Yes, that's right. I said we are a "Jerry Springer Culture" and if you turn the news on today you will agree with me. Sometimes I am not sure if it is the Jerry Springer Show or the evening news.
First of all, why did I pick Jerry Springer? Well, all you have to do is tune into one of his shows and according to his ratings, there are many of us each time his show airs that are tuning into his show. We see the most screwed part of our society displayed in front of everyone. People calling each other names, disrespecting everything about life and other people, generally showing the worst part of our culture.
Especially during elections now, we can see the worst of our culture showing through. Candidates that stretch the truth so far that it no longer exists. Someone once remarked that if you say something enough times it will stick even though it is not true.
Politicians have a nack for saying nothing while talking for several minutes. They also have a nack for saying things that are partially true and sometimes outright lying to us. This is all to confuse us as to what the person is actually saying. That way if they are called out for saying these things, they can deny that is what they said. Amazing how many people fall for this smoke and mirror type of talking. Each candidate has people that will vote for them based on what they are saying.
A perfect example comes to mind when talking about oil, gas or any natural resource that we have in our country. I have heard about the Keystone pipeline until I am sick of it because nothing being said about the pipeline is clear enough to understand exactly what is going on with the project. I tried to listen to each side talk about the sand oil in the pipeline from Canada, through Nebraska down to Texas to be refined. I tried very hard to understand why the pipeline was so important but I kept hearing conflicting information, depending on who was talking.
If Democrats talked about the pipeline it was all about the environmental considerations. If the Republicans are talking they point to the jobs, the new source of oil and lower fuel prices in our country. Neither side is being totally honest with us as they speak. They are not telling us about the pipeline already in place down to Oklahoma, which is not far from Texas on my map. A pipeline from Oklahoma to Houston refineries would be better in my opinion.
Why are they, both sides, hiding the fact that we already have pipelines from Alberta, through Illinois, to Oklahoma. The oil from Canada is already going down that pipeline. What happened was very ingenius in my estimation. They reversed the flow of oil in one of the pipelines. The one that existed already bringing oil up from Oklahoma oil fields to the refineries in Illinois. Once Illinois had more oil than they could refine, the northern flow of oil was not needed. A new company bought the Oklahoma oil production and the pipeline. They stopped the flow north and started oil coming south.
So, what do we do when we cannot get proper information. We go back to basics and do the research ourselves. That is exactly what I did and what I found was very interesting about the pipelines already in place that none of us are being told about, by either side. You would think the Democrats would yell the info from the highest mountain to defeat the pipeline legislation however we never heard anything about the pipeline not being needed. Could that be Canadian pressure on the USA being applied? Canada is desperately trying to cash in on their oil deposit. It is huge.
Lets talk about the sand oil and understand what this source yields in actual positive energy supply. It takes natural gas burning to first reduce the oil out of the sand. That means we are producing a negative amount of energy at this time. What I mean is we are paying more for the production of the oil than the oil energy value it will produce.
Canada has to sell their oil to us at a steep discount because this pipeline is the only one out of town right now. That is why they wanted the Keystone two pipeline legislation passed in our country. An image of lots of money changing hands in Washington DC comes to mind immediately. I wonder why? The net results of building this pipeline is a negative to this country in reality. The discount we get in Illinois will disappear as soon as the pipeline is moving oil south to Texas. Our costs to refine will go up therefore our costs of the fuel will go up. The citizens of the USA lose on the deal.
What Canada needs is a way to ship their oil overseas to the market that will pay the most for the oil, Europe, China, etc. The Keystone two pipeline would have done that but at the peril of every square inch of the USA the pipeline crossed. That includes a large fresh water aquifer and across a key river, the Missouri.
Now, you have to understand that corporations figure in accidents when they consider what their profits are going to be in the future. I don't know how many accidents on pipelines occur and what the percentage of chances of an accident occuring along the pipelines. The companies build in that accident risk in their overall plans to build and utilize a pipeline, shouldn't we consider the value of that pipeline vs the value of the land it will pass through?
All of this brings us back to where I began this blog, the dialogue in our country with citizens arguing about ideology, slinging disrespect across the board. Our politicians and political pundents are leading the parade. Ethics, morals and common sense is being replaced by a Jerry Springer culture because of this.
Get money out of politics, take the incentive of cheating out of the mix, bring ethics and morals up a few levels, bring back respectful speaking in politics and our society will begin to follow that lead. Talk about role models, they are the role models for society. Politicians should be made to understand that more than anything.
jayeye
