| Striving for the ideals in life has raised the human | | | | dependent than ever. Rasmussen polls say over sixty |
| animal from cave-dwelling to lives of plenty, ease and | | | | per cent of Americans are in favor of lifting the ban on |
| culture, however - should there not be reasoned | | | | offshore drillings and shale - yet a year ago, |
| control on penalizing excesses? When automobile | | | | Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ruled out |
| gasoline prices rise to levels of $3 and $4 a gallon, the | | | | voting on the subject. Where is common sense in |
| pain and outcry resounds across the nation. Yet, the | | | | America? Why should ideology be so unreasoned and |
| elite of our congressional leaders, currently the liberal | | | | illogical? |
| Democrats, force us to fuel our cars and heat our | | | | The idiocy of liberal, environmental extremism |
| homes by being beholden to foreign dictators: Saudi | | | | proceeds on apace - in California's Central Valley, |
| Arabia, Iran, Venezuela - paying out $400 million dollars | | | | once the farm-land bread-basket for the country, |
| a day - and with a going-bankrupt treasury - this | | | | water is denied because of the (endangered) Delta |
| despite our country having immense oil resources. | | | | smelt - thousands of acres of farmland reduced to |
| Where is common sense? | | | | draught condition (Senator Boxer, a stalwart advocate |
| For over 30 years, environmentalists in Congress have | | | | of liberal ideology, accused by a competitor-candidate |
| prevented drilling for oil in US coastal waters, our oil-rich | | | | for her Senate seat as "putting the needs of a |
| Outer Continental Shelf. In Alaska, the ANWR (Arctic | | | | two-inch fish over people"); thousands of farm-hands |
| National Wildlife Refuge), can deliver over a million | | | | are out-of-work because of the ideology. Such thinking |
| barrels of oil a day - also blocked. All that is needed to | | | | has even infected the Obama Health Care Reform Bill |
| be opened is a tiny, flat, treeless area, a barren 2000 | | | | - in California, one of the (supposedly eliminated) |
| of the 19 million acres (postage-stamp-size on a | | | | "earmarks" is iron-fisted union demands that their |
| football field) - but blocked by ideologues. Also banned | | | | workers get the government-funded "green' jobs |
| is oil shale refining - although we have the largest | | | | rather than experienced, non-union companies - |
| supply in the world, billions of potential gallons of diesel | | | | despite employees having the requisite job skills. So it |
| and jet fuel - blocked by Congress. The Department | | | | goes - when ideology runs amok, common sense |
| of Energy was created in 1977 to reduce our | | | | seems to become corrupted! |
| dependency on foreign oil - yet today, we are more | | | | |