Reply #18: Hve to leave off after reading this - too scary to read and then attempt sleep. [View All]

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Lifting the ban on offshore drilling was a calculated risk to get the Kerry-Lieberman American Power Act passed in the Senate. The bill is a plan to replace previous environmental legislation referred to as "Cap and Trade," aimed at reducing carbon emissions. In order to get new programs for carbon alternatives, including nuclear power, we're told that the administration had to give-in to offshore drilling requests, particularly at deepwater depths, grater than 5,000 feet.

Then you go on to say you will explain this, later in your article, but that too is a scary sentence - that this horse trading is all about this new American Power Act and that the Act itself is the stuff of nonsense.

People claim that Reagan was scary - but the only American Power Act that happened under his regime was the one that stated that women had to wear immense shoulder pads on their clothes so it looked like their boobs had gone from their chests to the tops of their arms (Which was sort of scary as well, now that I think about it.)

If Reagan had tried to persuade the Soviet Union to tear down The Wall, using Obama's secret method of top negotiating, it would have gone like this:

"Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall. <slight pause while he waits, hoping to hear pitchforks in motion, indicating that Gorbachev will do so.> "Now I know you don't want to, Mr. Gorbachev, so I will offer you all of Cleveland, most of Philadelphia and parts of Texas, if only you would just please tear down the wall." <Pause> "Okay, so how about this, you can have New York City, our dairy farms and Area 51..." <still no reply>

"Okay Mr Gorbachev - you can have it all, all of it, just let me keep my ranch in Santa Barbara."

And we'd all be speaking Russian now and making deals with the Russian mafia. With most of us having had to learn to fight with our insurers, we probably would be right at home dealing with the Russian mafia.

Anyway, I hope you are very proud of this article. It was enough for me that you showed us how it is all one big money party, and now additionally you suggest that we believe that we won't be able to create legislation to undo environmental damage that apparently will only be appeased by taxing us poor serfs on our utility bills.