VoteVets has released a new ad campaign you might have seen:
Our new ad is blunt and to the point. Featuring Iraq War Veterans, it makes the case that oil profits to the Middle East fund the same terrorists we’re fighting, and closes with the line that “It’s not just a question of American energy, it’s a question of American power.”
And, that’s true. If we’re to help our troops and protect America, we must attack the streams of money that all too often find their way to terrorist organizations. One of the biggest funding streams comes from Middle East oil profits. A real clean energy bill will deliver a severe blow to that funding, while creating millions of new American green jobs.
We agree 1000% that America owes it to those in uniform, past/present/future, to do everything possible to cease funding the jihad with oil money.
But how can VoteVets claim to support this mission of cutting oil money to the Islamists, while not supporting massive expansion of domestic oil production?
This is simple math folks. If the US, or any other country for that matter, delivers to market an increased supply of crude, the Saudis and the Iranians will have to drop the price of their oil. That means less money for Jihad. Period.
By not drilling and bringing more crude online, the price of oil stays high and the Jihad war continues claiming American lives, soldiers and civilians of all stripes.
We wonder if VoteVets would agree to support expanded domestic oil production in addition to green energy technology. Or would they determine that the progressive demand for an end to the oil economy trumps the quickest and most effective path to immediate economic reversal of fortunes for the Jihadis?
Surely VoteVets cannot be making the argument that green tech and green tech alone presents the fastest path toward deflating oil prices, as opposed to also bringing more oil online. That would be ignorant, and these people are not ignorant. Disingenuous maybe, but not ignorant.
What’s missing in the push for “green energy” is a grasp of the laws of physics, in addition to basic economics. Windmills only make electricity when the wind blows, which makes a storage media necessary (read large batteries), a fact we’re never told.
It’s curious that the best and cleanest alternative to coal-fired energy production is nuclear-powered production, which just happens to be the environmentalists’ favorite boogey man.
America is beginning to realize that radical environmentalists are doing their best to cripple our economy and drive down our standard of living in the name of the twin myths of “saving the planet” from “climate change”. They want clean energy, yet file lawsuits against windmill and solar farms. And now, radical envionmentalists inside our own government are diverting the precious resource of water away from farms in order to preserve some insignificant fish in California, forcing many out of work and needlessly reducing our food supply. Certainly no one wants used motor oil in our water supply, and I’m not advocating that in any way. But when animals are revered above the needs of humans, then the line of sanity has been crossed.