The American Freedom Network

Economics and Culture Impact Energy Use

The collectivist always miss the mark. They want to blame constriction of energy supply on the very people who can relieve it. That is if the *evil* “Big Oil” weren’t constrained by law and activism by those very same environmentalist and socialist collectivists.

Donald Lambro (and other sensible people) gets it.

Who isn’t allowed to build refineries due to onerous costs of regulation and litigation in the U.S.?
The oil companies.
Who isn’t allowed to exploit U.S. crude oil, oil shale, coal liquification and natural gas supplies?
The oil companies.

Combine this with the irrational fear of nuclear power plants, also blocked by the environmentalist collectivists who value everything but people and their lives and comfort. It adds up to the high prices of energy and food we are dealing with today.

We don’t need a “tax holiday” (although a permanent one I would support) to fix prices, we need to quit artificially constraining the supply.

People in the U.S. don’t want to drive scooters and mini-cars and ride buses, no matter how much the enviro-socialists dream of forcing Americans to do such.

Government interference also delays real progress in alternatives to hydrocarbon energy sources. Forcing great minds down “sounds good” rabbit trails and blind alleys (wind farms, ethanol) rather than to solutions that would work because PEOPLE (not government) want them.

The base problem is again one of collectivism (that has never worked, EVER) versus liberty and freedom (which has ALWAYS worked). People knowing what they want and need and will buy versus elitists who “know better” than the people what is good for all.