"It's About The Oil, Stupid"

Somewhere in Indiana, two days ago, I was listening to a pundit on the radio. It might have been that despicable Rush Limbaugh person and the conversation was about oil and the amount we in the US use. Our communist president had a press conference that day and falsely stated that the United States has 2% of the oil and uses 20% of all that is available in the world. What he blatantly left out(lied about) was(1) we pay for what we buy. We don't steal it from unsuspecting camel jockeys, and (2) there's a lot more than 2% underground, due in in great part to him. As a matter of fact, according to Rush and I believe him on this point, we have more oil underground than the Saudis ever did. As of March 1937 the Saudis had zero percent of world oil because no one knew it was there, hence, there was no drilling. Rush, or whomever, then said if we stopped every car in this country from being on the road for one day that we could save 5 million barrels of oil. Problem solved, right? Not so fast, my friends. I began thinking about things I like. When out in public I enjoy wearing clothes. You know, things like socks, underwear, shirts, pants, even coats in winter. I like to eat and probably too much. When I eat I don't stop on the interstate and grab some grass and wild flowers. Today I had an out of control wild hair-brained impulse and bought a new set of golf clubs. I also needed gas but I passed on that. It was too expensive! "Hey, I do have my priotities". If you happen to be semi-intelligent you must be getting my drift. How do the 'Greenie' people think food, clothes fuel and even golf clubs get to the proper destination? It's not like David Copperfield snaps his fingers and goods magically appear in stores. Airplanes do more that take passengers from Des Moines to Joplin, Mo. Airplanes have underbellys that hold cargo. Trucks on the highways obviously fit into the equation. Think Wal-Mart and Toys R' Us. Deny your grandchild a Thomas the Train set or American Girl doll at Christmas and your butt is in the ringer. Don't we have transcontinental trains? They transport grain and cattle, pigs and, GASP!, more fuel. Trains do not move forward and backward by winding a rubber band. What about ships on our waterways? "Hey Greenie-weenies, "sails became obsolete slightly after the Civil War". Do you know that Abraham Lincoln rode on a train twice in his life? The second time was while lying in a casket on his way home to Springfield, Illinois. The first was four plus years earlier on his way to D.C. for his inauguration. He promised his wife, Mary, he would never ride a train again. As he stated, "God did not intend for man to go 20 miles an hour". If you think I'm making fun of Lincoln then wise up. He was responible for the building of the transcontinental railroad. At any rate, maybe this is why thought provoking conservatives these days so often leave liberal slugs in the dust. The only time liberals go faster than twenty miles an hour is when they're hitchhiking to some Occupy Movement. Lincoln would approve of my thinking. I had a seance with him and he told me so.
On the final leg of my journey home, as I approached the Ohio border, my mind was going full bore. From a barrel of oil(it might be around 40 gallons) we get X amount of gasoline and less than half of that 40 gallons is refined for the internal combustion engine. So, for you nimrods who can't see an inch in front of your nose, when it comes to oil drilling why not consider that you couldn't function for twenty-four hours without liquid gold. I took the time, about thirty seconds, to get a list of oil byproducts and if you click on the highlighted word(David Copperfield) you can see 144 of the 6000.
If this still doesn't turn you liberal loons on then go ahead and live like Ted 'Unabomber' Kaczynski. I understand he had a beautiful cabin in the woods.