[IbJensen]

Congress has to get out of our way. Government needs to shrivel and our president needs to leave the White Hut and beat a path back to wheverever the hell he came from.

The sewers of Chicago are too crowded with other rats; he'll have to find another hole.

[screaminsunshine]

e Bye-bye

[MichaelP]

The bottom line that the idiot politicians don't see is, that the U.S. economy was built on, and runs on abundent, cheap energy...PERIOD!

Mike

[Don Corleone]

thanks to climate policies that have forced extensive reliance on wind power and deliberately driven energy prices skyward.

As forecast for America by Obama in his pre election campaign speeches. But of course, few listened.

[thirst4truth]

Most of all, these anti-hydrocarbon politicians want a self-sustaining political-environmentalist-industrial-public sector union complex based on government subsidies to favored industries and companies, in exchange for campaign contributions that will keep them in power.

Worth repeating. They hate Americans and if they think these kinds of policies are going to keep them in their taxpayer seats, they have a rude awakening coming their way.

[Palmetto Patriot]

It is also unlocking oil wealth in the vast Bakken shale formation of Montana, North Dakota and Saskatchewan. Oil production there has already soared from 3,000 barrels a day five years ago to over 225,000 today. The US Energy Information Administration says it could reach 350,000 barrels a day by 2035; industry sources say it could top a million barrels by 2020. Related oilfield employment has soared from 5,000 to over 18,000 in the same five-year period, and could eventually reach 100,000 jobs. At $100 a barrel, even 350,000 barrels a day could mean $1.6 billion in annual royalties, from Bakken oil alone.

The Green River Formation (shale oil) in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah was estimated to contain the equivalent of 1.5 trillion barrels of oil, according to this study by the USGS in 2005.

Total shale oil resources in the US are the largest in the world, estimated to be the equivalent of over 2 trillion barrels of crude.

[mikrofon]

Well, given that nuclear is now totally dead in this country with the recent developments in Japan (real & imagined), we’ll need to exploit our other home assets ASAP.

[bandleader]

I couldn’t AGREE more!Petroleum is the”Mother’s Milk”of FREEDOM and PROSPERITY!!This bunch of “Knuckle-Heads”that are running this country into the ground need some “Pink Slips”!!!

[vanilla swirl]

who is John Galt?

[JPG]

Lil’ Lisa Jackson needs to have her wings clipped. Ken ‘Salad Czar’ should be in charge of arugula supplies and nothing more.

[Winniesboy]

... thanks to climate policies that have forced extensive reliance on wind power and deliberately driven energy prices skyward.... A new “smart grid” will be used to allocate decreasing electricity supplies, on a rolling basis or according to bureaucratic determinations as to which consumers most need available power – mostly from wind turbines that provided a pitiful 0.04% of Britain’s electricity during its coldest days last December.

That's a rather melodramatic and overstated picture of the energy prospects in the UK. In fact the target energy contribution from 'renewables' is 15% by 2020 - probably much too high, granted, but nowhere near the toal reliance implied by the article. The article is also silent about the inconvenient fact that the British government is committed to building eight new nuclear plants - that's eight more than are in prospect for the U.S., the last I heard.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[thethirddegree]

The sewers of Chicago are too crowded with other rats; he'll have to find another hole.

I suggest a cell at ADX Florence where he will be right at home with the other jihadists.