Posted on 01/25/2017 7:19:49 AM PST by bananaman22
President Donald Trump is taking his ‘America First’ energy plan from the campaign trail to the White House website, vowing to achieve energy independence from OPEC and any nations hostile to U.S. interests.
Trump is not the first U.S. President to have promised energy independence. At the height of the 1973 Arab oil embargo, Richard Nixon suggested a project to ensure that by the end of the 1970s, “Americans will not have to rely on any source of energy beyond our own”.
More than 40 years later, America continues to rely on foreign oil imports, and is a large importer and even larger consumer of crude oil. This makes the U.S. crude oil flows an integral part of the global oil market.
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>Trump is not the first U.S. President to have promised energy independence.<
He may not be but I’ll bet he’s the first President to achieve it.
Retards.
No kidding. These people are real morons
Richard Nixon is also the guy to suggest an EPA
More half-truths (half-truths=lie) from the Lying Left?
Nobody’s saying we don’t need OPEC oil CURRENTLY.
The point is we have opportunities in the FUTURE to become independent of OPEC oil if we take the right steps and allow full exploration, drilling, and pipelines.
Obama did his ever-loving best to make the US entirely dependent on foreign oil in order to keep the coffers of Arab OPEC nations full while driving the US economy to its knees.
Never again. This nation will be energy independent in the next eight years. Screw the globalists.
The GOP has been probably our biggest problem because they have greased the skids for the Marxists.
We have enough coal in the ground to provide our energy need for the next century. Of course the left knows this so they worked to keep it in the ground.
Reasonable environmental concerns should be noted, but the extreme rules that all but kill the coal industry does nothing but harm us.
There is oil off the coast of California. Open up drilling. There have been oil wells in California since oil was first discovered. What is the harm in drilling more wells? The harm is only to our own economy.
So the first thing that needs to be to become more energy independent it to cut back on all these extreme environmental laws.
This may have a side benefit, cutting funding to terrorist organization.
OPEC needs the US as a customer rather more than the US needs OPEC. Oil is for most purposes a fungible commodity.
Ignoring the fact the carter deliberately shut down working oil wells to create false shortage so’s we’d “need” OPEC
“So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them, because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted,” Obama said during a 2008 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle’s editorial board.
“Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad,” Obama said in 2008. “Because I’m capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it — whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to, uh, retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers.”
http://dailycaller.com/2015/08/03/flashback-2008-obama-promised-to-bankrupt-coal-companies/
An example is our, Washington State's, Patty Murray.
Yesterday Trump green lighted the Keystone which will move about 650,000 BD of Canadian crude to US gulf coast refineries. That's 2/3 of what is imported from Saudi. Only another 300,000 BD and they are pushed out of the US market.
Can we not use the word “retard”? it’s not political correctness to desist from insulting retarded people. Doctors are already pressuring moms to abort retarded and downs syndrome babies. Let’s show them some respect and not use them as an epithet.
This person must be bribed like all those politicians the arabs own around here and in europe.
I remember an old ad series put out by the coal industry in the mid-late 1970’s, the title line read:
The US has more coal than the middle east has oil. Let’s DIG IT!
I remember seeing it in a current (at the time) National Geographic.
You don’t have to use “retard” or any other word, and you are free to disapprove of those who do.
If you are going to set about proscribing the words that worry you, or impinge on your safe space, you are hanging around with the wrong crowd.
Those of us who live by the Constitution, including the First Amendment, take the unpleasant words and truths right along with the ones we most value and appreciate.
So I put your question back to you: Can we use the words we wish to use? Or do we have to check in with you first?
I’d LOVE to see derricks off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard.
Love, love, love it!
A recent report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office estimated that if half of the oil bound up in the rock of the Green River Formation could be recovered it would be "equal to the entire world's proven oil reserves."
Both the GAO and private industry estimate the amount of oil recoverable to be 3 trillion barrels.
"In the past 100 years — in all of human history -- we have consumed 1 trillion barrels of oil. There are several times that much here," said Roger Day, vice president for operations for American Shale Oil (AMSO).
The idea of keeping our oil reserve in the ground had some merit before OPEC became so powerful. How much wealth has been transferred from America to the Middle East, and how much of our own dollars have been spent on funding ways to kill us?
It is time to open our reserves and bankrupt OPEC.
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