Video: Energy independence could be as easy as 1-2-3

Hot Air ^ | December 6,2011 | Tina Korbe

[Hojczyk]

Bet you’ll never guess which country is the world’s largest holder of natural gas, oil and coal resources combined. That’s right. This country. According to a report released today by the Institute for Energy Research, the United States has 1.4 trillion barrels of recoverable reserves of oil — or more than the entire world has used in 150 years. That’s enough to fuel the United States for the next 250 years. Add natural gas and coal resources to that and we’re good to go for all the foreseeable future.

But, thanks to backward energy policies, we’re still dependent on foreign sources of oil. What is perhaps even worse — at least at a time of 8.6 percent unemployment — is that those backward energy policies that restrict access to our own resources also force us to forgo badly needed jobs. Research shows that reduced job creation — not increased layoffs — explains the high unemployment we have now. Here is a readymade way to create jobs, which, again, the president says is his top priority. In fact, the IER report shows we could create 1 million jobs just by (1) unlocking more federal lands, (2) developing shale resources and (3) eliminating excessive regulation.

Why, why, why is this controversial again? I understand that fossil fuels are nonrenewable and that people are properly concerned about the potential for their total depletion. But what good does it do to conserve them just to never use them? Or, better, why is it so hard to grasp that depletion is hundreds and hundreds of years away?

[WOBBLY BOB]

Unfortunately we’re alo the world’s largest holder of leftist , “green” , jackwagon, democrats .

[Sans-Culotte]

Unfortunately we’re alo the world’s largest holder of leftist , “green” , jackwagon, democrats.

Yes, with "Americans" like those...

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one big problem with the video and 90% of all political advertising - it states we could get upwards of 1,000,000 jobs. Who has not heard that message before? Why not let the working folks know what kind of jobs they produce i.e welders (80K starting salary) accountants $50K salary, truckers at 80k and steel workers at 60K - (these are numbers not facts - which they would know) How are peopel to be upset about the delays and the problems is there is no ‘What is in it for me?” Tell a few folks that the last time we had too much oil the price at the pump was 1.20. That iwll get their attention - all these vague numbers do nothing to help people “compare the data” to themselves.

[q_an_a]

one big problem with the video and 90% of all political advertising - it states we could get upwards of 1,000,000 jobs. Who has not heard that message before? Why not let the working folks know what kind of jobs they produce i.e welders (80K starting salary) accountants $50K salary, truckers at 80k and steel workers at 60K - (these are numbers not facts - which they would know) How are peopel to be upset about the delays and the problems is there is no ‘What is in it for me?” Tell a few folks that the last time we had too much oil the price at the pump was 1.20. That iwll get their attention - all these vague numbers do nothing to help people “compare the data” to themselves.

[q_an_a]

one big problem with the video and 90% of all political advertising - it states we could get upwards of 1,000,000 jobs. Who has not heard that message before? Why not let the working folks know what kind of jobs they produce i.e welders (80K starting salary) accountants $50K salary, truckers at 80k and steel workers at 60K - (these are numbers not facts - which they would know) How are peopel to be upset about the delays and the problems is there is no ‘What is in it for me?” Tell a few folks that the last time we had too much oil the price at the pump was 1.20. That iwll get their attention - all these vague numbers do nothing to help people “compare the data” to themselves.