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Coal Industry in Extreme Danger: Obama/Biden Caught on Tape! (PA, OH, WV, VA, KY, MT, WY, TN)
Posted on 01/08/2010 9:09:25 PM PST by neverdem
President Obama says he wants to decrease U.S. dependence on foreign oil by increasing U.S. production of domestic U.S. resources, including America's rich deposits of fossil fuels. To that end, Obama promises efforts to "enhance U.S. energy supplies through responsible development of domestic renewable energy, fossil fuels, advanced bio-fuels and nuclear energy." At least, that's what the president says he wants to do. To see what he's actually doing, take a look at the policies of the Department of Interior. In fact, the Obama administration is cutting production of domestic fossil fuels -- oil, natural gas and coal -- by creating costly and time-consuming new layers of suffocating red tape and legal barriers.
Here are the stark facts, as compiled by the Institute for Energy Research, about the area where the federal government has the most direct and immediate effect on domestic energy production -- managing energy exploration and production leases on western and off-shore public lands:
* The Interior Department has collected only one-tenth as much revenue from oil and gas lease sales in 2009 as it did in 2008.
* Revenue from such lease sales produced a return for the taxpayer of $942 per acre in the last year of the Bush administration, compared with only $254 per acre in the first year of the Obama administration
* Presently, not quite 3 percent of the 2.46 million available public lands are leased and that percentage is headed down. Under Obama's Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, fewer acres on- and off-shore were leased in 2009 than in any previous year.
This is why IER's president, Thomas J. Pyle, says that "when it comes to paving the way for the responsible development of homegrown, job-creating energy resources, no administration in history has done more to ensure producers do less." Similarly, David Holt, president of the Consumer Energy Alliance, offers this common-sense observation: "Adding layers of additional and unnecessary bureaucratic red tape to the federal oil and gas leasing process will result in less homegrown energy. ... At the same time, erecting these needless roadblocks for safely producing American energy will not only lead to more expensive and less stable prices for struggling consumers, but it will also deepen our nation's dependence on foreign and often unfriendly regions of the world to meet our growing demands and to keep our economy moving." In other words, Obama's policies in the energy field are producing exactly the opposite result he claims to seek.
He’s killing us.
Political bait and switch.
bflr
Is there any doubt that the intent of the Leftists and the Leftist in Chief is to destroy this country?
The Usurper gave it the sniff test and decided it smelled too much like Free Enterprise.
He’s killing us.
Yes.
On purpose.
That is what is so hard to get other people to understand.
Hell, listen to the man and then assume that he is doing exactly opposite of what he says and you will be closer to the truth than any liberal sycophant.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-coal8-2010jan08,0,6439893.story
From the article:
"Coal companies say the practice is more efficient and safer than traditional deep-shaft mining, and that steps are taken to mitigate damage. Environmentalists say it degrades the landscape, destroys habitat and pollutes streams that get filled with debris from explosions.
"The issue is politically touchy for President Obama, who won his election with the support of environmentalists but also needs support from voters in coal states, such as Ohio, where he won by a narrow margin."
Obama wants to destroy domestic energy production.
He has said he wants to make the use of coal economically prohibitive (And yet the coal miners unions supported him!)
This is no mistake. He thinks the USA uses more than its “fair share” of energy, and if he has to destroy our economy, our freedom and our way of life to bring us down to “fair” levels, well, so be it.
He is a domestic enemy of The Constitution.
Yep.
I will never forget when we went to see him way back when he first came on the campaign scene.
We were right up front in the designated WC section.
He would speak and then engage someone with eye contact.
I tend to carry my opinions/feelings right on my Face.
He looked into my eyes and my face said it all.
I was the only one in the crowd other than KV my son giving off THAT KINDA VIBE.
He never again would look back our way.
To hell with this administration and its foreign masters.
Let American owned and operated oil companies drill the Bakken.
He may very well loathe us as a group. I recall an except from one of his books in which he said he never felt at home until he got to Kenya. Obama really doesn’t understand the American culture, not having grown up here. He seems to harbor a deep jealousy of us...of our expectation of success. I suppose he’s spent most of his life feeling like an outsider and being angry about it.
Sarah was very prescient when she said the presidency shouldn't be a voyage of personal discovery.
John Dewey and the Philosophical Refounding of America
It’s Freezing: Must Be Global Warming - The cold snap has spurred the “warmists” to spin control.
The computer models, all 11 of them, predicted that as the oceans and atmosphere warmed, the amount of heat escaping to space should decrease by 3 watts per square meter. If this were true, then the theory of manmade global warming would have a strong footing. But the satellite data used by the Lindzen and Choi inflicted a bone crushing blow to this assumption. As the oceans and atmosphere warmed, the measurements showed that the amount of heat escaping to space increased by 4 watts per square meter from the mid 1980s to the late 1990s.
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You don't have to assume. More likely than not, it probably documented somewhere already.
Thanks for the ping!
only if they were serious about helping the environment. They would have made the stimulus package a large list of new nuclear power plants.
The leftists want to destroy America, period.
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