All Quiet on the Energy Front

That’s in DC, now that the government has given the go-ahead to drill in the Arctic. It’s amazing to me how little the government talks about energy, let alone acting about it. Here we have a world where oil is approaching $60 a barrel; more and more reputable scientists are talking about the end of oil in this century; greenhouse gases increase daily (what will happen when China becomes as large a car-centered country as we are?); the high oil price is funding one axis of evil, Iran, and most of the ‘problem’ states.

And where does our government spend its energies? Domestically, we’re ‘starving the beast’ (while grandstanding for the life of Terri Schiavo). Internationally, we’ve dramatically strengthened the terrorists.

We fail to see that ‘To everything there is a season. A time to live, a time to die.’ Oil will not be here forever and, at the rate at which we are consuming it, will be gone much sooner than we think. Why hasn’t the government started talking and doing?