Still more budget cuts

Hi

After reading this post I hope you can understand why I dedicated this blog to President Carter - the really irrelevant old geezer.

My subject is the Department of Energy. A typically liberal project, good idea, accomplish nothing but we felt good doing it. I for one am tired of paying taxes for this "feel good: policy of liberals. I want results and I suppose you want the same.

President Carter established the Department of Energy to do several missions:
First to wean America from dependence on foreign oil, second was to develop new alternative fuels, and third was to keep oil prices stable.

Today we depend more on foreign oil than when the department was formed. We are at the mercy of OPEC. Our national security is threatened because we must commit troops to protect these sources particularly in the Middle East. Ask yourselves, "DO we really need to spend our young peoples lives because we depend on an incompetent bureaucracy? This is a great tragedy and should stop.

Now look at the second part of the mission. The only new fuel developed is ethanol, and that is questionable. It has driven food prices up because the corn normally used in food processing is now used in ethanol manufacturing. To compound the stupidity, off shore oil mining in the Gulf of Mexico is virtually at a standstill. Yet, President Obama hands over a large sum of taxpayer money to an operation controlled by that "needy" individual, George Soros. A company controlled by Soros is subsidized so they may drill for oil off the coast of Brazil but our local companies are regulated by a policy which refuses drilling permits. Doesn't this government understand that we have exported jobs out of the country this way? Maybe they couldn't care.

Lastly the department was to stabilize fuel prices. Hasn't happened. Frankly without some common sense I don't see how the government could stabilize prices without expanded drilling of our own crude oil. More evidence that someone in Washington doesn't care.

With a perfect record, nothing for three, it is time to get rid of the Department of Energy. How much money have we wasted since the presidency of Carter? Stop it now, eliminate the Department of Energy.

I ask that you please remember our brave heroes who defend our liberties and remember them in your prayers.
GOD Bless