Cats, Ducks, & the 2005 Energy Bill
Cats don't have bills. Ducks have bills. Congress is filled with a bunch of ducks. They certainly do a lot of ducking, in addition to all that quacking they do over their bills. Or maybe their bills are made by a bunch of quacks? Whatever. . .
Their energy bill is one big duck. One really big duck! It ducks the biggest and most obvious problem we've got. We use too much oil. We use too much coal. We spew too much junk in the air and the water because of all that oil and coal we burn. We need to use less of these things. Way less. Fast. Really fast. Everybody knows this, except the ducks.
We're in the 14th year of a war to control the Gulf oil and gas reserves. How much longer do they figure this will last? 12 more years? What if they're wrong? Have they ever been wrong? What if it's longer? When do they figure we'll start fighting China over this stuff? China's not going to want to loan us the money to keep that war going so we can secure those oil fields for ourselves. They want them. So who are we going to borrow the money from then?
Energy is an issue of supply and demand, right? Not just supply. Supply AND demand. But ducks can't deal with more than one thing at a time, now can they? Nothing but supply supply supply supply for the last 30 years! Quack quack quack quack - once a quack always a quack.
But they'll all retire some day. Every last one of them will duck out the back door, to be replaced by . . .
Their energy bill is one big duck. One really big duck! It ducks the biggest and most obvious problem we've got. We use too much oil. We use too much coal. We spew too much junk in the air and the water because of all that oil and coal we burn. We need to use less of these things. Way less. Fast. Really fast. Everybody knows this, except the ducks.
We're in the 14th year of a war to control the Gulf oil and gas reserves. How much longer do they figure this will last? 12 more years? What if they're wrong? Have they ever been wrong? What if it's longer? When do they figure we'll start fighting China over this stuff? China's not going to want to loan us the money to keep that war going so we can secure those oil fields for ourselves. They want them. So who are we going to borrow the money from then?
Energy is an issue of supply and demand, right? Not just supply. Supply AND demand. But ducks can't deal with more than one thing at a time, now can they? Nothing but supply supply supply supply for the last 30 years! Quack quack quack quack - once a quack always a quack.
But they'll all retire some day. Every last one of them will duck out the back door, to be replaced by . . .
1 Comments:
To be fair, some of them might be platypuses. They have bills, but don't quack. There aren't enough of them and they spend most of their time underwater or in burrows, so they don't get much attention, and repeatedly get outvoted. While they're not nearly as wise as cats, they are, at least, a step up from the ducks.
I agree that the current energy bill is an atrocious endorsement of business as usual, rather than the bold commitment to moving toward sustainability that we need. Our representatives should be ashamed of this colossal failure of leadership. It is entirely the wrong direction. We should reject it and make every effort to point out they are doing a disservice to their country by passing such legislation. I think the invisible paw and anyone else out there, should send the duck post, and other energy related letters to newspaper editors. Spread the word. Don't let this bill fall out of attention, just because the vote is over.
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