Energy is Good
We need to use MORE
energy
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This book proves
that the "energy crisis" is caused by
the government:
It has been
incorporated in the author's larger text, Capitalism :
The Free Market
gives millions of consumers just the right
amount of groceries, computers, automobiles, and
clothing, and not just to the rich. We do not
need a Federal Department of Computers, nor a
Federal Department of Automobiles. Nor do we
need a Federal Department of Energy.
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Energy is needed to grow food, create shelter and clothing, and raise
our material standard of living. Without using massive amounts of energy,
we will fall back into primitivism and poverty.
We don't need to "conserve" energy, we need to develop
cleaner and cheaper energy sources.
The Federal Government is a Bad
way to get more energy
| • It is unconstitutional to use the
federal government to get more energy. |
Our current Congressman was first elected to Congress in 1996. In that
year, the
Republican Party National Platform promised the following:
As a first step in
reforming government, we support elimination of the Departments of
Commerce, Housing and Urban Development, Education, and Energy,
and the elimination, defunding or privatization of agencies which are
obsolete, redundant, of limited value, or too regional in focus. Examples
of agencies we seek to defund or to privatize are the National Endowment
for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting, and the Legal Services Corporation.
"We the People" never gave the federal government any
Constitutional authority over energy industries. Just as we had to amend
the Constitution to give the federal government
power over the alcohol industry, we must amend the Constitution if we
want the federal government to meddle with our energy industry. Since the
Constitution gives the federal government no such authority, advocating
the abolition of the Department of Energy was the only way Republicans
could keep the oath they took to "support the
Constitution."
The Department of Energy has not been abolished. Its budget has not
even been cut one penny. Clinton's DOE budget in 1996 was less than $17
billion. Today it stands at over $23
billion. Republicans have violated their oath of office.
Every person who signed the Constitution would say our current
Congressman has disregarded the oath he took to abide by the principles of
the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
| • It is wasteful, inefficient, and
counter-productive to rely on the federal government to make
energy more accessible. |
It is the Free Market -- inventors, investors, industrialists,
financiers, businessmen, and consumers freely planning, choosing,
purchasing energy and rewarding the best businesses -- that has given us
ever-increasing access to energy. The federal government did not hold
session and pass a law requiring the creation of refined petroleum,
nuclear energy, or any other form of energy. It was "greedy
capitalists" that discovered new energy sources and new ways to
produce them at lower and lower costs so that more and more people could
afford it, and bring capitalists more and more profit, making our standard
of living higher and higher.
- Electricity Policy
- Enron
- Worries about Gas
Prices