Posted on 04/26/2011 6:28:02 AM PDT by Tom Hawks
From the moment Richard Nixon created the EPA in 1970, and signed the Endangered Species Act (ESA) into law, they have been the primary engines of social change used by leftists environmental elitists to destroy America. They have done so by infiltrating the EPA, and the US Fish & Wildlife (USF&W) the agency which decides what animals will be listed as endangered. Now, 28 years later, these renegade environmentalist wackos are prepared to use the ESA to shut down oil and gas operations in portions of Southeast New Mexico and in West Texas, including the state's top two oil producing counties. All because of a tiny lizard they claim to be endangered, and Obama who has the power to put it on a waiting list has cleared the way for it to be listed.
Through the years the EPA & the ESA have been used to shut down vast areas of America that we as Americans need to survive in a modern world. Areas that contain, rich farmland needed to grow food that both America and foreign countries need to feed billions of people. Forest areas so rich in timber that the price of building homes could be reduced dramatically if only we were allowed to harvest them. Instead, year after year we spend billions fighting fires that reduce the timber to ashes. When it comes to energy, these government paid earth worshipers have used their power to keep us from drilling for oil, and stand in the way of building needed power plants all across America. According to a recent Congressional report America has the largest oil, coal, and natural gas reserves in the world, if tapped we could be completely energy independent. Truth is, America has enough natural energy reserves, timberland, sustainable farm land, freshwater lakes and underground reservoirs that we could reduce the cost of living for each and every American by more than 50%, if only the governments chains of restrictions were removed.
The earth worshiping environmentalists running the USF&W have used an owl to shut down logging in the Northwest, a mouse to shut down wheat farming in Colorado, a minnow and rat to end vegetable growing in California, a frog has closed fish hatcheries in the deep South, while the reintroduction of wolves are endangering the lives of ranchers, farmers, and hunters all across America from the Rockies to Maine. Now they are planning to use a lizard to shut shut down oil production in America's richest source of domestic energy, the Permian Basin of West Texas. We already have one of the largest oil reserves put off limits by the EPA in Anwar Alaska, while Obama is ignoring a Federal judges order to allow drilling to continue in the Gulf. This while almost every communist country in the world has oil wells operating in our backyard, the Gulf of Mexico.
In a logical universe, we would have politicians that would do all they can to make sure Americans had a cost of living so low that no one in America would be struggling to make ends meet. Instead these traitors would rather see Americans struggle to survive while they act as if their various government programs are saving the day. Never before in the history of the world has a countries leaders tried so hard to force its citizens to become so dependent and subservient to other countries. Many of which are our sworn enemies. Can anyone imagine Alexander, Caesar, or even George Washington forcing their citizens to humble themselves before an enemy of lesser power like Persia, Carthage, or England? No, only a modern day Judas, Ephialtes, or Benedict Arnold, would cause their own people to suffer the indignities our leaders so consistently force us to.
The current threat to America's freedom comes from a 3 inch lizard called the Sceloporus Arenicolus, or better known as the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard or the Sand Dune Lizard. It was originally classified as a subspecies of the Sceloporus Graciosus, or Common Sagebrush Lizard. Before they designated the Dune Lizards as a separate species, there were so many of them you could feed them to the Chinese as a delicacy and never run out. It was in 2002 that the Center for Biological Diversity first petitioned to have the lizard listed as endangered. The Bush administration stood in the way of the lizard being listed for 6 years, but last year Obama cleared the way by ordering his administration to back off from delaying the listing. This in spite of the news that Obama has repeatedly refused to grant species the protection for which they are known to qualify adding them instead to the waiting list. So why did he allow this lizard to be listed? There can be only one reason, and that is because Obama wants to destroy America's ability to be energy free. So his relentless attack on America's energy capabilities continues. Go figure.
There was a rally in Roswell NM last week on April 20th that had hundreds protesting the listing and there will be another one on Tuesday April 26th, in Midland Tx at the Midland Center that begins at 5 p.m. with Congressman Mike Conaway will speaking to the concerned citizens. Then on Wednesday April 27th, there will be a public hearing held at 6:30 p.m at the Midland Center. If you want to be heard then be there to support those at the front line in the battle to stop a lizard from shutting down Americas 2 largest working oil wells.
"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate,
tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds."
-- Samuel Adams --
Leader in our Fight for Independence
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The following is from the Federal register PDF file. In it the USF&W explains what they are attempting to accomplish through the Endangered Species Act,
We, the USF&W, propose to list the dunes sagebrush lizard (Sceloporus Arenicolus), a lizard known from southeastern New Mexico and adjacent west Texas, as endangered under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended. If we finalize the rule as proposed, it would extend the Act's protections to this species. We have determined that critical habitat for the dunes sagebrush lizard is prudent but not determinable at this time.
Proposed Listing Determination We have carefully assessed the best scientific and commercial information available regarding the past, present, and future threats to the dunes sagebrush lizard. The dunes sagebrush lizard faces immediate and significant threats due to oil and gas activities, and herbicide treatments. Habitat loss and fragmentation due to oil and gas development is a measureable factor impacting the species due to the removal of shinnery oak and creation of roads and pads, pipelines, and power lines that create habitat patches and increase the proportion of habitat edge to habitat interior. In addition, impacts that are not easily quantified such as climate change, competition, and pollution may exacerbate adverse effects caused by habitat loss. Cumulative threats to the dunes sagebrush lizard are not being adequately addressed through existing regulatory mechanisms. Oil and gas pollutants are a current and ongoing threat to the species throughout its range.
We believe the following actions may jeopardize this species, and therefore we would seek to conference with BLM and NRCS on these actions:
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Rhetorical question ... obviously. We all know the answer already.
The O’ Gallon: President Obama’s Lack of Action on Gas Prices Hurts America’s Seniors and Poor
http://www.townhallmail.com/umqbhjdgbbpshgbgsghwdszffcsffgcdmmwjkhpgngpcqp_wlddjwzzzjs.html
But, but, but, Obama says that oil prices are rising because of speculators. He wouldn;t lie to us, would he?
This administration is bound and determined to bring this country to its knees:
EPA Ruling Kills Shell’s Plans to Drill Offshore Alaska
http://www.redstate.com/vladimir/2011/04/25/epa-ruling-kills-shells-plans-to-drill-offshore-alaska/
This is personal for baraq.
Don’t know why, but this latest attack on our state just fits the pattern.
BAE manufactured medium duty trucks for the US Army.
baraq pulled that business and redirected it to a union shop in Wisconsin that had never manufactured these trucks before.
baraq hamstrung NASA by turning it into a muslim outreach program. Recently, the JSC was denied one of the shuttles. As if they had nothing to do with the space program. The ripple effects of killing off NASA will be ugly for the economy of the area around there.
BP rig blows up and the kenyan shuts down the gulf through more difficult regulations. This hurt most of the gulf coast, but there are a lot of manufacturers here that got hit hard.
Now he is working to shut down exploration in West Texas with the excuse of saving some lizard.
I cannot remember a US president who made it a point to harm an individual state while rewarding those states that voted for him.
Looks like this was part of the democrat party’s plan.
Hey Texas democrats, your guy is doing this to us. and to you. how’s that hope and change now?
Here is a question: Since a President created the EPA (thru a presidential decree or something) can a Newly Elected President undo earlier presidential decrees?
Can a New President correct the damage done by earlier Presidents?
Since it was not done by the Congress or Senate, can it be undone by the stoke of a pen?
I always thought it could, but sadly it would take a president who does not care about being a one termer, or do so in the second term, because the world would crucify them.
Just takes balls, and the only one with balls that big is Palin, but I seriously doubt that even she would do that.
Remember what Obama said? “I would rather be a one term president and get a lot done then a two term president getting nothing done.
Well, he got his wish, he will be a one term president, and we are paying the price.
>>The states need to reassert their sovereign control over the land and resources within their state boundaries and tell the fed to pound sand.<<
That’s what I said!
Just like the water crisis in CA. Tell them to go blow and get the water in there.
For heaven’s sake. Bobby Jindal did.
BTTT!!! Just shut them down!
Michael Crichton, September 15, 2003 "Environmentalism as Religion"
"I have been asked to talk about what I consider the most important challenge facing mankind, and I have a fundamental answer. The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance. ......
"Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists. Why do I say it's a religion? Well, just look at the beliefs. If you look carefully, you see that environmentalism is in fact a perfect 21st century remapping of traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs and myths. There's an initial Eden, a paradise, a state of grace and unity with nature, there's a fall from grace into a state of pollution as a result of eating from the tree of knowledge, and as a result of our actions there is a judgment day coming for us all. We are all energy sinners, doomed to die, unless we seek salvation, which is now called sustainability. Sustainability is salvation in the church of the environment.
" Just as organic food is its communion, that pesticide-free wafer that the right people with the right beliefs, imbibe. ...Environmentalism needs to be absolutely based in objective and verifiable science, it needs to be rational, and it needs to be flexible... How will we manage to get environmentalism out of the clutches of religion, and back to a scientific discipline? There's a simple answer: we must institute far more stringent requirements for what constitutes knowledge in the environmental realm.
"I am thoroughly sick of politicized so-called facts that simply aren't true. It isn't that these "facts" are exaggerations of an underlying truth. Nor is it that certain organizations are spinning their case to present it in the strongest way. Not at all---what more and more groups are doing is putting out is lies, pure and simple. Falsehoods that they know to be false...
"At this moment, the EPA is hopelessly politicized. In the wake of Carol Browner, it is probably better to shut it down and start over...." HERE
Congress has got to stop Obama or Texas has got to stop Obama before it is too late. He is taking us down! When will people rise up! Come on Texas.....lead the way!
I’m afraid that it is going to have to be said many times over before the states take any real action.
Comeback the misery index. Party like it is the 1970s.
Consumers in the Crosshairs as Misery Index Makes a Comeback
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2710653/posts
Hmmm...
He can't see beyond Bush. Bush came from Texas, so 0bama hates Texas too. Nevermind whatever else may have come out of our great state.
Yeah, it’s ironic but of course Johnson passed that legislation only because the majority of republicans voted for it while his own party voted in a majority against it. Johnson only passed the legislation to buy black votes and he stated as much to his advisors. Johnson was a dirtbag but he was upfront about his intentions.
FUBO & FAD
Oh yeah? And what do you think you can do about it? Run in circles? Scream and shout? File a lawsuit?
Do you REALLY think that'll work?
Obama? First Black President?
Nope - first Arab-American President; The Won’s father was 7/8 Arab.
Ping.
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