Re: DEMOCRATS AGAIN PREVENTING AMERICA FROM DRILLING FOR OIL!!

"Monkey Clumps" <spacebrain71@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Oh geez.  We're facing an energy crisis that requires innovation and
> efficiency to get through and you suggest we solve the problem with
> socialism and government intervention, a guaranteed destroyer of
> innovation and efficiency.  Sounds like a brilliant plan. *roll eyes*


Absolutely, that's the way im****tant, extensive and costly things get
done.
That's the way we went to the moon, developed the atomic bomb, built the
interstate highway system. Built the locks and dams on the rivers, built
the
canals and water systems on and on. Major projects require government
intervention if they are to be accomplished. Private industry will not do
them unless there is a clear short term profit. In the case of energy
development, private industry would take thirty years to do what can be
done
in ten with funding and direction. If we had waited for industry we NEVER
would have gone to the moon. If here is little profit in it so they won't
do
it on their own.

Nobody is talking about socialism or nationalization, that your words.
Industry has a role to play, of course, but under contract to accomplish
specific tasks. They should not run "open loop" on im****tant functions
like
the nations energy policy.

I come back to the fact the oil in the ground belongs to ALL of us, not to
Exxon and that Exxon-Mobil is monopoly basically a re-put-together of the
original Standard Oil broken up in 1912. They control everything from the
ground through refining to final marketing and collude with OPEC to set
prices which is a true monopoly. Just giving them more of the pie is NOT
the
answer.

You can roll your eyes if you want but if you want a Grand Coulee Dam,
government has to be involved.