Democrats' Deep, Dark Fantasies

A lot of my inspiration for this post comes from an article in the Denver Post by David Harsanyi.

Democrats love that oil prices are so high. They can't say that, of course, because even union workers and environmentalists have to drive to work and heat their homes. But they love it. They see it as a prime opportunity to change the way we live, which they view as sinful, gluttonous, and arrogant.

The villians in this story, in the leftist view, are the big bad oil companies and the over-indulgant public. That shows in their energy reform proposals. First, they want to inplement a Jimmy Carter-style "windfall tax" on oil company profits, basically limiting how much oil companies can make and forcing them to spend their money the way Big Brother deems necessary for the common good. Next, they want to pursuade us all to turn down our thermostats, bike to work, and use one square of toilet paper per trip to the bathroom.

Al Gore himself said recently that complete transition to renewables could be done in ten years. Even if that number is right (which I highly doubt), isn't it the exact number of years that Dems claim it will take to get oil from ANWR or off the coasts of CA or FL? So we can wait 10 years for it if it's windmills and solar panels, but not if it's oil or nuclear?

The irony of the whole thing is that America agree with BOTH sides. It's really an easy equation. Drill+Renewable Energy Investment=Solution.

But the left has twotop priorities, and neither one of them include our well-being. Number one - protect the polar bears and carabou. (A polar bear has more rights in this world than a human fetus, and more protection.) Number 2 - punish the mean old rich guys who make WAY too much money for their own good.

And their priorities show through in their proposals.