LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Bush administration is playing dumb to issue

Submitted
Published: April 30, 2008

Taxpayers must raise their voices about what is happening. The current pricing and availability of crude oil is fraudulent and contrived. The shortage of oil, “peak oil” and our dependence on foreign oil are not true. We are in an energy crisis contrived by Washington, in concert with globalist agendas, designed to control and manipulate the price and availability of energy worldwide.
Washington helped OPEC get started and continues to support the oil pirates. The first oil embargo was contrived, but the perpetrators were never prosecuted. OPEC pretends to set oil prices. But prices are actually set here by futures speculators, based on erroneous oil data, with no government intervention. Global warming and carbon credits are part of this popular farce.
Only 15 percent of United States oil comes from the Middle East (hence the Muslim non-problem). Much of Alaska’s oil is being sold to Japan. The oil from Iraq is being sold to France and Russia (not our friends). Yet Washington will tell us that if, and when, we attack Iran, the price of oil must go up. There is thus no economic advantage for us babysitting jihadists in Iraq and Afghanistan – with the price tag approaching $3 trillion in taxpayer money. Attention President Bush: by any economic model, our nation is broke.
The Bush Administration is simply acting as if it is incompetent. We have found enormous reserves in the Gulf of Mexico. There is as much oil under Alaska as there is under Saudi Arabia. And enough natural gas to last our nation for the next 200 years. By executive order, and/or nationalizing our oil industry, Alaskan reserves can make us energy independent in five years. The White House hotline is (202) 456-1111.
Thomas H. Mehnert
Waynesboro