Obama and the Economy

Obama has no idea how this economy actually works.

He wants to tax the Oil Comapnies. It is called a Windfall Profits Tax. The last time we saw one was in the 80's. During that time, the amount of energy produced by the United States Decreased. It decreased sharply. And as it did, the price of Oil increased significantly. The Republicans in Congress where right to vote against it.

At the same time, The Dems voted against, with Obama's blessing, allowing increased drilling, which would lead to increased domestic oil, and lower prices both here, and in Europe. However, though the United States has the best and cleanest oil drilling techniques in the world, as opposed to OPEC, who spill half of their oil on the ground, we would have almost no seepage. In fact, if you think back to Katrina. Stories of Oil Rigs washed up on beaches abounded, and yet there was not a single story about oil slicks.

Its that same old story from the dems. Tax us into oblivion while preventing the only thing that will actually fix the problem.

Obama and Civil Rights

Recently Obama has started a website called Fight the Smears.com. Well, bring it on.

Also recently, Obama announced that he would ask his AG to look into the possibility of levelling charges of War Crimes against the current President of the United States, George W. Bush. Now, I know those of you with Bush Derangement Syndrome will cheer this, but ordinary people should be afraid. This is the actions of a Stalinist. In the Soviet Union, Stalin killed or jailed people that disagreed with him politically. That included a former Head of State of the Soviet Union. This has happened time and again through out the Fear World. It is something that has never happened in the Free World for a very important reason. Democracies require a Peaceful Transition of Power. If Presidents have to worry about being arrested by the opposing party upon stepping down from the office, then you will have either

A. Presidents that are inneffective and a weaker nation as a whole.
B. Presidents who jail their opponents at the Grassroots and Candidatorial level to insure that only their supporters can get elected


This is one of the most dangerous ideas Barack Obama has ever put forth. Of course, his connections to Bill Ayers, the former head of the Weather Underground Terrorist Network, makes this unsurprising.

At the same time, Obama wants to combat what he sees as Racism in the Employment Process. Let me tell you who the vitcims of Bigotry in the Employment Process is, White Men. Every other person in this country gets a pass. They are told, "You are not good enough to get this job on your own laurels, so we are gonna guarantee that position for you." Which, in turn, results in more crimes by Minorities. More on that later.

Obama also wants to Increase Hate Crime Statutes. Well, considering the actions of Sheldon Hackney against Eden Jacobowitz, I would argue that we need to completely scrap the current Hate Crime Statutes and re-write them. Eden Jacobowitz was a young man at the University of Pennsylvania. While he was studying in his room, a group of about twenty sorority girls began to party, loudly under his window. Sticking out his head, he shouted out, "Shut up you Waterbuffalo!" Now, in Hebrew, the language Eden spoke in Elementary and Middle School, Waterbuffalo, Behema, is slang for a rowdy, thoughtless person. However, the Sorority Girls, all of whom where black, decided that they where offended and that he had used a racist slur.
Even after an Israeli Scholar on African lore testified that it was a simple matter of a person thinking in Hebrew and speaking in English, and that there was no racist conotations, the hate crime trial continued. And then there is the countless parade of hoaxes that people pull, scrathing racial epithets into their own car or spraying on their own house to try and get innocent men and women in trouble. Makes me wonder why the Duke Lacrosse Players didn't charge that young dancer with a hate crime...

One good thing is that he is trying to end Voter Fraud. Or at least he says he is. He voted against the Voter ID act, which many claim would be the best way to protect against voter fraud.

Obama has listed a punishment difference between the Sentencing of Crack and Powder cocaine users as a civil rights issue. Too bad it is a Law and Order Issue. You see, the reason that Crack Cocaine users get longer jail times is because more often than not, they are also more heavily addicted, and do not have the funds to get their funds. So, they rob people, committ violent crimes, and shoot people up, all so they can get their next fix. On the other hand, powder cocaine users are more often than not casual users, who use a much more diluted version, and have the money to buy the stuff without committing violent crimes to get it. Obama, look into that, maybe you will change your position on that. Wait, who am I kidding, of course you won't.

Southern Cross: Racist? Rebelious? Statist?

Recently, three students where banned from their school graduation for having a Confederate Battle Flag at their school three days before graduation. This was not the Star and Bars, the symbol of the Confederated Government, which is viewed by many as a throughly racist organization), but rather the more famous Southern Cross, the Battle Flag of the Confederacy, the symbol of her army and the men and women who served under it. (Yes, women, the Confederacy had several women who masqueraded as men to serve in the army, just like the north.)

The vast majority of the Young Men who marched under the flag during the war did so as a symbol of their opposition to the Power Hungry Federal Government, which was slowly but surely sapping the rights of the states and consolidating it under one place. This was something that the Founding Fathers always feared, and the South Rightly objected to it. Many in the North did as well, though they disagreed with how the Confederacy made their opinion known.

As the Confederacy marched to war under that blue cross, many have confused it with the national flag of the confederacy, a symbol of a government that was run by Racists and was more interested in maintaining Racial Supremacy and the Institution of Slavery.

So, if you support the rights of the states and the individual, if you think the Federal Government needs to back down and relinquish power, if you think that the Federal Government needs to stop stealing your money and stop proping up those who cannot help themselves, wave that flag proud and strong. For the Southern Cross was always a symbol of Freedom and Liberty, not Oppression and Tyranny. That is what the Stars and Bars where for.

The Time has Come

Obama, I am going to do whatever I can to prevent you from becoming president. I have seen the outcomes, the disasters your policies will cause. And it is time to point them out. With Clinton out of the race, you are now the only one the Democrats can hope to elect. Thus, you are fair game. I, like many other conservative bloggers stayed out of the fray, letting your party self-destruct on its own.

But Sun Tzu would scold us for continuing to ignore you. Thus, it is time to expose your idiocy to the world, and show them why naively clinging to ideals that can never work is an insane idea. They say that Idiocy is the act of trying the same things over and over and expecting different results, and thus, I call you, and the rest of the Higher-Ups in the party idiots.

More to come later. Gotta check your website to see if there are any updates or changes on your stances. But they will be mercilessly torn to shreds. Hell, I might even repost my "Crime of Nationalised Healthcare" piece again. What with your ardent support of that little Collectivist piece of crap.

Oil Fires, New Refineries, and a shift in the system

Well, Elk Point, South Dakota has the right idea. Recently, they voted to allow Hyperion, a Petroleum Company, to set up a fuel refinery in their city. The citizens of Union County voted in favor of the first new refinery in almost 35 years. It also means billions of dollars in the local economy in terms of construction and maintenance, and thousands of high-paying jobs. This is good news, as it will help to stimulate the economy and bring down rising fuel costs. Now, if we could just convince the citizens of the rest of the country to allow drilling and refining in more places, the world would change faster, and more money would flow into alternative fuel research. According to the Sioux City Journal, it would be using Tar Sands out of Alberta, refining 400,000 barrels a day. This will reduce demand for Iranian and Venezualan fuels as we shift towards more Iraqi sources.

On the bad side however, 2.4 million barrels of unleaded fuel where ignited in Kansas City last night after a set of wicked storms passed through. local price where at 3.90 a gallon at the time, leading to a loss of $9.36 million dollars. $9,360,000. That is a lot of cash lost. And that does not include the total stoppage by Magellan of all fuel flowing outwards, which meant a total cut off of fuel to the north, the shutting down of the factory, and the clean up of the area. It could have been a lot worse. Over in my house, we watched with fear, wondering whether or not two tanks nearby, each also holding a simil;ar amount of fuel would catch fire as well. Expect higher gas prices. At least it isn't as bad as the one time a squirrel got into an Oil Refinery and chewed up the wires in the control room. But it is still bad. Expect to see gas prices creep up as a result. Hopefully the news of a new refinery in South Dakota will help counteract it.

Meanwhile, news has hit Drudge that there are a group of highly organized Fuel Thieves who are going after Semi-Tankers full of Petroleum. This is gonna cause a rise in gas prices as well, and quite possibly the armed escort of fuel tankers, both on road and rails, to prevent such attacks. If you have perpetrated just such a robbery, remember, you are harming millions with these little antics of yours.

Just a warning folks, it is gonna get worse before it can get better. Petroleum Drills are only able to get around a third of the fuel out of the ground due to the nature of the drilling. this means an increased turning to the Tar Sands in Canada and the US, which are "Heavy" Crude, as opposed to the lower sulfur "Light" Crude that comes out in liquid form. As such, you will see higher refining and pump prices due to the need for extra refining to lower the sulfur content to meet current EPA Regulations on the formula of fuels.

Polar Bears and Oil prices

Alaska is going to be hurting people. With the Polar Bear on the Endagndered Species List (An Unnacceptable oversight due to the increase in population of Polar Bears since their discovery during the Early Days of American Exploration and the regular and precedented growth in population continuing at this time), all movements to expand the economy of Alaska, which is dependant on Oil Mining, are thus stopped.

No new oil drilling, no new pipelines, no new refineries.

Oh and if you don't believe me on this, just check the following link.
http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA566.html

Oh, and don't say that I don't love Polar Bears because I disagree with this movement. They may not be my favorite species, that belongs to the Kodiak Grizzly and the Bald Eagle jointly, Polar Bears are not far below. I just don't fall for sob story scare tactics.

Must be the build-up of Cynicism in my veins. Gotta ask my doctor about that some time...

Big Oil is NOT too Blame

That's right, I said that big Oil is not the problem here. It is the Senators and Representatives who have caused the following problems

Mandatory Reformulation of Gasoline during the Summer Driving Months: This more than anything, is a huge factor in the jump before, during, and after Memorial Day Weekend, as the Oil Companies are forced to shut down their refineries, reformulate the gasoline to match with current summer formula laws, and then start them back up. During this time, they take major losses as they try to make up for the loss through rushed production of fuel.

Ban on Refinery Construction: Since 1976, there has not been a single new Refinery built in the United States. With demand for Gasoline from the Middle East increasing (The United States refines Light Sweet Crude into Unleaded Gasoline for the Middle East due to a lack of refineries in the home countries of that oil.), Other refineries shutting down (100 since the 1980's), and problems in the currently operating ones (Rodents chewing on wires, fires, breakdowns, etc.) the price of Oil is forced up in case of losses.

Distance of Oil Refineries from Points of Distribution: Due to Environmental Laws, in the United States, Oil Refineries are often located far from Urban Zones. This means increased amounts of overhead for transportation from the ports in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to the Ports in Texas and Lousianna, increased rail transport from the ports to the refineries, and finally, increased rail and shipping costs to get them from the Refinery to the gas station. The longer the logistics route, the more money that is spent on Logistics, and thus, the higher the price of the gasoline when it reaches you at the pump.

Lack of Intensive Drilling in the United States: Though you may see the pumps in the Mid West in the middle of a field, or the oil Derricks out in the gulf, much of the Crude Oil lies untapped. Throughout the Mid West, Pacific Northwest, Deep South, and Alaska, there are large reserves of Crude Oil that could power the United States for Decades to come. By drilling in these locations, we would be able to reduce the logistics overhead of getting the oil to the refineries, and pull the US out from the Shadow of the Organization of petroleum Exporting Countries. This would lower prices, reduce the number of American Oil tankers passing through the Straights of Malacca and near the Somali Coast (Both hotspots of Piracy, that drive up the overhead again by forcing Oil Companies to hire Private Military Contractors to help defend their ships), and help to cut off our reliance on Foreign Oil, while freeing up Middle Eastern Oil for China and India, further cutting costs across the board.

Ethanol Contents: As the Lawmakers on Capitol Hill increase the amount of Ethanol mandated in Gasoline Blends that produces two things. First: Less effecient gasoline. Ethanol will always reduce the efficiency, due to it's habit of reducing mileage by a fifth. This will increase demand for Gasoline and thus further drive up prices. Second: As the demand for gasoline increases, so does the price of Ethanol, which makes the overhead rise again for the Oil Companies, which they pass on too you, the consumer.

Note that these do not include things like the Splitting of Palestine, the Lebanese Civil War, Iran's incessant Saber Rattling, past strikes against Oil Refineries and Shipping Ports, Continued Threats against the Refineries and Ports, Hurricanes, Hostile Governments using Oil Prices as a Defensive Weapon (I'm looking at you Iran and Venezuela), Disputes between Russia and the Ukraine over Oil Derricks and Supplies along the border, Earthquakes, worries of Peak Oil Production, Inefficiency of Current Mining Technologies (Leaves about a third of the Oil in the ground), Market Speculation in the Commodities Markets over Oil Futures, The failure of Canada to properly mine their Tar Sands for "Heavy Oil" Deposits, Lack of new wells in the OPEC nations, Turbulence and Civil Unrest in Venezuela, the Media's constant talking up of increasing oil prices, and much much more.

The best thing we can do is wean ourselves off of Crude Oil in all its forms, be it Natural Gas, Plastics, Gasoline, Fertilizer, Diesel, Kerosene, Jet Fuel, Asphalt, Rubber, and much else. Synthetics for these that do not require Petroleum are being researched, and proccess is coming along. Until then, keep recycling your plastics and rubbers. Because otherwise, you will only help further push up oil prices.