There He Goes Again

Kerry inserts both feet in mouth:

March 30 (Bloomberg) -- Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, the Democratic candidate for U.S president, said the U.S. must put pressure on oil-producing nations and stop filling the nation's strategic reserves to check rising gas prices.

``I pledge to you I will put in place the principle, long since overdue, that no young American in uniform ought to ever be held hostage to America's dependence on oil for the Middle East,'' Kerry said at a rally attended by 600 students and faculty at the University of California, San Diego.

Gas prices are becoming an economic and political issue in the U.S. seven months before Kerry, 60, and Bush, 57, face each other in the general election. The average retail price for gasoline reached a record $1.758 a gallon, the Energy Department said yesterday, and exceeded $2 a gallon in California, the most populous U.S. state.

Let me get this straight...the Gulf Coast oil industry is and has been on high alert since June of 2003 and could be decimated by al-Qaeda in a nanosecond and Kerry wants to stop filling the strategic reserves? WTF?!

Without the strategic reserves to keep key power plants, municipal infrastructure up and vital freight services fueled there could be chaos and food shortages in heavily populated urban areas. Think back to the Rodney King/LA riots. It doesn't take much for society to break down.

Kerry will not protect the oil fields when our very survival depends upon them?This is the height of recklessness and a pledge he cannot possibly keep...of course the word "ought" is operative here...as a Democrat we've learned that much depends on what ought is.

Dem hand wringing over gas prices is a load of horse pucky. The SF Bay Area would rejoice with $2 @ gal gas...we've been paying in the $2.25-2.50 range for the past ten years or longer. I paid $2.79 to fill up on Sunday. Conservation will not begin to close the gap, we must invent our way out of dependency on fossil fuels, but that's not going to happen in the foreseeable future.

This sort of expedient political rhetoric flies in the face of reality, and is why John Kerry will not be president.

Posted by feste at March 30, 2004 02:00 PM | TrackBack