[Tarpon]

Shutting America down, by oppressive suffocating federal regulation. Just like what Kagan described in her paper “presidential regulation”.

[tet68]

EPA is reversing course, and our facilities are caught in the middle, creating significant uncertainty at a time when our economy can least afford it.”

Amazing how this administration creates uncertainty
where ever it touches.

[erman]

the federal government just declared economic war on Texas and EVERY TEXAS DEMOCRAT should be booted out on his/her a$$.

Every parasite that depends on the democrat should be flushed out and defunded at the state level and every means should be employed to fine/tax/levy federal monies to the state coffers.

Vote for FLORES over the quisling Chet Edwards (democrat butt-boy to nancy pelosi)

[Free_SJersey]

We should expect this to be just the beginning. Salazar has stated he wants gasoline to be eight dollars a gallon. All part of the One’s war to elimanate the middle class.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Obama and the EPA - taking jobs away from Americans who want to work.

Yep, that changey hopey thingy.

[Psalm 144]

The time is coming when people will be forced to choose between obedience and survival.

[OrangeHoof]

The Democrats’ War On Prosperity continues...

[J Edgar]

This action is known rightly as treason and sabotage!

[TigersEye]

Texas refineries have a combined crude oil throughput of 4.75 million barrels, equal to 26.8 percent of national refining capacity.

Wow! 26.8%! That's a lot isn't it FUBO?

It Begins… First Oil Rig Relocates From Gulf to Foreign Waters

"As a result of the uncertainties surrounding the offshore drilling moratorium, we are actively seeking international opportunities to keep our rigs fully employed," Dickerson said. "We greatly regret the loss of U.S. jobs that will result from this rig relocation."

It is not just Gulf operations that are being effected either.

Wait and see for Shell {Shell puts Arctic drilling plans on hold, waiting on feds}

The 0bama-Democrat-RINO (Progressive) "No Domestic Energy Policy!"

• No domestic drilling.
• No new refineries.
• No new nuke plants.
• No new dams for hydro-electric.
• No coal.
• No shale.
• Deplete the SPR.
• Let Iran get nukes.
• Let Iraq fall to Iranian domination.
• No Canadian tar sands oil.
• Loan billions to Brazil's Petrobras for offshore drilling in Brazil.
• Carbon caps and taxes to make what's left sky rocket in price.

All of that puts the U.S. in a position that war for oil or
complete economic collapse will be our only choices.
You can't frustrate every source of domestic energy
without consequences. Our enemies will blackmail us
to the extent that we are vulnerable to blackmail.

0bama, the Democrats and RINOs are leading us into a real war for oil.
A war we won't have the energy to fight.
A war we don't need to fight because we have our own resources.

[givemELL]

Received in email...TX Dem gov. candidate related to the refinery shutdowns:

From the RPT:

President Obama’s EPA has decided to mess with Texas, and they may be doing it on Bill White’s behalf. News broke on Wednesday that the EPA is rejecting Texas’ flexible permit system, a system that been in place for 16 years, has enjoyed bipartisan support, and has actually worked to reduce NOX emissions in Texas better than the EPA’s own programs work in other states. Gov. Perry, Lt. Gov. Dewhurst, Attorney General Abbott, and indeed all of the Republican leadership in Texas are outraged by the EPA’s actions.

As usual, there’s more to the story. The Democrats’ nominee for governor, Bill White, is right in the middle of the EPA’s extreme and unnecessary move. According to an editorial by the Houston Chronicle, White met with EPA regional director Al Armendariz last fall, and that meeting apparently spurred the EPA’s drive to attack Texas.

Mayor White has also been critical of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality as being too lax in enforcing state laws against polluters.....

After meeting with White, EPA officials announced that many of the TCEQ rules are in violation of the federal Clean Air Act.

Did the Democrat who wants to be Texas’ governor collude with the Obama EPA to hit Texas hard, putting Texas families and businesses at risk in the process, so he can play politics and blame it all on Gov. Rick Perry? Whatever one wants to call that, it certainly isn’t putting Texans first. Bill White needs to answer for this assault on our state.

As this move builds on the EPA’s decision to regulate CO2 without Congressional input, we seem to be looking at an agency that the Obama administration is using to command and control the US economy to further its far left statist agenda. The Obama administration wants to control everything - private industry, health care, everything - as part of President Obama’s campaign promise to “fundamentally transform America.” Even more appalling, these power grabs come at us while the Democrats in the White House and Congress show rank incompetence in their existing duties of securing the border and dealing with the oil spill that occurred in federal waters. And despite his recent rhetorical attempts to distance himself from his masters in the Democratic Party, Bill White is obviously arm in arm with them the whole way.

[JoeA]

What would happen if the refineries in Texas just told the EPA to stuff it, and continued to produce oil?

[EternalVigilance]

Insanity.

[G Larry]

Time to take the EPA to court to demonstrate arbitrary and untimely rule changes.

[Rome2000]

These executive should tell the communists at the EPA to go to hell and then see what they will do to enforce it.

Its high time for civil disobedience against the marxists.

[vpintheak]

It’s sickening to watch. These people are shutting down America any way they can. Killing the greatest nation on the planet for what? Some retarded green dream.

[marron]

This is the difference between a politicized economy and rule of law. Rule of law, you may or may not like the rules but everyone knows what they are, they know what they will be tomorrow, and they know how the courts are going to rule before you ever go to court. So you just get on with it. You make your plans accordingly and go.

In a politicized economy, you don’t know what they rules will be tomorrow and you don’t know how the courts will rule. So you have to have friends in high places. For self-defense you have to have contacts, you have to have people in office who will take your calls, you have to be able to call in favors when you need them. You have to be able to shape the rules as they come down, purely in self defense.

This is oligarchy. Politicized economies always produce oligarchy. The businesses who can navigate and control the politics prosper. The others keep their heads down, try and move their money to safe havens, and hope for better days.

[The Comedian]

You commie Yankee motherf******.

World of hurt reserved for y'all.

And not the least of which is your own idiot cities starving, baking, and freezing to death.

Change you can be extinct to.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[VOA]

bump

[WKUHilltopper]

Texas should just write back the EPA and say, “Dear EPA—kiss our asses...”

[mo]

Gee....how long do ya think New York, DC , LA and Chicago would run if Texas closed its refineries..