Common Sense

How many of you even knew that the very critical vote to allow drilling of oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge took place last Wednesday night and was defeated?  In a Senate vote of 48-to-45 the drilling provision was removed from the Energy Bill presented by the President.  I am extremely angry that the timing of this vote came when everyone was away and enjoying Christmas.  It was as if this attack was slipped in while we were asleep.  I really want to know why and how this happened, and I want these Senators to answer to the people.

For those of you that don't already know, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a sprawling 1.5 million-acre godforsaken refuge for caribou, migratory birds and grizzly bears.  Have any of you ever been there?  I haven't nor do I desire too.  Do you even know where it is?  Do you even care? 

What is important to know is that underneath this refuge is one of the largest oil reserves in the world.  There is enough oil to make us and our allies totally independent from Middle East oil, OPEC’s rising oil prices, and the rape of our economy and wealth.

Of course we all want to save our environment and conserve wildlife (within reason), but the planned drilling footprint in this vast 1.5 million-acres is a measly 2000 acres.  Divide 2000 by 1,500,000 to get the percentage (.13%, barely over 1/10 of 1%).  With the technology that exists today can anyone honestly believe the oil companies would destroy this wildlife refuge?  The argument is hardly worth discussion and a real stretch of the imagination to even have an argument against drilling. 

I don't know, but this seems like a no brainer to me.  We can keep our cost of gas down, make us independent from the strangle hold the mid east has us in, insure our future supply of oil, keep our own wealth and even make more, and even more important, stop funding terrorists nations that are dedicated to our destruction with our billions of dollars in oil money.  My question is, “What true American would NOT want this?”

The silent majority in this country has a strong voice that the politicians are afraid of, but was it heard?  Most didn't even know it was happening.  This was no accident.  It seems that the main stream media did not want you to know and those that might have voiced the strongest voice were on Christmas Holiday.  Are we becoming sheeple and not people and playing follow the leader and blindly believing what the mainstream media is telling us to believe?  

The environmental lobbyists spent nearly eight months and more than $1 million on local and cable television advertising aimed at individual legislators in the swing states like Arkansas, North Dakota, Florida, and West Virginia.  The commercials were directed at the sheeple to put pressure on your representative and it worked.  The voice of the sheeple persuaded your Senator to swing their vote and defeat the provision of the bill.  Don't you feel proud?  And you thought you did a good thing.  In a few more months when the oil prices go back up, and they will now, we will be screaming at the escalating gas prices at the pump, but the same media will have you believing it is all Bush’s fault and Halliburton caused it.  I am telling you as a concerned American that we all better wake up and look around and stop this madness.  I think California is already lost.  I saw the same think happen here just last month. If you think it can't happen to you, please check out “Common Sense in California” at

http://journals.aol.com/gbabb911/CommonSense/   

Back in the Watergate days Deepthroat said, “Follow the money.”  You need to ask yourself these questions.  Where is our oil money going?  Who would benefit if we do NOT drill or own oil in our own country?  Who doesn't want this to happen and why?  Where is all this money coming from to support these major environmental lobbyists that give staggering amounts of money in campaign contributions to politicians and to the media?    Hummmmm   Let me see?  Do I really have to give you the answer?  Are you really that dense or uninformed?  How does it make you feel to know we have lost control of our own country and are being manipulated?

Where is the outrage?  I will be asking my Senators why they voted the way they did and voicing my strong disapproval.  I hope you do the same.

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