They’ve discovered massive oil fields in south Texas.  Who is “they?”  The oil companies.  And how did they find these new oil fields?  By using those oil company profits the Democrats demagogue on exploration and the development of new oil extraction policies.  Everybody knows that this money really should have been been seized by the federal government and used to buy votes. 

Anyway ……

These 20 new fields have the potential to increase our country’s oil output by 25% in the next decade.  More than a dozen companies plan to drill 3,000 wells over the next 12 months in Catarina, South Texas.  They plan to use the process known as hydraulic fracturing or “fracking,” which uses water, sand and chemicals to extract oil from rocks.  Legislation has already been passed requiring these companies to disclose which kinds of chemicals they are using in this process.  Lord knows what other restrictions and excuses our government will manage to come up with in order to blow this one.  Especially with the Community Organizer in power.  Or when in doubt, they can always rely on the tried-and-true method …

What “tried-and-true” method?  Environmentalism … that’s what method.  In case you haven’t noticed, the environmental movement has become the new home for anti-capitalism since the fall of the Soviet Union and world Communism.  Now this isn’t to say that there aren’t true environmentalists working in the movement to clean the air and our waters and to protect wildlife, but many of these true environmentalists bemoan the virtual takeover of their movement by leftist socialist revolutionaries.  Actually – it was a smart move on the part of the anti-capitalist movement.  It’s so much easier to launch your attacks on free market economies from an environmental platform than it is to fight against free enterprise under the banner of Marx and Lenin. 

Patrick Moore was one of the founders of Greenpeace. On January 7 of this year Moore wrote the following in the Vancouver Sun:   

“The collapse of world communism and the fall of the Berlin Wall . . . added to the trend toward extremism. The Cold War was over and the peace movement was largely disbanded. The peace movement had been mainly Western-based and anti-American in its leanings. Many of its members moved into the environmental movement, bringing with them their neo-Marxist, far-left agendas. To a considerable extent the environmental movement was hijacked by political and social activists who learned to use green language to cloak agendas that had more to do with anti-capitalism and anti-globalization than with science or ecology. I remember visiting our Toronto office in 1985 and being surprised at how many of the new recruits were sporting army fatigues and red berets in support of the Sandinistas.”

Could it be any more clear?  In case you haven’t already figured this out … one of the most effective ways to cripple an economy is to attack the sources of energy that power that economy.  When you deprive an economic machine of energy that machine slows down and can quit running altogether.  This is why you will find these environmental lefties fighting any plan from any source to exploit any new energy technologies or sources. 

Hopefully south Texas won’t see the same fate as West Texas, where its oil exploration efforts have been stalled by none other than a lizard.  Dead serious.  The dunes sagebrush lizard has essentially brought exploration in the region to a dead halt while the federal government studies the impact of drilling on the lizard’s habitat and determines whether or not it should be listed as an endangered species.

Sure hope they don’t find an endangered field mouse or salamander roaming around Catarina … otherwise you can kiss a 25% increase in domestic oil production goodbye!