Interesting things to know during this election cycle.
- Barack Obama’s health care plan is targeted at $65 Billion per year by the experts. The Budget for the redundant Department of Education is $66 Billion per year.
- We have 170,000 troops in Europe, Japan, and South Korea. The cost savings if these troops were redeployed would pay to replace the worn out equipment the military is using in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- Stopping the fill of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, as Democrats have demanded supposedly to bring the price of oil down, will bring a savings at the pump less than 1.4 cents per gallon – Happy Motoring! The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is established to provide oil for refinement to make fuel for emergency services and the military in the event of a long term oil disruption. The Reserve is over 90% full. It was taking up to 70,000 BBLs of oil per day out of the market supply. The US consumes 20,000,000 BBLs of oil daily – yes twenty million barrels. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve was actually using only .34% of the us oil consumption every day, that is about a third of one percent.
- The price of a gallon of gas at the pump as a percentage of the price of a barrel of oil has steadily dropped since 1993, suggesting that the oil companies are not gouging the public.
- The balance of trade deficit heavily exacerbated by the failure to drill domestically for oil costs this country annually five times what Iraq costs each year. Indifference dependence on foreign oil by the Democrats and environmentalists has hurt this country’s economy, dramatically. What are the reason’s why we will not touch our domestic reserves again?
- We will not drill off Florida, yet the Chinese are now drilling in the continental shelf off Florida in an arrangement with Cuba. Just how dumb do we plan to get? See Representative Sue Myric’s press releasel on drilling domestically – Sue Myric.
- The Chinese have increased spending on their military by 367% in the last five years. You need to ask yourself why. Could they be planning on defending their foreign oil and food supplies by force in the coming years?
- We are apparently preoccupied by global warming in Congress, while the Peoples Republic of China and India continue to increase worldwide demand for oil and food. It seems they have a plan. The Chinese certainly have a long term energy plan – do we have one? NO!
- Why isn’t our energy related economic survival being debated and protected in Congress and urged by the White House as a priority over a yet to be proved man made global warming? We should note that this planet’s atmosphere was once nearly all Carbon Dioxide and not Oxygen. Man did not exist at that time. In fact the rich CO2 atmosphere actually kick started growth of vegetation on this planet.
- The Democrats running for 109th Congress promised that, if elected, they would bring the price of gas at the pump down – they were given control of both the House and the Senate. Now the Democrats blame the President for the price of gas.
- The Democrats could have voted to drill domestically three years ago – that would have brought the price of gas down.
- Today the Democrats and those Republicans against drilling – McCane is one – can announce a bill that will lease the east and west coast continental shelf and all federal lands for drilling for a fifteen year period with no limit on production. This will bring the price of oil at the well head down almost immediately – yet they are silent. They could use the revenue from the leases to research renewable energy. While the reserves in these locations cannot replace OPEC, the output would change the supply and demand equation, thus lowering the price of a barrel of oil.
- ANWR, in the arctic, is the size of five small states and the area needed for drilling would be the size of an international airport. Checkout ANWR.ORG.
- Ethanol is almost carbon neutral to oil, yet we subsidize it. Who is getting rich on this? If you took all the world’s corn harvest and the efficiency of converting corn to ethanol were 100%, and it is not, then the world’s corn crop could replace only 23% of U.S. oil consumption. Source: Townhall magazine, June 2008, p47.
- Worldwide use of corn for fuel is causing a worldwide shortage of food.
- Ask your local politicians these simple questions.
- Why are building codes not consistently requiring 6″ of insulation in walls and 12″ of insulation in the ceilings of new homes?
- Why in sunny climates are there not requirements for solar hot water on roofs of new homes?
- Why are we not trying to control airline take off times, by auctioning time slots at airports? This would eliminate congestion in the mornings and dramatically reduce fuel use by the airlines while waiting on line to take off.
