One of my favorite quotes, by Theodore Roosevelt:

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” - Theodore Roosevelt in 1910 at the Sorbonne in Paris

Thursday, August 25, 2011

America, oil, and government interference

So, if you watch this video on US oil , you may ask yourself, as I do, "why is government even involved in this?" Shouldn't market forces be what determines what natural resources we use and how? If natural gas is the cheaper better way to go, then market forces would make that happen naturally. But our huge government has to have it's hand in everything, so things get delayed indefinitely. That's "our" politicians and tax dollars at work folks. Makes you wonder if they really want us to be less dependent on foreign oil, especially after investing so many American lives in getting more.

Does it matter?


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