I post this having read an article about the oil available in the U.S. which Biden and his minions will not allow to be extracted.
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The cost of energy and pollution in this country from burning fossil fuels is not the real debate. This country is paralyzed and sick in a condition I call (I coined it but it is not yet in the dictionary) “Collective National Guilt.” We have clean drinking water so we should be ashamed of ourselves because most of North Africa does not. We have an abundance of food (much of which we waste) and again we are supposed to feel remorseful because North Africa does not. Our health care is excellent so we should feel ashamed of ourselves because life expectancies in underdeveloped countries are short and children walk the streets with horrible diseases.
Here is the deal; I live in North America; I am lucky but not to the detriment of people who live in underdeveloped countries. I have a great standard of living and feel not in the least bit guilty about it. Of course I feel sorry for people WHO THROUGH NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN, cannot eak out a living. I am 6’2” and cannot dribble a basketball without bouncing it off my feet. Do I have a right to be jealous of Michael Jordan because he is 7’ and is worth millions. Yes, actually I do have that right; what I have no right to do is use the clout of a country to humiliate him. Can I hate a country that is wealthy but does not care for the less fortunate? Yes, actually I can personally, but I have no right to use the power of political office to impose my shame of our country on our citizens or on other countries.
Anyone alive think that idiot Biden has any guilt about his wealth, riding around in bullet-proof gas-guzzling cars thinking of his next idiotic comment he will make to the public? Anyone think idiot-in-charge-of-the-House Pelosi feels bad riding around in a private jet? And how about that diCaprio who flies to a CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE IN A PRIVATE JET? The elites will ALWAYS justify exceptions for themselves. Give me a damn break! India and China are the world’s two largest countries and polluters, neither of which signed the Paris Climate Accord. If these U.S. folks on the left really thought that industrialization was poisoning the earth - oh and don’t forget THE CHILDREN - for eternity, would not these same leftists work to bring down (via economic sanctions) these countries, even if we suffered some harm ourselves? They don’t dare because the injury to the economy by throttling the plethora of less expensive goods produced in China (“It is all about the economy, stupid”) will weigh on the voters more than the starving kids in Ethiopia. Nope, the looming disaster of the entire world is solely Trump’s fault. Well, and mine since I won’t stop driving my car around. (nor will Biden, Pelosi, diCaprio). Nice we have these malevolent dictators in our country who try to make me feel bad for killing off all our children.
The correct debate is about national sovereignty and promotion of our well-being, not about oil or nuclear power. Think about it. On the West Coast the socialists don’t like hydroelectricity because salmon breeding grounds are impaired. On the East Coast we don’t like oil because of pollution(?) from two forms, leaks from ships and pipelines and because of that dangerous CO2 burning fossil fuels emits to the air. We eschew nuclear power because of the danger, ALWAYS over-stated. The environazis would have us use kerosene lamps (except kerosene is an oil refinement product), horse-drawn buggies except (I don’t know this) the horses may be flatulent like cows and emit that awful methane in to the air, accelerating the death of earth. Wind? Okay though some are lamenting the fact that the windmill blades kill birds - I am NOT kidding. The only power that does not seem to be in the enviro-nazi cross hairs is solar. But…get this, I once heard that birds who fly over solar panels die because the heat of the sun catches them as it hits the panels AND on the flip side as some of the heat is radiated away from the panels. You cannot make this stuff up. Much debate swirls around the degree to which either solar or wind can sustain this country. Al Gore, the debate is NOT done.
Again, the issue is not about oil; the malevolence from the environazis/globalists emanates from the reality that fossil fuels and nuclear power have allowed our country to amass wealth for MOST PEOPLE WHO ARE WILLING TO WORK. Inexpensive energy has “fueled” this country since the industrial revolution. The globalists understand that depriving Americans of inexpensive energy will drag down our economy, while giving underdeveloped countries the opportunity to catch up. This is the "globalist" goal. Most of the underdeveloped countries will not improve their lot since murderous despots confiscate all aid. In the meantime it is collective national guilt that somehow renders us feeling like we have no right to drive cars, to keep our houses warm. If the 200 million sheep in this country wake up to this scheme one day, the environazis will have lost their power. Again if saving the children and the fish were the objectives of the environazi/globalists those groups would be a constant thorn in the sides of China and India. Since "saving the planet" is not the objective, we hear no noise.
Biden and his marxist/environazi/globalist following are criminally responsible for the economic decline of this country. By the way, don’t worry about folks on welfare; Biden and the blue states will increase welfare payments or subsidize heating oil for the “poor” which means we in the middle class will pay the entire bill for the global warming mitigation fiasco. Biden takes counsel from Alexandria Ocasio Cortez; Nancy Pelosi, Sheila Jackson Lee (who still thinks the whites in this country are going to give large sums of money as retribution to blacks who suffer only because of the power of black “leaders.” That is a debate in the House and Senate I would LOVE to watch.)
I am ashamed of absolutely nothing that I have not personally done to hurt others and I do not accept driving my car is an example of such a deed. The Reagan years brought us years of feeling proud of ourselves and our country. To the “globalists” “nationalism” is a dirty word. “Imperialism”- NOT the same as “nationalism”-” is a dirty word but feeling pride in my country or thankful for my standard of living is not imperialism. “Imperialism” is used interchangeably with “nationalism” by the left to make national pride sound evil. Since Reagan, including both Bushes and Obama, we have once again learned to hate ourselves. Trump reversed that to some degree. On that note, I voted the first time for Trump, did not the second time and will not if he runs again. What he DID do right was the liberation of this country from dependence on foreign oil, which Biden quickly reversed.
I am 75, if Haters, have any luck (it is the wish of the haters that we old white males leave earth as quickly as possible since we are the only humans in the way of their agenda), I will leave this world in a few years so someone with an 8th grade level education (no matter how many years they spent in college) can create utopia for, by that time, 9 billion people.
Good luck with that.