Letter to Senator McCain
July 17, 2008
The Honorable Senator John McCain
Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C.
Dear Senator McCain,
I don't know whether you ever were given the chance to read my June 23 letter to you, which also was in response to one of many requests for more funds. As I said then, I would like to give you my vote but I hesitate to make further contributions because on at least one important topic we do not seem to agree at all.
Thanks to the current $4/gallon gas price, the whole country is becoming aware of the dreadful job the government has been doing during the past 30 plus years of hamstringing our energy industry to do what they needed to do to ensure a viable, competitive energy market.
In my view, the government in its political correctness approach to life and the world, actually caused the current energy dilemma. Its unreasonable catering to irrational environmentalism and anthropogenic global warming (AGW) adherents has resulted in grievous harm to the country's infrastructural ability to provide plenty of energy at reasonable and competitive prices. Instead of exploring and exploiting the enormous coal, fossil fuel and nuclear power options at our disposal, the Government basically forced the energy industry to buy ever more liquid energy from foreign suppliers at prices over which they no longer have any control. More importantly, and I do not have to spell that out to you Senator, this condition is now seriously affecting our strategic and political position in the world. We cannot allow this condition to fester, it needs resolute action.
I am confident, that you have realized for some time that Mankind is not the cause of global warming, nature itself is. There is a lot of sound scientific evidence available to support my statement. You could do worse than inviting
Dr. Roy W. Spencer of the University of Alabama at Huntsville, to brief you on the subject in order to refocus your position on this very critical issue. For at least the next 30 years we will still need to be a fossil fuel economy, whether we like it or not. We can no longer condone any selfish and feel-good actions by those whose personal interests run counter to our national and global ones nor can we afford a further deterioration in the performance of our economy and military capability. If a Presidential decree of National Emergency is necessary to fix this stand-off, so be it.
Consequently, as our potential future President I would expect you to state now, unequivocally, that you do not plan to start spending trillions of dollars on false and impotent schemes to solve a non-existing global warming problem and thereby wreck our country and its future. The hubris of the idea that mankind can control the climate is like King Canute trying to hold back the tides.
In my judgment, the USA's international posture has become seriously compromised by our inability today to act and operate in the international arena independent of "awkward" suppliers of fossil fuels. And that is to say nothing about the detrimental effect this condition is increasingly having on our balance of payments and the value and credibility of our currency.
To top this off, now that the public is beginning to realize that this is really another man-made Washington failure, our politicians can only come up with schemes to punish the industry even more, like really insane schemes such as cap-and-trade and windfall profits taxes.
Therefore dear Senator, my preference would be for you to stand up and proclaim the utter folly of these schemes. Just speak simply and clearly about the urgency to solve this whole dilemma in a practical and common sense manner. Tell the country and the world that you will get the energy industry unshackled and given marching orders to execute their own growth plans, with alacrity, while telling them also that the government, being the people's servant after all, will help and support all their efforts, instead of frustrating them. As a result, not only will you find a lot more people willing to make further contributions to your campaign but the dollar will improve and the cost of gas will drop. I am aware that you recently gave some grudging support to off-shore exploration, but that just is not good enough. We are dealing with our country's near and long term future and to have one we need plenty of energy. If we fail, there may not be much of a future for the whole western world.
I apologize for being blunt Senator, but I much prefer to see you come out on the right side of these key issues and conceivably lose, instead of fudging them in the possibly erroneous belief that you might gather more votes. What this country needs today, is strong, sensible and uncompromising leadership based on a clear voter majority cast on the merits of your approach to the job and your admirable and unquestioned dedication to the country's future. I think you could win this race.
Respectfully and sincerely and may God bless America,
The Honorable Senator John McCain
Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C.
Dear Senator McCain,
I don't know whether you ever were given the chance to read my June 23 letter to you, which also was in response to one of many requests for more funds. As I said then, I would like to give you my vote but I hesitate to make further contributions because on at least one important topic we do not seem to agree at all.
Thanks to the current $4/gallon gas price, the whole country is becoming aware of the dreadful job the government has been doing during the past 30 plus years of hamstringing our energy industry to do what they needed to do to ensure a viable, competitive energy market.
In my view, the government in its political correctness approach to life and the world, actually caused the current energy dilemma. Its unreasonable catering to irrational environmentalism and anthropogenic global warming (AGW) adherents has resulted in grievous harm to the country's infrastructural ability to provide plenty of energy at reasonable and competitive prices. Instead of exploring and exploiting the enormous coal, fossil fuel and nuclear power options at our disposal, the Government basically forced the energy industry to buy ever more liquid energy from foreign suppliers at prices over which they no longer have any control. More importantly, and I do not have to spell that out to you Senator, this condition is now seriously affecting our strategic and political position in the world. We cannot allow this condition to fester, it needs resolute action.
I am confident, that you have realized for some time that Mankind is not the cause of global warming, nature itself is. There is a lot of sound scientific evidence available to support my statement. You could do worse than inviting
Dr. Roy W. Spencer of the University of Alabama at Huntsville, to brief you on the subject in order to refocus your position on this very critical issue. For at least the next 30 years we will still need to be a fossil fuel economy, whether we like it or not. We can no longer condone any selfish and feel-good actions by those whose personal interests run counter to our national and global ones nor can we afford a further deterioration in the performance of our economy and military capability. If a Presidential decree of National Emergency is necessary to fix this stand-off, so be it.
Consequently, as our potential future President I would expect you to state now, unequivocally, that you do not plan to start spending trillions of dollars on false and impotent schemes to solve a non-existing global warming problem and thereby wreck our country and its future. The hubris of the idea that mankind can control the climate is like King Canute trying to hold back the tides.
In my judgment, the USA's international posture has become seriously compromised by our inability today to act and operate in the international arena independent of "awkward" suppliers of fossil fuels. And that is to say nothing about the detrimental effect this condition is increasingly having on our balance of payments and the value and credibility of our currency.
To top this off, now that the public is beginning to realize that this is really another man-made Washington failure, our politicians can only come up with schemes to punish the industry even more, like really insane schemes such as cap-and-trade and windfall profits taxes.
Therefore dear Senator, my preference would be for you to stand up and proclaim the utter folly of these schemes. Just speak simply and clearly about the urgency to solve this whole dilemma in a practical and common sense manner. Tell the country and the world that you will get the energy industry unshackled and given marching orders to execute their own growth plans, with alacrity, while telling them also that the government, being the people's servant after all, will help and support all their efforts, instead of frustrating them. As a result, not only will you find a lot more people willing to make further contributions to your campaign but the dollar will improve and the cost of gas will drop. I am aware that you recently gave some grudging support to off-shore exploration, but that just is not good enough. We are dealing with our country's near and long term future and to have one we need plenty of energy. If we fail, there may not be much of a future for the whole western world.
I apologize for being blunt Senator, but I much prefer to see you come out on the right side of these key issues and conceivably lose, instead of fudging them in the possibly erroneous belief that you might gather more votes. What this country needs today, is strong, sensible and uncompromising leadership based on a clear voter majority cast on the merits of your approach to the job and your admirable and unquestioned dedication to the country's future. I think you could win this race.
Respectfully and sincerely and may God bless America,
posted by Schaesberg at 9:38 AM
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