America's independence on foreign oil is the only way make the world safe.

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Foreign energy independence is the only sane course of action in considering not only national but international security. This issue trumps the “green” agenda, but does not negate it either. Obama and the Democratic Party have completely lost all sense of the national security perspective. While they are telling the people that inflating their tires will solve the energy crisis, and proposing unproven technology for alternative energy America’s and the free world’s real enemies are using is the worlds dependence on foreign oil, as a political weapon to weaken the west.

Obama wants to get the AMERICAN oil companies to pay for his socialist programs, he is saying that the windfall profits are from the greedy oil companies, but is that really true? One could have thought so, based upon a natural distaste for large corporations, except today Reuter’s news published the truth. It is just a blurb in respect to most news, but inside of it shows that oil companies do not set the price for oil, but rather OPEC does.

Iran’s OPEC minister has said that OPEC may cut production to keep the price high. Keeping the price high has vast possibilities for more western capital to be placed in the hands of those who are hostile to the United States and western democracies. This capitial is in turn used by these enemies to increase and modernize their armies as Russia has done, or fund proxy terrorist and push an “Islamafication” of the West, as the Arab countries have done. There every reason to believe that this is the true cause for outragous oil prices and not the greed of American compaines.

Oil companies outside of the West do not “own” the oil they pump, in fact this oil is owned by the countries from which it is taken. These countries are predominantly OPEC and socialist countries that have “nationalized” the oil production. These countries pay a fee to the companies for drilling and pumping it for them, but these countries set the price that the these companies can buy the rights to send the oil to market at. Oil companies have no windfall profits, this is nothing more than class baiting being done by Obama and the Democratic Party.

Since the oil companies have no windfall profits, than where will the money come from to pay this tax Obama and the Democrats will extort from them. Taxes on corporations have always found their way down to the consumer in one shape or form. What would happen to these companies if a socialist government of Obama and the democrats takes control, and passes a law that prohibits them from passing on the tax increase to the consumer? They will fold, as the taxes remove profits and create operating deficits in these companies. America will have two choices, use foreign oil companies that are not under the control of the Democratic inspired IRS, or nationalize the oil industry as Hugo Chavez has done, and see the same economic chaos this has caused Venezuela.

What about all the promises Obama and the Democrats made to the people with what they planned to do with this so-called “windfall” profit tax? Will the people be happy with an empty bowel?

The only answer that will bring long-term stability to the world is for America to become energy independent and to supply the world with its surplus production in a free market. At the same time, embark on an aggressive campaign to find and market alternative energy that will reduce not only America’s dependence on hydrocarbon-based fuels, but also the industrialized world’s dependence too.

Simply trying to mandate cuts in oil usage while throwing billions at alternative energy will not solve the problem of moving an economy predominantly based on hydrocarbon energy sources to alternative energy. These technologies will take years to develop and even more years to take the technology to create a viable product for the market. Simply look at the states that imposed mandatorily insurance for drivers, before mandatory insurance was imposed insurance was affordable and wide spread. To solve a small problem these socialists created a greater problem that today eats at the cost middle-class families pay simply to get to work. If the alternative energy proponents become the only game in town there will be no economic pressure on them to deliver the technology at an affordable price, and soon they will become the new oligarchs raping the middle-class.

Competition is not that there are multiple suppliers of alternative energy, as there are with insurance, rather true completion that will keep prices affordable is the ability to choose or not choose from products and services that are outside of the industry. If for example solar heating roof panels were imposed upon a state, then the price of panels would increase as the people would have no alternative but to use these panels. Houses where solar panels would be impossible to install based upon orientation of the roofs, either the homeowner would be forced under law to realign their roof, or the alternative hydrocarbon-based heating would be taxed to make its cost on parity with their neighbors who could not get a waiver from the plethora of bureaucrats and their regulations.

When push comes to shove and these facts become known to the American people, it will be the “greens” who suffer, as they will be seen as people who would but the security of the world at risk for their agenda. This is unfair to the “greens” as most are simply good people trying to make the environment better, but they will suffer. Now is the time for the these “greens” to put aside an immediate small victory, for a longer term total victory. How they can do this is to honestly work with both sides, helping both Democrat and Republican see that, yes we have an energy crisis that is politically made, and we need to deal with this, but in getting both sides to support their goals in the long-term. One example could be is that the greens agree to drilling in return for a phased plan to increase the efficiency by 30% of cars and trucks over a 5 year period. They can agree to support clean coal power plants that are monitored to only produce a specific level of emissions per year, lowering that level by certain percentages every year. They could at the same time use the conditional support to increase funding for Research and Development into alternative energy sources, and changes to the Patent laws that allow for technology discovered under government funded grants to be more quickly expire so that other manufactures can also bring these technologies to market lowering the cost to implement alternative energy sources.

As it stands now the policies of Obama and the Democrats are in favor of giving America’s energy dependence to the Islamic and Socialist cartels. The “greens” will suffer because their leadership is predominantly controlled by far left socialists, who have refused to approach the table with any agenda other than “we want what we want and we want it now.” Democrats are counting on such a stance to polarize America, while Republicans are actually making an effort to blend the immediate needs of America with the need to have a cleaner environment using alternative energy sources.

America and the world is on the brink of a war no one wants, and while these “greens,” will go out to protest, but the power to stop it is in their hands with sensible compromises that in the end achieves what they seek and what the vast majority of Americans seek, affordable alternatives to energy dependence from countries that hate the western ideals, and a healthier environment.