Posted by
Charlie on Friday, June 13, 2008 6:59:51 PM
The politicians in Washington, mostly Democrats, keep telling us that we can't drill our way out of the energy crisis we are now faced with. This reminds me of the time Jimmy Carter said the nation was gripped by a great malaise. Todays politicians don't understand the average American any better than Jimmy Carter did.
America is the "can do" country. Whenever someone says that something is beyond the abilities of the American people I am reminded of what happened just before the Battle of Midway in World War II. The aircraft carrier Yorktown had been severely damaged in the Battle of the Coral Sea. She limped back to Pearl Harbor where it was estimated that repairs would take three months in a stateside shipyard. But the Japanese Imperial Fleet was bearing down on Midway Atoll with the intention of luring the American fleet into battle and destroying it.
So Americans got to work on the Yorktown which was badly needed to bolster the outnumbered American fleet. Three days after it's arrival in Pearl Harbor the Yorktown went to sea to do battle with the Japanese. It didn't take three months. American ingenuity and sweat had the Yorktown ready to take on the Japanese Fleet in THREE DAYS!
The Yorktown and it's crew performed valiantly in battle and helped to deal the Japanese Fleet a crushing defeat from which it never recovered. Luckily, no politicians or environmental wackos were involved in getting the Yorktown ready for battle.
I hold no brief for politicians of either party. This time the Republicans seem to be on the right side of the argument. They offer bill after bill to increase the supply of oil but the Democrats say no to everything. The American people will solve the problem if the politicians will just get the hell out of the way.