Thinkin' Outloud

We need to realize that the liberals have undue influence on our policies as they have both the youthful idealistic energy and apparent time on their hands to make a lot of noise about anything their collective gut reaction tells them to. Allowing this noise to influence our future as a country is like letting the teen-ager in the house to lay down the rules that we go by. Let me give you an example or two.

Perhaps one of the most harmful actions where this undue influence has affected America (an a peeve of mine) is in our nuclear energy efforts. We knew that we were in for an energy crisis and common sense would tell anyone that this crisis would only worsen as not many dinosaurs were dying and pooling into oil each day. So, nuclear seemed to be the answer.

But, along came the noisy liberals pointing out that the world would end if we built any more nuke plants and the environment would be forever ruined. By the way, this was true about expanding our oil fields in Alaska too. This chatter caused our country’s politicians and our energy companies to back off of this controversial program even though I believe that most Americans would support it----especially having known the truth about the consequences of not doing so. The dooms-dayers won.

Now, lets see where it has got good ol’ America. Our energy needs grew, of course. We became more and more dependent on foreign oil. The mid-east became of the utmost importance and with the prices of oil increasing ten-fold in just a few decades, these mostly 5th century thinking tribal countries became wealthy beyond imagination. Fighting between them became more serious, some developed nuclear weapons, and the funds came available to expand Islam into all reaches of the world.

Burning this oil and coal at ever increasing rates caused much more pollution than all of us could have dreamed. Now the liberal noise is that we need to stop global warming due to the last specious noise we conceded to. Lets fix the problem caused by liberal short sightedness with more liberal short sightedness is pretty much what is going on.
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What we need to do is basic analysis of our energy needs as a nation and achieve goals in that direction. We need to develop as many nuclear plants as possible in the shortest time we can. We need to focus on electricity from these plants as our major source of energy in this country, like France has done. Seventy percent of Frances’ electricity is from nuclear plants. We need full electric cars and rails powered by these plants.

The noisy liberals need to realize their mistakes and accept responsibility for causing most of our current world’s unrest and the “global warming” that has become their new mantra. (Unless I am making the mistake of not believing America is ruining the world by me not riding my bike to work each day.)

In closing, we need this energy to survive as a nation. As I have pointed out before, our country now finds itself in a global economy where we must put our cost of producing goods in line with our competitor nations in this world or we will not be able to sell our goods and we will not economically survive---especially buying $4/gallon gas. We need to think things through as a nation an quit reacting to noise.

Too bad Bush and our congress didn’t have the foresight to put this upcoming tax rebate into nuke plant construction for the real good of America rather than wasting it for political reasons like they did.