Recently at a campaign event in Elkhart, Ind., Lord Barack Obama said, “As president, I will put the full resource of the federal government and the full energy of the private sector behind a self-image, overarching goal: in ten years, we’re going to eliminate the need for oil from the entire Middle East and Venezuela. All of it.”

This is numbingly dumb.

I understand His desire to push fuel alternatives. But, just what is it He believes will take its place?

Unfortunately for Lord Obama, most Americans realize is that we can’t inflate our way out of oil dependence.

His tire gauges are not the answer. Without divine help, tire gauges can’t create any energy. They can’t fill the energy shortfall that our country would experience without oil.

So, just what is it that the omniscient Messiah thinks we should do?

I mean come on, what are we going to do that we haven’t done yet?

We’re already doing wind. What we getting for it? Nothing. Or least not enough to matter. It is simply not a reliable source of energy that all America’s can depend upon at present. (Sorry T. Boone Pickens.)

We’re already doing solar. What we are getting for it? Nothing.

The dirty little secret is that if they were reliable sources of energy, someone would have already marketed them to a public that is all too eager to trade high-dollar petroleum for something less expensive. The Democrats know this.

Don’t get me wrong, they may work down the road. I’m not ridiculing them, but there’s nothing out there to realistically replace oil right now. Zilch, zero, nada.

So, what is the Messiah’s plan? He is not going to let us drill anywhere, so we can’t drill our way out by replacing this foreign oil with domestic. Listen to His answer.

Lord Obama said, “As President, I will put the full resources of the federal government, the full energy of the private sector behind solving the need . . . To do this, we’re going to invest $150 billion over the next decade (10 years) and leverage billions of dollars more in private capital to harness American energy and create five million jobs in the process; jobs that cannot be outsourced, good-paying jobs that will be created right here in Indiana and all across the United States of America.”

Ironically, we see where the U.S. Postal Service had a net loss of more than a billion dollars in the third quarter of this fiscal year.

So, the Messiah really thinks government can solve the energy dilemma when it can’t even solve its own problems with mail service? I mean really folks; there is a reason why the private sector is out performing the government in this and every other arena.

Throwing money at a problem doesn’t fix the problem. History proves it typically makes it worse.

Want proof?

Look at education. We throw more money into it than any other governmental program. Yet, for all the money invested into our schools, they continue to fail expectations.

Obama’s solution to solve our energy needs is just mind-numbingly stupid. More money is not the answer. In my humble opinion, getting the government out of the way is.

Because the real truth is, we can eliminate the need for Venezuelan oil by drilling in ANWR (Alaska National Wildlife Refuge), by starting the process today. But Democrats led by Obama and Pelosi won’t let this come to a vote.

I thought democracy was supposed to be government of the people. That means the people are supposed to decide, Lord Obama. The majority of Americans are calling for more domestic drilling. So get out of the way.

Let oil companies begin to drill even if under tough environmental restrictions.

Isn’t it interesting, Lord Obama, based on your own rhetoric and that of the Democratic Party, you say, “We can’t start drilling today, it’s not the answer. We can’t drill our way out of this; we’re not going to get any new oil for 10 years.”

But according to your plan, we’re not going to need any new oil for 10 years. We’re not going to need it until you get rid of the Venezuelan oil. So it seems like it would be a perfect time to go for ANWR. ANWR would come online just about the same time you want to stop using oil from Venezuela.

And, by the way, Sen. Obama, six more ANWRs and we could eliminate the need for Saudi and Middle Eastern oil too. Just six more ANWRs, and I believe scientists are saying the reserve in the Dakotas would just about qualify.

But, of course, with Sen. Obama and Democrats, we can’t have new oil in our energy plan.

No, it’s got to be something that hasn’t been invented yet or that doesn’t work, something that we can waste a whole lot of money on, the typical liberal answer to everything.

Larry Brooks is a staff writer for the Walker County Messenger. He can be reached by email at lbrooks@walkermessenger.com.