Suicidal Nation: Part 1

It is normal for a people to look out for their own self interests. A reasonable man will determine what he needs to survive, find a source of the things he needs and defend it to survive. Only a fool would choose to be cold, thirsty and starving. If an otherwise reasonable man refused to find fuel, food and water or allowed others to jeopardize his survival by controlling his access to these necessities one would deem him suicidal.

Twenty first century Americans are either fools or suicidal. We have adopted policies that will lead to decline and eventual collapse. In the next few postings I intend to elaborate on what I believe are the suicidal policies of this nation.

Energy

The civilizational success of a nation is founded upon it's access to affordable energy. A nation that can't afford to grow food, manufacture goods, transport people, food and goods will soon experience civilizational collapse.

We refuse to explore or drill for new oil, pursue coal gasification, build coal-fired or nuclear electrical generation plants. If that weren't bad enough, our leadership has bought into the global warming scam hook, line and sinker.

The current $135 per barrel oil price means that the US will spend 750 billion dollars on imported oil every year. It is estimated that carbon cap and trade will cost the US economy an additional $500 billion per year. Nine percent of the US gross domestic product will leave the US bound for places that are mostly run by totalitarians.

Energy costs are part of every product we use in our daily lives. Agriculture is oil intensive both in terms of fuel and fertilizer so food prices have increased. Every product that is manufactured or transported has an imported energy cost inflation added to the price. Those increased costs do not stay in the US but move overseas, diminishing our economy.

The US has the world's largest coal reserves and large gas and oil deposits that could be tapped. The wealth generated by harvesting these fossil fuels would remain in our economy. But environmentalists believe that using these energy resources is a sin against Gaia. They would rather destroy this nation and leave US citizens poor, cold and hungry than tap domestic energy resources.

Nuclear energy is more expensive than use of fossil fuels and poses spent fuel disposal problems but is a better alternative than collapsing our economy. But the environmentalists have nixed building any new plants.

Dreamers believe that wind, solar, hydrogen and biomass generated power can supplant fossil fuels before we destroy our economy and civilization. I see no evidence that these technologies can be developed and deployed soon enough to save us.

Our lack of national energy policy is suicidal. Our economy will slowly suffocate resulting in decline of our standard of living. Disorder and loss of rights will follow leading to permanent decline of our civilization.

Thugs that reap fortunes from our suicidal policy will do their best to hasten our demise. Declining American wealth will make it impossible to project our ideals of freedom in the world. Eventually we will be unable afford to project military power around the globe as we retire carrier fleets, air wings and infantry battalions. Thugs will use their vast fortunes to fill the void we leave. A new Dark Age will descend upon the globe.

What Energy Policy?

The shocking lack of leadership of this government with regard to our non-existent energy policy is almost criminal. The fact that we are not drilling for oil nor building nuclear and coal fired power plants will put this nation in economic decline for decades. Add the global climate change hysteria with it's onerous tax burdens and you have the basis for economic collapse.

I cannot believe that the lack of vision of our leadership is due to inattentiveness or ignorance. No one can be so busy nor so dumb to not understand that America runs on energy and that doubling or tripling the cost of energy will crush our economy. We lived this scenario in the late 70s and early 80s. Were our leaders asleep and missed it?

Every dollar that is spent on transportation, heating, cooling, cooking and lighting is one less dollar spent in the consumer economy that the US now relies on. Every dollar that business spends on energy means that the price of goods and services will go up. Business activity will decline and jobs will be lost.

Our economy is sinking while government leaders bicker with each other at the pig trough. The dumbocrats think the answer is suing OPEC or nationalizing the US oil industry. The republicans are just trying to slow down the inevitable dumbocrat socialism that is coming. Meanwhile energy prices rise daily, inflation is eroding consumer confidence, jobs are lost and the American economy slides ever closer to the abyss.

God damned windmills, solar panels and hydrogen fuel cells ain't gonna save us. We'll still be be using petroleum fuels as primary fuels decades into the future. We ought to hang the douchbag nozzles that lead us in Washington.