Posted on 01/02/2014 6:46:50 AM PST by Kaslin
Lots of things that should have happened in 2013 did not.
We were supposed to have long ago reached "peak oil" and an age of always-higher gas prices. Wind and solar power -- and a reduced lifestyle -- were our dismal future.
But someone or something did not cooperate with gloomy government predictions. After all the failed subsidized green companies, the postponement of the Keystone Pipeline, the radical restrictions of new gas and oil leasing on federal lands, and the promises for radical climate-change legislation curtailing carbon energy use, the United States nevertheless seems awash in old energy.
Gas prices have been going down. Oil and natural gas production is going up. America may soon be the largest coal exporter in the world. There is little worry over any more Middle East embargoes and cutoffs of oil.
Energy-intensive industries talk of relocating from Asia and Europe to a new America of cheaper electricity. The more the Obama administration wanted a landscape of alternative energy, the more it seemed traditional oil and natural gas gushed out of American soil.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Thanks to the Dud-in-Chief
The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob................
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In Honor of Dreams: The Declaration of Free Enterprise David Mace Sr (Author)
Once a dud always a dud. No matter how it is packaged it remains a dud.
You said it, and nothing can change it
I hear ya, but I’d rather have the cheap coal in this country and not help China, India, Russia, etc.
Public land must be returned for good use by the 2014 elections; and, reduce the EPA and DOE by half size or more.
Obama is in Hawaii walking around with Valerie Jarrett desperately searching for a donut bush so he can pick a fresh one for breakfast.
Doom and gloom predictions rarely pan out due to the efficiency of free markets.
Take away free markets, though . . .
VDH ping
Breitbart - Big Government 'Blindsided' President: Obama's Loose Grip on the Reins of State
No. Gas price is not going down. Price is twice what it should be, exactly as obama said he wanted it to be.
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