A helpless President promises new laws will prevent future oil disasters... by Mark Vogl
(conservative)
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
As oil continues to flow generously from the broken wellhead miles under the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, President Obama, the past community organizer sounds like one as he makes proclamations daily which promise the federal government will get to the bottom of this!
Do you think the review of regulations and policy will consider how this disaster might have been dealt with in shallow water, closer to the shore? Do you think the review will consider whether opening more land based energy resources might reduce the need for deep water wells? Do you think Obama and his team are considering how this disaster will affect the long term costs of gasoline?
I was talking with my daughter the other night. She is a teacher back east. She is in a union, in a profession known to be aligned with the Democrats and environmentalists, and in the gender and age groups most associated with liberal Democrats. She asked me: "What are your thoughts about what is occurring in the Gulf of Mexico?"
I responded; "Julie, imagine if tomorrow there was no gasoline available. How you would you get to work?
She responded honestly; "A long walk."
I said how would you see your mother, the two are separated by 100 miles. I asked how would you see your boyfriend, who lives in New Jersey? By this time, she had gotten my point.
Our society is built on oil. I said, "If wind power and solar power worked, if it were economically viable, the government would not have to do anything,...it would rise on it's own economic merits. Fact is those technologies are even close to being practical."
So back to square one... oil and gas.
First, I would pray. This is obviously a difficult engineering problem. Man rushed out where angels feared to tread. So now, its time to ask for Divine guidance.
Second, while the engineers are working on a solution, someone should be reviewing US energy development policy to see how complicit it is in the creation of this disaster? Is it our refusal to tap resources which are more accessible which have created this situation ? Did America's Green policies lay the foundation for the inevitable accident?
Folks, the government can create policies and fines. But at some point reality, and not law, or policy preference takes charge...as it has here. We sinply can't afford to be so smart!
If nothing else, this crisis has demonstrated that there are limits to the power of man. May be its time for a little humility? May be it's time for a reassessment of our own limitations and weaknesses. Is it coincidence that this catastrophe occurs as man trifles with the creation of synthetic life?
At a time when the Bible is rejected, as a class resource, when teachers are taught about morals and ethics in their future classrooms, are we sure we have the wisdeom for the technology we are developing across the widest possible spectrun of sciences?
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