Andy Carpenter says US foreign policy is isolating the country from the rest of the oil-producing world. President McCain/Palin will only make this worse. They want the US to return to the 1950s and the Red Scare. Obama, on the other hand, wants to make friends with the world…

This from Investor’s Daily Edge:

Now, this is just a gut feeling …

But, doesn’t US foreign policy – that will continue under McCain… and in a year or two under Palin – make a strong case that the US is trying to isolate itself from the rest of the oil-producing world?

The US will get little or no oil or gas from Russia. None from Iran. There’s a chance it could get some from Iraq, but turn your back on that mess for a second and fugetaboutit!

On top of that, Saudi Arabia needs to manage its reserves to make them last. And, finally, McCain/Palin won’t kiss OPEC darling Hugo Chavez’s butt, so don’t count on much more than a dribble from Venezuela.

NIMBY’s Last Gasp

So, who is going to feed the beast?

In the end, the neo-isolationism will force US citizens to demand a rapid expansion of domestic production – offshore and on – or pay $5 to $6 at the pump.

The Canadians, who already sell the US more oil than anyone else, will go nuts in their oil sands in order to meet demand.

And, maybe this isn’t a bad strategy.

After all, the whole world is growing up… becoming mechanized and modernized in the image of the US. The US can’t keep coming up with excuses to attack every country that has major oil reserves.

Russia is going to sell to Europe and China.

The Africans will keep what they need and sell to Australia, the rest of Oceana, China and India.

The Azerbaijani’s will sell to China and India, as will the Iranians and, ultimately, the Iraqis.

This isolation plan will also sit well with the US’s ultra-conservative minority, which doesn’t want to be beholden to any darned foreigners… heck, they barely tolerate them bagging their groceries (maybe their wives don’t tell them about that) and mowing their lawns.

Lucy, I’m Home

So, by isolating itself, the US can return to Happy Days… the charming 1950s when women stayed home, African Americans stayed in their place and Mexicans stayed in Mexico.

And, don’t go all liberal smug on me here… there are million and millions of Americans who really crave the 1950s, so you must be sensitive to their feelings.

Even better, this neo-isolationism will find the petrochemical industry restored to greatness and its close friend the President, Sarah Palin, returning North America to its Industrial Revolution pollution standards – all in the oily name of national security.

Russia will be an enemy again. School kids will once again learn duck and cover. The environment will be a mess, food will be unsafe, but Social Security will suddenly become solvent because people will once again start dying younger, like in their early 70s.

Man, does this isolation stuff solve some big problems or what?

Story of O

And, the only guy who can screw this up is that Sen. Barrack Obama.

He wants to make friends with the world.

I mean, you know he’s a big-time, left leaning, equal opportunity-for-all-including-your-wives-daughters-and-graddaughters, pinko liberal.

But, maybe the nut bags on America’s fringes are correct and US Sen. Barrack Obama is also a God-fearing Muslim… not a God-fearing Christian… because any culture that actually believes you get a passel of virgins in Muslim heaven as a reward for crashing into the World Trade Center is naïve at a deep and scary level… as in naïve in its cultural DNA.

So maybe Sen. Obama is naïve enough to put forth a foreign policy strategy that wants to make friends across the globe and to restore the US’s reputation as mediator and not a kick-butt-cost-is-no-object instigator.

Because, you have to be inexperienced in the ways of US politics to think that twice in a lifetime someone can win the US presidency without a global enemy with which to threaten the electorate.  It’s the rule Bill Clinton broke and the real reason some people hate him … and the reason they’ll hate Sen. Obama if he can pull it off.

It scrambles the global petro status quo.

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