OPINION:
The anti-American green goony squad squawks endlessly about the need to ween ourselves from oil after last year’s spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Due to the disaster in Japan, we are hearing more of the same from leftists about nuclear energy.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the anti-energy leftist crowd in America will soon be yammering that what America needs to do is to ban all forms of energy that produce heat, including matches.
Green energy is energy-less. Embracing so-called green energy is an energy death sentence for America.
Amazingly, a component of this administration’s energy policy is to ban Thomas Edison’s light bulb and force Americans to use “environmentally friendly” compact fluorescent light bulbs by 2014, all of which are made by communist China and pose serious health and environmental threats due to their mercury content.
The bold energy reality is that we can’t turn our backs on either oil or nuclear energy. What we need is much more of both. And right here in North America, we have an abundance of both.
Nuclear power is the way ahead. Even with the ugly and unprecedented disaster in Japan, statistically, it remains the cleanest, safest and most efficient energy source known to man.
We have 104 nuclear power plants producing 20 percent of our energy demands. All the green energy sources combined provide no more than 5 percent of America’s energy demands.
The smart move is to build many more nuclear energy power plants if we want clean, dependable and efficient energy.
America has enough oil and natural gas right off our coasts to power America for at least a couple of generations. Banning the extraction of this energy condemns us to continued slavery to OPEC.
We don’t need to ween ourselves off oil. What we need to do is purge ourselves of Mideast oil that is controlled by robe-wearing, voodoo-entranced OPEC mobsters.
Drill here and drill now and eliminate the OPEC mob.
What America lacks is a bold energy policy and vision that will make America energy-independent. Instead, we have bureaucrats stumbling over each other with their stacks of bureaucratic regulations and requirements for what kind of light bulbs American can use. Unbelievable. And you thought “The Planet of the Apes” was just a movie.
President Jimmy Carter established the Department of Energy more than 30 years ago and America is more dependent on foreign oil than ever. We haven’t built a new nuclear power plant or oil refinery in more than 30 years. This is completely unacceptable and very un-American. We are strangling ourselves and then complaining we can’t get enough air - so very liberal of us.
Once again, the Middle East is sending America a message and the message is that that region is unpredictable and downright goofy. The political unrest in the Mideast will surely cause oil prices to soar even beyond where they are today. The sooner America severs our addiction to their oil, the better off we will be. Independence is good. Dependence is bad.
The question we need to ask ourselves is this: Are we creative, bold entrepreneurs who can solve our own problems with our own resources and solutions or have we turned into a pack of whimpering, dependent punk slaves?
Just as our defiant forefathers poured English tea into the Boston Harbor, we should tell the current ruling class of bureaucrats they can stick their curly light bulbs where the sun doesn’t shine. I got your green energy right here.
Ted Nugent is an American rock ’n’ roll, sporting and political activist icon. He is the author of “Ted, White and Blue: The Nugent Manifesto” and “God, Guns & Rock ’N’ Roll” (Regnery Publishing).
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