Our Blinkers Finally Come Off ---Thanks, Saudis

Dick Morris and Eileen McGann have a decent piece at Newsmax.com regarding oil and McCain/Obama. I found the first sentence below particularly inspiring in the sense that maybe this is what we needed from the Saudis an imaginary kick in the pants to force us to the realization that we are dependant on a bunch of backward, religious fanatic nations and have been for decades. Now maybe we can take the blinkers off and realize that without energy we have only one direction to move in and that's backwards to join them.

...The Saudis have made a fatal mistake in not forcing down the price of oil.

We could have gone for decades as their hostage, letting their control over our oil supplies choke us while enriching them. But they got greedy and let the price skyrocket. The sudden shock which has sent America reeling is just the stimulus we need for a massive movement away from imported oil and toward new types of cars.

The political will for major change in our energy policy is now here and those, like Obama, who don't get it need to rethink their positions. To quote FDR, “this great nation calls for action and action now” on the energy issue.

What has been a back-burner problem now has moved onto center stage and McCain has put himself in the forefront.

The Democratic ambivalence stems from liberal concerns about climate change. The party basically doesn't believe in carbon-based energy and, therefore, opposes oil exploration.
That's why Obama pushes the windfall profits tax on oil companies — a step that tells them “you drill, you find oil, and we'll take away your profits.” But Americans have their priorities in order: more oil, more drilling and alternative energy sources, flex-fuel cars, plug-in vehicles and nuclear power. READ

The Giant Begs for Oil and Sells It's Soul

It's criminal how our politicians degrade our great nation with their corruption but it goes beyond the pale when our President, with hat in extended hand has the gall to appear before a King that rules a land filled with desert and oil and beg them to increase their production of oil for us-not once, but TWICE. Have we fallen so low as a people?

A cardinal rule of presidential diplomacy is never to ask publicly for favors unless you know in advance they will be granted. The same request by Mr. Bush had already been rebuffed by the Saudis during his visit to Riyadh in January. This time around, the Saudi response was particularly blunt and condescending: "If you want more oil, you need to buy it," said Ali al-Naimi, the Saudi oil minister. (WSJ- Beseeching the Saudis)

To pile on the humiliation, this administration is selling the Saudis billions of dollars worth of advanced weapons and we're going to help them build nuclear power plants to cover their energy needs. By the way this will put these Arabs in possession of radioactive fuel rods! (Read and Read ).

The question I'm sure everyone is asking except for the environmentalists, and kow-towing politicians that tremble before these wackos, are:

WHY are we begging for more oil from Arabs?

WHY are we selling weapons to a nation that is frankly NOT our friend?

WHY are we planning to build nuclear power plants for them when WE CAN'T get one built?

WHY would we give them access to radioactive fuel rods?

The answer is we don't know anymore who are the destroyers and who are the life givers in this new world order on planet Earth. When as Americans we reject the principles of our founding, by selling our soul, then this is what we are reduced to: Begging from a people who could not even find their own oil before the Americans arrived early in the last century.

We have oil - let's drill for it and let's build 200 nuclear power plants and get off the dole of Middle Eastern oil before they use it as a weapon against us. (Foto from FoxNews.com)