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Garfield on the oil crisis: A lot of folks can’t understand how we came to have an oil shortage here in our country. Well, there’s a very simple answer.:

Nobody bothered to check the oil.

We just didn’t know we were getting low.
The reason for that is purely geographical.
Our OIL is located in: ~~~ ALASKA ~~~ California ~~~ Coastal Florida ~~~ Coastal Louisiana ~~~ Wyoming ~~~ Utah ~~~ Kansas ~~~ Oklahoma ~~~Pennsylvania and Texas ~~~ , and …

Our dipsticks are located in DC. Any Questions? NO?…Didn’t think so.

Proof:

Climate Change: For Congress, it’s become a matter of near-religious faith that we should spend whatever is needed to curb global warming. A new study suggests that the amounts needed will be staggering. (Investors Business Daily, hat tip Steve T. at Common Cents )

Democrats in Congress are touting a new National Intelligence Assessment — created by the CIA and other agencies solely at the behest of Congress — that suggests global warming is a grave national security threat.

Pardon us if we laugh, but these new intelligence reports deserve little, if any, credence. They are politically motivated documents, put out by the spy agencies just to get Congress off their backs. [snip]

This one, by the well-respected McKinsey Global Institute, suggests the economic costs of meeting global warming targets will be enormous. In sum, the world will have to boost its energy productivity — or efficiency — by a factor of 10 by 2050 in order to pay for global warming and maintain our standard of living.

Let’s put that into perspective. Today, McKinsey notes, we produce about $740 of GDP for each ton of CO2 we emit. To cut global warming emissions 72% by 2050, as some want, we’ll have to produce $7,300 of GDP per ton of C02 emitted. (Investors Business Daily)

From There’s My Two Cents:

Eight inches of hail in Nebraska? More evidence for global warming, undoubtedly. Some think we’re on a global warming bubble, and that Americans aren’t going to put up with it much longer, especially as the nonsense infringes upon their lives and pocketbooks more and more. That would be fine with me: let it burst!

I think that is correct - people are getting fed up with being forced to conform to something they don’t believe even exists. The following image by Michael Ramirez at Investors Business Daily.

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