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| kbp | Mar 25 2012, 07:19 PM Post #196 |
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Is Trayvon news starting to dwindle, having bits of truth knock it off the table? Barry, you better tell us more about your son. |
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| Baldo | Mar 25 2012, 07:30 PM Post #197 |
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Obama's energy lies Playing politics with gas prices and a pipeline In his weasel-worded decision to block a perfectly harmless pipeline that would have provided America with jobs, energy and hope, President Barack Obama betrayed his country, lied and then, just the other day, halfway reversed himself, once more fraudulently. Not so long ago, this country was in a terrible energy fix. Thanks largely to China and India, world demand for oil was going up while supplies remained limited, meaning prices were soaring as dependence on production in the volatile Middle East grew. However, owing in part to new technology, we found vast new possibilities to obtain oil and gas in the United States, and our neighbors were discovering new resources, too. Canadian tar sands, it turns out, hold 100 billion barrels of obtainable oil, which is to say, we have Saudi Arabia II sitting right next door. Stretching a pipeline from Canada to Texas refineries is no big deal in a country with 2 million miles of pipeline already. What's more, there is good besides oil that would flow from it. It would create thousands of jobs and experts note that a pipeline is far cheaper and safer than other modes of transportation, especially shipping it across the ocean. The Keystone XL pipeline, in short, would assist in a bonanza of multi-billions, but some environmentalists were unhappy because this tar-sands oil has a lot of carbon dioxide in it, and, by their calculations, would contribute to global warming. There were answers to their concerns. One was that if we don't use the oil, China will. China then gets all the advantages, and any increased global-warming risk would still be there....snipped ...Suddenly, gas prices are up dramatically again, and Obama is in a political pickle. His Chevy Volt and Solyndra solutions are like putting out a forest fire with a squirt gun that doesn't work. His record on denying drilling hither and yon, and a past, reported statement about not seeing oil as a solution to anything, hardly help the country, especially since he is thus sending oil markets signals to increase prices more. Increased production in our own land has happened despite him instead of because of him. And now he is going to get out of the mess by promising half a pipeline that will accomplish zip without a northern part Nebraskans along with greenies particularly don't want? If the American public is dumb enough to buy all that - and I don't think so - we deserve this guy and the gas prices that come with him. Jay Ambrose, formerly Washington director of editorial policy for Scripps Howard newspapers, is a columnist living in Colorado. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/obama_energy_lies_htZgwdjovVx2R93bTU4ZEK Obama can't be that obtuse. Rejecting the Keystone Pipeline was pure idiocy. As this article states there are thousands of miles of oil lines throughout the USA. Some of it is high pressure JP8 fuel. Lots of lies out there by the Greenies, excuse me , Marxists. Who knows, maybe he is protecting his fellow brothers reserves in Saudi Arabia. |
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| cks | Mar 25 2012, 08:04 PM Post #198 |
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Filled up my car yesterday - paid over four dollars a gallon. |
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| kbp | Mar 26 2012, 08:41 AM Post #199 |
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We have "all of the above" EXCEPT the areas Barry has ruled we cannot drill. His argument is moot, he has not asked for more FREE MONEY to spend on all the alternative energies and nobody has stopped the spending he put in place there. He's blaming ghosts, the make-believe group of 'bad guys' that put up an imaginary obstacle to prevent his "green" market from succeeding. The irony on top of this fantasy is to also blame "speculation". The policies in place - both foreign affairs in the mideast and drilling limits at home - give speculators good reason to bet oil prices will increase as demand keeps growing, we cannot drill for the oil we have. |
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| Baldo | Mar 26 2012, 03:37 PM Post #200 |
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Casper can be very intimidating![]() |
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| kbp | Mar 26 2012, 04:09 PM Post #201 |
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Salazar Refutes GOP Claim That Interior Dept. Favors Only Green Energy By Christopher Goins March 23, 2012 (CNSNews.com) – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar Friday dismissed allegations by Capitol Hill Republicans that the Interior Department is making it difficult for any kind of energy production in the U.S. other than for alternative energy. “The attacks we are getting are in my view being spread by the prophets of falsehood,” Salazar said during a telephone press conference. “They simply are not true. The reality of it is that we have an all of the above energy strategy that the president has spoken often about that.” The top Interior Department official made his comments in response to a reporter who asked: “You’ve been getting some flak from Republicans on the Hill of taking resources, making it difficult for wind and solar, but other developments of energy on public lands. Would you go ahead and respond now to any complaints that this will shut off areas that wind developers might want to look at? And direct them to areas specifically that the administration wants them to use? Salazar added: “We’ve been implementing it here in the department from day one. And we are proud of the fact that in three years alone we have doubled the amount of renewable energy here in the United States. We are now generating 20 percent of the entire world’s wind power here in the United States of America.” Salazar went on to say that oil production on public lands is 13 percent higher in the United States in the last three years than in the last three years of George W. Bush’s presidency. However, according to the Government Accountability Office, green energy projects account for 55.5 percent of federal subsidies for electricity production -- only 5 percent went to oil and gas projects. And, as CNSNews.com has reported, oil production on federally owned lands has actually declined since 2010, according to the Congressional Research Service. One energy expert told CNSNews.com, meanwhile, that statistics from Salazar’s own department directly contradict the secretary’s comments. “The administration is trying every way they can to deny the truth and deceive the American public,” said Benjamin Cole, Director of Communications for the Institute for Energy Research. “According to the production numbers put out by Ken Salazar's own department, oil production was down 13 percent on federal lands. Offshore production alone down 104 million barrels, owing largely to the Obama administration's drilling moratorium,” Cole said. “The last three years of this administration have been marked by abysmal leasing activity, a regulatory blockade against oil shale production, and a plan for development of offshore resources that closes access to the most promising oil reserves in the outer continental shelf and Alaska,” Cole added. In fact, according to statistics from the Energy Information Administration, an agency in the U.S. Department of Energy, crude oil production on Federal and Indian lands is down 13 percent from fiscal year 2010 to fiscal year 2011. (Although the Energy Information Administration serves as a function of the Department of Energy, the EIA doesn’t do anything but compile statistics from other agencies such as the Department of the Interior, Cole says.) “For example, the recent EIA report ‘Sales of Fossil Fuels Produced from Federal and Indian Lands, FY 2003 through FY 2011,’ uses data from the Office of Natural Resources Revenue, an Interior Department agency,” Cole told CNSNews.com. Cole said that statistics compiled by the Institute for Energy Research show that in the Obama administration leases for expanding domestic energy production have been down from every presidential administration since Ronald Reagan. According to IER: “The average annual leases issued during the Obama administration is down 35.5 percent from the George W. Bush administration, down 50.7 percent from the Clinton administration, down 69.5 percent from the George H.W. Bush administration, and down 78.9 percent from the Reagan administration.” Salazar, meanwhile, said that both the Interior Department and President Obama were taking an “All of the Above” approach when it came to energy. “It’s a strategy that relies on producing more oil and gas here in America,” he said. “But also -- and very importantly -- more biofuels, more fuel-efficient cars, and more renewable energy like wind and solar power,” he said. Edited by kbp, Mar 26 2012, 04:11 PM.
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| Mason | Mar 26 2012, 04:16 PM Post #202 |
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. What until you see the sympathy they have for us - POST ELECTION. Obama already gave his advice to an unemployed man - get a new car. . Edited by Mason, Mar 26 2012, 04:17 PM.
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| wingedwheel | Mar 26 2012, 05:53 PM Post #203 |
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Since Salazar's name came up I will once again link this video of him saying he wouldn't allow drilling offshore even if gas hit $10 a gallon. Not Even At $10 A Gallon? |
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| Kerri P. | Mar 27 2012, 08:29 PM Post #204 |
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http://news.yahoo.com/poll-most-americans-disapprove-obama-gas-prices-214038703.html Americans angry with Obama over gas prices Reuters – 3 hrs ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than two-thirds of Americans disapprove of the way President Barack Obama is handling high gasoline prices, although most do not blame him for them, according to a Reuters/Ipsos online poll released on Tuesday. Sixty-eight percent disapprove and 24 percent approve of how Obama is responding to price increases that have become one of the biggest issues in the 2012 presidential campaign. In the past month, U.S. fuel prices have jumped about $0.30 per gallon to about $3.90 and the Republicans seeking to replace the Democrat in the November 6 election have seized upon the issue to attack his energy policies. The disapproval reaches across party lines, potentially spelling trouble for Obama in the election, although the online survey showed voters hold oil companies or foreign countries more accountable than politicians for the price spike. "Obama is getting heat for it but people aren't necessarily blaming him for it," said Chris Jackson, research director for Ipsos public affairs. Majorities of Republicans, Democrats and independents all disapprove of the president's handling of gas prices, according to the online poll of 606 Americans conducted March 26-27. Eighty-nine percent of Republicans said they disapproved, as did 52 percent of Democrats and 73 percent of independents. snip..... Edited by Kerri P., Mar 27 2012, 08:32 PM.
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| Baldo | Mar 28 2012, 09:03 AM Post #205 |
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Americans angry with Obama over gas prices Just one of the reasons I think Obama is in real trouble come November. One has to go back to Jimmy Carter's years to see an economy in such shambles, even then real estate wasn't devastated. California's unemployment rate remained unchanged in February at 10.9 percent & we are paying over an average of $4.30/gallon for unleaded. It isn't pretty. Hopeful economists say California is improving and by 2014 we will see unemployment down to 7.7% Such good news Edited by Baldo, Mar 28 2012, 09:03 AM.
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| kbp | Mar 29 2012, 09:40 AM Post #206 |
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Republicans vote to subpoena oil moratorium documents House Republicans voted Wednesday to authorize congressional subpoenas demanding that the Obama administration turn over documents it has refused to provide in two investigations, including one looking at the post-Gulf of Mexico drilling moratorium. The 23-17 vote in the Natural Resources Committee escalated yet another showdown between the administration and House Republicans, who have flexed their investigative powers on everything ranging from immigration to gunrunning to land use. In the moratorium case, the committee is trying to figure out whether politics were behind edits the Interior Department made to its six-month Gulf drilling ban report, which suggested its own panel of experts agreed with the moratorium, even though the engineers actually opposed that decision. The other subpoenas seek documents on whether the administration is following the rules as it tries to rewrite coal-production regulations. snip The oil moratorium has dogged the Obama administration. Interior Secretary Kenneth L. Salazar’s report accompanying the July 2010 moratorium seemed to imply that the panel of engineers he had asked to review the moratorium concurred with the decision, though most of the engineers actually disagreed. After the engineers protested, the White House at the time acknowledged it had disregarded their scientific conclusions in favor of a “policy” decision - which the administration has the authority to do. The latest oil-production numbers from 2011 showed a drop on federal lands, which analysts said was chiefly attributable to the drilling moratorium. |
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| Baldo | Mar 29 2012, 11:27 AM Post #207 |
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BTW they are having real problems in the UK regarding fuel Threat of strike leads to UK petrol panic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlPH2liD46o&feature=g-all-u&context=G26dcd4dFAAAAAAAAAAA |
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| Mason | Mar 29 2012, 12:17 PM Post #208 |
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is this coming? Obama: Trayvon was walking to save this country! . |
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| kbp | Mar 29 2012, 01:53 PM Post #209 |
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I wonder if Trayvon was pro-green?
Playing on those magic words ...deficit reduction Anyone with a real pair hangin' would just pull out Barry's budget ...the one NO DEMOCRATS in the House would even vote for ...and stick with that topic of deficit reduction ...maybe ask for the Democratic Senate's budget if opposition wishes to debate what has been happening in the way of deficit reduction the last 3 years. Another view here is to blame the BIG OIL companies, that's BIG MONEY = GOP in the eyes of many ...just disregard the fact their pension plans own a great deal of stock in those companies. Think any Republicans will put together a list detailing WHO actually gets those credits ....how much goes to BIG OIL and how much goes to smaller oil companies? Edited by kbp, Mar 29 2012, 01:55 PM.
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| Kerri P. | Mar 29 2012, 02:29 PM Post #210 |
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http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/4-gas-no-justification-high-prices-says-fmr-160209651.html $4 Gas: “There Is No Justification” for High Prices, Says Fmr. Senator Dorgan |
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