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Transparency??? The President's Blocking Off-Shore Drilling And Not Telling US
The Lid/IBD ^ | 2/8/2010 | The Lid

Posted on 02/08/2010 8:21:02 PM PST by Shellybenoit

During his State of the Union Address President Obama gave us hope that the US would finally tap its own resources to make us energy independent:

But to create more of these clean energy jobs, we need more production, more efficiency, more incentives. That means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country. It means making tough decisions about opening new offshore areas for oil and gas development. It means continued investment in advanced biofuels and clean coal technologies

Sadly like most of the promises coming from this President this pledge came with an expiration date. Only this expiration had a short window, only five days. When President Obama sent out his budget, it showed a decline in revenue from oil land leases, meaning he planned to be more restrictive in allowing off-shore-drilling than before.

But, as Billy Mays used to say, there's more.

(Excerpt) Read more at yidwithlid.blogspot.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Government; Health/Medicine; Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous; Politics; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: climategate; education; energy; energyexploration; government; healthcare; military; obama; obamacare; palin; politics; transparency
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1 posted on 02/08/2010 8:21:02 PM PST by Shellybenoit
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To: Shellybenoit

Deep down in the weeds, things are very, very dirty. What they are doing used to be called “providing plausible deniability.” And Salazar is a dim bulb, to boot.


2 posted on 02/08/2010 8:25:50 PM PST by La Lydia
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To: Shellybenoit
Sadly like most of the promises coming from this President this pledge came with an expiration date.

Expiration date? You're too kind. Any and all promises from obama can be taken as lies, regardless of timing. Here's a hint, if obama's lips are moving, he is almost certainly lying. If he's promising something, the probability that he is telling the truth becomes almost immeasurably small.

The louder he proclaims something, the more likely his actions will be just the opposite. Anyone remember "no lobbyists?" How about "no more earmarks...line by line through the budget?" Or how about "post all legislation for public review 5 days before signing..." Or maybe "no back-room deals...transparancy" Or maybe "close Gitmo this year." Or "no new taxes on the middle class." Or the knee-slapper "bipartisan" (anything)

obama: liar-in-chief and worst President, ever.

3 posted on 02/08/2010 8:39:42 PM PST by ThunderSleeps (obama out now! I'll keep my money, my guns, and my freedom - you can keep the change.)
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To: La Lydia
Nice find, but the originating article...Drillgate: Secretary Salazar's Cover-Up...has already been posted.
However, if you hadn't posted this I wouldn't have known about it, so thanks.
4 posted on 02/08/2010 8:42:55 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Shellybenoit

We need a governor to tell the Feds to stick it where the sun don’t shine and start letting oil companies come in and drill.


5 posted on 02/08/2010 8:45:37 PM PST by VeniVidiVici ("Bring out yer dead! Bring out your dead!" - Cries of a Navy Corpseman)
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This is the the true fight about between repubicans and demoncrats...


6 posted on 02/08/2010 8:46:29 PM PST by Irisshlass
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To: Shellybenoit; Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; ...

The list, ping


7 posted on 02/08/2010 8:49:08 PM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: ThunderSleeps; Shellybenoit

“Any and all promises from obama can be taken as lies, regardless of timing. Here’s a hint, if obama’s lips are moving, he is almost certainly lying.”

When it comes to lying, Dumb’O makes BJ look like a piker.


8 posted on 02/08/2010 8:49:24 PM PST by aquila48
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To: philman_36

I didn’t post it.


9 posted on 02/08/2010 8:50:58 PM PST by La Lydia
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To: Shellybenoit

The only thing transparent in the 0bama Administration is the piece of Saran Wrap[tm] that his birth certificate, college transcripts and graduation diplomas are written on.


10 posted on 02/08/2010 8:54:01 PM PST by HighlyOpinionated (The left have become lawless. Every strangling edict they issue carries an exemption for themselves.)
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To: Nachum

Of course he is transparent. We are clearly getting to see what an ass he is. :-)


11 posted on 02/08/2010 8:54:15 PM PST by Victoria Delsoul
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To: Victoria Delsoul

Ha!


12 posted on 02/08/2010 8:54:50 PM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Shellybenoit

He will not let us drill off shore, but has his newly appointed buddy, Pres. of the Export/Import Bank, provide for a 10-12 billion dollar project off the coast of Brazil. For his fellow traveler buddy Lula, who supported the ousted leftist X-Pres. of Honduras.

BAD BAD Folks, these Commies and their friends.

Traitors, here. And enemies of the Citizen of the U.S.


13 posted on 02/08/2010 8:56:27 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.)
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Salazar announced plans, as the energy news service Greenwire put it, that "will require more detailed environmental reviews, more public input and less use of a provision to streamline leasing." In other words, we were being promised more stalling, not more drilling.

Salazar and his boss are shills for OPEC.

We send several hundred billion dollars a year out of the country buying transportation fuels. That money funds other countries' national budgets and employs their people, which is great for them; that money could be spent here, putting our people to work and putting money into our tax coffers. Several hundred billion a year spent here on real energy development would transform our economy.

Had he spent the falsely named "stimulus" money driving us toward energy independence, or better yet had they not spent one dime of "stimulus" but had instead simply opened the door to energy development in Colorado, and Utah, and offshore California, and offshore Alaska we could have short-circuited this recession and turned it around, permanently.

We have enough coal, and enough oil shale, and enough arctic oil to completely transform this economy. We just have to fire the people who keep selling us out to the Saudis.

14 posted on 02/08/2010 8:56:47 PM PST by marron
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To: Shellybenoit; pandoraou812
An e-mail dated Oct. 27, 2009 from MMS Director Liz Birnbaum to other senior MMS and DOI officials, including Salazar's chief of staff, confirmed the result and discussed ways of hiding it from the American people.

Nothing with this administration surprises me anymore. 0baMao's intent is clearly to destroy this country.

15 posted on 02/08/2010 9:02:29 PM PST by TigersEye (It's the Marxism, stupid! ... And they call themselves Progressives.)
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To: Shellybenoit

Obama lies again. We’ll throw this in the stack right next to tort reform, CSPAN cameras, earmarks, and the rest.


16 posted on 02/08/2010 9:26:58 PM PST by ConservativeHideout
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To: Shellybenoit

He is also lying about nuclear power. He blocked development of a breeder reactor over the protest of his own energy department. Several countries have breeder reactors which result in a more efficient fuel cycle and far less nuclear waste.


17 posted on 02/08/2010 9:31:01 PM PST by gleneagle
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To: Shellybenoit

If you want to know what he is up to often all you need to do is simply reverse what he says, especially if it something that would be good for our country.


18 posted on 02/08/2010 9:51:23 PM PST by Bellflower (If you are left DO NOT take the mark of the beast and be damned forever.)
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Aw Comm’on!

You’re being harsh on Zer0!

He said what he was told to say by TOTUS; But TOTUS had not yet been programmed with the latest softness coming from Princess Pelosi, PigNose Waxman, Harry Reid; so Zer0 didn’t really know what to say.

Perhaps, once Andy Stern and SEIU checked in tomorrow morning, TOTUS could be re-programmed with “the truth”!!


19 posted on 02/08/2010 10:09:14 PM PST by Noob1999 (LOOSE LIPS, SINK SHIPS)
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To: La Lydia
I didn’t post it.
I'm aware of that. You merely linked to a blog based on the original article.
There is much more information in the original article.
He got a hit from me so why the griping?
(and no, I'm not sending 36 dollars)
20 posted on 02/08/2010 10:11:01 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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