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Thursday, May 01, 2008
Put the Blame Where it Belongs
By Michael Reagan
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In case you haven't noticed, gas prices are soaring, hiking the cost of food and just about everything else. If you believe Hillary Clinton, the blame for all this lies on the shoulders of those greedy oil companies and their bloated profit margins, a notion that like just about every other snake-oil remedy she tries to peddle is simply not the case.

We're in the mess in which we find ourselves because of a small handful of people with the money and the power to inflict grievous harm on their fellow humans, whom they just happen to despise.

It's about time for you and your fellow Americans to know just who they are and what they are doing to all of us in the name of saving the planet that for millions of years has shown to be perfectly capable of saving itself without their help.

If you are really sick and tired of $4.00 gasoline, really sick of being dependent on foreign oil, and equally as sick of seeing your food bills go up, the conventional wisdom would lead you to blame the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. But that's a waste of time, as is blaming George Bush or the oil companies.

None of them make environmental policy. That policy is set by three individuals two who are located in New York City. If you want to drill in Alaska or the Gulf of Mexico or in the continental U.S. -- where billions of gallons of petroleum are just waiting to be tapped -- or build refineries, these three people stand in your way.

They are John Flicker of the National Audubon Society, Frances Beinecke of the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Trip Van Noppen of the organization Earthjustice.

Flicker and Beinecke both live and work in New York City where they probably don't own cars, and they are happy that you have to spend more and more of your budget on food and fuel. You are being punished for being Americans.

Van Noppen runs Earthjustice from Oakland, California. None of these three is in touch with America. They hate America, they hate you. And they want your gas to cost $8.00 a gallon.

Earlier this year they filed a lawsuit to prevent drilling for oil and natural gas in Alaska. This is just a leading tactic in their arsenal. All of you need to call these three and demand that they get out of the way and stop impeding our rights to find and drill for petroleum here in North America. After all, if the Chinese are drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico, shouldn't we be allowed to do so too?

They must be made to feel pressure -- the pressure you feel every day when you juggle your budget to cope with rising prices. These three people set energy policy in this country. They order Reid and Pelosi to do their bidding, and thanks to them and their allies in the radical environmental movement we are getting economically weaker. Continued...

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About The Author
Michael Reagan, the eldest son of Ronald Reagan, is heard daily by over 5 million listeners via his nationally syndicated talk radio program, “The Michael Reagan Show.”
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Thank you Michael Reagan for writing this. My wife is from Malaysia and i do believe they use DDT still. I have been telling her that politics is boring but you have to pay attention to these idiots in Congress and environmental groups as they would just assume that millions die and they don,t give a rats a__ if all the little kids die by malaria or dengue fever. It is all smoke when they get on tv and say how they care about those with lack of food. What a damm joke it is listening to these jerks. Ah i can say for them is then they die and stand before The Lord Jesus and see who is laughing then.

Dense and Denser
Hey Mike. Has it occurred to you that that $100 barrel of oil costs only $60 in 2003 dollars, and that the Europeons, whose Euro is now worth $1.60, convert their Euro to $96 to buy that $100 barrel of oil, which is still costing them $60 Euros and change - which is the same price they paid in 2003? Same for the rest of the world. The issue isn't drilling. After all, add production - and it will be sold at the market price. Or do you understand markets? And the market price will not be affected by oil in Alaska, anymore than its affected by oil in Texas, Wyoming or elsewhere, which is also being sold at $100 or more per barrel. That Alaskan oil, after all, will only add a couple of % to world supplies - and OPEC can turn their spiggot down that much in their sleep.

Do you really think that the oil on the North Slope, or in Anwar, will somehow be sold at some special devalued rate unrelated to the world market? Americans don't have a supply problem. They have a currency problem. It's not worth much these days. So - the fastest way to solve the $100 barrel of oil problem is to order the Fed to kick those interest rates back up to 5%, and the government to cut those deficits.

Dense and Denser.

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