Posted on 02/25/2009 4:25:29 PM PST by PilotDave
In a second reversal of the Bush administration, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Wednesday he is scrapping leases for oil-shale development on federal land in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.
Salazar rescinded a lease offer made last month for research, development and demonstration projects that could have led to oil-shale works on 1.9 million acres in the three states, greatly expanding the program.
"I am withdrawing that Jan. 14 solicitation because in my view it was a midnight decision, and it was flawed," Salazar told reporters on a teleconference call from Washington, D.C
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Obviously trying to make us energy independent. Enjoy that $10/gal gas.
Pray for America
My thoughts exactly. Every assault on progress by the Democrats is an opening for Republicans. The Democrat agenda is the same every year: make their nutty base happy so that reelection is assured come next reelection. Republicans simply have to oppose Democrats and tell the public why. Oil is going to go back up, and when it does the public is going to be receptive to domestic drilling.
Well maybe, but I think the attack on cars is the point of his spear.
For those who recall the movie.....morgan....MORGAN....
Vincent Price played the part well.
The future as I see it presently per political directive.
Once we take the country back we'll have All Sorts of untapped resources just waiting for us to use.
Always look on the bright side. *\;-)
Future: (3 months out)
Nationalized banks
$3/gallon gasoline tax increase
$60/ton carbon tax
Insurrection in the streets
Food shortages
“Oil is going to go back up, and when it does the public is going to be receptive to domestic drilling.”
I read somewhere today(very disturbing article) that Obama and the democrats have big plans to use our SOR in the speculation market. Dangerous stuff!
Here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2193862/posts
They will just flood the market if oil goes up and use up all of our reserves. They don’t care about this country. They want to remake it as a marxist dictatorship.
Wonder what will traverse the new infrastructure he's fixin to build?
Salazar shutting down the domestic oil market to enrich his Saudi friends and driving up the price to make his oil buddies from CO rich too.
((sound familiar?))
If the SOR isn’t used to fuel tanks, bombers, and generators for keeping the pentagon running in the event of a war, then what is it good for in the first place? Now if Obama and Co. think the can control the market by doing more of what Bush, Clinton, Bush, and whoever else has done, they’re bats*** insane. We’d have more chance of doing that if we drilled more oil, and I doubt that would have much of an effect.
Bush 2 did not tap the SOR...He filled them up! What are you talking about?
Exactly where are we going to get new energy resources to replace these oil imports though?
pixie dust.
With the liberal aversion to nuclear, and already having declared war against the coal industry, and now taking away leases, this administration is forcing another energy crisis. At what would be the response of this administration? More demonization of the industry, maybe nationalization, and definitely further reductions in energy production.
Up is down and down is up. Good is evil and evil is good (woe to those...)
What comes next?
Worst. President. Ever.
OK, not Bush 2. Clinton tapped into it several times IIRC. But frankly, I think it’s not a serious effort to keep oil prices low but just a cheap political trick.
“But frankly, I think it’s not a serious effort to keep oil prices low but just a cheap political trick”
Of course it is...it is also dangerous to our national security. Obama is going to ruin our economy and then get us all killed. He is either a fool or an enemy of this country. One or the other. I am starting to think ‘the other’.
This Administration has to go, and all of its lousy proposals along with it. The next election can’t get here soon enough.
There is only one reason why the Democrats do stuff like this, and that is because they are owned by so-called environmentalists. And the Democrats hope to ride the global warming scare into the future.
Why are you blaming Bush for something Obama is doing?
Camels. For his brethren.
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