Posted on 01/22/2012 7:07:36 AM PST by IbJensen
It is the crime of the century that America, home to some of the world’s greatest reserves of coal, natural gas and oil, is being deliberately destroyed by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Interior as they do everything in their power to restrict access and drive energy producers out of business.
It is common sense that a nation that cannot produce sufficient electricity to turn on its lights and power its manufacturing sector will be destroyed if current Obama administration regulations and actions continue. Our vital transportation sector and all others that utilize petroleum-based products will suffer, too.
While President Obama babbles about millionaires and billionaires, everyone will be impoverished by the loss of jobs and revenue our energy sector produces now and can produce in the future.
This isn’t an “energy policy.” It’s a “no-energy policy” and it is a guarantee of economic disaster.
Obama’s decision to reject a permit for Canada’s XL Keystone pipeline is just one example. It is a job-killer and a revenue-killer. There are thousands of pipelines serving America’s energy needs and the XL Keystone pipeline would ensure that Canada’s own vast energy reserves would flow to America. It is one of our key trade partners and Obama has slapped it in the face.
In early January, Ken Salazar, the Secretary of the Interior, announced a new 20-year, million-acre ban on uranium mining for federal lands in Arizona, despite the fact that these lands hold the highest-grade of known uranium deposits in the United States. It is an outrage that a new GOP-Congress will have to overturn if the nation is to be assured of sufficient uranium to power its nuclear plants and for weapons development. If the ban remains, these uranium resources would be inaccessible until 2023!
Tom Pyle, president of the Institute for Energy Research said that Salazar’s announcement “further compounds a man-made energy crisis that has been planned and executed in Washington, D.C.”
At the same time we are learning of enormous natural gas discoveries that can reduce our energy bills and turn sleeping little towns into boomtowns, environmental organizations have launched a vast propaganda campaign against “fracking”, a technology that has been safely used for more than fifty years. Their claims about dangers to the nation’s supply of fresh water are baseless. Their claims that fracking has caused earthquakes in Ohio are absurd.
Need it be said that the Environmental Protection Agency has turned its eyes on fracking and is working on a report due later this year that will likely call for harsh crackdowns on its use and more regulations to throttle the expansion of natural gas extraction?
The EPA has just released a report of those power plants that top the list of its regulation of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. There is no basis in science to justify the reduction of CO2. Indeed, since it is a gas on which all vegetation depends, much as oxygen is vital to all animal life, reducing it would impair great crop yields and healthier forests.
These regulations are based on the global warming hoax that blamed CO2 for warming the earth. That is utterly false. The Earth is currently in a perfectly natural cooling cycle and the climate of the Earth is almost entirely based on the Sun—solar radiation—along with the actions of oceans, clouds, and even volcanic activity that spews tons of particulates into the atmosphere.
Coal-fired power plants account for fifty percent of all the electricity generated in the United States. Fifty percent! And yet the EPA is determined to shut down dozens of them providing that vital factor in the lives of all Americans and the economy, nor does this take into account the billions that energy producers have spent to upgrade their technology to reduce emissions.
The Obama administration fuel economy agenda, a call for 54.5 miles per gallon ignores simple physics. There is a finite amount of energy a gallon of gas can generate. If you dilute it with ethanol as is currently required, you get even less mileage. The administration is trying to circumvent Congress by issuing standards based on regulating “greenhouse gas emissions”, but there is no need for this. It is a false argument. The Center for Automotive Research says that the proposed new standards would cause the retail price of average motor vehicles to increase by more than $11,000.
Americans and the nation’s future are being victimized by Obama administration policies. The 18th annual Index of Economic Freedom, was released on January 12th by The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal, measures the many factors that contribute to the economic health of a nation—things like property rights, regulatory efficiency, open markets, free trade and labor policies.
Economic freedom is declining worldwide as governments try to spend their way out of the global recession. The United States fell to 10th place. In 2009 it ranked 6th, in 2010 it was 8th, and in 2011, it was 9th.
We are witnessing the deliberate murder of a superpower.
Take back the USA!
1) Obama is a muslim and is working to destroy the West and restore the caliphate.
2) Obama is an elitist pursuing the path of Tallyrand, prepared to stab anyone in the back, so long as he and his friends can personally benefit.
From wikipedia:
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, 1st Prince de Bénévent; (1754–1838) was a French diplomat. He worked successfully from the regime of Louis XVI, through the French Revolution and then under Napoleon I, Louis XVIII, Charles X, and Louis-Philippe. Known since the turn of the 19th century simply by the name Talleyrand, he remains a figure that polarizes opinion. Some regard him as one of the most versatile, skilled and influential diplomats in European history, and some believe that he was a traitor, betraying in turn, the Ancien Régime, the French Revolution, Napoleon, and the Restoration. He is also notorious for turning his back on the Catholic Church after ordination to the priesthood and consecration to the episcopacy.
I am glad you included the Congress, and Yes: Both parties are guilty
Democrats because they approve everything the Kenyan does and Republicans because they do nothing to stop them.
These people should be frogmarched to jail!
The RINO GOP seems to consent like cowards to the manmade famine and genocide wages by communists like Obama.
Global warming is a system of “offensive theory”. Instead of being an appologetic careful hypothesis, it is a thesis flung down our throats in the name of quick dollar and taxation short sighted thuggery.
The greedy in power are going to have to pay. But this is typical of the pseudo-science approach of communist comissars: active measures and offensive science.
We then must remain with the option of developing another counter science to theirs, which is that glaciers are not melting, but destroyed mostly by SUBLIMATION and evaporation due to a lack of moisture in the air.
And guess what makes moisture in the air? Burning oil! Hence, so long we are on the defensive and labeled skeptics by these communist methods of offensive scienticists, we lose. If we develop a counter science showing the benefit of taking dirty oil out of the ground and burning into clean byproducts for plants such as CO2 and H2O, using the energy to run water purification and mineral mining systems (water impurities are after all raw materials too), then we have a win win.
But idiots only see polution where sane industrial minds see raw materials and nothing bad in this and that type of chemical inherently. Irony that materialist be so antimaterial...
Indeed, the French Revolution is this father (dreams from my father, anyone?) of communism and Marx. I would almost bet that Marx was incapable of writing Das Kapital but that it was written by greedy corrupt French police services.
These people are only concerned with spending a capital instead of a business. France has been at the forfront with that fraud Bauvais of sabotaging US industry in favor of maintaining French industry. Bauvais openly admited that his brother works at US universities as a scientist and that all he was doing was pretend he was a peasant, when in fact he worked for President Chirac to torpedoe US corn hybrids and nanotechnology so that France could catch up.
Only sniveling little people and little empires have a stake in destroying great nations appart, and that is their only way of being able to compete with such: making RUssia, the US or even China dysfunctional enables these impotent dysfunctional mini-failed empires of weakness and state competitive.
Thanks IbJensen.
The writer is correct. Obama's "energy policy" is less energy in every form. Prices will, undoubtedly, rise. It is a prescription for disaster.
Imagine, for a moment a nation with cheap, abundant energy in all forms. The economic benefits to every sector of the economy that uses energy, and that is every sector, would be stupendous. Manufacturers in such a nation would have a competitive advantage over their competitors. Transportation in all forms would cost less. The people of such a nation would benefit from the tremendous growth that would result.
The US is an energy colossus. It has vast reserves of coal, uranium, gas, and oil. Obama is blocking their use. The math is easy.
“Democrats because they approve everything the Kenyan does and Republicans because they do nothing to stop them.”
Democrats because they approve everything the Kenyan does and Republicans because they approve of everything the Kenyan does.
There fixed it for you.
Lots of talk last election cycle about defunding the EPA but we still hear crickets.
I agree 100%. There is no sane or logical reason why we are hamstringing ourselves.
Bttt.
It’s very discouraging to me that Newt is the top contender for the GOP nomination for president. Equally disturbing is that the other contenders are very much like Newt in that they’re members of the elitist group the CFR and the Trilateralists, along with such luminaries as Hitlery Clinton, Billy Goat, Carter and a host of other detestable globalists.
His posing on the couch with Nutsy Pelousy to endorse the junk science gorebal warming was an indication that Newt wanted to be all things to all loonies.
Here we go again: holding our noses in the voting booth to vote against the communist-muslim punk!
Not one is interested, apparently, in eliminating the evil Education Department, et al, and in slashing the military budget by eliminating civilians. The idea of Dr. Paul to close up all the military bases spread around the world is a noteworthy one. Instead we close up the bases located in CONUS and build an embassy in Baghdad that is larger than the Vatican!
In addition to closing bases and eliminating ‘foreign’ aid we should look at closing embassies and cleaning out the spider’s web known as the State Department. The world is not our business; rather, this hemisphere is. How we tolerate a Cuba located 90 miles off our coast due to an agreement between the Brothers Kennedy and Kruschev is stupidity in its purist form.
Monroe Doctrine?
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