We all know America is doomed unless we return to core economic values and we know the economy is presently in ruins.
We know that if any recovery takes place, hyper-inflation is sure to manifest itself. Inflation is already rising, and that’s with a national 10% unemployment rate.
BUT THERE IS A SOLUTION, and only Conservatives can implement that solution. First, some FACTS on which I’m sure you’ll agree with:
A)The jobs lost aren’t coming back, because the Industries that supported them are gone.
B) To create new jobs, you need to create:
1 – A new Industry.
2 – One vital to our economy.
3 – One that will generate not just jobs, but tax revenue.
4 – One that by it’s nature, can’t be shipped offshore.
5 – One that, also by its nature, affects every area of our Nation.
6 – One so large, it will spin off other new Industries.
7 – An Industry so large that it will reverse the flow of money outside of America to a flow of money INTO America.
8 – One that will result in manufacturing returning to America.
9 – One that the people will support.
10 – One that the Government will support, and finally….
11 – ONE THAT WILL STRENGTHEN NOT JUST OUR ECONOMY, BUT OUR NATIONAL SECURITY AS WELL.
Does such an Industry actually exist? Why YES! IT DOES!
Now, another FACT: (Remember this): “Energy is what keeps us from living in Mud Huts making sharp sticks.” Keep repeating that to every policy-maker you meet. Let’s see some info you can give them, shall we?
Since Oil was discovered in Pennsylvania in the mid- 1800’s, THE ENTIRE WORLD has used roughly 1-Trillion Barrels of oil. The “Green River Oil Shale Deposit” (“Google” that to learn more) contains an estimated 2-TRILLION BARRELS of recoverable oil. And it sits on Federal Land. (We own it).
Bush wouldn’t harvest it because of obvious ties to “BIG OIL.” (Royal Dutch Shell has the bid on it, not an American Company).
One totally new Industry must be created to harvest and refine it, using BIG AMERICAN COMPANIES that employ millions of workers, like Grumman, Westinghouse, Caterpillar, GE, United Technologies, Kaman, Texrel, and big transportation, like Georgia Pacific Rail.
SECONDLY, regarding coal, there are more BTU’S of energy underground in West Virginia in Coal than there is under the sands of Saudi Arabia in oil.
All States combined, America has more BTU’s of energy in Coal Reserves than all the OPEC countries possess..
In the 1930’s Germany (Under WWI blockade and having no known oil reserves) perfected the Fischer-Tropsch process, a catalyzed chemical reaction in which synthesis gas (a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen) is converted into liquid hydrocarbons of various forms. The principal purpose of this process is to produce a synthetic petroleum substitute, typically from coal, for use as synthetic lubrication oil or as synthetic fuel (Diesel and Jet Fuel). This synthetic fuel runs trucks, cars, and aircraft engines and electrical power plants. (Think Panzer and Luftwaffe Divisions. What powered them?).
Imagine this new Industry that takes 1/3 of our commercial vehicles off of Crude oil-based fuel. WE CAN DO THIS! We’re America!
Remember, I’ve not even mentioned Domestic Drilling, Nuclear or Natural Gas energy harvesting.
And what about another new industry created by doing this:
Land Reclamation.
Paid for by a small 50-cent (or so) per ton tax levied on mined coal or Oil Shale (To produce Shale Oil). Again – NEW INDUSTRY, with jobs that can never be outsourced.
America could become the world’s leading energy exporter, instead of it’s leading importer. Think of what that means for our National Security, and for Income and sales tax revenues. And the flow of money back into America instead of out.
Think of the corporate tax revenues, and instead of money flowing out into entitlement spending, tax revenues coming in due to income and sales tax revenue.
And because this incredible economic recovery will be BECAUSE of a massive influx in Independent Energy Production, energy prices won’t inflate. They’ll actually decline, preventing hyper-inflation and allowing Americans more disposable income. The dominos of recovery will be all lined up.
A President could do all this with a simple stroke of a pen, BY EXECUTIVE ORDER, citing National Security and our National Economy.
BOLD? Sure! But I would do it in a New York Minute. People are angry. They’re tired of wars (political or otherwise) over energy. They want to work, they want jobs.
They don’t believe in man-made “Climate Change.”
We Republicans can sell this, and do this. Real results. Real jobs. A Stronger and more secure America. I respectively request that you good folks consider and support this plan as THE MAJOR PLANK in our conservatives next Campaign Platforms. The resulting debate will forever diminish and expose “The Environmental Left” as the Anti-Americans they are.
Their Domestic Energy Policies have crippled an brought America to it’s knees. We can not allow that to continue.
Regards, Nostradamus.
He’s a tenacious, fearless yet compassionate person who cares about, and loves his country.
Nostradamus: I applaud your enthusiasm and I agree with you whole heartedly. The problem is we have a guy in the White House who wants to dance and play parlor games with guys who dress in White Sheets. He wants, desperately, to be a hero in their world at the expense of our world. He also has a Senate and a fair group of witless Lemmings who are more than willing to destroy the country for some vague notion of Open Society and Open Borders; they can’t define it, but the are in love with the idea.
I doubt that you will meet much resistance from the Conservatives in this crowd: it is the Marxist pseudo-intellectuals who have PhDs in basket weaving and the witless Lemmings that stand in the way. Now, if we can lay out a strategy of reclaiming these melon heads, who have had their brains so thoroughly washed in the public education system with the detergent of Marx and Engels, we can advance this idea and regain our prominence in the world; for unless we can reformulate the idea of what it means to be an American to these lost and bewildered Americans, we will have another series of anti-American Presidents until America is ground under the iron heel of Marxism and the light of freedom will be extinguished forever.
Of course according to a U of T grant/study from the Canadian government their pilot coal to liquid transport fuel converted coal at a $30 a barrel oil equivalent. The refinery to do the deed was no more expensive or complicated than a normal refinery … So why not do that?
Well ask the Crow Indians who has a joint development contract with an Australian company for $7 billion to use Crow reservation coal, built by Crow reservation people and operated by the entire reservation — But the EPA says nope, can’t do that. Why?
Capitalists are quite pleased with Obama. He turned around the Dow which was in free fall losing almost 1/2 of its value and corporate profits are at record highs.
I’ve been preaching this for over a year on FA. Then as expected, the drive by smears bring out their green drivel. Wonderful post, but I must add that you folks have the engineering , expertise, correctly used capital, confidence, and ethics to do this correctly. Who doesn’t want to be a steward of the environment?
For the first time in the history of the USA, the economy tanked after the election of a new president, especially after the election and before the swearing in. This regime is a complete disaster.
If I remember right, didn’t the Dow sink below 7000?
I can’t afford to speculate and risk capital in the Dow. I invest in the “A” shares and nothing else.
He did, eh John?
How?
Please be specific. HOW did Barack Obama turn around the Dow?
Love the post. More benefits:
1) No shutdowns during hurricanes. Constant production.
2)Directional drilling. One drill site and up to 30 drill legs
3)No blowouts. You control the driving mechanism. Pressure control of detergents, steam,etc.
4)Target costs are nil. You’re standing on it.
5)If the shale is mined, reclamation can be creative and beneficial. New lakes in water starved areas. Hydro and nuclear possible. Tailings and tailings ponds can be engineered properly.
6) No stripping and abandonment like I saw in Montana and Nevada.
7)Starting costs at about 50 bucks a barrel
8)Get the Federalis out of the system. States more powerful. No tail wagging the dog.
9)Ad infinitum
But… Al Gore wants us to pay $5 per gallon.
George Allen is running for the Senate again in Virginia. One of his main planks is to have America liberated from the job killing anti energy crowd. ” America should be free to develop its immense resources”.
Jim Webb and his macaca loving Washington Compost are finished. I hope the Bamster helps his cause.
Energy self sufficiency should be the plank for the Won to walk on (pun intended).
From time to time recently we have heard that so-and-so BELIEVE??? that Obama was born in Hawaii. WE DO NOT NEED OBAMA’S BIRTH CERTIFICATE TO KNOW THAT OBAMA IS NOT A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN. Obama’s father WAS NOT a citizen of the United States; therefore, OBAMA IS NOT A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN. The propaganda from Hawaii’s governor and recently from others is an attempt to end the debate. But like the Tea Party, the “Birthers” will not cease and desist from insisting that Obama be removed for failure to qualify according to our Constitution.
What is incredible is that ALL of those who have uttered that Obama is qualified have been sworn to uphold the Constitution. Like the vial and corrupt Nixon, Obama should be removed immediately.
Umm… the subject here is energy independence as a way to restore America’s greatness, not Obama’s birth certificate.
One of the problems that I see is people are no longer creative. There hasn’t been a new style of art since the 1980s and may of the so called new inventions such as HDTV and smart phones were used in Japan and Europe since the 1990s.
Also people want jobs, but they don’t want to create them. They would rather work for The Man than be The Man. For instance $10,000 can get you a chain of BBQ street vendors, which are popular, in Mexico. If you got $50 a day net, that’s $18,250 a year. there are thousands of startups waiting to happen around the world but eople in the U.S. just aren’t doing it.
As far as National defense goes, there are some things the U.S. can cut back on. One is to use the lilly pad concept. Basically the U.S. has a few troops in an allied base rather than having its own base. If the U.S. needs to build up in the region, the allied base is used. Another is to drop the bomber fleet. Not only are the bombers too slow and vulnerable to attack during a nuclear war where most countries could be totally destroyed by one ICBM, there is little need for carpet bombing (which was effective in Iraq, but not effective fighting the Vietcong). Also the U.S. should drop the number of ships to 200 even though the navy wants over 300 and has 287. One of the tricks is to use amphibious assult ships. 50 ships could carry 90,000 ground troops and 300 F-35 aircraft. Germany has 454 total aircraft. France has 867 total aircraft.
OIL GUY #9 Allen is a masochist.Navy Cross,Siver Stars recipient Webb will kick his ass again.
NOSTRADAMUS very good exciting approach to get the people going in a new era of getting back THE GREAT AMERICA, GIVING HOPE TO MANY PEOPLE to envisage a FUTURE of whealth for AMERICANS, AND I would insist on giving the jobs to only AMERICANS legitimate and sworn to the CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC, bye …..Evil Otto, hi, Adrian’s got a good point that is going perfectly with the incentives that CONSERVATIVES want to do, bye
@oil guy from Alberta:
Now in retirement we have invested in not simply A shares but A shares that have a long history of dividend payment. Disappointments? Only Government Electric, formerly GE.
@gregory_dittman:
“Also people want jobs, but they don’t want to create them.”
That has always been the way. How many Henry Fords were there. All industries are dominated by a few brave souls who become the targets of those who cannot or will not do the hard, risky work.
HaroldH, yes tey dont want to take the risk and today there are many, and just like the UNIONS,
they want all benefits and no risk, they have cross the lines of helping the employes because no business want them anymore, so they are one reason of low economie, as they block many jobs that someone would take, using fear tactics.
bye
If it’s uneconomic compared to oil then why bother? Didn’t people lose investments due to shale oil back in the 80s? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_shale_economics
And surely republicans would prefer to have no taxes, little if any government involvement and let private enterprise and the free market decide whether investing in Shale oil is economic or not.
You are correct. We can do so much. Another idea to create inexhaustible energy is through hydroelectric utilizing the tides. The technology already exists and the power source is forever. Also, much more could be done with geothermal energy…….
Nostradamus, hi,
I feel that from january to this june 30, your comment is still important to keep it up front, even more as we are starting primary speechs for this important election of 2012,
because they have succeeded to lower the creativity needs FROM THIS PEOPLE
WHO WHERE ONCE SO MUCH CREATIVE ON ANY SMALL TO GIANT NEW PROJECTS
MANY WHERE HELP BY THE GOVERNMENT ACT OF INVENTION,
AND THAT AND THOSE AND THIS WAS AMERICA,
BUT NOW THEY HAVE OPPRESS THE COMPANIES SOURCE OF INVENTION,
THEY HAVE FAVORED FOREIGN COUNTRYS TO GIVE THE MONEY TAKEN FROM AMERICANS’S SWEATH,
THEY HAVE BOWED TO OTHER COUNTRYS AND APPOLOGYSE TO ENNEMIES’S COUNTRYS,
THE PEOPLE CANNOT THINK OF CREATING WHEN THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THEIR DESTRUCTIVE MANIPULATION, WHEN THEY ARE TO GO THROUGH ULTIMATE HUMILIATION SO TO TAKE A PLANE TO DO THEIR BUSYNESS, HOW CAN THEY FOCUS ON CREATING, WHEN THEY READ WHAT IS NOT WRITTEN TO PROTECT THEIR GUYS IN THE WHITE HOUSE, THE NEWS THEY ONLY LEARN AFTER THE FACT IN THEIR FAVORITE BLOGS,
and they get so frustrated, and angry, that the urge of creating is disconnect,
but the time will come when the flower of CREATIVITY WILL BE SO ABOUNDANT THAT WE WILL SEE AMERICA IN A NEW BEGINNING WITH NEW GOVERNMENT FOR AMERICA, BENEVOLANT AND APPRECIATING THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA LOVING THE CONSTITUTION EXACTLY AS AMERICA WANT THEM TO BE.
JUST LIKE THEY ARE SUPPOSE TO BE,
THAT IS PROUD AND WALKING TALL AND LOVING THEIR AMERICA AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE BEFORE, BECAUSE IT WAS SHAPED WITH THE BLOOD OF
AMERICANS FOR CENTURYS, GOD HELP AMERICA,
It wouldn’t be correct to conclude that Obama is the obstacle to energy abundance by way of oil shale and coal. The biggest obstacles that would have to be overcome to make large scale production of fuel from oil shale and coal feasible aren’t actually political. They’re briefly covered here. From that article:
Liberals and conservatives alike want to see America’s energy future secured. Expensive energy in short supply accomplishes absolutely nothing positive for any progressive social program.
GREG, you know IT’s a lot better than sell the precious land to CHINA for them
to start an extended CHINA, MADE IN CHINA BY CHINEESES,
at least that land would be for AMERICA by AMERICAN, for AMERICANS comsomption,
and if they put the sure thing ,you will see it in production 50 times faster, because ,there would not be EPA INTERFERENCE OR ANY OTHER STUPID CONTROL ON IT ,
BUT ONLY AMERICANS WORKER NON UNIONNYSE OF ANY KIND
EARNING A FAIR WAGES AND HAPPY TO WORK WITHOUT GOVERNMENT INTRUSION
Oil Guy From ALBERTA, what do you think of GREG ‘s comment above me,
you’re the expert in that,