Sunday, March 2, 2014

Putin's Achilles Heel is Energy

As I watch the sad events of the Ukraine unfold, I am reminded of the way that the POTUS managed the Iranian student uprising, the Syrian uprising, the Egyptian uprising, and the Venezuelian uprising.

There is little to expect from our POTUS in this latest unrest. Clearly active military intervention cannot be a reasonable approach, when Eastern Europe and Western Europe are disinclined to act. We may waste fuel and dollars moving ships around, but Mr. Putin has taken the measure of our man, and he knows that he has Obama in a checkmate, or should that be a Ukrainemate.

The most logical way to get Mr. Putin's attention and respect, is through ENERGY. Sales of Russian oil and gas  coming through the Ukraine to Europe are essential to Putin's economy. The US, with Canada's help, could get Mr. Putin's attention by flooding the European market with cheaper US and Canadian oil and gas which we can produce. That would even shore-up some sagging US-Europe relations, make us richer, happier, reduce our energy costs, and help the overall economy. The Europeans might even start to respect us again. What's not to like here?

Enter the anti-fossil fuel zealots, you remember them? They are the people who do not know enough chemistry or botany to know that without CO2 we could not exist! Repeat after me, "CO2 and H2O in the presence of chlorophyll and light produce SUGAR"….WOW. It is part of the carbon cycle. CO2 IS Carbon and Oxygen! Back to political reality now. Our POTUS could not even consider the "energy gambit" to destroy Russia's power without incurring the wrath of his far left base, many of whom admire the Soviets, and do not care so much for us greedy capitalist anyway.

These folk have been willing to screw our economy out of cheaper energy and recession recovery They have been "looking away" while Don Quixote Obama has literally been out tilting windmills!

So there will be no Obama move to speed up the Keystone Pipeline, free up drilling sites, get out of the way of fracking. We will not hear a single utterance from a single Democrat on this subject. We may not even hear a word from Republicans. Tea Partiers, with  nothing to lose, their reputation already semi-successfully trashed by the MSM, might speak up. I hope so!

Pray for the Republic
Avagadre602




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