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So you’re wondering why gasoline is so expensive again.  Well, it’s called the great energy shell game but it’s a shell game with serious consequences.

I’m John Loeffler at steelonsteel.com and here’s how it seems to me.

Over six intelligence reports were published over the last 36 months in the US, the UK, Germany, New Zealand and the Middle East, warning that global oil supplies are no longer able to keep up with growing global demand, and that this situation becomes critical around 2014.

For years environmental groups and government agencies have been systemically working to shut down domestic production of oil, natural gas, nuclear, and coal because they were bad for the environment.

But they forgot to provide any viable substitutes.  Not to fear President Obama says we’re going to drive electric cars run off renewable wind and solar .. in just 14 years or so.

Really?  42% of energy comes from coal.  But greens don’t like it because it pollutes and produces CO2.   34% derives from natural gas but that’s bad they say because it produces CO2 and causes global warming.  15% comes from nuclear energy, but, hey, just look at Japan.

Another 7% is produced from hydro-electric.  Surely that’s clean and renewable?  Well, no tear out the dams the greens say.

OK, fine.  So what are you going to use to charge those millions of electric cars?  Less than 2% of our energy currently comes from wind and solar.  And this is going to become our main source of energy in just 10-15 years?  They’re dreaming.

As the mother of all energy shortages approaches, the U.S.’s foolish energy policy is painting us into a corner.  We are shutting down energy sources we do have before bringing online new sources we hope to have.

Does that seem reasonable to you?  It didn’t seem to me either. Let’s hope our politicians wake up before that energy storm gets here or $7.00 a gallon gas will be considered cheap.

I’m John Loeffler at steelonsteel.com and here’s how it seems to me.

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Freedom of religion is one of the most precious freedoms we own, but for Christians in the healthcare profession, that freedom is endangered.

I’m John Loeffler at steelonsteel.com and here’s how it seems to me.

Our religious beliefs are not just something we’re into like paintball or various types of music. Religious beliefs form a foundation, an ethical way of life that guides all of our moral decisions in an effort to please God.

But now Christian doctors, nurses, and pharmacists are being told their religious beliefs don’t count; that they must participate in morally repugnant procedures like abortions if they are to continue their careers.

They are being told to leave their beliefs at the door when they come to work; that they shouldn’t push their values on others; that public consensus or the law trumps their personal religious convictions.

But wait a minute! Why do others such as Planned Parenthood have the right to push their values on Christians? I thought this was all about freedom of choice? Isn’t that just a bit hypocritical?

After WW2, Nazi war criminals maintained they should not be held accountable for their crimes because the law at the time in Germany said it was OK for them to kill Jews and commit atrocities. They were just doing, they said, what the law and the public consensus said they could do.

Well we didn’t agree with them at the trials in Nuremburg, and God doesn’t agree with it either, and he doesn’t care what the common consensus is.

This trend cannot be tolerated and it’s time for Christian legal organizations to push back. After all, what good is freedom of religion if you can’t practice that religion?

I’m John Loeffler at steelonsteel.com and that’s how it seems to me.

John Loeffler is 40-year broadcast news veteran and host of the nationally syndicated talk show Steel on Steel (www.steelonsteel.com) on the IRN/USA/Family Radio Networks,and co-host of The Financial Sense Newshour (www.financialsense.com).

Copyright 2000-2011 Steel On Steel, All Rights Reserved.

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After the tragic shootings in Arizona, once again debate broke out as to whether or not angry political rhetoric should be permitted.

I’m John Loeffler at steelonsteel.com and here’s how it seems to me.

Our form of government has been an interesting experiment in freedom.  Instead of exchanging blows, bombs and bullets when we disagree,  our founding fathers proposed a better idea:  How about we just exchange words instead?  That’s why we have freedom of speech.

Now sometimes that speech is angry, but that’s nothing new to American politics because political history in our country has been full of angry rhetoric. Just look at the hateful things colonists said about King George during the time of the American revolution.

When someone says we have to ban hate speech, you then we have to define what hate or angry rhetoric is, and very quickly it becomes your political ideas somebody else doesn’t like.

But, they claim, it incites violence.  Well, every society unfortunately has mentally unstable outliers such as John Brown.  John Brown was a radical abolitionist in favor of doing away with slavery prior to the civil war.  You might agree with his cause, but he murdered people in pursuing it and he was executed for his crimes.

In reality when words – even angry words – are suppressed,  that’s when the real violence begins.  So be very very careful about listening to people who claim we shouldn’t tolerate speech they don’t like.  Because when words stop flowing, freedom and people begin to die.

I’m John Loeffler at steelonsteel.com and that’s how it seems to me.

John Loeffler is 40-year broadcast news veteran and host of the nationally syndicated talk show  Steel on Steel (www.steelonsteel.com) on the IRN/USA/Family Radio Networks,and co-host of The Financial Sense Newshour (www.financialsense.com).

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