The "lower demand" lie

The consensus among Democrats is that lowering our demand for gasoline is the way to go for energy independence. No new drilling, no coal burning plants, no new natural gas and no nukes. Just stop using energy because we are pigs.

While a few information jobs allow for a Friday telecommute option, the idea that moving people from point a to point b less is a good idea is bunk. First off, the majority of companies don't allow the telecommute option because not all information workers are productive offsite. Let's face it, the majority of us cannot "phone it in."

Moving people, goods, and services as fast as possible is extremely good for the economy. Not moving goods, services, and people is bad. Imagine what would happen to productivity in the United States if UPS, Fed Ex, the US Mail, Sysco, Yellow, Dairygold, Safeway, Honeybucket, McDonalds, your general contractor, banks and every other business just added another Sunday to the week. Productivity in this country would be set back 30 years. Wages would go down 20% or more. Some jobs would just disappear. Except in the case of our state legislature, that would be a very bad thing for the economy.

Drive less = produce less + consume less.

In essence the Democrat solution is to stay at home, don't work, and do nothing.


But wait, there's more! To put the cap on all this- Borat Obama's solution to energy is for all of us to lay off of heating and cooling our houses too. According to Borat, your 10 month old child doesn't need the house to be 70 degrees in December and 95 degrees is just fine for your 90 year old grandmother in July.

Let's hope he is the Mesiah, because with his energy policy, he's going to send a lot of people on to the great reward. Of course I would "hope" a political Mesiah would at least know that Hanford is not famous for potatoe farming.