Thursday, December 30, 2010
A Modest Proposal for the New Year: America Should Outsource Energy Policy to an Ethical Foreign Expert
Whereas the leaders of both political parties in the United States have hollowed out the nation's economy in order to benefit relative handfuls of corporate shareholders and executives, and the bankers, lawyers, accountants, and consultants who have enriched themselves through globalization, the Obama administration should now consider outsourcing energy policy to a qualified foreigner with the expertise and ethics to do a first-rate job--for the whole country.
Surely, such a qualified individual can be found; and it isn't hard to imagine what he or she would do, given the power to move swiftly and effectively--in the national interest.
Simply put, the Ultimate Energy Czar-for-Hire would unlock the nation's awesome energy resources--immense, hidden-in-plain-sight reserves of oil and gas and coal and shale--to achieve energy independence. Tapping the neglected and despised (by liberal loons and the media that regularly disinforms them) fossil fuels with which America has been blessed would create millions of well paying, permanent jobs, generate hundreds of billions of dollars in tax revenues, and put the country back on the road to real prosperity.
Think about it: a Chinese or Indian energy expert tasked with making America energy independent.
This reporter volunteers to write the want-ad.
Related: George Will's must-read piece on China's insatiable appetite for coal.
