Energy is Good
We need to use MORE
energy
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This book
proves that the "energy
crisis" is caused by the
government:
It has
been incorporated in the author's larger
text, Capitalism :
The Free
Market gives millions of consumers just
the right amount of groceries,
computers, automobiles, and clothing,
and not just to the rich. We do not need
a Federal Department of Computers, nor a
Federal Department of Automobiles. Nor
do we need a Federal Department of
Energy.
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Energy is needed to grow food, create shelter and clothing,
transport goods around the world, and raise our material standard
of living. Without using massive amounts of energy, we will fall
back into primitivism and poverty.
We don't need to "conserve" energy, we need to
develop cleaner and cheaper energy sources.
The Federal Government is a Bad
way to get more energy
| • It is unconstitutional to use
the federal government to get more energy: |
Our current Congressman was first elected to Congress in 1996.
In that year, the
Republican Party National Platform promised the following:
As a first step in
reforming government, we support elimination of the Departments of
Commerce, Housing and Urban Development, Education, and Energy,
and the elimination, defunding or privatization of agencies which
are obsolete, redundant, of limited value, or too regional in
focus. Examples of agencies we seek to defund or to privatize are
the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for
the Humanities, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the
Legal Services Corporation.
"We the People" never gave the federal government any
Constitutional authority over energy industries. Just as we had to
amend the Constitution to give the federal
government power over the alcohol industry, we must amend the
Constitution if we want the federal government to meddle with our
energy industry. Since the Constitution gives the federal
government no such authority, advocating the abolition of the
Department of Energy was the only way Republicans could keep the
oath they took to "support the Constitution."
The Department of Energy has not been abolished. Its budget has
not even been cut one penny. Clinton's DOE budget in 1996 was less
than $17
billion. Today it stands at over $23
billion. Republicans have violated their oath of office.
Every person who signed the Constitution would say our current
Congressman has disregarded the oath he took to abide by the
principles of the Constitution and the Declaration of
Independence.
| • It is wasteful,
inefficient, and counter-productive to rely on the
federal government to make energy more accessible. |
It is the Free Market -- inventors, investors, industrialists,
financiers, businessmen, and consumers freely planning, choosing,
purchasing energy and rewarding the best businesses -- that has
given us ever-increasing access to energy. The federal government
did not hold session and pass a law requiring the creation of
refined petroleum, nuclear energy, or any other form of energy. It
was "greedy capitalists" that discovered new energy
sources and new ways to produce them at lower and lower costs so
that more and more people could afford it, and bring capitalists
more and more profit, making our standard of living higher and
higher.
One
Dollar Gas, by L. Neil Smith
- Electricity
Policy
- Enron
- Worries
about Gas Prices
