THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume X, Issue # 152, June 19, 2008
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
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IS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY THE CPUSA IN DISGUISE?
By Alan Caruba
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, U.S.A.: LIBERAL, RADICAL ENVIRONMENTALIST, STATIST, & SOCIALIST -- A POLITICAL
PARTY COMMITTED TO PUBLIC POLICIES DICTATING CONFISCATORY RATES OF TAXATION, NATIONALIZATION OF
NATURAL RESOURCES & THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY, & CENTRAL CONTROL & DIRECTION OF THE OVERALL AMERICAN
ECONOMY BY THE U.S. NATIONAL GOVERNMENT --THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S ALLIANCE WITH THE ENVIRONMENTALIST
MOVEMENT -- THE CONSEQUENT FAILURE & REFUSAL OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO ALLOW AMERICANS ACCESS TO
DOMESTIC RESERVES OF OIL & NATURAL GAS -- THE RESULTANT ESCALATING ENERGY PRICES
FULL STORY:
It’s no secret that Democrats are Liberal, but when you peel away their devotion to environmentalist policies that have
left America vulnerable to foreign nations on whom we depend for the importation of oil, what has been revealed is an
intention to nationalize our nation’s oil industry. That, simply stated, is Communism.
One might expect members of the Communist Party USA to advocate the nationalization of our oil companies, but
hearing it from the lips of Democratic Party members of the U.S. House of Representatives should send a chill of fear
through every American.
It was the former Soviet Union’s reliance on revenue from its nationalized oil industry that proved to be a major factor in
the collapse of that totalitarian regime. It is, in large part, Russia’s nationalized oil and national gas industry that props
up the current regime, a thinly disguised resurrection of the former Communist Party.
Having invited foreign, privately-owned oil companies to help revitalize their industry, the current leadership in Russia
ruthlessly abrogated the original contracts to deprive them of much of their initial investment. Russian oil and natural
gas company executives who resisted either fled to self-imposed exile or were jailed.
Russia has since sought to coerce European and former satellite nations by threatening to withhold the oil and natural
gas on which they depend.
The nationalization of Venezuela’s oil industry by a Communist regime led by Hugo Chavez is currently destroying that
nation’s economy. Most of the oil in the world is under the control of nationalized industries. U.S. oil companies,
combined, own only four percent of the world’s known oil reserves.
At a June 18, 2008, press conference, however, U.S. Represemtative Maurice Hinchey (Democrat - New York) called for
the government to nationalize and own refineries, threatening U.S. oil companies with nationalization.
“We should own the refineries. Then we can control how
much gets out into the market.”
Earlier, Representative Maxine Waters (Democrat - California) had also threatened oil company executives with
nationalization.
In a demonstration of a complete lack of understanding of how the marketplace for oil operates, nationally and globally,
Representative Nick Rahall (Democrat - West Virginia) said, “You cannot drill your way out of this.” Exploring for and
drilling oil is precisely the way to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil!
Rahall is the Chairman of the Natural Resources Committee and is apparently ignorant of the fact that the U.S.A has
literally billions of barrels of oil untapped in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, off the continental shelf of the nation’s
vast coastlines, and in many states of the Union.
Florida, for example, long resistant to permitting off-shore drilling, has discovered that the high price of gasoline is
forcing many Americans to abandon plans to drive to Florida for vacations there. Meanwhile, China has joined with
Cuba to explore and drill for oil barely 90 miles or less off the coast of Florida. Similar energy policies in California caused
its largest utility to go bankrupt and has deprived its citizens of a reliable supply of energy.
The Democratic Party nominee for President, U.S. Senator Barack Obama, has called for a windfall profits tax on U.S. oil
companies, but, in 1980, such a tax, before it was repealed, led to the three decades of decline in oil production in the
United States. U.S. oil companies do not control the price of oil, a global commodity sold on mercantile exchanges
around the world. Their profits are less than those currently being enjoyed by the pharmaceutical industry, high tech
industries, and financial and banking firms nationwide.
It was former President Bill Clinton who refused to allow exploration and drilling in ANWR in the 1990s, and it has been
a Democrat-controlled Congress that has resisted Republican President George W. Bush’s call to allow access to the
estimated seven billion barrels of oil untapped beneath ANWR.
U.S. Representative Rahm Emanuel (Democrat - Illinois) deliberately sought to mislead Americans into believing that the
oil leases held by U.S. oil companies mean that they could drill tomorrow to produce oil, but neglected to mention that oil
leases are no guarantee that any oil would be found. A high percentage of wells that are drilled come up empty. It is a
highly speculative and highly expensive business to find and extract oil.
This brings us to the fact that a vast matrix of environmental legislation slows the process by which oil can be accessed
and, later, refined for use by consumers. The U.S. has not allowed a new refinery to be built in more than three decades
as a result of this legislation. It takes, on the average, ten years between finding oil and making it available to consumers.
Voters paying $4 a gallon can thank the Democratic Party’s alliance with environmentalist organizations for the failure and
refusal to allow access to our national reserves of oil and natural gas. Lying about it and shifting blame to the oil
companies does not change this fundamental truth.
The past actions of the Democratic Party and the assertions by several Democratic members of Congress represent the
true face of the Party and its close resemblance to the Communist Party USA. This should be a cause for grave concern in
the forthcoming national elections.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
American Politics & Political Competition:
Elections, PACs, & Political Parties
The American Political System:
Politics & Government in the U.S.A.
The American Political & Cultural Left:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, & Other Leftists
Political Environmentalism Versus Human Progress & Prosperity:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
Political Economy -- Philosophies, Systems, & Public Policies:
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
Liberalism Versus Conservatism in American Politics
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POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY & POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES:
COMPETING SYSTEMS OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Conservatism
Traditional Conservatism: Questions & Answers
Conservatism: Attitudes, Types, & Present Status
Constitutional Conservatism: American & British
Liberalism
Classical Liberalism: Intellectual Foundations
Classical Liberalism: Conservative Liberalism
Manchester Liberalism & Social Darwinism
Modern Social "Liberalism": Statist "Liberalism"
Radical & Totalitarian Ideologies
Radicalism, Utopianism, & Totalitarianism
Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a
clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly commentary, "Warning Signs," posted
on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center, which is located at
www.anxietycenter.com.
Caruba has a daily blog at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com.
Caruba’s new book, Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy, has been published by Merril Press.
© Alan Caruba 2008
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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