Posted on 02/26/2011 6:28:32 AM PST by thackney
With the unrest in the Middle East as his springboard, Gov. Sean Parnell lashed out at the Obama administration's stance on domestic oil production, saying the White House approach was having a tangible effect on the country's foreign policy.
In a speech at the National Press Club, the Republican governor called the federal government "openly hostile" to oil-producing states, particularly for the delays in allowing Shell to drill exploratory wells on leases off Alaska's northern coast that the company purchased in 2008.
"If it looks like a moratorium and walks like a moratorium ... maybe it is," said Parnell, who is in Washington this weekend for the National Governor's Association winter meeting.
Parnell said there's a direct link between the economic recovery and the failure to use Alaska's oil reserves as a national security buffer against the uncertainty in Libya and other oil-producing countries in the Middle East. Higher gasoline prices could harm any economic recovery, Parnell said.
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Parnell also criticized President Barack Obama's proposal in his State of the Union address to do away with some tax credits for oil companies, echoing the governor's statements about Alaska needing to cut its own oil-production tax.
"Anything you tax more, you get less of," Parnell said, adding that overregulation can have the same effect.
"The Department of Interior and the EPA appear to be driving U.S. policy in the Middle East and North Africa," Parnell said. "In many senses, the State Department is forced into a reactive, mitigating role because of the increasingly hostile stance that Interior and the EPA have taken to domestic energy exploration and production."
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Maybe we ought to ‘cairo’ the whitehouse until he opens anwr!
It work for the sand monkeys!
As far as I’m concerned it is traitorous for our President to maintain his moratoriums on off shore drilling in our waters in the face of unrest in the mid east. There are thousands or mapped, drilled, and capped wells right now in the Gulf and other offshore locations that could be opened and put into production within months. It is unconscionable that it has not been started already.
One wonders if there has been large sums of money passed to keep those moratoriums in place? From whom to whom? Saudi Arabia to Obama? Or, have members of Congress and the DOE also been beneficiaries?
Inquiring minds...
Oreilly is an opertaive for Obama, people just don’t see it.
Way to go Parnell.
I think he is talking to his own state as well.
Prominent Alaskans jump into oil tax fight on side of governor
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2678712/posts
Parnell proposes changes to oil, gas tax to boost production
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2659028/posts
Let’s face it - Obama loves the Middle East more than this country. He has no intention of allowing us oil independence since that would weaken the hold that the Middle East has on this country and the rest of the world. He isn’t lacking in either brains or judgement where this issue is concerned. He knows exactly what his stance is doing to this country and exactly how it benefits the Middle East. He is playing his minions for fools and they are falling for it.
“Oreilly is an opertaive for Obama, people just don’t see it.”
No he isn’t. What O’Reilly is is cash in the bank for Ailes and Fox. Fox is getting more and more Libs watching. And O’Reilly is the lead-in to Hannity and Greta.
In other words, O’Reilly is pulling them in, Hannity and Greta are educating them.
It’s an ideological and marketing strategy that is working well for Fox.
Add to that the fact that we spend $29 billion a year on a Department of Energy whose stated goal at formation in 1977 was to develop a national plan to reduce our reliance on foreign energy sources.
We can’t have drilling operations set up here. It would create “Jobs”.
“He knows exactly what his stance is doing to this country and exactly how it benefits the Middle East.”
This doesn’t benefit the Middle East. This benefits one person. George Soros. Look at his investments and what the collapse of the oil industry is doing for his portfolio.
Soros is the money man for the “One World Government.” Communism once again is using Islamic Radicalism as its muscle. They are killing each other and Soros and the Commies are getting rich off of it while individual liberty throughout the world is being taken away.
While I agree with you about George Soros profiting and that this likely plays a part, I do have to disagree as to whether restricting our oil drilling benefits the Middle East. As long as they are the primary source of oil, and only they hold the key to whether to sell and to whom they should sell, Obama’s restrictions on any type of oil drilling in our nation affects the Middle East. For Obama, this issue is a two-fer.
Good point about the DOE. Furthermore, the head of the DOE has publically stated that he’d like to see $10 per gallon gasoline. The man doesn’t even have a driver’s license and doesn’t own a car.
“I do have to disagree as to whether restricting our oil drilling benefits the Middle East. “
I don’t think it benefits the middle east. With my tinfoil hat on I will offer this. I think what makes a revolution successful is funding.
Another front for Communism has been opened in South America and Chavez is hard strapped for cash. Disrupting middle east oil, helps Chavez get more for his supply. How do they drill it and get it out of the ground? They need equipment.
Where did the equipment come from? They got it from the gulf spill and all the equipment went to South America. To Soros’ company.
The question I have to ask is “Was the spill in the guilf an accident? Is this a coincidence?” BP helped Libya with the Lockerbie Bomber. BP was responsible for the gulf spill.
Coincidence?
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