In article >, Dave Head wrote:
> If you like the price of fuel today, thank an environmentalist and the
> democrats that support them for:
>
> 1) failure to drill ANWR

Drop in the bucket.

> 2) failure to drill offshore

A real issue. However extraction costs in the middle east are so cheap,
especially when the US taxpayer pays the bills for the wars that big
oil's interest is probably minimal at best. Just like the vast reserves
in other nations in the americas go mostly untapped, because it's more
expensive than middle east oil to extract, but still very profitable.

> 3) failure to build refineries in this country

Big oil bought independents and closed them. Big oil uses regulation and
politics as market protection that keeps others from entering the
refinery business.

> 4) trumping up a bunch of nonsense about nuclear power that has precluded its
> development

true, but the republicans are for the status quo as well.

> 5) trumping up a bunch of nonsense about nuclear waste disposal that has
> precluded nuclear power development

See above.

> 6) opposing wind farms off Nantucket

Because environmentalism is about controling the supply of energy, about
controling the people. It is the same as 'peak oil' which is used by the
other wing of the single effective party for the same purpose. Wind
power was supported so long as it was pie in the sky. Now that it is a
reality, something that actually works well enough for people to invest
in, they had to switch to opposing it.

> 7) opposing wind farms in some areas that have birds and bats

See 6) above.

> 8) opposing the construction of new roads to move traffic more efficiently

Don't forget the cul-da-sac style development. I spent the afternoon
trying to find a way to my new job via mostly residential streets and
kept running into culdasacs. Didn't find a way through. (yes the map
showed them, but with a bicycle sometimes there is a way through that
isn't on maps, the only way to find out is to look in person)

> 9) oppose the construction of needed power lines to distribute electrical power
> in California, Arizona, and other places.

See 6) above.

> Democrats think they're going to get some kind of support because the gas
> prices are high? Not likely - we all know who's fault it is - those people
> that have made it impossible to produce and distribute the needed amount of
> fuel, and produce it here in this country.

What is at fault here is limited refinery capacity which was the plan of
the oil companies since the 1990s plus the unstable conditions that GWB
seems to enjoy poking with a stick. What did happen when the democrats
had the white house of course is allowing further consolidation of oil
companies that helped their plan considerably.

> Want the situation to improve. Then don't support those who support
> obstructionism.

The republicans now control congress and the executive branch and have
done so for some time, yet, no change. Because there are just surface
differences for show. If you want progress in any direction that
benefits the people both of these parties need to be removed from
government.