The Wrong Chickens

Jeremiah Wright, the America-hating preacher and mentor for Barack Obama is right about one thing, the chickens have indeed come home to roost for the United States. The problem is that reverend Wright had the wrong flock of chickens. Wright had his head up his rear when he was talking about the American foreign policy chickens coming home to roost on 9/11. No the chickens that have come home to roost are the ones that the United States congress hatched by refusing to allow off-shore and ANWR drilling for gas and oil reserves. The chickens coming home to roost were hatched when congress bowed to hippie environmentalists by not investing more in clean coal technology and new nuclear power facilities. These chicks are indeed in the roost thanks to weak-kneed, spineless congressmen and women who focused on their re-elections instead of leading this country.

As oil prices race past $ 120/barrel on their way to $ 200/barrel in the near future and gas prices hit $ 5.00/gallon in 2009, when will the American people demand that their leaders actually lead through this crisis and take demonstrable action to exploit our massive energy reserves? I am all for alternative energy and am certain that there is a technological solution to the energy crunch we face today. However, the ultimate solution(s) to our long term energy needs may be several years if not decades in the future. The answer to our energy needs is not growing in an Iowa cornfield. We have seen what a debacle that governmental stroke of brilliance has become.

Want to get out of this energy box? The answer is so strikingly easy, one would think that even politicians in Washington cold figure it out:

Use our massive coal/shale reserves; build new nuclear power plants; drill in ANWR and off shore; double our refining capacity over the next 10 years.

Done, problem solved. If we announced this energy program, oil speculators would dump their positions, oil prices would drop sharply, and in 10 years we would be masters of our own domains. I solved this problem in 5 minutes after dinner. The dopes in Washington still can't find their asses with both hands and a map. Anyone feeling better about the clowns "leading" the charge? ....me either.