Posted on 09/02/2026 10:23:12 AM PDT by FLT-bird
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBjeEW0ibVM
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Within the next few years America will be an even more dominant player in the global energy market. Previously the natural gas in question had to be flared off in West Texas because there was no means of delivering it anywhere or left in the ground on the North Slope of Alaska for the same reason.
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We are currently the largest exporter of oil in the world. And our sweet variety is in great demand.
There are three main reasons the previous efforts failed. You notice the video just said they just failed.
The reason they failed was becasue of this:
Environmental and Climate Opposition: Grassroots groups and environmental organizations increasingly fight these projects.
Courts frequently revoke federal permits, finding that agencies failed to properly evaluate environmental, water, or wildlife impacts under laws like the Clean Water and Endangered Species Acts.
Shifting Political Support: Presidential permit approvals change with administrations, leaving multi-billion-dollar projects vulnerable to sudden cancellation by incoming leadership
Economic Pressures: Rising construction costs, persistent delays, and legal uncertainty make financial backers and energy companies increasingly wary of long-haul infrastructure investments
Every one of these was politicially motivated and the harm to the projects was spearheaded by liberals using their green agenda.
If this is so important, then the previous acts to curtail it is just another attack on the possible growth and flurishing of the US economy and its citizens. Biden actions and executive orders are a perfect example:
January 2021 Pause: Shortly after taking office, Biden signed an executive order directing a temporary pause on new oil and natural gas leasing on public lands and offshore waters while conducting a comprehensive environmental review.
January 2025 Permanent Withdrawal: In his final days in office in January 2025, Biden issued presidential memoranda under Section 12(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. This action permanently withdrew more than 625 million acres of federal waters from future oil and gas leasing.
Affected Areas: The 2025 withdrawal covered the entire Atlantic Coast, the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf (off Washington, Oregon, and California), the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and portions of Alaska’s Northern Bering Sea.
And before that Obama was in the mix:
There’s more, but I am long on this one already.
wy69
The problem is that oil companies have said over and over again that they have no desire or plan to increase drilling. They like the margins where they are and don’t want that to change. This has been their story for years now.
We can cheer DRILL DRILL all we want. They don’t want to.
Watch the video. We left natural gas in the ground in Alaska and flared it off in west Texas because we didn’t have the pipelines in place to deliver it. That piece of the puzzle is being built right now in multiple places.
bkmk
That turned out to be a fantastic video, I kept it to show people and to watch again.
Anyone who thinks it will be boring or too dry will be surprised, as I was.
I do this for a living. Take two minutes and lol I to what oil companies say about increasing production. There is zero interest in it as their shareholders want the margins that they are seeing now. It’s very public information.
Oil companies DO NOT want to increase production.
I agree. It behooves us to at least have a passing knowledge of these things. So many Americans don’t, and I think that we can (and do) have a passing knowledge of these things can help our movement grow.
Cutting spending wouldn't even come close. Taxing more, even worse. Both of those, if depended on, would fail as once they start biting into the debt because it would slow down the necessary expansion of the economy.
This shows why Trump, as the energy-centric President he is, is brilliant in his approach to energy. I heard Doug Burgum (Secretary of the Interior) discuss just that recently. We should harness exploitation of the wealth of resources we possess on public owned lands to take a share in solving this debt.
We will survive this debt by:
I know there are many in our Conservative MAGA-based movement who love, appreciate and feel real gratitude for the blessings that this country has bestowed on us and the world.
We believe that this country that is ours is damn well worth preserving, rescuing, and invigorating. That is a good thing for the entire world. Even for those who don't want to be involved. It is us or the ChiComs, and we know what they have done and will do.
Something that I liked about the video is not just that it was interesting, but that it covered it all so well and effectively that it is the only video that an average joe needs to watch to know all that he needs to know about the topic, and even the wife could get through it.
I thought it was very well done indeed.
Hey, rlmorel. Real nice summary about how we’re going to tackle our huge debt.
It just has the ring of truth in me when I see how they might do it...it felt like the only solution to not end up as an airplane flying up a box canyon in fog.
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