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Energy Prices Are High And The Political Drivel Runs On Empty

October 8, 2007

About This Editor: I am a writer. Have been writing for other sites, but expect to do most of my future work HERE! My expertise extends from the esoteric such as burning hydrogen to the unpredictability of the stock market and my writing makes me a jack of all trades and exasperated master of none. I have had some influence over national wildfire and water policy and there are hints of a change in energy policy, BUT as Samuel Goldwyn once said, "A verbal promise is not worth the paper it is written on."

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Having paid attention to national elections since the days of I Like Ike when he defeated Adlai, it is obvious to me that media coverage of the next Race for the White House has begun much earlier than ever before with new variations on old political shell games continuing unabated.

While the candidates are, in theory, debating issues, much of the dialog is prefab, designed to appeal to special segments of the electorate and get out the vote and impress constituents who believe in the federal shibboleth of something for nothing and all power is invested in Washington so we can expect more talk about immigration reform, the War in Iraq and Social Security during the coming campaign along with miraculous taxes, health care and energy policy.

Actually, since the mislabeled and over played oil crisis of the 1970s, there has been a great deal of debate with comparatively little meaningful action about energy, mostly comparative window dressing type things, since the problem of increasing and more expensive energy imports is still haunting this country. A lot of coal is being burned to generate electricity, fuel standards get stricter and so on, but, as everyone knows, American politicians have not solved the problem.

In this campaign, as in the past, the topics are more of the same, global warming, fuel efficiency, renewable energy, nuclear and liquid coal. But none of these solutions are as meaningful as using wood for alcohol fuel and identifying the mysterious source for the hydrogen President Bush wants to use to fuel cars. That was nice, but as we all know, once again, these solutions have not come to fruition.

Coal is polluting, nuclear power is radioactive and dangerous and the openly discussed renewable power sources such as tidal power and wind are so much hot air.

So the price of crude oil is around eighty dollars a barrel and the dollar is losing value in an effort to improve the balance of trade deficit. Creating the need for a real solution, but not the environment since politicians continue to be fond of sharing what is not theirs and continue to offer free taxes, free benefits and free Willie although there are no such things. Worse yet, all of this is in the widely debunked top down format and we all know what highly placed politicians think of that oppressive approach.
When will the drivel end. When is Energy Independence going to arrive?