by Bill Arthur
Cameron Citizen-Observer

Her honor, the ex-mayor of Kansas City and Democratic Candidate for Congress in the Sixth Congressional District, Kay Barnes, has finally announced her energy proposals to save the citizens of Northwest Missouri from the evil oil industry and her opponent Sam Graves.

For a woman who has been in the pocket of special interest groups her whole political career, the only way she knows to deflect attention from her own disastrous financial record is to scream, “Hey look over there!” And that is exactly what she is doing by trying to convince the citizens of Northwest Missouri that our failed energy policy is all the fault of one minority party Congressman and a “lame duck” President.

Our National Energy Policy failures are there for all of us to see and feel; we pump our own gas, Ms. Barnes. To blame them on the big boogie man Exxon (which is all of us who have invested in our IRAs) is easy, especially when Barnes is bankrupt of ideas and knows that her own party is the slave to environmental groups, which have crippled every attempt to increase our domestic supply.

I hate to tell you, Kay, but we in the Sixth District are not only in favor of Ethanol, which Graves and Bush have supported to the hilt, but we would also like to drill in ANWR because we know there is oil there.

Will you commit to drilling there? What, drill next to a polar bear? How sacrilegious!

Oh no, we can’t drill there because big oil has all these other leases they are not drilling on, and you are going to force them to drill there first. Don’t you think big oil is smart enough to know where the oil is actually economical to extract?

An example: Occidental Petroleum has partnered with SandRidge Energy (SE) to use new technology to pump more oil from the Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico. They are jointly building a plant to extract CO2 from the natural gas that SE is producing. Occidental is then infusing that CO2 into the ground, which will force trapped oil to the surface and bury the carbon dioxide underground. Imagine big oil helping the neurotic supporters of Global Warming — that is a lot more than Al Gore has ever done. This will result in 350 million cubic feet of natural gas per day and 500 million barrels of additional oil.

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