Also entirely predictable in our era of the end of cheap energy is the sentiment that there is nothing more important than reducing energy prices. Some may argue this for the sake of overall economic growth and job retention, and others may argue this for the sake of the poor–who are, especially in public transit-challenged America–the hardest hit by higher energy prices.
Taking up the cause of the poor is Niger Innis and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). CORE is arguing that for the sake of those who are hurting from high energy prices, we need to take all opportunities that are available to us to get oil out of the ground and on the market.
However, I have to point out that I’ve seen Niger Innis a number of times on Fox and he is a strong advocate for traditionally conservative viewpoints–going beyond just the denial of anthropogenic climate change to making blanket statements about the environmentalists’ undue influence on Congress. So I suspect that at least some of his energy on this subject is coming from traditional right/left legacy thinking. Which is OK; we’re all used to that by now, but I’m looking forward to the conversation being drained somewhat of yesterday’s thinking about yesterday’s perceived problems, all divided along yesterday’s lines of battle.
