by Charles R Lewis,
Moderator, SaveAmericaSummit

America now appears on the brink of a veritable dark age, just when she can least afford one. Driven by out of control and out of sight energy prices (with the cost of food and just about everything else inexorably following suit), her prosperous lifestyle is steadily seeping beyond the reach of her sleeping masses.

And this is occurring just at a time when the apparent impending election of one of the three remaining marxist presidential candidates figures to plunge this nation into the hell of absolute socialism, which will drain the lifeblood of the incentive-based system that has made us great, gut our First and Second Amendment liberties, and destroy what is left of our rugged individualist demographic.

It's happening even as our tradition of innovation is at stake, as our congress prepares to destroy traditional patent protections in favor of a ChiCom pirate-friendly system. ...And as that same congress is poised to override a presidential veto of a farm bill packed with unprecendented corporate welfare for big agribusiness.

Most importantly, it's taking place at a time when we need to be financially sound as we take on the threats of Islamoafascist terror, aggressive Chinese expansionism, KGB-based Russian opposition to our purely defensive SDI system, and UN one world totalitarianism (to which Bush would have us submit, via UNCLOS, and Obama wants us to surrender totally via his Global Poverty Act).

Yes, the timing for the coming era of not being able to afford to drive (and therefore to work), or even to "eat what we want to" (in Obama's scornful words) is perfect. In the name of "saving the planet," we are destroying America, liberty, the Christian west, and western civilization in general, which are that planet's only hopes.

The consistency of this outcome makes it painfully clear that this is the real objective. Otherwise our political leaders would allow at least some of the following:

1 The drilling for oil on Alaska's north slope, 1,000 miles from civilization. where we have enough oil to place us on the level of a major OPEC nation. The natural gas pipeline project of a few decades back did nothing to hurt flora and fauna. The enormous increase in supply of oil could not help but drive prices way down (at last check, it was 15¢ a gallon in oil-rich communist Venezuela).

2 The drilling for oil offshore, especially in the Caribbean, where the Chinese and Cubans are currently stealing it from under our noses. That's within sight of parts of Florida, no less.

3 The insistence (about to be abdicated via Bush's attempted ratification of the UNCLOS - or Law of the Seas - treaty) that the vast petroleum resources under the North Pole, to which we were first to arrive (long the standard for such claims) is ours. This is critical, as that treaty will doubtlessly lead to the ceding to Russia (with its huge supply of nuclear ICBM's) of not only this massive oil supply, but the strategic polar region itself.

4 The building (which hasn't happened for well over three decades) of new oil refineries and updating of the ones we have. At this critical time, our refinery output is actually declining.

5 The conversion of coal (which we have in an abundance that could make us the equivalent of Saudi Arabia in this field) to gasoline. Again, it's the "environmentalists" qua anti-Americans in our midst who are blocking this huge opportunity.

6 The conversion of shale - of which we are said to have the potential for over a trillion barrels - to gasoline. In Utah and elsewhere, we are blessed with the world's greatest supply, and we now have the technology to start expoiting it. But the very real prospect of $15 a gallon gas (and food riots) isn't enough to budge the environazis who control our government.

7 The building of more (squeaky clean environmentally) nuclear plants (something else we haven't done in over three decades). France runs almost exclusively on this highly economical technology. If you haven't noticed, electric bills have tripled in recent years, and are on the verge of skyrocketing again.

8 The building of many more hydroelectric dams. The snail darter/spotted owl genre of excuses continues to block this safe, clean option.

9 The exploitation of our massive natural gas resources. Home heating gas prices have gone through the roof at a rate that dwarfs even the increased costs of electricity. Natural gas is a far cleaner commodity than oil, yet the environmentalists find rationales to block it.

10 Taking the handcuffs off our auto manufacturers and innovators in terms of fuel efficiency. Back in the '70's, there was a lot of rustling about emerging technologies with the potential to get over 100 mpg, a technology that was summarily squelched. Environmental regulations (which tend to merely replace one pollutant with another - usually more toxic - one) greatly reduce the mpg of most cars. A dozen years ago, I purchased a Hyundai stick shift that was the cheapest model on the market, and it got literally 45 miles per gallon on the highway. Try finding one like that nowadays.

It would seem that all of the above is a no-brainer. Far from this, it's not even part of the discussion, for the most part. This is the result of a major disinformation campaign - mostly on the part of our mainstream media and "education" system, especially in the three major areas outlined below. To accomplish the above, we need to stop listening to the lies and liars hereby listed:

1 The global warming alarmists. The founders of both Greenpeace and the Weather Channel have decried the man-made global warming threat mantra as totally fallacious and politically driven. Over 31,000 American scientists have recently risked their careers to stand up to the Al Gore crowd. We are now in the midst of a decade of cooling, with this year in many respects the coldest on record. And over the period of the decades where we were warming, all of the other solar system planets warmed as well (it's the sun, stupid).

Carbon is good for the environment, as it nourishes the plants that nourish us. And 800 years ago, when the world was much warmer than it is now (and when the technology on which the liars blame the recent warming did not exist), there were no environmental catastrophes, and civilization flourished. There were even functional farming communities in Greenland, which is now buried under massive ice.

2 The tree huggers and the "personhood for animals" mafia. The polar bear population has quintupled in the past few decades. In one particiularly egregious recent example, an owl was declared endagered - removing millions of Tucson-area acres from potential development - just because its numbers were modest on the US side of the border, while at the same time the critter was ubiquitous in Mexico.

The Bush administration administered no meaningful punishment to the perpetrators of the linx hair fraud. It goes on and on, and the results always cripple humans, supposedly for the sake of wild animals that were created to adapt at any rate, and do not need our help.

3 Those who perpetuate the myth that oil is a depletable fossil fuel. America's foremost investigative reporter, Jerome Corsi, wrote, with Craig Smith several yeers ago, Black Gold Sranglehold, which pretty well established that oil is abiotic (non-fossil) and that it is formed in the earth's core, where it is virtually inexhaustible. More recent information has only lent support to this contention. A huge Brazilian offshore discovery has just about proven it beyond doubt.

Thus, the argument that even if we exploit all the above listed resources we'll eventually run out and have to face what we're facing now is specious. We have every reason to go after this God-bestowed benefit with every tool and all the energy we can muster.

Instead, what we get from our "leadership" are calls for even more government intervention in the affairs of private stockholder (you and me, especially via our retirement plan investments) owned oil companies and their profits (negligible compared to the share government gets in taxes)...oh, and a clamoring for even higher energy taxes, explicitly to control our behavior, in terms of consumption.

That's right - less freedom, bigger government, more restrictions on industry and the profit motive, and even higher prices are the answers forthcoming from our government. And - except in terms of nuclear plants - John McCain is no better than Clinton or Obama (who adamantly oppose all ten of the above steps) on these issues.

The incoming administration - at least if it's a Democrat or Republican one - will usher in a Mad-Max-like era of economic and social chaos in America that will far eclipse that of the great depression. And that's a best case scenario. This is a pity, as we could completely avoid this if we took a few common sense, liberty-based steps.