Ohio General Assembly Energy Failure

One Oar in the Water: Ohio General Assembly Energy Failure

From One Oar in the Water:

I came upon an interesting posting at the weblog Keane Observations about the recent comments made by T. Boone Pickens and the plan he is currently barnstorming to reduce our nation’s dependency on foreign oil. After reading the post and the attached articles I went to YouTube to find some videos with Mr. Pickens that might further explain his plan, and sure enough I came a across a detailed lecture he gives that provides a more than just surface data.

After watching the lecture I was struck by the amount of readily available U.S. Government (USG) data used by Mr. Pickens to support his plan, however I became angered when I research the same data specific to Ohio.

Here’s my beef; our moronic Ohio politicians led by Republican and House Speaker Jon Husted and the Democrat Governor Ted Strickland just gave away a large part of a $16 billion “jobs stimulus package,” our tax dollars and money we worked for, to “alternative energy” companies. And along the way they further strapped the citizens of Ohio with an additional burden because it’s now required by law to buy back the technology developed by these companies, proven or unproven, and will be installed on our state government buildings. Yet with just a quick cursory look at the data Mr. Pickens used from the U.S. Department of Energy clearly demonstrates Ohio is not geographically situated to exploit wind or solar. But one would think that our elected officials, Mr. Husted and Strickland, would have used the same USG data when they decided to create this corporate welfare give away program.

Now if that doesn’t make you angry, there was nothing in the $16 billion stimulus package for coal and nuclear production, which Ohio could significantly capitalize upon, create real jobs through, lower energy costs, and provide much needed assistance to the rural region of the Mid-Ohio Valley. These idiots gave away a huge chunk of the $16 billion package and it will not benefit Ohio! But I would also ask why should the State of Ohio be giving away tax dollars to private companies when all they would have to do is just get off the stick and remove the mountains of regulations restricting the building of coal and nuclear plants?

Husted and Strickland aren’t the only reckless ones; every elected politician in Congress, republican or democrat, originating from Ohio is culpable of the same nonsensical behavior since it has been their similar moronic actions hamstringing the construction of new energy plants in this country that has resulted in the loss of Ohioan’s jobs and higher energy costs. For years our Ohio politicians have signed onto laws that have shut down any growth in the energy sector and have greatly aided our dependency on foreign oil. No matter the party, our Ohio representatives in Congress should have been looking out for the Ohio citizenry, not the environmental special interest lobby groups like the Sierra Club and the Environmental Defense Fund, to name a few, that get rich on frivolous law suits costing US taxpayers money and jobs.

T. Boone Pickens has a plan; it’s simple and based upon common sense. Strickland and Husted have a plan and it’s based upon fantasy, socialism, and stupidity. Let’s face it, if we are going to get out of this energy mess it’s going to take leadership and some good old common sense; something in short supply in Columbus and Washington. We need energy, but before we can get it, we need a change in our state’s political direction.

Folks the time has come to get rid of these folks. If we don’t stand up today and hold the deficient political class accountable we might as well get used to the medieval way of life, because the republicrats and the demlicans are sending us into the dark ages real fast.

Comment: For too many years we have watched the Republican led General Assembly waste our tax dollars on inefficient pork projects and have piled on mountains of government regulations that have killed the business and agricultural life of this state all to please silly lobbyist groups. We must stop this assault on our prosperity from this defunct political tyrannical class.

Folks we are dieing here in Ohio. We have been amidst a depression for over 15 years and yet the party in power uses the socialist playbook of the Democrat Party, slowly killing this state in
the process. The only hope for Ohio is for true republican norms and ideals to re-emerge through the dank dark socialist infested halls of the State General Assembly.

Join us today and fight this self-gratifying political class; boycott the ORP and tell them not one red cent until republican norms return to the great State of Ohio!