Posted by
ngoc8or on Monday, January 12, 2009 1:29:37 AM
The U.S. Senate today laid the second brick in the foundation to assure the country cannot achieve energy independence. It passed out a bill that turns potential oil and gas development land into untouchable wilderness. The first brick was B.H. Obama's selection of the most liberal and anti-business coalition of natural resource and environment agency heads in the history of the nation. Now,
the AP reports Senator "coal is dangerous" Reid did not even allow debate or amendment to the bill as he stuffed it down the throats of the Senate Republicans. So much for bipartisanship.
Wilderness designations lock the land away from not only developing it for multiple uses, but even driving a wheeled vehicle or fighting fires on it. For example, ranchers or landowners who have in-holdings adjacent to these wilderness areas often need to drive hours to reach their property because they cannot make a 15 minute trip across wilderness designated land. Existing access and fire roads are abandoned under a draconian roadless policy.
So, B.H. Obama is still days away from being
inaugurated, but the plan is already taking shape: Appoint anti-business, environmental extremists to head up agencies, have the 111th Congress toughen up restrictions, laws, and regulations even more than the bureaucracy already has, ramp up merciless enforcement, take land out of production for mineral and oil development, eliminate hydro uses, ban energy development on all other federal lands, stonewall permits for nuclear power plants, transmission lines, refineries, solar energy, hydro energy, wind energy, etc., etc.. We're just getting started.
What is the end game here? Why do our leaders want to incapacitate us
by eliminating domestic energy development and pay tribute to the
world's despots who have no problem destroying the environment with
unrestrained energy development? Russia even uses it as a weapon of
blackmail against the Balkans and Europe. It cannot all be
incompetence. This seems to be going very well for the liberals. So,
what is the goal?
Besides my theory of liberals grabbing permanent power by devolving our society into a serfdom, I am perplexed. Very perplexed.