Blame high gas prices and high electricity prices on oil companies, futures speculators, Middle East oil producers, Chinese consumers and natural resource shortages...no blame these on the politicians in Washington, DC.  Plus we shouldn't be using energy anyway...global warming you know. We are supposed to walk, use public transportation, drive smaller cars, live in smaller homes near railroad tracks, bus lines, highways (smart growth), use wind power, solar power... the list increases all the time.

The heart of this problem is caused by U.S. government taxation, regulation and sponsorship of litigation.  It has made the U.S. an unfavorable place to produce energy which is needed for technology and progress (money).  The United States has spent huge amounts of tax money subsidizing inferior energy technologies for political purposes.  This country is quickly on the path to being a third world nation.

  • An estimated 381 nuclear power plants are in design or under construction around the world, yet not one  nuclear power plant has been constructed in the U.S. in more than 30 years, according to the Wall Street Journal.
  • Untapped oil and gas reserves are enormous and the U.S. has 25% of the world's coal.  Coal can be liquefied at costs far below world oil prices and our liquid hydrocarbon fuel exceeds the crude coal reserves of the entire world.  The Middle East countries must be laughing themselves silly!
Yet the United States government has heavily taxed energy industries and placed so many heavy restrictions on nuclear and hydrocarbon power production that very little development has occurred in two generations. So what is  the politician's solution for this...legally require the American food supply to be liquefied and burned for fuel.  This has purchased lots of votes in farm states, doubled world grain prices an dramatically increased American food prices!  Whose side on they on!

Their thinking is that since we don't have to make things anymore that we will need less energy.  The other people in the world who are making their own energy will make everything and send it to us. Then...we can send our money to be printed in China, Columbia and other countries whose printing industries are not being taxed and regulated into bankruptcy. They offer lower printing costs on un-recycled paper.

Why not outsource the printing to China also and they can manufacture useful goods, pay themselves with our money and send the goods to us?

What do you think should be done?  Should it be?  This is multiple choice. (A)Increase legal requirements to turn our food into fuel? (B) Ban Thomas Edison's electric light bulb? (C) Heavily subsidize spectacularly inefficient solar-electric systems for the rich and paid entirely by tax breaks useful to the rich only? (D) Increase the mythical idea that ordinary Americans must use less energy to save the planet? Or...(E)  All of the above.

We really need to choose before gas is $10 per gallon, electricity and gas bills $2,000 per month , energy rationing and technological poverty. We need to pay attention and think hard on this one, not become a nation of sheep. "Going green" really makes me see red!