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COMMON SENSE ON ENERGY, NOW!!!, Part V
| By theguardian777 - Sep 22, 2008 5:48:41 PM ET |
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If Obama was truly a leader and a uniting force in the Senate, he would have been in the so-called 'Gang of Ten' Senators that came up with a bi-partisan energy plan, but he wasn't, and he isn't. His entire campaign is nothing but smoke and mirrors about "Hope" and "Change"! He is interesting to listen to. He almost never says anything you can disagree with. Because, like a true professional politician, he never really says anything! He very rarely gives any real specifics on how he plans to accomplish all the dream-world "change" that he so readily promises.
After the GOP raised a stink about the Dem leadership shutting down Congress and going on vacation while working Americans have to cancel their vacations due to high energy costs, Obama announced a few specifics on his Energy Plan.
In keeping with his slim but very far-left voting record he resorted to the first inclination of every statist liberal - throw money at the problem! Forcibly take money from those who earned it, and give it away to others to buy as many votes as you can!
He wants to give every American family a $1000 check to ease the pain of enriching the oil speculators, then, he wants to pay all the incompetent and over-paid American auto executives to re-tool the factories they've closed to build 1 million over-priced electric cars. The working poor need these cars to commute to work in, but, instead, the elite will park these in their garages beside their Rolls, their Hummers and their Ferraris for bragging rights with their liberal friends.
With 250 million cars daily burning fuel in the US, 1 million electric cars, seldom substituting for a Ferrari in a joyride around the block in Hollywood, will do absolutely nothing toward reducing our dependence on foreign oil.
To paraphrase one GOP Congressman, 'It is the working poor who most need relief from high gas prices; they generally drive the farthest to work, for the least pay, in the oldest, least efficient cars!' Upgrading the cars of these millions of commuting Americans would increase our productivity, reduce fuel consumption and improve our environment more than building expensive hi-tech cars for a few rich elitists!
If GM was still building the no-frills 1962 flex-fuel 4 cyl. Chevy II, but with 4.00-20 tires and a 5 spd. Overdrive, for less than $10,000, we could all afford a 45 mpg car! And, GM would not be losing $15.5 Billion per quarter, and closing American auto plants!
In lockstep with his party, Obama wants to raise the CAFÉ standards. But, Company Average Fuel Efficiency means nothing, if they never sell anything but a few 12 mpg luxury vehicles to rich folks. That is exactly how the 'Big 3' have been setting record losses, and losing the US car market to foreign companies, most of the last 35 years.
The Democratic Party's approach has been complicit with incompetent management of big business in setting up this massive failure of American industry to address the real and pressing need for sustainable energy policy in our Society!
I don't suppose we have any hope that they might call the Congress back to do the People's business, now that their national convention week is upon us!
But, I am sure they will heap plenty of fertilizer upon us!
Too bad it isn't the kind we could put on our gardens, or put in a biogas generator, to get some energy out of it!
After the GOP raised a stink about the Dem leadership shutting down Congress and going on vacation while working Americans have to cancel their vacations due to high energy costs, Obama announced a few specifics on his Energy Plan.
In keeping with his slim but very far-left voting record he resorted to the first inclination of every statist liberal - throw money at the problem! Forcibly take money from those who earned it, and give it away to others to buy as many votes as you can!
He wants to give every American family a $1000 check to ease the pain of enriching the oil speculators, then, he wants to pay all the incompetent and over-paid American auto executives to re-tool the factories they've closed to build 1 million over-priced electric cars. The working poor need these cars to commute to work in, but, instead, the elite will park these in their garages beside their Rolls, their Hummers and their Ferraris for bragging rights with their liberal friends.
With 250 million cars daily burning fuel in the US, 1 million electric cars, seldom substituting for a Ferrari in a joyride around the block in Hollywood, will do absolutely nothing toward reducing our dependence on foreign oil.
To paraphrase one GOP Congressman, 'It is the working poor who most need relief from high gas prices; they generally drive the farthest to work, for the least pay, in the oldest, least efficient cars!' Upgrading the cars of these millions of commuting Americans would increase our productivity, reduce fuel consumption and improve our environment more than building expensive hi-tech cars for a few rich elitists!
If GM was still building the no-frills 1962 flex-fuel 4 cyl. Chevy II, but with 4.00-20 tires and a 5 spd. Overdrive, for less than $10,000, we could all afford a 45 mpg car! And, GM would not be losing $15.5 Billion per quarter, and closing American auto plants!
In lockstep with his party, Obama wants to raise the CAFÉ standards. But, Company Average Fuel Efficiency means nothing, if they never sell anything but a few 12 mpg luxury vehicles to rich folks. That is exactly how the 'Big 3' have been setting record losses, and losing the US car market to foreign companies, most of the last 35 years.
The Democratic Party's approach has been complicit with incompetent management of big business in setting up this massive failure of American industry to address the real and pressing need for sustainable energy policy in our Society!
I don't suppose we have any hope that they might call the Congress back to do the People's business, now that their national convention week is upon us!
But, I am sure they will heap plenty of fertilizer upon us!
Too bad it isn't the kind we could put on our gardens, or put in a biogas generator, to get some energy out of it!
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