Fuel’s
going up in price and it will likely continue.
Oklahoma has seen oil production almost double since the low in
2003-05. It is now .4M barrels a
day. USA uses 19M b/d. So we are a drop in the bucket. US production is up, but Iraq, which was 2.5M
b/d a few years ago is now 2/3 of that.
It wasn’t so much the loss of that production as it was the fact that we
expected Iraqi production to be 6M by 2020.
It’s unlikely to happen. And
around the world many major fields found in the 70’s-90’s are in serious
decline. Saudis no longer can flood the market with 10M b/d like they used
to. And the world’s appetite is growing
now that the 2007 recession is behind us.
Bottom line. Higher oil prices
are coming.
I
have perhaps mentioned this before as a laugh, but it is actually serious. The way to do something serious about the
border crisis with so many children is easy. (assuming we won’t be able to return
many of them to parents down south) 100,000 kids. Find that many Christian conservatives who
would foster. Turn the kids into
fire-breathing conservatives with a paper route or a yard-moving business or a
job doing what they can. As soon as
Obama finds out this horror, he will shut the border up so fast it will make
your head swim. And those kids would go
on to be leaders and naturalized citizens with both an American Mom and Dad as
well as a natural Mom and Dad they could bring up from Honduras. Or, if the conservatives could not win the
deportation battle, the kids go home with a “foreign exchange” burning in their
hearts as future leaders back home. It would be a life-changer for every kid
who experienced this.
You
think it won’t work? Or not enough
people who would make it work? Consider the early Christians who rescued unwanted
children who had been “exposed”(infants left to die in a ditch or the woods) by
Roman pagans. Thus began the world’s first orphanages and foster homes. When 80-year-old Polycarp, the understudy of
the apostle John, was martyred in the second century, the authorities found 80
children in his home, all rejected as children.
The kids ran every direction, escaped for the most part and became
leaders in the early church. This is one
of the primary methods of growth the church had which went from about 5000 in
33AD to 36 million in 325 AD.
Our
libs would similarly try to destroy a dandelion by kicking the head and
scattering the seed. Liberal women have
1.6 births per person while conservative women average 2.8. Demographically, libs have been running short
of heirs for decades and that is why only about 20% of US population calls
themselves liberal.
There’s
been some recent research into genetics and success/poverty that suggests that some
nations are too diverse, some too-little diverse to be greatly successful. (other things like lack of corruption, free
markets are larger considerations, however) If the mix is like Poland, many
Muslim countries, or Japan which have extreme homogeneity, they are harmonious but
not highly innovative societies. On the
other hand, countries with enormous diversity, like Congo have everybody from
4-foot pygmies to 7-foot Watusis and Hottentots, Bushmen, Benins, etc., are distrustful, polarized and often fall into
civil wars. USA is extremely diverse, but
interestingly, highly assimilative. So
long as it assimilates successfully, it respects others, and continues to be an
economic powerhouse.
Okay,
enough of this serious talk. I am so
saddened that Hobby Lobby won. Had they lost, I was about
to suggest that future Republican Presidents could turn the tables on
Barack. For spiritual healing under
Obamacare, we could insist that atheists must be insured for the cost of
Bible-of-the-month club. Muslims could
be forced to buy a policy that provides Pork servings for dietary plan. There could be no end to the onery stuff. Harry
Reid would surely repeal and Rangel would sue for impeachment.
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