Posted on 02/22/2012 10:11:48 PM PST by Nachum
The annual expo of oil and gas prospects and industry networking, NAPE Conference, is blasting President Barack Obama and Texas EPA Czar Al Armendariz, a professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Tx. for enforcing a stranglehold of regulations against them.
According to the Houston Chronicle, speakers are sparing no jabs in taking the White House to task for three years of policies that they say have reinforced the nations tether to oil imports and kept gasoline prices high.
Bruce Vincent, president of Houston-based oil and natural gas producer Swift Energy, said, these have been the most difficult three years from a policy standpoint that Ive ever seen in my career. Theyve done nothing but restrict access and delay permitting. The Obama administration, unfortunately, has threatened this industry at every turn.
As reported by the Houston Chronicle, Vincent and other speakers, including former Shell executive John Hoffmeister, criticized the administration for reducing access to federal lands for fossil fuel production and for efforts to expand the federal reach into the regulation of the oil industry.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasblog.com ...
Yeah, Bill O’Rielly had some oil guy on and after extracting the answer O’Rielly wanted, we knew from Sarah Palin there is enough gas in the US, there was no interest into getting a full explanation, but I think the guy was saying,
that just refining oil for the US market would be smaller volume and would end up costing more. But thanks to O’Rielly, we may never know...
O’Reilly has been totally one-dimensional in his crusade against oil companies. His position that producing more oil would only increase exports deliberately ignores the benefits of increased domestic production such as: JOBS, Oil Extraction royalties and more national energy security.
Barack 'Jackwagon' Obama only hears the voice of those committed to his Marxist vision.
No Plan, No Leadership! -- We much resist! I say we much!
Countdown until Jackwagon leaves Office: 332 days as of February 23, 2012.
They’re not happy with our wonderful occupant of the Orville Orifice? They must be racist. Someone alert Sheila Jackson Lee and Cynthia McKinney.
They’re not happy with our wonderful occupant of the Orville Orifice? They must be racist. Someone alert Sheila Jackson Lee and Cynthia McKinney.
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