Kowabunga

The liberal wankers at the Red Star Tribune are at it again: denouncing oil and not offering any alternatives.

Here's a gem from the article:

The answer isn't more drilling, as some conservatives urged in the wake of BP's shutdown of Alaska's Prudhoe Bay field. That would be like giving a bigger meal to a fat man. What's needed is a new direction.

They are against "Big Oil" because oil companies are capitalistic by nature (never mind that news papers are also capitalistic endeavors…we never here about "Big Media" and their record profits). Drilling oil in ANWR as well as the outer continental shelf will go a long way toward alleviating the current fuel crunch.

Natural gas prices have also skyrocketed as the demand by electrical plants has increased, especially since many existing generators as well as new plants have switched from "dirty-polluting" coal to "clean" natural gas. This has put a strain on winter time heating budgets as the vast majority of homes are heated by natural gas, hurting the poor the most.

One thing that would help there is building new (and modern) clean burning nuclear power plants, thus reducing the demand for natural gas to electrical power plants. But the left, the self-proclaimed "guardians of the poor and down-trodden" block all attempts to build new nuclear power plants. It's okay for France, Germany, China and Iran to have them, but not here in the good ol' U.S. of A.

As for oil, the left, and the so-called "guardians of truth", the Main Stream Media, want to reduce our dependence on foreign oil (which I applaud) but refuse to consider opening up ANWR or other oil rich areas to development.

At least they recognize that global demand for oil is up, and site China as one example (India's demand has gone up 400% over the last 20 or so years), and that much of the world's currently tapped oil supplies are in unstable totalitarian countries, like Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Venezuela.

But where are their ideas for alternatives? They do not present any! Time to open up ANWR and the outer continental shelf as well as build more nuclear power plants.

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