Our National No-Energy Policy (Good writeup on what not to do on energy policy during a recession)

american thinker ^ | 2/11/10 | Claude Sandroff

[bestintxas]

Economically sensible states including Texas, Louisiana, and Pennsylvania are developing their enormous, non-traditional, "tight" natural gas reserves. In the process, they are transforming America's energy profile for the next half-century in the face of a federal government indifferent at best to this energy revolution.

In Texas, drillers have become so adept at safely extracting natural gas from shale that wells are often located in suburban subdivisions. In Louisiana, formerly impoverished residents of northwestern counties are now millionaires thanks to exploration leases and production royalties. And in western Pennsylvania, old steel towns have been reinvigorated by natural gas, as well as by the shops and restaurants that follow industrial development. In these places, a high school graduate can complete an extensive ninety-day course in wellhead techniques and earn $50K per year upon graduation.

And then there are states like New York, which, though heavily in debt and losing productive residents by the thousands every year, continues to drive away the nation's best drillers. When New York denied Chesapeake Energy the right to drill in the Catskills because of exaggerated fears about watershed pollution, Chesapeake's CEO Aubrey McClendon remarked: "Why go through the brain damage of that when we have so many other opportunities?"

[bestintxas]

It is really telling the piece in here about Spain's demise(19% unemployment) following its zeal to go to green jobs.

Great model for Zer0 to follow, ,right?

[MichiganConservative]

What should the government’s energy policy be in times of recession? The same as it should be at all other times: LEAVE IT ALONE AND DO NOT INTERFERE!

[Recon Dad]

They’re kicking ass in North Dakota and Montana with oil sands!

[GailA]

Bambi doesn't keep his promises...so buyer beware.

Obama Plans to Undo Bush Rules on Oil Drilling on Public Lands, Among Others

http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/11/10/obama-plans-to-undo-bush-rules-on-oil-drilling-on-public-lands-among-others/

December 4, 2008

Obama may reverse Bush policies on stem cells, drilling, abortion

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/11/obama.executive.orders/index.html

Obama blocks offshore drilling Feb 11, 2009 ... Wednesday, February 11, 2009 ..

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/11/drilling-ban-revisited/