The Beginning of Wisdom is the Price of Gasoline!

By Rich Kozlovich

In America the beginning of wisdom is the price of gasoline. I made that statement a number of years ago because it was obvious to me that failing to drill for oil and natural gas and mine for coal was going to cost us terribly at some point.

I also said that a modern society absolutely needs inexpensive abundant energy sources to maintain itself.

I also said that we weren't running out of any of these energy sources, no matter what the greenies and their acolytes in the government said. And everyone laughed.

We haven’t built a refinery since the mid 1970’s when we had over 300 serving a population of about 250 million. We only have a little over a 150 left serving a population of over 300 million…and the amount of different mixes they have to make in order to meet everyone’s insane regulations adds to the cost and availability. Is anyone surprised? Does anyone doubt that the greenies have forced the closings of older refineries and prevented the building of new ones? If anyone still does...please disabuse yourself of that foolish thought.

Now after years of taking this unpopular position (and I was late to the game compared to those who have been saying this for over thirty years) I read in the news everyday that society, many political leaders and even some in the media are now in agreement with my views. The greenies and their supporters are on the benches because society is turning against them. You would think that they should have known that this was inevitable since everything they promote is basically anti-human; and now America is alert and wide awake; and they don’t like the fact that they have been played.

Schadenfreude does have a certain appeal in this case. Especially since I have been experiencing it daily.

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