Zeal For Truth

We recently talked about some counterfeit gospels. Maybe we should have put “green-ism” or “environmentalism” in there as well. From Jew:

God is Green. Really? The apostles must have forgotten to record Jesus’ teachings on environmentalism, because I don’t see it in the Bible. Oh well. What can we expect from a website that says “What makes you feel love and forgiveness? If you can find these, you have found God.”

Fixing The Oil Problem
Senator John Barrasso from Wyoming has outlined a plan to temporarily relieve gas prices. Well, it’s not so much a “plan” as a command to the government to stop taking oil from others who need it so it can sit in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Barrasso’s bill, S. 2927, instructs the federal government to stop putting oil into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve when the average price of gasoline is over $2.50 per gallon, and the price of diesel fuel exceeds $2.75 per gallon.

“Everyday the government is pulling tens of thousands of barrels of crude oil off the market that could otherwise be used by truckers, airlines, and our neighbors,” Barrasso added.

In other words, it’s that same old story that always follows government intervention: unintended consequences. The very problem that the SPR was created to fix (oil embargoes from the middle east causing high prices/shortages), it has now caused: high prices and shortages.

Barrasso is just making economic sense of a stupid policy. What do we expect when the US government itself is demanding massive amounts of oil - especially to just store in unused tanks “just in case.”

McCain Admits What We’ve All Known: Blood For Oil
Speaking of oil, John McCain got grilled last week after admitting in his speeches something that even Obama and Clinton would shy away from saying:

My friends, I will have an energy policy that we will be talking about, which will eliminate our dependence on oil from the Middle East that will prevent us from having ever to send our young men and women into conflict again in the Middle East.

Once again, we have unintended consequences playing out. We go into Iraq to secure natural resources we need want (which happen to belong to someone else) and find that our intervention has created so much instability and chaos that the price of a barrel of oil has gone up over 400% of what it was pre-invasion. Go figure.