Oil Reserves, Just So You Know, and The Old Man
by Barry Blauer
Ask yourself this question, why is the President of the United States blocking the Keystone pipeline that promises jobs and energy from a friendly nation to the north?
The answer is simple; his agenda (I’m sure he made campaign promises) is Green Energy meaning solar panels, wind turbines, and cars that go thirty miles on a charge. It’s not new technology as they make it out to be, it’s been around for years. The problem with Green Energy is it’s not a reliable source of energy that the most powerful nation on earth requires. Even the old timers knew that. Oblama’s administration wants to see the price of energy double to make Green Energy more competitive with current energy sources, coal, oil, and natural gas. Have you notice that natural gas prices have gone down due to new drilling technology that made supplies go up?
Another failed president, Jimmy Carter, had solar panels installed on the roof of the White House. Guess what? Ronald Reagan came in and had them removed. The question is why?
Don’t tease me folks, you know why.
Now here’s the kicker, they are telling us that we’re sitting on over two trillion barrels of recoverable shale oil. That is more than the combined total of known reserves in the Middle East. North Dakota is currently booming because of this. Will Oblama let the rest of the nation boom too? Do we have to become a Second World nation to satisfy Oblama’s needs? Makes you wonder.
North America (Canada, Mexico, and the United States) could be the next OPEC and our cost for gas at the pump could be cut in half. It’s a better dream than any we’ve got now.
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Just so you know:
William Randolph Hearst, newpaper magnate, Andrew Mellon, the weathiest man in America at that time, and the DuPont family went about trying to destroy the hemp industry and along with that of course, marijuana. Why? Products made from hemp threatened their investments in other things. With hemp out of the way the products they poured their money wouldn’t have any competition. Hearst had extensive holdings in timber used to make paper pulp but it could be made cheaper by using hemp which was fiber produced from the stalks of the cannabis plant. It was also very easy to grow. You could grow a plant in a beer can. Mellon’s money and the Du Pont family were working on a new fiber called nylon and hemp was the traditional and competitive resource. In these people’s minds the cannabis plant stood in the way of them making millions and millions of dollars.
And that folks is why Marijuana is bad for you . . .
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The Old Man:
The old man went into a restaurant, was seated, and ordered a sizzling steak platter. The waiter brought it out later and sat it down in front of him. The platter was sizzling profusely. The old man said to the young waiter, “Why didn’t you warm this thing up a little?”
The old man entered a fast food restaurant and looked around. There wasn’t a soul in the place except for the help. He went up to the service counter and asked the young lady, “Will I have to wait long?” She gave him a puzzled look, smiled and said, “Nope.”
The old man came home from work one day and his wife asked him how his day went. He replied, “Some days I owe them, and other days they owe me. Today was one of those days.” He never said which one.
The old man said, “I haven’t stopped doing stupid things in my life but I’ve sure cut back on a lot of them.”
Until the next time . . .