This is no April Fool's Joke

If anyone is interested, and you should be, watch your tax dollars at work, grilling those oil suits:

http://www.c-span.org/watch/cs_cspan3_wm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS3

Here are some questions your fearless leaders should be asking (provided by an expert friend of mine):

Who voted to delay drilling ANWR so we could have a $36.5 billion bigger trade deficit, a weaker dollar and higher crude prices?

Who voted to not drill off of California? Florida? The East Coast? Etc?

Who voted to increase the cost of making gasoline by 48¢/gallon so we could have cleaner, lead free air to breathe?

Who debated increasing CAFÉ for years so America could need more gasoline and be more dependent on imported oil supplied by people who do not like us?

Who voted to increase the use of ethanol that increases NOx and VOC emissions and gives back at most back 1.5 times the energy required to make it while essentially ignoring renewable diesel fuel which reduces NOx, VOC, PM, CO and Air Toxics emissions while giving back 3.5 times the energy required to make it?

When do we investigate the corn farmers who are reported (DOA in this morning's WSJ) to be conspiring to plant 8% fewer acres this year?

Who thanked the refining industry for making fuels that decrease automotive pollution 99%?


Remember, I am not on the bankroll of oil producers or a lackey for the industry. I pay for gasoline, jet fuel, plastics, beer, corn and everything else the same way you do.

Seems to me that if we didn’t consume over 20% of the world’s daily supply while restricting ourselves to over 85% of our own offshore resources, we probably wouldn’t be where we are. And legislative attempts at trying to reduce our impact on climate as well as using our food for fuel doesn’t help either.

But that is just me thinking. Who the hell am I? A rational, taxpaying American just like you.