I know this is an unpopular view, but it must be said. Oil is not a threat to our way of life, lack of oil is a threat to our way of life. We must stand up to the environmental movement. The environmental movement is an unscientific scam, and our leadership is gutless to call them what they are - socialists. Every environmentalist solution calls for more government power over your life.

While environmentalist spokesmen like Al Gore and John Travolta lecture us about climate change, they produce more carbon than a small country. Al Gore is an absolute hypocrite, he has no intention of living like a pauper, stacked up like cord wood in an urban high rise, riding his bike everywhere. John Travolta owns five jets! I can’t believe he has the gall to lecture us, when this is how he lives:

It is the classic orwellian “some pigs are more equal than other pigs.” They have no intention of changing the way they live. They want to change the way you live by putting a government shotgun to your head. It is classic socialism in a new wrapper.

While a majority of Americans drape themselves in their latest pop culture fashion trend - green, our economy is grinding to a halt. Not because of corporations, but because of government interference in the market.

If we want to overcome our current economic woes, we need a free market energy policy.

There is no evidence we are running out of oil. Peak oil is a myth. If a shortage of energy exists, it is artificially created by government regulation.

We don’t need windfall profit taxes, we need investment, technological advances, elimination of regulation, and exploration. There are 400 billion barrels of oil under North Dakota waiting to be tapped by innovation. Do you realize that that is almost twice the amount in Saudi Arabia? Wind and solar are not going to get us out of this. Electricity, geo-thermal, and hydrogen might, but until then, this is what we need to do:

• Drill more, in more places like ANWR and the outer continental shelf. We need to increase supply now.
• Build more refineries
• Build more nuclear power plants

We are going to grow to 9 billion people over the next 50 years. Unless we want the vast majority of them to live in abject poverty, we need cheap abundant energy. Conservation isn’t going to work, unless you want poverty. I don’t. I want wealth for everyone. And in order to increase our wealth we must increase our supply.

Socialism sucks, even when it arrives in a shiny green package.