If the liberal Democrats in Congress or anywhere else understood logic, the world would come to an end. Not to worry, they don’t and won’t even though they will have to be dragged kicking and screaming to accept what they don’t understand. The lack of logic pertains to domestic oil production. The leader of the pack of illogical thinking is Senator Harry Reid, (D-Nevada) who said concerning John McCain’s call for drilling offshore that [it is] "nothing more than a cynical campaign ploy that will do nothing to lower energy prices and represents another big giveaway to oil companies already making billions in profits." (It’s always a campaign ploy or politics when the Democrats aren’t doing it.) There is one of the brains of the liberal Democrat Party showing his absolute ignorance to the world—no, it is stupidity that will keep us locked into buying imported oil to meet our energy needs. The liberals preach alternative fuels and conservation to end the problem. Be sure to wear shorts in the summer and a sweater in the winter.

The path to where we are now began with President Nixon’s price controls, which prevented many companies from making a profit. Then Jimmy Carter’s “windfall profits” tax ended any incentive for small producers to continue and their wells were capped. The peanut brained man couldn’t understand that companies that sell a huge volume of products make large profits. But in Carter’s mind and that of his fellow ilk, known as liberal Democrats, the oil companies were ripping off their customers when in fact it was Carter and his cronies ripping off the taxpayers by taxing the oil companies into near oblivion. The first President Bush issued a new directive on drilling that Clinton extended. Now we have the mantra of “we can’t drill because it won’t do any good. It won’t solve the problem.”  Hogwash!

Now let’s apply liberal Democrat logic. There is a dire need for crude oil and we can’t produce more because that isn’t the solution to alleviate the high prices. Due to weather and the energy bill, mandating that food grain be used to produce ethanol, grocery prices are escalating. When the crop land recovers from the flood destruction, the natural impulse will be to plant more crops. But now that is not logical. Using Harry Reid’s logic, planting more crops won’t solve the problem. We will need to find alternatives to the food crops and conserve. Just don’t eat as much and find other things to eat. Well, it can’t be meat since grain crops feed animals and raising and feeding more animals won’t solve anything. And methane from animals contributes to global warming too.

Maybe vegetables are the answer. They won’t be made into ethanol and the animals won’t eat them unless it is the ever increasing deer herds roaming the landscape. But wait, more vegetable can’t be the answer because there isn’t enough energy for the tractors needed to plant the vegetables and besides the land is needed for crops from which ethanol is made.  Obviously, the solution to the tractor problem is mules. They can be fed oats, corn and hay, if there is any available after the ethanol has consumed the crops. But keep in mind the methane emissions.

There is only one solution left using Reid’s logic, starvation. Now there is the solution. That way you won’t have a need for shorts or a sweater very long. Just think of the energy that will be saved when all the non-eaters are no longer viable, not to mention that all the energy being saved by not having to produce shorts and sweaters. Right, but those garment producers overseas are going to be mad because their factories will be idled. So much for diplomacy and let’s get along.

By now, you should be able to see that Reid’s logic is as foolish as what you just read. The real solutions are to drill for oil and develop alternatives that will work in select applications as the market adjusts to economic conditions that will allow such progress. There is one more solution. Send Reid and his fellow liberal Democrats packing for the good of the nation. The real problem is the lack of brains in Congress and Harry Reid is the leader of the brainless contingent. In Sorting It Out, that is just plain old common sense logic.

06-24-2008 DEC