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TEXAS OIL DISADVANTAGE 1NC SHELL (2/3)2) Alternative energy lowers oil prices – trades off US Fed News, 5/6/08. “SKYROCKETING GAS PRICES HIGHLIGHT NEED TO USE AMERICAN RESOURCES” http://www.lexis.com/research/retrieve?_m=08d0fc06b2da1455085f3578e4de428d&docnum=6&_fmtstr=FULL&_startdoc=1&wchp=dGLbVtz-zSkAl&_md5=f4756b7493583c302d5375ed8a4b39a8 Despite promises of a "commonsense plan" to lower gas prices, the Democrats have failed to act on the number one issue affecting Kentuckians' pocketbooks since taking over the Majority in Congress. Our country must invest in alternative energy sources in order to reduce our energy dependence and lower fuel costs. It is time Congress works in a bipartisan manner to create a balanced energy solution that promotes conservation efforts and increases energy production on our own soil. Speaker Nancy Pelosi has rejected commonsense solutions that increase production in America and use our own resources. The law of supply and demand is a staple of economics. It is commonsense that when we increase domestic supply, gas prices will fall. I have voted for and supported a number of proposals that would do just that. For example, the No More Excuses Energy Act (H.R. 3089) would encourage new refinery construction, allow for environmentally responsible exploration of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), and provide tax incentives to encourage the construction of new nuclear power plants. C. IMPACT 1) TEXAS’ ECONOMIC COLLAPSE SPILLS OVER TO US ECONOMY— TEXAS’ ECONOMY MIRRORS U.S. ECONOMY Texas Workforce Comission, September, 2002. “The texas economy: an age of global economic opportunity”, http://socrates.cdr.state.tx.us/iSocrates/Files/TexasEconomy2002.pdf In years past, conversations about national economic trends or phenomena might have been viewed as of secondary concern to Texans. After all, an economy driven by Oil and Gas, related industrial sectors and other natural resources moved almost counter-cyclically to the national economy. Today, however, the Texas economy mirrors the U.S. economy much more closely and national and global trends have a greater bearing on the direction and economic health of the state. Like the U.S. economy, the Texas economy has many facets. When the question is asked, "where has the growth been?" the answer is not always obvious. Consider just one part, such as job growth, for example. Employment growth or decline can be discussed in terms of geographic region, such as the state of Texas or particular regions within it. It can also be viewed in terms of industries or specific occupations. Moreover, job growth can be viewed as both percentage change and as absolute change. The following sections will address the question of where growth, decline, and projected changes have occurred in Texas from a demographic, geographic, industry, occupational, and earnings perspective. TEXAS OIL DISADVANTAGE (3/3)2) ECONOMIC COLLAPSE CAUSES EXTINCTION Bearden, 2000 (T.T, Director, Association of Distinguished American Scientists, http://www.seaspower.com/EnergyCrisis-Bearden.htm) History bears out that desperate nations take desperate actions. Prior to the final economic collapse, the stress on nations will have increased the intensity and number of their conflicts, to the point where the arsenals of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) now possessed by some 25 nations, are almost certain to be released. As an example, suppose a starving North Korea {[7]} launches nuclear weapons upon Japan and South Korea, including U.S. forces there, in a spasmodic suicidal response. Or suppose a desperate China — whose long-range nuclear missiles (some) can reach the United States — attacks Taiwan. In addition to immediate responses, the mutual treaties involved in such scenarios will quickly draw other nations into the conflict, escalating it significantly. Strategic nuclear studies have shown for decades that, under such extreme stress conditions, once a few nukes are launched, adversaries and potential adversaries are then compelled to launch on perception of preparations by one's adversary. The real legacy of the MAD concept is this side of the MAD coin that is almost never discussed. Without effective defense, the only chance a nation has to survive at all is to launch immediate full-bore pre-emptive strikes and try to take out its perceived foes as rapidly and massively as possible. As the studies showed, rapid escalation to full WMD exchange occurs. Today, a great percent of the WMD arsenals that will be unleashed, are already on site within the United States itself {[8]}. The resulting great Armageddon will destroy civilization as we know it, and perhaps most of the biosphere, at least for many decades. |