Posted on 03/13/2009 2:50:48 AM PDT by Scanian
President Obama’s biofuel and oil policy is on a collision course to a national catastrophe. Yet, the alarms are not sounding and the red lights are not flashing.
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu is not warning Obama that his oil policy will increase our dependence on foreign oil. Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Administration, is not alerting the President that his oil policy will increase carbon dioxide emissions. National Security Advisor James L. Jones is not cautioning the President that his biofuel and oil policy increases the US vulnerability to a Second Arab Oil Embargo. Christina Roner of the Council of Economic Advisors is not counseling Obama that his biofuel policy continues a 30-year-old blunder wasting taxpayers multiple billions of dollars annually. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack is not warning the President that his biofuel policy is doomed to failure because of the impossibility of providing sufficient bio products. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is not advising Obama that his tax on oil will destroy proven US oil reserves.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
No one dare tell the emperor he’s naked?
As soon as we have reasonable economic recovery, or even the expectation of recovery, oil prices will begin another climb upwards. Obama’s harebrained policies guarantee higher energy prices that might well exceed what we experienced during the last half of 2008.
If we have a quick global economic recovery, combined with Obama’s policies, I believe we will certainly blow pass the 2008 price levels.
No nuclear, stop coal, no drilling and raise gasoline-diesel taxes, you are so right about energy costs skyrocketing.
How quickly we forget.
Naked? More like deranged and nekkid!
Most definitely.
Obamas’ not yet fully appreciated energy plans, in general, are designed to reduce ALL traditional energy production and resource use it seems. More energy dependence in the future seems quite likely. Economic recovery requires an increase in energy use...more electrons must flow,...ergo, vastly reduced chances of economic recovery with goals of less energy usage.
A little attended subject is our already existing DEPENDENCE on Russia for our nuclear powerplant uranium. From this link:
http://www.uraniumseek.com/news/UraniumSeek/1236922724.php
Excerpt: “ The U.S. has expanded its nuclear power plant capabilities significantly since Three Mile Island. It’s been under the radar screen, but we are consuming many, many more pounds of uranium than in the 1980s when the bottom fell out of the U.S. uranium business. We currently consume about 55 million pounds a year, and we’re producing about four million. About half of that supply shortfall is presently being filled by the Russians in their Megatons to Megawatts Program, but that’s all going to end in 2013.
U.S. nuclear power plants are going to continue to use 55 to 60 million pounds of uranium a year, and that supply has to come from somewhere. Whether government supports the expansion of nuclear power plants or not, that supply shortfall still exists.”
China is our banker. Russia controls our uranium, WE GET HALF OUR URANIUM FROM RUSSIA AND WE ARE NOT USING WHAT WE HAVE AT HOME?!!...and, just as environmental concerns are ready to block drilling in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska, so additional uranium mining in Wyoming (the subject of the article excerpted above) and New Mexico may be ultimately blocked by this administration by direct or indirect means.
Energy policy is not apparently aimed in any way to assist the US in a constructive way.
Anybody with even a superficial interest in the energy issue can tell that the environmental wackos will be the death of us.
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