Democrats' energy plan - Truckers' Trucking Forum

tmorr37 · **^ Top** #1 05.09.2008

Look at the Democrats' energy plan. The Democrats' energy plan that they announced yesterday is anything but an energy plan. It is a punishment, and it's designed to appeal to people who think everybody in the world's lining up to screw them. Remember, it wasn't long ago I did a monologue and I asked you to think back 30 years ago, what about America were you proud of? We were proud of the auto industry, 30, 40, 50 years ago, you name it. We were proud of our airline industry. It was a big thrill to fly on TWA or American. We were proud. We got dressed up. We put on coats and ties to go on airplane trips. We were proud of the auto industry. We were proud of the institutions and traditions that have made the country great. Now, after 30 to 40 years of dominance in the media by liberals and people that don't particularly like this country, the way it's constituted, guess what? You hate Big Oil now. You despise 'em. They're trying to talk you into hating Wal-Mart. Tough sell. You hate the insurance companies. You just know they exist to screw you. You hate the health care industry, 'cause you know they don't care about your well-being. You have been told to hate the US auto industry 'cause they're making junk, they're purposely making junk, they want you to buy junk, and they're charging through the roof for it because they don't care about you.

You are being told that some companies actually want to kill their customers! You have been told to hate Big Tobacco, because Big Tobacco exists to destroy its customer base. Big Tobacco exists to make sure as many people as possible get cancer. Right? Of course, the more their customers die, what do they buy? What's a dead person buy? When's the last time you saw a cadaver walk into the 7-Eleven and say, "I want a carton of Luckys?" Okay, I know, so Big Tobacco, they have diversified and now they own Big Cookie like Oreo and Nabisco. So now they're killing you with sugar and trans fat. So Big Oil, Big Tobacco, they're all trying to kill us. This is what people think. They're all trying to screw us and we hate our country, and we despise it, or are being taught to, when in fact none of these industries has that as an objective at all. These industries have obstacles to doing business at an affordable price each and every day, and in large part you can find them sitting in the United States Senate. The US House with their various oversight committees and bringing these people in and saying, "Why are you killing your customers and why are you lying to us?" And, meanwhile, the very people in the House and Senate and these committees who are interrogating these people who take risks that you and I can't understand and would never take ourselves, in order to bring products to the market at an affordable price, these people sit in judgment of them, and they couldn't produce a drop of gasoline for your car if their life depended on it.

They couldn't design an airplane to get off the ground and build it and hire people to do it if their life depended on it. These people wouldn't know how to come up with a drug to help you with the flu or the common cold or penicillin that you need for an infection. They couldn't do any of this, and yet they sit there as experts in all of this and tell these people who have risked everything, in a lot of cases, how to do what they do? And then the Democrats in this energy crunch come up with an energy bill, Harry Reid presents it to the Senate yesterday, and all it is is a massive tax increase on energy companies. It doesn't produce a drop of oil. It doesn't produce a drop of gasoline. It doesn't create one lightbulb, even a compact fluorescent. It doesn't produce one automobile. It doesn't produce a battery. It doesn't come up with any so-called alternative. It just taxes. Windfall profits tax on Big Oil. However, Big Oil can avoid the windfall profits tax if it puts the profit into alternative fuels. I'm sorry. If Big Oil puts the profit into alternative fuels, guess what they can't do? Drill and explore for more oil. Guess what else is going to happen? Windfall profits tax on Big Oil, they're just going to stop producing oil in the United States, subject to the tax. And so our production will fall even more.

People will always avoid taxation when they can, and the oil business is a worldwide business. The oil executives, like any other executive in the world, is going to go wherever he can to lower his cost of doing business as low as it can be, which is why the truckers are upset, because they have to have diesel. They have to have it. They can't lower their cost of doing business. They have to try to pass on those increased costs, and sometimes they can't pass 'em all on, and they take the hit. And yet you've been told to hate Big Truck, too, because Big Truck pollutes and Big Truck is dangerous and Big Truck drives the hybrid off the highway, plus Big Truck generally is conservative, you can't trust them. This business of hating deregulation, hating big business, avoid the programmed effort and technique to make that happen to you, because the people who are against deregulation are the regulators. Those are people in bureaucracy; those are people in government, Republican, Democrat, I don't care. And when they regulate without any legislation, when they're given power to regulate our lives, sitting in some bureaucracy, what that means is, they have the power to reduce and restrict our freedom. Regulations are simply chains on freedom disguised as the government caring for us. It's a crock!
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tmorr37 · **^ Top** #2 05.09.2008

I've got some statistics here, and I'm going to get them after the break 'cause I want to spend a little time talking with you here, but after the next break I'm going to get to -- I'll just give you one. In 1985 our domestic production in this country, or consumption -- well, make it production. Department of Energy, US oil production has fallen 40% since 1985 while consumption's grown more than 30%. In real barrels, US oil production is now below five million barrels a day. It was approximately nine million barrels a day in 1985. So our production has been cut in half in 20 years.

And, see, it's been a slow bleed. That wasn't a dramatic overnight thing, and so its impact was not immediately felt. Now, at the same time, we've stopped drilling, we have stopped exploring for new sources, even though we know that it's there. According to federal government estimates, there is enough oil in the domestic areas, Gulf of Mexico and off the coasts and Alaska, 112 billion barrels. There's enough American oil we could go get, 112 billion barrels, which would be enough to power more than 60 million cars for 60 years, but we have moratoriums on drilling for all this. The environmentalists are the only ones who are happy about this. This is an attack on capitalism. It's nothing about environment. It's nothing about saving the planet. It is an attack on capitalism and an attempt to cut this country down to size. And they're succeeding with the help of the Democrat Party.
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danc694u · **^ Top** #3 05.09.2008

My carbon footprint, is 135 acres.

And it feels good in here

I have an energy plan. and it works too. I use as much as I can afford.

tmorr37 · **^ Top** #4 05.09.2008

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Originally Posted by danc694u

My carbon footprint, is 135 acres.

And it feels good in here

I have an energy plan. and it works too. I use as much as I can afford.

That is way to much land for one person. We need to take that land and give it to the people

danc694u · **^ Top** #5 05.09.2008

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Originally Posted by tmorr37

That is way to much land for one person. We need to take that land and give it to the people

Dude....haven't you seen how they measure your footprint?

I have all that "land" stuffed into a 3000 sq ft house.

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