Oh that dastardly product oil!

 

 

"Some on the Left have referred to motor oil as 'murder oil'...Why? Beats the heck out of me!"

What is it about oil that many in this country hate? This black gold which helped build this great country. Besides America, it made (with the help of American industrialist J. Paul Getty) the Saudis an oil mecca. It made them rich. Oil is used in just about everything we use or consume. It gets us from point "A" to point "B". Even the ultimate "greenie" Al Gore uses oil. Truthfully - it is the life blood of our country.

I am going to be interested to see where 2015 takes us. With many things, in particular our oil supply. What are we going to do with this new found source of wealth and commerce that is coming out of the Bakken Fields in North Dakota? Are we going to be smart in how we use it? How we ship it? How we export it? Or are we going to continue to worship at the altar of "manmade" global warming. The alter where evil is personified by anything or anyone who produces hydrocarbons.

With gas coming close to $2.00/gallon, many on the Left are simply flummoxed. This was never in their script. Rumors are starting to swirl that our President, Barack Hussein Obama, is so captivated by his "greenie' base, that he is ready to do something very stupid. Like the scorpion who stung the turtle carrying them both to safety, Barack is ready to sting the American public once again. (Rumor has it) he is going to kill the Keystone Pipeline. Instead, we will continue to have millions upon millions of gallons of highly volatile shale oil sent through the heartland on Warren Buffet owned rail cars.

Sooner or later our luck is going to run out. One of these 100 car oil trains is going to derail. When it does, there will be a huge explosion and fire. If it happens around populated areas, people will probably die. Oil traffic will be disrupted for weeks, maybe months. It has been proven that shipping any oil through upgraded pipelines is 3.5 times safer than using the rail system. That simple fact seems to be lost on our President.

If we were smart, we would realize certain facts about our energy future:

• We are approaching the last days of using oil based products as our primary source of transportation. Most futurists believe in fifty years or less, we will be using something cheaper, cleaner, and more abundant.
• In the meantime, oil remains the king of the hill. We have decades worth of supply remaining. Maybe over a century. In a world thirsty for affordable oil, we could be one of the major players. Maybe the major player. For oil, natural gas, you name it. It is low fruit on the tree should we decide to pick it.
• All our older pipelines should be upgraded to the latest technology. We should build start building Keystone tomorrow. We need to be smart and not act like ideologues.

As for me, I am excited about our prospects. We have the oil and the world needs oil. It is as simple as that. Let's be nimble, let's be smart. We can produce have new and exciting jobs creating by extracting, shipment and delivery of this precious resource.