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Flower Power(Obama`s Luddite Energy Policy)
http://www.spectator.org/ ^ | 8/14/2008 | Peter Ferrara

Posted on 08/14/2008 8:48:26 AM PDT by Para-Ord.45

Just look at the legislation Obama has introduced in the Senate. The Oil SENSE Act, S. 115, would repeal the authorization in the 2005 Energy Policy Act for the Interior Department to study and inventory how much oil might be available under America's Outer Continental Shelf. Moreover, the bill would prohibit expanded use of 3-D seismic technology to locate and measure offshore oil deposits, even by the oil companies.

As columnist Deroy Murdock explains, "Obama's Don't Ask, Don't Drill policy spurns [modern technology] and embraces outdated information gathered with obsolete instruments. This is the audacity of ignorance."

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; barackobama; crushobama; democrats; drillheredrillnow; drilling; energy; energyplan; energypolicy; ferrara; gasprices; nobama08; obama; obamatruthfile; offshoredrilling; oil; oilsenseact; s115
-SO IF AMERICA'S economy is not going to run on oil and gas, what is it going to run on?

Don't bet on nuclear power. In another recent speech, Obama said, "there is no future for expanded nuclear power without first addressing four key issues: public right to know, security of nuclear fuel and waste, waste storage, and proliferation."

In an Obama Administration, all the key energy related positions will be filled with environmental extremists, not evil energy "executives.

- YES, OBAMA AND his legions of aging hippie flower children are going to liquidate reliance on the evil Terminator technology of oil and nuclear power, and fuel the modern, high technology, American economy with joyous windmills and happy sun power. Oh happy day.

Accomplishing this, Obama recognizes, "will take nothing less than a complete transformation of our economy." You betcha. But not to worry, because Obama is going to pull this off with his new neo-socialist, central economic planning from Washington, where the wise bureaucrats will see it all through.

-Under the Obama Five Year Plan, he will be "directing billions in loans and capital to entrepreneurs who are willing to create clean energy businesses and clean energy jobs right here in America." Those "entrepreneurs" will consequently be bought and paid for Obama supporters.

Under an Obama regime, America will "invest federal resources, including tax incentives and government contracts, into developing next generation biofuels" and "raise our fuel mileage standards four percent every year."

Except for Hugo Chavez and Barack Obama, the whole world learned in the last century that central economic planning does not work. Yet, that is where we are today in our national energy policy. That is why it is all such a mess.

Under Obama, it will all get much, much worse.

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1 posted on 08/14/2008 8:48:27 AM PDT by Para-Ord.45
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To: Para-Ord.45
"Obama's Don't Ask, Don't Drill policy

Now that is good stuff. We should be calling it that from now on.

2 posted on 08/14/2008 8:53:35 AM PDT by Flycatcher (Strong copy for a strong America)
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This bill would allow the Democrats to lie and say that no oil has been located in this area, so there is no reason to drill. It is an obvious lie, and one they very much wish to use.


3 posted on 08/14/2008 8:55:16 AM PDT by gridlock (Barack Obama is the Sanjaya Malakar of American Politics...)
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“-SO IF AMERICA’S economy is not going to run on oil and gas, what is it going to run on?”

Haven’t you been listening to the Obamessiah?

HOPE! It’s going to run on HOPE!!!


4 posted on 08/14/2008 9:00:05 AM PDT by WayneS (And now I shall return to my hovel and cling to my guns ... until it is time to go to Church)
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To: Para-Ord.45
"As columnist Deroy Murdock explains, "Obama's Don't Ask, Don't Drill policy spurns [modern technology] and embraces outdated information gathered with obsolete instruments."

The ANWR seismic surveys were performed in the early 1980s. Those estimates give 10-16 billion barrels of crude oil. Those seismic surveys and subsequent seismic processing in the early 1980s were extremely crude and gave poor results compared to current 3D seismic surveys and seismic processing.

One of the geophysicists that worked on the ANWR survey back in the 1980s I spoke with and he estimates that the actual amount in ANWR is 4-5 times the original estimate. Possibly 40-60 billion barrels of crude in the ANWR. That is close to what Venezuela has in terms of light crude oil.

If nothing else, the ANWR needs to have performed a complete 3D seismic survey with up to date seismic processing and imaging. It's a matter of national security to know the amount of resources we have. That we are not doing that as a country is a crime.

5 posted on 08/14/2008 9:00:18 AM PDT by avacado
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“...going to force the middle class and working people out of the powerful, spacious, safer automobiles they enjoy today, into the little, weak, dangerous cars that are driven in Europe and the Third World.”

Someone really ought to research annual traffic casualty statistics in relation to vehicle size which are reported in Europe. Road safety is a factor which Americans (in our sprawling freeway system ) have to live with and which Europeans can't even begin to envision. In most European countries, if you drive for 40 minutes, you're in another country.... here, you can drive all day long and never leave Texas, for example.

6 posted on 08/14/2008 9:36:17 AM PDT by SMARTY ('At some point you get tired of swatting flies, and you have to go for the manure heap' Gen. LeMay)
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-SO IF AMERICA'S economy is not going to run on oil and gas, what is it going to run on?

Obama and his followers are going to produce "hot air" to run the economy.

7 posted on 08/14/2008 9:55:18 AM PDT by bamagirl1944 (That's short for Alabama, not Obama)
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Jimmy Carter...now available in black.


8 posted on 08/14/2008 10:30:51 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Barack Obama: In Error and arrogant -- he's errogant!)
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To: Para-Ord.45

McCain’s ads have been improving since the appointment of Steve Whats-his-name (Schmidt?) as campaign director. Now they have to attack Obama’s screwball energy “plan” for what it is...cuckoo.


9 posted on 08/14/2008 3:25:27 PM PDT by driftless2
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