Big Oil - Little Minds

There is an old saying: Ask and you shall Receive. Today, we are getting exactly what the citizens of this country, particularly the Greens, the environmentalists and the earth warming kooks have been, all along trying to accomplish--that is the destruction of our industrial complex. This nation was originally founded as an agrarian society and it wasn't until in the late Eighteen hundreds, that we started our move to an industrial nation. During the years of the civil war 1861-65 we were already heavily committed to the industrialization of our country. In fact, in a way, it was the need for guns that allowed our country to manufacture and aAssembly large quantities of Rifles in the prosecution of subject war. During the years l870-1890, we were in the midst of our nations industrial revolution. By the year l890 our manufacturing base was outproducing Great Britain, Germany and France combind. In fact, at this time we were producing and manufacturing 35 percent of the Worlds manufactured products. In 1913, the year Ford introduced the Assembly line, we could outproduce all our competitors. In short, we as a Nation became the worlds first Industrial Giant. Today the three ingredients, Oil, Steel, and Trains, that made it possible to not only compete in an industrial world, it enabled us to dominate it. However, in the l950-6Os we began a Unionized self destruction period. First it was the Steel Mills, than the Auto Industry and than the Railroads. Today we have a rust belt, where once our Steel Mills thrived. Our Auto manufactures were pushed out of the world markets because, thanks to labor cost and low quality production, we lost our lead in the World of Automobile production as well as desirability and our Trains were eventually replaced by 18 Wheeler trucks. What once made us great is now gone. Now we are, as a nation, in the process, of giving our industrial complex its final death knoll. And of course, it will be blamed on Big Oil. We are fast becoming the worlds biggest fools. We are denying ourselves, the very things that made us great--our natural resources. And who is being made the Scape-goat--BIG OIL! ALL WE DID IS DEPRIVE THEM OF THE RIGHT TO DRILL FOR OUR OWN OIL. WHY? BECAUSE IN DOING SO, WILL DESTROY THE PLANET. OR EVEN WORSE, WE WILL DEPRIVE THE MOOSES OUT OF A GOOD SEX LIFE! "There cannot be any improvement in the World's condition until the human spirit has counter- balanced and more than counter-balanced the hectic brilliance of technological intervention." Richard M. Weaver The Messenger.