The Obama Administration is busy completing the work the Carter Administration did in terms of preventing Americans from having real energy alternatives, most importantly in terms of nuclear power. It may be something Americans will be willing to go along with for another 30 years, but there’s no reason for it.

We’re a very large country in comparison to places like France, for instance, and France gets most of its electrical energy from nuclear power. It’s not the problem of disposing the waste, since the French have evidently solved it. It’s simply a question of our political leaders encouraging America to become less energy dependent by investing in real energy sources and helping to provide the means to dispose of the waste.

Otherwise everyone’s energy costs are going to rise. We know how to stop that from happening, and we have known for more than three decades now.

It may seem to be less important right now because of the basic facts of economics, which have in many cases betrayed the average American, who is paying more for electricity now than ever before. Throughout this recession, electricity costs where I live have stayed constant or gone up. There has been no semblance of relief to anyone running a business. How does anyone propose to make an America that has a mix of blue and white collar jobs based on these increasing prices for the basic commodity that allows them to work?

Hawaii pays the most in the country per kilowatt hour and all the northeastern states are close behind in the race of shame. Their economies have not improved regionally because of those very high costs — instead they are pushing people away. It’s time to think again.

One of the things that bothered me most in the past few years was that Republicans really didn’t present any ideas other than “Drill, Baby!, Drill!”

It was very easy to understand why that didn’t gain much traction in America. Whoever told Republicans to say that exclusively wasn’t thinking very well. What Republicans should be doing is talking about the real energy alternatives this country has, and they’re based on moving away from coal and away from oil — not mining them domestically. T. Boone Pickens likes natural gas; I guess there’s a lot of that when it comes to building his windfarms. But he’s never told anyone what the cost per kilowatt hour will be.

The energy sources of the United States are in play right now: either the environmentalists are going to win, in which case everyone will pay more for less, or someone is going to come up with a real plan to change the staus quo.

How do the Democrats reconcile their insistence that we cut back on our national energy consumption to avoid “climate change” and their desire to increase the US population by granting amnesty to illegals and touching off a drive for the border from Latin America? Environmentalists OUGHT to be Conservatives’ allies against mass migration and amnesty.

And I’ll note that the country that stands to gain the most from global warming, it it ever occurs, is —

anyone….

anyone…?

When unemployment is at 10.5% here in AZ and there are literally no jobs to be had, things are desperate and the luxury of spending on feel good stuff is no longer important.