Wednesday, August 31, 2005 -- In the hours before dawn, the women who dominate early morning big American television are in their truth-butchering mode.

A hurricane, for example, like the average network anchorette, is a revolving bag of hot air.  The reason, for example, that a great many people hesitate to leave their homes under threat of impending weather extremes is that whether the weather goes bang or not, in this day and age, the police will help the looters haul away the goodies.  The reason, for example, a single hurricane can generate a temporary shortage of automobile fuel is that something like half the chemical plants which turn raw petroleum from the ground into fuel a car can use are located in the Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi Texas coastal area -- and every one of these plants was built before present day teenagers were born.

Do you want to know whose fault all this is?  Well, if you are forty years of age, and have voted the straight Democratic ticket (or for New England Rockefeller/Oregon Hatfield "moderate" Republicans) all along, it is your fault.

From the day you cast your first ballot, sometime in the early Eighties, you have placed in office liberal graduates of the Sixties who despise the truth about everything, and so manufacture "facts" to support their ideology -- then use the power you give them to take action based on that philosophy.  A third of the price of a gallon of gas today comes from the direct and indirect taxes they have attached to that product.  Another third of the price of a gallon of gas today comes from the supply/demand bottleneck they created when they made it damn near impossible to build  a refinery in America, and actually impossible to open a new oil field anywhere on our coastlines.

But for all the liberal action your votes have unleashed, a gallon of gas today would cost one dollar.

If you don't live in a mud hut, you need some kind of energy.

While Europe has developed the nuclear power plant into a common item, these politicans you supported have shut down the development of the idea, here.  While Europe takes millions of barrels of oil from the North Sea, the true potential of your inshore American waters remain untapped.  

Asia pursues the new low-sulphur coal technology and Bill Clinton, for whom liberals voted, shuts down the largest deposit of such coal in the world.  It lies in the American West.  He turned it into a park, where it cannot be touched.

In Oregon, Governor Ted Kulongoski announces that he has the veto, and will use it to force the legislature to cave in to his demands for tailpipe emission standards identical to California's.  That is not going to lower the cost of transportation, and, since as recent events have proven, Man has little control over the weather (let alone the long term climate), will have no effect on global warming, assuming such warming even exists.  An excellent piece on the world climate picture vs. the fantasies of Ted Kulongoski may be seen at 
http://oregonmag.com/JollyGreenOregon.html   (Weather is like the DOW.  It has both short term and long term variations.  The first can blind you to the second, and the idea that we control it is ridiculous.)

Weather, looters and prices. 

I haven't the faintest idea why some of you vote for some politicians, and watch and read some "journalists."  One would think that after enough bad results, some folks would begin to wonder about the people they have been trusting.

(LL)

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