Amy Ridenour's New Look
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Up there now is a piece titled, A Green Texas Oil Man, by Ryan Balis, rightly critiquing the President's depiction of our 'addiction to oil.' Who was he trying to appeal to?
The "oil addiction" isn't intrinsically a problem. The addiction to Middle East oil is the problem and it could be easily rectified if we just started producing more of our own oil interests. There isn't an oil and gas shortage, rather a lack of production which is stymied at every turn by the left and their green agencies.
Up there now is a piece titled, A Green Texas Oil Man, by Ryan Balis, rightly critiquing the President's depiction of our 'addiction to oil.' Who was he trying to appeal to?
Not only did the president put forth a laundry list of green energy initiatives incapable of solving America's current energy woes, but he employed a rhetoric formerly only heard in leftist circles. According to the President, "we have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil."Be sure to read the whole piece.
That statement abandoned conservatives' pleas to remove barriers to expanded domestic oil exploration - such as the drilling in a small portion of the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge (a position Mr. Bush himself alluded to in his 2002 address). It also squandered the bully pulpit in a fool's errand of leftist appeasement.
The "oil addiction" isn't intrinsically a problem. The addiction to Middle East oil is the problem and it could be easily rectified if we just started producing more of our own oil interests. There isn't an oil and gas shortage, rather a lack of production which is stymied at every turn by the left and their green agencies.
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