Adamo: The Obama Energy Strangle-Hold On America
Thus, for those prices to remain low, the economic prognosis must remain grim. As soon as manufacturing activity heats up and traffic on the nation’s highways increases in response, the demand for fossil fuels will likewise increase, triggering an upswing in their cost. In a sane world, this rise would be shortly offset by an increased supply, thereby balancing out the situation. However, with Obama and his Democrat cohorts stifling every attempt at expanding production, and worse, placing entire regions such as the Gulf of Mexico off limits (at least to Americans), the lack of any new supply of crude oil to compensate for higher demand guarantees that even a tiny spark of resurgent economic life will immediately result in escalating fuel prices, which in turn chokes out the activity.
This is the essence of the malaise that has gripped our nation throughout Obama’s term. He and his cohorts contrive a means of undercutting America, whether by constricting available sources of energy, overburdening the financial system with criminally irresponsible deficit spending, or suffocating the ability of business owners to enlarge their enterprises and hire new employees because of new and onerous regulations. The consequent business contractions and closures result in more layoffs which, we are told, cry out for government intervention to properly “take care of the little guy.”
Real America is angry and frustrated with the deliberate stifling of its economic engine by Washington, appalled at the squalor and mindlessness of the “Occupy” movement, and ready to break free from the unwarranted shackles preventing its restoration to greatness. Business owners across the nation would gladly implement plans for growth and expansion, including new hiring of employees, if only they could be assured that any future successes would not be entirely leached from them in the name of “fairness,” “compassion,” or “environmental responsibility.” Yet every astute entrepreneur knows that this trio of liberal specters lurks in the shadows, and what their effect will be the moment they are unleashed on productive society.
The latest debacle over the “Keystone Pipeline,” and the ongoing games being played with it by a callous and indifferent White House, give ample proof that whatever his real intentions may be, Barack Obama is not interested in achieving real, workable solutions to the problems facing America. Rather, he views each ensuing catastrophe as a political opportunity. Consequently, when America needs reasoned leadership, it can count on another insipid and churlish Obama speech. Why open the floodgates of productivity and prosperity by allowing advanced oil exploration when the “crisis” of an energy shortage will present another occasion to castigate the opposition party?
It is therefore no surprise that the ongoing Keystone Pipeline controversy is not being addressed by the Obama White House from the perspective of its manifold benefits to the nation. For starters, pipeline construction alone would generate thousands of productive jobs. Once completed, the pipeline would boost available petroleum supplies to the nation, thereby easing the upward pressure on oil and gasoline prices. Were the real goals of Democrat leaders, including Barack Obama, the betterment of the nation, this situation would be a “no brainer.” Yet in order to make any sense out of the seemingly inane decisions that regularly spew forth from this White House, something far more sinister must ultimately be driving them.
On more than one occasion since inauguration day 2009, Barack Obama stunned America with absurd condemnations of the business sector, accusing company owners of refusing to take on new employees for cold and self-serving reasons. His “fix” was to denigrate them for their callous indifference, and attempt to badger them into hiring new workers as a selfless deed undertaken for the sake of the nation. In his mind, excess unproductive workers in private business should be no more burdensome than excess unproductive workers in the public sector, which is standard practice inside the Beltway and throughout state and municipal bureaucracies across the nation.
No doubt, Barack Obama wants to see unemployment rates drop, at least for the next eleven months. Election year politics demands as much. But he cannot implement any program that might return the long-term power to direct the nation’s future to its rightful bearers, the people. An increased availability of cheap, abundant energy would do just that. At the same time, the ready practicality of fossil fuels would solidify the growing realization among Americans of the folly of the “green energy” agenda, and the true nature of its very “red” guiding philosophy.
So, at least until January 2013 (assuming the people have had their eyes opened since elections of 2008), America can expect to struggle and travail against a noxious opponent within its own government which continually thwarts them at every turn, and always under some noble sounding premise. After that, it will face one of two starkly diverging fates, depending on who is at the helm. Under the stewardship of a true, unwavering conservative possessing the courage to stay on track, it might rebound significantly. The ponderous engine of modern technology, once it is lifted from the slough of overregulation and taxation, could come roaring back to life.
Or, if Obama retains his place, the remaining gasping breaths of a struggling nation will be summarily snuffed out. In sharp contrast to past presidential contests, the pretense of middle ground no longer exists.
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Christopher G. Adamo is a resident of southeastern Wyoming. He has been involved in politics at the local and state level for many years. His archives and contact information can be found at www.chrisadamo.com
December 15, 2011 @ 8:46 am
The Obama administration, if that’s what you would dignify to call it, attacks on the oil companies is just one more manifestation of Socialist Liberal wealth envy, power envy, success envy, and penis envy that drives this limp acting party to attack American strength at every turn to lower Capitalist American performance so their own failed ideology won’t look so bad by comparison.
They do not view what their party has done to grow the beast of government as corruption, so they must starve what they perceive as the competition Capitalist beast , by denying the very source of petroleum based strength and lifeblood that feeds the economy and produces wealth,,, the very thing they abhor in their psychotic love hate relationship with Capitalism. They love the benefits of Capitalism, but hate the reality of the success it manifests by displaying the faults, deficiencies and failures of Socialism.
In any other world of the sane rational mind, ANY attack on our oil supply, our oil fields, and our oil pipelines would be viewed as an act of aggression and justification to respond as an act of war. In Obama’s distorted world view it is just business as usual as they seek to snatch the booty for themselves and molest others so they can prosper without having to earn their way like the rest of us. They rant and rave about our Middle East wars, then prevent us from acquiring the very thing that would free us from such wars by becoming oil independent.
They and their insane ideology need to get thrown back into the dusty Looney bin of history once and for all, and make no mistake, this election in2012 will decide which Beast prevails, The the Capitalist Beast that would feed you, or the Socialist beast that would feed on you!
Holder and Obama have become the Keystone Cops of the Keystone Pipeline. They just put on their government badges, clobber us with their night sticks, run around in circles and crash into everything. It is the pipeline to the gas and power that drives their disoriented wealth consuming vehicle of state that needs to be cut off, not the pipeline that feeds the vehicles of the American working people that drive them to their jobs that produce wealth. Can 2012 come soon enough!
December 15, 2011 @ 10:59 am
I agree with everything you have said, but even more importantly, I doubt the average American citizen has a clue as to how oil affects every aspect of their life. The Iranian Gov’t is planning to organize drills to close the Straights of Hormuz. The very mention of this idea would and should be grounds for us to send warships to the area. The Keystone pipeline would be a small chink in the armor of the Middle Eastern Oil Cartel. We and the Canadians have vast oil supplies that remain untapped, oil supplies that match or surpass the reserves of Saudia Arabia. This pipeline would go straight to the Gulf Coast where the largest refinery in the US is located, and will do the most good. If we continue to let people who are obviously not interested in our basic needs and welfare, we are doomed to fail. We are letting the left kill out economy with environmental BS, instead of continuing to develop the process of cleaning our effluent water discharges, and air contamination, while we keep the country running like it should.
December 15, 2011 @ 10:21 am
Obama and his lying thugs and cheats in this the most corrupt administration in the historyof our great nation, will cook the books on the actual unemployment numbers with the complicit media aiding and abetting him every step of the way. He doesn’t give a happy rat’s butt about putting people to work and actually lowering the unemployment rates. His goal as he so plainly stated: “fundamentally transform” our great nation. And that is exactly what this fraud is doing. He stated publically that anyone could produce coal, but through his regulations, he would make it so expensive that no one could afford to mine coal. Well, that’s working now.
His fundamental goal is to destroy our country economically…overload the system with welfare addicted slugs, and then pull the rug out from under each and everyone….with no safety net to aid anyone. Then when the riots start because the welfare addicted are no longer receiving their checks and their food stamp cards are invalid………he will declare martial law, suspend the Constitution, disban both Houses of Congress, and eliminate the Supreme Court. Anyone who disagrees or stands up to his appointed thugs will be shot if not imprisoned in his FEMA camps……never to be seen again.
Bad times are coming, folks…………..unless WE THE PEOPLE stop this!