Of Lizards and $10 Per Gallon Gasoline...

Friday, 10 June 2011 18:44 Last Updated on Monday, 13 June 2011 06:16 Written by Jim Culberson

It is looking a lot like the humble sage brush lizard, an inhabitant of the arid Permian Basin in West Texas and Eastern New Mexico, is going to be a factor in high prices at the pump.

Here’s a link for a bit more info: http://fuelfix.com/?s=sage+brush+lizard

Having just traveled through this region I can say with certainty that the prospect of losing their jobs because bureaucrats decree a lizard “endangered” does not sit well with these folks. Signs and bumper strips abound that express a lot of anger. The lizard is big news out there because oil is big business. Did I say big business? It’s just about the only business. If that area’s oil industry is shut down we lose at least 20% of our production and a host of people will be added to the unemployment rolls.

Between war in the oil producing middle East, no new permits being issued in the Gulf (the ones Obama has been talking about were permits applied for under G.W.), lizards etc. we are looking at much higher prices unless some folks in D.C. get their heads out of the very dark place they are in and pull together to make America independent of foreign oil.  Oh, that’s right, back in the late 1970s President Carter created the energy department to do just that. That worked out well.

Environmentalists are nothing if not well funded. Here’s a link to an article on another fine lawsuit generated by the far thinking eco-green-hug-a-snake people: http://fuelfix.com/blog/2011/06/09/environmentalists-challenge-shells-gulf-plans-in-court/

Now I hear Obama has some of these people working for him who are pushing an agenda to give rocks, rivers, plants and bugs “human rights.” Advocates (read “lawyers”) will argue in court to defend the rights of inanimate objects and bugs. I pose that this goes far toward explaining why  the government won’t talk about the existence of flying saucers. There can only be two reasons after all. A.)The govt. doesn’t want us to know technologies exist that we have no defenses against. B.)The aliens have already landed and are in control.

I’m banking on option B.).

All I can say about the current crop of financial problems is that if the government would stop trying to fix it soon we’d  be fine. But, what the heck do I know about economics. I mean, for years I thought the Gross National Product was Rosie O’Donnell.