's post and clear the air in order to reveal the current destructive policies of the Obama Administration. I'm going to attempt to utilize some actual common sense and get politics out of the energy equation, with the exception of today's DC politics that purposely attempt to both divide and hamstring this exceptional nation. National exceptionalism? [The Obama Administration does not believe in American Exceptionalism; quite the opposite. But that's a separate post for another day entirely.]

OIL PRICES:

That said, let's examine current oil prices, most reflective of the dollars you and I are paying directly at the gas station pump as we place the fuel nozzle into our tanks.

In Sacramento, Fornicalia, at ARCO (BP-owned, but generally the least expensive franchise stations in the state), unleaded was listing (Monday, 4-25) at $4.09 per gallon. In my small town in the Sierra Nevada mountains (which requires some major transport service), milk is running at $3.40 a gallon. It is currently cheaper to run milk in my tank than gasoline. Cows nationwide are chagrined.

But what or whom is responsible for our gas pricing?

Many people are trying to say: "unrest in the Middle East!"

Other people are saying "speculators, damn them!"

I would, instead, like to zero in on the Real Responsibles: the Obama Administration.

WHAAAAT? the Leftists bleat.

Here are some Constants:

- WHEN THE DOLLAR GOES DOWN, THE PRICE OF GAS GOES UP.

Why?

- BECAUSE OIL IS PRICED IN DOLLARS.

Therefore:

- When Bernanke holds the prime down, when America continues to print money, the dollar continues to be devalued -- and when America continues to print money (absent supply) then pricing falls down the line to you and me.

Further:

You need a Planning Triumvirate for energy policy --

1. Immediate
2. Intermediate
3. Long Range

Tell me, please: what is the three-pronged energy policy of the Obama Administration?

Yes, correct: it doesn't exist.

Further, with regard to so-called "alternate energy," let's state the obvious: you can't control it.

You can't control the wind. You can't control the sun. The wind can rise and fall as it will. The sun will shine or hide as it sees fit.

Electricity, for example, has to be consistent. Yes, it has some ebbs and flows. There is generally less energy used at night and more during the day. However, when a customer flips a switch, she expects there to be a resulting brilliance. No matter the time. The power curves run up and they run down. The electrical grid plans for this but -- and few realize this -- you can't "store" what is produced.

There is, for example, no gigantic DieHard battery sitting in the Arizona desert storing juice from the national grid. That technology simply doesn't exist.

The bottom line is this: the literal environment won't support alternative energy. It won't produce consistently, it won't produce dependably. It won't even produce minimally.

At the same time, Mr Obama and his Religious Leftists insist on demanding that we build vehicles and systems that rely precisely on ELECTRICITY. At the same time that the nation REFUSES to build a geometric number of electrical generation stations.

The "environment" won't support alternative energy.

There is a Permitorium on the Gulf. No permits. Don't ask.

On the other hand, most permits demand federal, state, city, county, Reclamation, Department of Water Resources, Fish & Game, Fish & Wildlife, Army Corps of Engineers -- layer after layer after layer of "governing" various compacts.

Check out CB's comment on my last post, for example.

Some facts & constants:

- When the dollar goes down, the price of gas goes up
- The Obama Administration assures the dollar will go down
- Prices strangle you, the individual car driver
- Obama wants to FORCE you into public transportation
- Because public transportation is more controllable
- When gas prices increase, federal coffers increase

In my state, Fornicalia, taxes per gallon of gas are:

- 18-cents state
- 6% additional sales tax
- 18.4-cents per gallon federal

Ken Salazar has shut off domestic shale oil.

Petroleum companies' plans to tap the Rocky Mountains' abundant oil shale reserves are "not ready for prime time," a senior legal adviser to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told a Utah energy conference Wednesday.

Steve Black said the Obama administration is taking a deliberate, cautious approach on making federal lands available for major oil shale development because nobody has shown they can squeeze the oil out of hard rock economically.

Right.

Mr Obama decreed a drilling moratorium in May of 2010. His moratorium was overturned. But it didn't make any difference -- his decree was inviolate.

A report indicates that the US has the greatest amount of oil reserves in the world.

Mr Obama advocates drilling in Brazil and not in the US.

AVAILABILITY:

Oil is limited via pricing and availability.

Even if the United States had a lowered pricing structure, if it doesn't drill and start now then it is doomed.

China and India will be MASSIVE demanders of oil. These demands will seriously OVERSHADOW our national energy requirements.

On the other hand, this nation has a massive amount of natural gas reserves. Untapped.

There WILL be a time when there are lines only open to the first few customers. I saw it personally in the 70s. You think it can't happen here? Oh yes. It can.

The dune sagebrush lizard is part of the problem.

KILL IT.

BZ