Short-sighted Energy Policies cripple us.

Earlier this week, Human Events published a column by Cal Thomas that absolutely nails the 'crisis' we're having with fuel prices.

[Vice Chairman of Chevron, Peter] Robertson said President Bush’s trip this week to Saudi Arabia is "highly embarrassing" because he is "calling on the Saudis to produce more oil when we are not doing it ourselves." The last refinery built in America was in 1976. Tighter government regulations are the main reason. That’s how unserious we are about our energy "crisis."

Robertson said there would be plenty of oil available to the United States if the oil companies were allowed to get it: "Eighty-five percent of offshore oil is off-limits."

Responding to objections to offshore drilling by environmentalists and their allies in Congress, Robertson noted that some of the strongest pro-environment nations in Europe — he mentions Denmark, Norway, the United Kingdom — lease offshore locations for oil exploration. The technology has become so good, he said, that during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, "one thousand offshore wells were destroyed (in the Gulf of Mexico), but not one leaked." Australia, he said, has allowed offshore drilling for 40 years without any environmental damage.

In addition to the sinking value of the dollar, here is the main problem: According to the Department of Energy, U.S. oil production has fallen approximately 40 percent since 1985, while the consumption of oil has grown by more than 30 percent.

According to government estimates, there is enough oil in areas accessible to America — 112 billion barrels — to power more than 60 million cars for 60 years. The Outer Continental Shelf alone contains an estimated 86 billion barrels of oil and 420 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Had President Clinton not vetoed exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in 1995, when oil was $19 a barrel, America would currently be receiving more than 1 million barrels a day domestically, all of it taken by better technology than existed more than 30 years ago. That was when the Alaskan pipeline was built despite protests from environmentalists who claimed it would destroy the caribou. It didn’t, but the environmentalists are back with the same discredited arguments. Because most of the oil remains "off-limits," we are becoming more dependent on foreign oil.

President Bush's visit with the Saudi's failed. They claim that their current levels of production are meeting current global oil demand. In other words, "Hey, America ... go **** yourself."

Meanwhile, Democrats won control of Congress in 2006 campaigning on 'change' to our domestic energy policies and ending our reliance on foreign oil. So far, they've only continued to hamper our efforts to gain energy independence, while dictating what type of light bulbs we're going to be allowed to use.

When vetoing the ANWR bill in 1995, Clinton told us that we didn't need to drill there because, even if we'd done so, we wouldn't have access to the oil for 10 years. Well, it's been 13 years now. Oil has gone from $19 a barrel to nearly $130 a barrel, and we are reduced to begging foreign nations to open their oil spigots a little more to ease the high gas prices that are strangling our economy.

Ask yourself: Would we be better off, or worse off, if we had that oil flowing today ... ? And, do we dare elect another president who'll continue those same, short-sigthed policies?

Racist West Virginians give Hillary big win.

Hillary Clinton blew out Barack Obama yesterday in the West Virginia primary.

However, it was predicted. As Andrew Ward of the Financial Times of London pointed out on Sunday, everyone in West Virginia is a racist, so the clearly wouldn't ever vote for a black guy anyway.

His lack of support in the state has, obviously, nothing to do with his comments that people -- like many of those in West Virginia -- are bitter and cling to guns, religion, and racism.

Or, where he's spent his Sunday mornings for the past 20 years.

Or, that one of his 'informal advisors' on Mideast policy, Robert Malley, recently got booted from the campaign because he told the Times of London that he was in regular contact with Hamas.

Or, that his buddy, William Ayers, went to jail for planting bombs in the Pentagon and several other U.S. Government buildings and said, on September 11th of 2001 of all days, that he wished he could've done more.

Or, the fact that West Virginia's main industry is coal mining and Obama's made clear that he's not exactly a big supporter of coal in his environmental policies.

Or, his wife calling America 'mean' and saying that she'd never been proud of the country until her husband ran for President.

Questions about his patriotism? Well, according to Andrew Ward, that's just 'code to harness racist sentiment.' And, there's no doubt that West Virginia is just one big cesspool of black-hating bigots. Just like Indiana and Pennsylvania.

It's weird, though, that this clearly racist place is also referred to several times in the article as a 'Democrat stronghold'. I must've read that wrong, too ...

Racists give Hillary wins in Indiana and Pennsylvania.

Kevin Merida of the Washington Post has released a blistering expose that sheds light on the real reason why Hillary Clinton won Indiana and Pennsylvania.

It wasn't Rush Limbaugh's Operation Chaos. It wasn't all of the various issues that Obama's had of late, with his pastor and his questionable associates and his wife's disparaging comments about America or his own disparaging comments about the 'bitter' Americans who form the bulk of the voter base in those states. It wasn't even that those voters may have legitimately thought over their votes and decided that she was a better candidate.

No, the real reason is simple: Racism.

His evidence:

• A 20-year-old campaign worker says someone said something like "I wouldn't vote for a black person,"
• Uncorroborated claims from a campaign worker about something said on a phone call,
• A documentary film-maker (who also happens to be a Kennedy) says "Racism happens,"
• A high school student says he heard of something happening, but wasn't there to witness it,
• Another uncorroborated claim from a campaign worker that someone pointed to her t-shirt,
• A Democrat voter saying he's scared that people might not vote for a black man,
• A Democrat Hillary Clinton supporter writes a letter to the editor that shows his own lack of knowledge,
• A statement from the Obama campaign that says that the campaign has been overwhelmingly positive, and
• Obama is winning.

Clearly, we're all just a bunch of 'typical white people' who are bitterly clinging to our antipathy of people who aren't like us.

Wierd that all of the people mentioned as 'evidence' in this story about racism were Democrats, though. I must've read that wrong ...