on the other hand . . .

More on the $2 billion dollars a day . . .

By an interesting coincidence, a column in the June 2006 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN noted that the current cost of petrol refinery is about $2 billion. So, in other words, every day that passes that we have an Army hostage in Iraq we spend the cash which might otherwise have gone to the cost of constructing the sort of industrial infrastructure which could save us from price hikes and fuel shortages.

But, just to show I’m detestable to everyone . . . Right, Left, and Center . . .

We COULD have spent that $60 billion a month on 30 new refineries, but according ot the article in the SCI-AM, we wouldn’t have, because good and proper environmentalists, tree huggers, bird h*mpers, and not-in-my-backyarders have managed to make it impossible for refineries to be built in this country since 1970 or there’s about—which, by the way, is one of the reasons why when Katrina hit the Gulf Coast gasoline prices went up like a sky rocket on helium on a day without gravity. A big chunk of our existing refineries, you see, went off line, and we didn’t have anything to take up the slack.

Ah, the joy of it . . .

The Right spends us into to poor house, and the Left locks the door so we can’t get out once we’re there.