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AS A SUPPOSEDLY "RIGHT-THINKING" AMERICAN, I DIRECT THIS APPEAL TO REASON EQUALLY TO THE LIKES OF CONGRESS AS MUCH AS THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY in their desire to promote energy self-sufficency based on maintaining a bond-slavery, as it were, to petroleum-based fuels ... and seeking to justify such as being necessary to the soverignty and soverign identity of the United States "antient and pecuilar," a Pecuilar Among the Nations essentially.

This Appeal to Reason being inspired by current appeals by weird and unwholesome elements within the Great Within of Washington Realpolitik, themselves connected to maintaining dependency on oil and gas while dismissing alternative biofuels, and the socioeconomic viability thereof, as threatening the free-market capitalistic model and paradigm, and its special role and place as Great White Father of the heretofore "enslaved to un-American thought" Lower Classes.

To wit:

It's my understanding that a number of oil and gas companies already hold significant and measurable mineral-rights leases on Federal lands for the exploration and extraction of crude oil and natural gas as have yet to be exploited proper ... and yet, they still want to engage in exploratory, let alone productive, drilling of oil and natural gas in ecologically-sensitive offshore areas and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to maintain a "healthy self-reliance" on oil and gas @ the expense of viable, renewable biofuels such as ethanol derivate from switchgrass and Jerusalem artichokes rather than cereal grains now preferred for biofuels.

The which, if anything, reeks of negating common sense, let alone morals and decency, or reasonable facsimilies thereof, in the name of equating wasteful and counterproductive mentalities with the defence of American soverignty and soverign identity "antient and pecuilar," or so you love to think in league with elements weird and unwholesome by virtue of their unswerving and hard-wired ideology based on isolationist and xenophobic articles of faith justifying self-sufficency tacitly excusing the wasteful and inefficent.

So, with that in mind, may I be the first to suggest thus:

• To the oil and gas companies: Unless you can show cause why you cannot use or otherwise exploit existing mineral-rights leases on Federal lands @ this time, please consider using said leases first before considering offshore exploratory drilling all the further. Otherwise, have you considered surrendering said leases back to the United States Government for non-use? What prevents your so doing--greed and selfishness?
• To Congress and His Fraudulency's Great Within: Before you proceed further on your Grand Delusions towards energy self-sufficency based on allowing further offshore drilling which may, in the end, be wasteful, inefficent and counterproductive, insist that oil and gas companies either first use up their existing mineral-rights leases on Federal lands or, absent showing cause why such leases cannot be profitably exploited, surrender such leases back to the United States Government.
• To the Presidential Candidates: With respect to further offshore oil drilling, insist that oil and gas companies be required to first make use of existing mineral-rights leases on Federal lands, or otherwise show cause why such cannot be used @ this time, in which case such would need to be surrendered and new leases negotiated.
• To the American Voter: With Congress now in summer recess, and likely to be back in their home districts, use the opportunities afforded by any "town meetings" or "meet-and-greets" they will have in the interim to insist that they require oil and gas companies to first use existing mineral-rights leases on Federal lands, or otherwise show cause why such cannot be exploited profitably @ this time, before allowing offshore oil and gas drilling.

There can be no mistaking the fact that Your Correspondent considers this to be an Appeal to Reason in the ongoing debate/campaign issue of maintaining energy self-reliance and self-sufficency in the name of our soverignty and soverign identity "antient and pecuilar."

So what precludes your taking advantage of the opportunities thus inherent? Fear of being labelled as a "Communist," "Fascist," "Nazi" or otherwise a "sleeper agent for the New World Order"?

Fear of possible job loss or other hinderance to earning a livelihood for taking a stand?

Fear of "shunning" by your community, let alone the prospect of your church issuing orders to that effect?

Or what other fears exactly?

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