Energy is the Big Question in the USA.

Everyone knows, and I certainly acknowledge, that if it weren’t for oil I wouldn’t care what the Middle Eastern/Islamist brutalists did to themselves. Slaughter their brothers, pit Sunnis against Shias? Go for it. The region begs reduction to shiny, smooth glass. I mostly couldn’t care less. Islam is generally a repressive, ignorant and barbaric religion as practiced by its adherents. As I’ve said for many years now, “Islam is as Islam does.” It would, of course, be the same for Christianity were Christianity even remotely as bloodthirsty and uncivilized as Islam.

But it is Islam that lets the greatest amount of blood and carnage and death around the world. There is a reason that this saying is a constant in the tribalistic world of Islam: “Me against my brother. me and my brother against my cousin. Me, my brother, and my cousin against the stranger.” It is because Islam’s adherents are, at their most fundamental, nomadic, tribal, misogynistic, vicious, unsophisticated, cruel, brutish, inhumane, regressive, sadistic, uncultured and ignorant. With some very few exceptions. The cowardly, the withdrawn, the fearful.

That said, there is an unsurprising recent thrust from Demorats for alternate energy from DC, encapsulated in a massively-misleading article headline “Energy panel leader expects push for production of more US oil.”

From The Washington Times:

The chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee said Monday that the crisis in oil markets sparked by Egypt’s political unrest should not divert Congress from pursuing long-term strategies to develop more clean and renewable energy resources.

Agreed. The US should seek alternative energy sources to include — of course — immediate local drilling and processing sites on US soil and control, as well as drilling within our legal shore limits in the ocean.

Sen. Jeff Bingaman, New Mexico Democrat, predicted that the latest Middle East crisis will amplify calls on Capitol Hill to expand U.S. oil production as a way to ease dependence on unstable foreign suppliers.

“Congress usually gets very interested in these circumstances,” he said. “I’m sure there will be calls for us to ramp up production … but that would occur over a substantial period of time.”

Your Congress is both blind and stupid. You tap what you have first and immediately, and place a crisis-mode timetable upon it. You don’t do this to the nation’s peril. Coming peril. Imminent peril. And FORESEEABLE peril. This is nothing that isn’t in our collective faces NOW.

Mr. Bingaman said his agenda for the new Congress will instead focus on a four-part plan that includes tax incentives and developing markets for renewable- energy companies in the U.S.

Egypt is about to be in control, under Muslim Brotherhood rule, of the Suez Canal.

But the alternative-fuel industry has faced a series of challenges, including financing, uncertainty over the future of tax incentives and finding customers, including conventional power companies, to purchase its energy. Mr. Bingaman said the country’s inconsistent approach has left U.S. producers at a competitive disadvantage.

“Our on-again, off-again tax credits are no match for [overseas] competitors,” he said. He also said that companies will relocate to places such as China and Europe, which are leading the way in alternative energy.

“The marketplace reality is that [companies] will be located closest to where the demand is,” he said.

Mr. Bingaman acknowledged that Obama administration officials have reached out to the committee to help draft his energy policy. But he said Congress is unlikely to take up Mr. Obama’s call during his State of the Union speech last week to curb subsidies to oil companies.

But it is oil companies that hold the key to reacquisition of American dominance. We need to drill and create more refineries. And, at the same time, create an absolute pogrom of electrical generation station building, as well as coastal de-salinization plants. For the future.

We need to focus not on welfare for non-producers and parasites, but on rebuilding our energy and transportation infrastructure.

If non-producers and parasites get kicked to the curb, then so be it. I’ve worked 40+ years as a legitimate producer and taxpayer. I want to see my country succeed. I WANT lines to be drawn.

Mr. Bingaman said he is open to including nuclear power in the mix of U.S. energy sources — as long as incentives continue for renewable-energy projects.

I am shocked at this revelation. I am for nuclear power as long as it is safely built, safely managed and competently managed, protected and supported.

But the bottom line is this: common sense. Realize what we can do when we can do it. Yes, of course, make a plan. But do not cut off one’s energy nose to spite one’s national face.

First, secure our OIL production to attempt as much oil INDEPENDENCE as possible. If we have to rely on OIL and rely on COAL in the process of making a plan, then SO BE IT.

Concurrently, try to support and build our energy future. Make a plan. Many plans.

I subscribe to a national publication entitled “Police Fleet Manager” and other fleet manager websites, as I managed a fleet of 60+ law enforcement vehicles under the aegis of EVOC to include cars, buses and authority motors.

One recent article asked the question: “Electric cars: where to find the power?”

Where, indeed?

If we build nothing but electric cars, where do we get the power?

We are SO far away from our ability to support even the grid we CURRENTLY have.

Much less an immediate future predicated upon Chevy Volts.

Jesus, America. And American politicians.

Wake the fuck up, will you?

BZ

I always wanted a nice watch. Or a few.

This time, by Florida northern district federal Judge Roger Vinson, who not only discarded a single aspect of the act (like the Virginia judge), but the entire law, from his bench in Pensacola, Florida on Monday. The 78-page ruling indicated that, in a nutshell, the federal government cannot compel you to purchase something that you do not wish to buy. And then penalize you should you not wish to have made said purchase.

Businesses were already discovering it would be cheaper to pay the fines than cover their employees under the onerous ObamaKare “plan.”

That the act would be found unconstitutional is, at its base, not a shocking conclusion — unless you are, of course, a non-Constitutionalist Leftist.

From Reuters:

U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson ruled that the reform law’s so-called individual mandate went too far in requiring that Americans start buying health insurance in 2014 or pay a penalty.

“Because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire act must be declared void,” he wrote, “This has been a difficult decision to reach and I am aware that it will have indeterminable implications.”

Referring to a key provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Vinson sided with governors and attorneys general from 26 U.S. states, almost all of whom are Republicans, in declaring the Obama healthcare reform unconstitutional.

States involved in the lawsuit were Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Iowa, Ohio, Kansas, Maine, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

Notably, you would not be shocked to discover that Fornicalia was not among those states disagreeing with the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.” A lie, if ever there was one.

As The Washington Times indicates, it is interesting to note that Judge Vinson wrote:

In ruling against President Obama‘s health care law, federal Judge Roger Vinson used Mr. Obama‘s own position from the 2008 campaign against him, arguing that there are other ways to tackle health care short of requiring every American to purchase insurance.

“I note that in 2008, then-Senator Obama supported a health care reform proposal that did not include an individual mandate because he was at that time strongly opposed to the idea, stating that ‘if a mandate was the solution, we can try that to solve homelessness by mandating everybody to buy a house,’” Judge Vinson wrote in a footnote toward the end of the 78-page ruling Monday.

And so, on this revelation, did the stock market completely “tank” with the bad news? Uh, no. In fact, the Dow had the best January in 14 years.

This is, of course, going to SCOTUS, ladies and gentlemen. As well it should. “The entire act must be declared void.” Quotes from the opinion.

Because the Leftists just don’t “get it.” They seem to envision they’ll be “in power” forever.

Because, in another administration, if they win this case, the Logical Extension would also cover any and all subsequent Conservative administrations as well.

Government, bitterly and bottom line, should not have the power.

You and I both know this is true.

BZ

Fornicalia Governor Jerry Brown’s speech.

I’ll distill it down to this:

We need to tax more than cut.

And with that, ladies and gentlemen, there go the major population centers of the country.

Bulk up on precious metals. You know which ones.

BZ

Here is what they think: