Democrats guilty of the worst outsourcing

Orlis Trone, Fernley

Friday, July 4, 2008 | 2:03 a.m.

The determination of the Democrats to deny America the right to drill its own oil has plunged this nation into its fuel-energy crisis. They, of course, are pointing the finger of blame at Big Oil, speculators, gas-guzzling SUVs and the Republicans.

But, without a doubt, it is the Democrats’ anti-domestic drilling stance that has put us at the mercy of foreign governments for the oil required to operate our country.

It is a conspicuous contradiction for Democrats to condemn the “outsourcing” of jobs and money for “work that can be done right here at home,” while their opposition to drilling is the cause of billions of petrodollars being “outsourced” for oil that we could be unearthing right here at home.

But, “not to worry,” the Democrats reassure us. We can just flip the switch from our oil dependency to “alternative sources.” However, all the wind power, geothermal power, solar power, ethanol power and cooking-grease power combined cannot save America from the economic collapse confronting it right now.

Although these and other “alternative” possibilities have promise, they are in the laboratory stage of development. Meanwhile, America’s economy will remain dependent upon Jurassic juice for some time.

Oil is the essence of this country’s economic survival. Understand that an “essence” is that part of a thing’s identity upon which the greatest number of its other parts depend. Oil is the source of the energy that fuels the grid that feeds the power throughout the entire machinery of America’s economic infrastructure.

It is readily observable that the cost of living for every American — in one way or another — is negatively affected by the ever-rising price of gas. That is the magnitude of the peril America faces because the Democrats refuse to allow us to bring up the oil that is in our own back yard.