the puppet masters could not be happier.

A wise man once said, “When the tiger escapes from his cage and kills, it is not the fault of the tiger but rather the zookeeper.”

We have focused far too much on the tiger, BP, and not enough on the zookeeper, the United States government. This does not excuse BP from damage caused by the spill, nor allow us to blame government agencies most of us have never heard from before.

These are easy targets for those actually responsible to hold up and say, “Here are the evil doers, let’s tar and feather them and run them out of town on a rail” What is does say is that this spill along with our hemorrhaging of money to the oil states will continue until the United States Government accepts that it is the primary actor in this tragedy. Our lack of a coherent, rational energy policy has set up these problems and allowed them to continue since the days of Jimmy Carter. This is neither a democrat nor a republican problem, a problem created solely by the Congresses or the Presidents. – It is a failure of will on the part of the people of this country and our elected representatives.

So, what should we do? There are several things that need to go one immediately: (1) cleanup the mess and plug the leak; (2) get gulf oil back on-line, this is thirty percent of the nation’s oil supply and eliminating it will not only cripple the economy of the gulf states but the county; (3) start building nuclear power plants immediately – we need legislation to prevent the ‘environmentalists’ from blocking this action; (where did the idea come from that there were people who cared about the environment and those that favored pollution come from?) (4) Open Yucca Mountain for the long term storage of high level nuclear waste – every study by DOE scientists has shown is the safest way of disposal; (5) make a quick cost benefit study of the ways of producing electricity; (6) shift existing oil fired plants to coal; (7) begin a crash program to shift OTR trucking from gasoline to natural gas, even if it means shutting down natural gas fired plants and converting them to coal – coal is our bridge to the future; (8) kill ‘cap and trade’ legislations, if cap-and-trade is not killed, everything else will be in vain, we will become a third world country.