Energy Questions [Victor Davis Hanson]

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Energy Questions

Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
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Why is the U.N. holding conferences about rising food prices, but not spiraling oil prices that in various ways account for them? Somehow in the globalist mindset the agricultural producing world is more culpable than the non-productive OPEC world. But we should remember that it requires skill, ingenuity, and a certain craft to produce enough food to feed one's country and export the surplus, and none of the above to pump oil, an accident of nature that it is beneath one's feet, and, in the case of most of OPEC, a commodity and infrastructure that someone else found, developed and currently mostly maintains.
And why are Republicans, who voted in overwhelming numbers for off-shore drilling, ANWR, nuclear, shale, tar sands, liquid coal, etc—and were opposed by Democrats on grounds of wanting to enrich energy companies—not appealing to the country to develop domestic supplies on the basis of fairness (the poor have the least access to energy efficient homes and hybrid, fuel efficient new cars), the environment (the US can extract oil, in a fungible market, far more cleanly than Russia or the Middle East), and national security (most of OPEC, Russia, Venezuela are belligerents and becoming more dangerous the more trillions of dollars the West, China, and Japan transfer to them in their hard-won national wealth)?
 
Here is another question:
If Bush is so co-opted by the (evil) oil companies, why aren't they drilling a whole lot more in America than they were 8 years ago?
Oh, yeah, CONGRESS...
 
Here is another question:
If Bush is so co-opted by the (evil) oil companies, why aren't they drilling a whole lot more in America than they were 8 years ago?
Oh, yeah, CONGRESS...

Or, it could be a corporate America version of the Chinese strategy...
 
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