Tell how this makes any fucking sense??

All Solar projects in the United States have been halted for at least two years. This as we all know we are in an energy crisis. No doubt this will move oil even higher. It's funny how if the oil companies wanted to drill on any of the 70 million acres of leases they already have they get fast tracked but Solar projets are stalled.

So Bush refuses to release some of the strategic oil reserve and wants more offshore oil drilling leases. McCain is arguing for more nuclear power as well as offshore oil drilling. It's been proven in sworn testimony before Congress that the high oil prices are in large part due to speculation by banks and brokerage houses in the oil markets. This is something the Enron loophole allows them to do. An expert testified that if this loophole was closed oil prices would drop 30 to 50% overnight.

Yet we still get so-called energy 'analysts' from the commodities trading floor on the news trying to tell Americans it's time to stop blaming the speculators and work to solve the energy crisis (aka non-drill for more oil).

Apparently solving the energy crisis to McCain, Bush, Cheney, and the Republicans means halting all Solar projects, blocking wind projects where possible, securing more offshore oil leases (even though the oil companies won't even drill on their 70 mill acres of existing leases), and building more nuclear power plants.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I thought we were in the 21st Century not the 20th...

NYT - Citing Need for Assessments, U.S. Freezes Solar Energy Projects

Christian Science Monitor Bright Green Blog on the Solar freezes

The Thin Green Line - Cameron Scott:

This one is a head-scratcher. The Bureau of Land Management has put a three-year moratorium on solar power projects on the lands it manages, citing the need to study their environmental impacts. These lands are important ones for the solar industry. The Times reports:

Much of the 119 million surface acres of federally administered land in the West is ideal for solar energy, particularly in Arizona, Nevada and Southern California, where sunlight drenches vast, flat desert tracts.

On the other hand, the government rarely proceeds with caution when it comes to public lands. In the last couple years, the Bush administration has proposed allowing commerce, roads, off-road vehicles, and concealed weapons on public lands, and has eagerly embraced drilling for oil and natural gas. If fossil fuels warrant endangering these lands, then surely solar power does, too.

Is the Bush administration really so set against decreasing our dependence on fossil fuels that it would fabricate concern for the environment in order to block alternative energy projects? It would appear so.

The Economist - Freezing the sun A double blow for solar energy
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Now even the optimists fear this wonderful prospect may be a mirage. Congress has been dithering over extending a valuable investment tax credit for solar-energy projects, which solar advocates say is critical to the future of their industry but which is due to expire at the end of the year. The latest attempt failed in the Senate earlier this month: prospects for a deal before November’s presidential and congressional elections now look dim. Uncertainty has led some investors to delay or abandon projects in the past few months. Rhone Resch, the president of the Solar Energy Industries Association, said if the tax credits are allowed to expire at the end of the year, “it will result in the loss of billions of dollars in new investments in solar.”

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This has gone to far. The Government is here to protect the interests of We The People NOT the fucking oil corporations. The Constitution was ordained to insure domestic Tranquility and promote the general Welfare for The People NOT the fucking oil corporations.

This is bullshit. Every single member of Congress should be ashamed. Their job is to represent The People NOT the oil companies. Enough is enough already.

Unfortunately until We The People become collective outraged enough to finally get off our asses and start marching in the streets en masse, nothing will change. That's just reality. We The People ordained and established The Constitution. It's up to We The People to see that it is upheld and remains the law of the land.

I see no solution without massive civil unrest and protest. Our politicians seem content to pass horrid legislation in the dead of night while relying on the media to not inform The People of what is going on. This will never change until The People take to the streets.

I guess you have to ask yourself when is enough enough? How long will you sit there and take it? $10 a gallon gas? Would that do it? How long will you allow yourself to be fooled by the corporate media and politicians who represent oil companies? Will you cave and simply believe that if we give the oil companies even more public land both on and offshore that some how oil prices will come down?

At what point does the average American numbed by the TV, the pethora of internet porn, and surrounded with every single type of gadget to escape reality with imaginable finally become aroused from their slumber and do something?

It won't happen on its own and if we do nothing we will become nothing but corporate slaves like so many dairy cows caged being milked on a regular schedule to our own delight.