Posted on 02/15/2012 8:17:39 PM PST by true believer forever
The fact that Americans must cope with ballooning gas prices and energy vulnerability while living in a country with some of the richest untapped energy resources on the planet is an absurdity that can only be accomplished by bad government. By unleashing the American people from regulations and bureaucracy designed to promote the agenda of radical environmentalists, we can tap our enormous oil and natural gas supplies to drive fuel prices down.
Most Americans have no idea that the United States is sitting on enough technically recoverable oil to power us at current rates of consumption for over 250 years. We are estimated to have 1.4 trillion barrels of oil—or 1.7 trillion, adding in the resources of Canada and Mexico.
That amount of oil, as a report from the Institute for Energy Research recently explained, is “more than the world has used since the first oil well was drilled over 150 years ago in Titusville, Pennsylvania” and 6 ½ times the proved oil reserves of Saudi Arabia.
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
Thanks true believer forever.
Your link
http://www.newt.org/activism/pb
doesn’t go anywhere.
Is there really a way to act on this?
Thanks
Sorry, that is the old one that was being used while Newt’s Network was being set up... this will get you in for just about every contact you might want, as well as phone calls, and other grassroots activities... sorry..
This thread needs a link to where people can act on this.
The fact that it doesn't have a link to do so is probably why the mods took it out of activism.
Ping me if there is a direct link as the article implies.
It's a great idea, thanks for posting.
If you go to that sign-up page, there is at the top right an icon that says “Make The Call” - but you have to sign up first, with just a minimum of information, so they can assign you an onscreen name, etc...
Many people won't sign in to do something like that.
Perhaps someone that has signed up can post the information on this thread.
I’m not sure what you are talking about... no one has ever complained before... they ask for a user name and your email... most people want to register with the campaign, if they are supportive enough of Newt to want to make phone calls for him...
Probably not, as natural gas isn’t much of a transportation fuel. But the same fracking drilling technology being used so successfully for natural gas is also being used for oil, so over time, that will tend to help gasoline prices.
Perhaps you missed this sentence in my post:
Perhaps someone that has signed up can post the information on this thread."Most" people would make the information available to posters here at Free Republic if they signed up and got the info.
You know, do everything they can to get as many people as possible working on this very worthty cause.
You must be signed up.
Post the activism stuff here, OK?
If you " are supportive enough of Newt" to get this really rolling...
(I'm sure the Gingrich campaign staff won't mind.)
: > )
From your link, more excerpts:
"The fact that Americans must cope with ballooning gas prices and energy vulnerability while living in a country with some of the richest untapped energy resources on the planet is an absurdity that can only be accomplished by bad government.
Without opening up more areas to drilling, we have no way of knowing how many more Bakken-sized discoveries are waiting for us. But we do know this. The potential to increase American oil and gas supplies dramatically and become energy secure and independent is real. Increasing oil supplies will lower fuel prices significantly. And the biggest thing standing in the way is the government obstruction.
What’s even more baffling is that these lands are potentially a huge source of revenue for the federal government –revenue that doesn’t involve raising taxes on the American people. Experts in the private-sector royalties industry estimate that implementing commercial standards in federal leasing of oil and gas royalties could bring over $100 billion into the federal treasury over the next decade. Harold Hamm, who discovered the Bakken formation, recently told the Wall Street Journal that with expanded drilling for oil and gas on federal lands, onshore and offshore, “I truly believe the federal government could over time raise $18 trillion in royalties." That’s more than the U.S. national debt, $15.4 trillion.
Not content to confine its hostilities to curtailing new leases, the administration frequently demonizes energy companies for political purposes and advocates new taxes and fees on producers. But the United States is already one of the worst places in the world for oil and gas companies to do business. As the American Enterprise Institute’s Steve Hayward writes, “when compared properly with the royalty and tax systems of 29 other nations, only Venezuela extracts a higher take from oil and gas production than the United States.” New taxes will just drive producers abroad even further.
We must embrace an all-of-the-above energy strategy of oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear, biofuels, wind, and oil shale if we are to achieve energy independence, lower gasoline prices, power a renewed boom in American manufacturing, and raise government revenues with no new taxes." - NEWT GINGRICH
“Newt was on Greta tonight, I don’t think the vid is posted yet”
I posted a thread about it, TBF :)
if it’s the phone calls, nothing can be posted at FR... you go there, sign in, a screen pops up with a name, a phone number, and a script... There are questions you ask, you can deviate according to your own preference, you get info from the person you talk to, like “voting Newt”, “needs a ride”, “would like info sent”, “left a message”, then fill that in... then click for the next phone number to appear on the screen...
the info goes to the campaign database for the requests to be filled. There are different states, you can choose to phone into... nothing further can be posted at FR, other than the place you sign up at... you work with their interface... and it is same with all the other activities, you have to do them there at the newtnetwork site...
Gotcha, keep up the good work!
Gotcha, keep up the good work!
Thanks for the info, Marguerite!
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