Ogre’s Politics and Views

So, did you read all about the wonderful new energy bill that passed yesterday? In case you missed all the news conferences, let me provide a few choice quotes from Congress. And while these may not be quite the exact words of the Congressmen, they’re factually correct:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.:

This is a choice between yesterday and tomorrow…It’s groundbreaking in what it will do.

Because yesterday we had freedom and free markets. Tomorrow we will have total government control of ALL markets, not just a few of them. Yesterday government was smaller. Tomorrow government will be much larger because this bill will create new government departments and new dependents. We’ll spend tens of billions of dollars on giveaways to farmers, so more farmers vote Democrat so we can take from working people to give you more while calling it “alternative fuel.”

“This legislation is a historic turning point in energy policy,” said Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland because it will cut demand for foreign oil and promote nonfossil fuels that will cut greenhouse gases linked to global warming.

It’s a turning point because government has never before given so much cash to farmers and punished car manufacturers so much. It’s a turning point because this will ensure a massive increase in the costs of making a car — which translates to huge price increases. It’s a turning point because we’re going to make sure you can’t have SUVs and instead we will force you into smaller, less safe vehicles, whether you like it or not. And we can do all this while claiming to the world that we’re now full members of the global warming religious cult.

“What we have here is a mandatory conservation bill,” said Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas.

And we will use the massive monopolistic force of government to make you conserve oil, no matter what you want to do. We can certainly expect the price of oil and gas to rise as a result of this because this might just annoy the oil-producing nations. And this is also conserving foreign oil instead of letting Americans pump the oil we already have out of the ground because Congress is just stupid.

Democrats said the fuel economy requirements eventually — when the fleet of gas-miser vehicles are widely on the road — will save motorists $700 to $1,000 a year in fuel costs.

And the fact that it will likely drive the costs of those vehicles up by thousands of dollars, that’s okay because the peons (that’s you) will pay less for fuel, at least in theory. And the increase in medical costs because more people will be injured by accidents in smaller, lighter, less safe cars will be absorbed by the government because we should have completely socialized medicine by that time, anyway.

The bill requires a massive increase in the production of ethanol for motor fuels, outlining a rampup of ethanol use from the roughly 6 billion gallons this year to 36 billion gallons by 2022.

And the fact that ethanol costs MORE than gasoline per gallon doesn’t matter because the government, as a part of this act, will just give the farmers literally billions of dollars to make the ethanol. That way more farmers will continue to vote for big government. And the artificial market created by government for corn will ensure that the corn you want to buy at the grocery store WILL increase drastically in price.

Translating government-speak — just another service here at Ogre’s Politics and Views — at least until it’s outlawed as “hate speech” or regulated by John McCain as “campaign speech.”

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