Posted on 02/29/2012 7:05:40 AM PST by Hojczyk
I want to say that, despite the Administration’s arguments that are laid out, that you all are all guns blaring and green lights for drilling, the facts that I checked, and if you disagree tell me, only 21 permits for offshore drilling have been issued by this date.
In 2010 there were 32 permits. I just left the annual conference of LOGA, which is Louisiana Oil and Gas Association, Mr. Secretary, yesterday. They are beside themselves with not being able to get their permits processed and to answer you, Mr. Franken, let me just say Exxon and Shell may be making record profits but according to a study recently done by the Greater New Orleans, Inc., 41% of our oil and gas independent operators and service companies, I’m not talking about Exxon and Shell that have operations all over the world,
I’m talking about companies in the Gulf Coast, in Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama. Let me tell you what the studies show about their profits: 41% of them are not making a profit at all, 70% have lost significant cash reserves, 46 have moved operations away from the Gulf, and 82% of business owners have lost personal savings as a result of this slow down.
When Salazar tried to claim that the Obama administration has expanded drilling zones, Landrieu lost patience with her former colleague:
When you speak you get people thinking that we’re drilling everywhere, onshore and offshore, and the facts are not – don’t justify that. You know that 98% of our offshore is limited to drilling, we can’t even explore there. We’re talking about what we’re drilling within that 2%.
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It was OBAMA that killed their business way beyond a reasonable time frame for the cleanup. But they're determined to sc*** BP and others.
Landrieu better be careful or she won’t be invited to the next Obama fund raiser.
Mary forgets what happens when you sell-out your soul to corruption. Well, at least the unemployed folks of her state can enjoy their Obamacare forced upon us by that bitch.
Liberals and their media tell us the BP spill was the worst environmental disaster ever. But we get quite a different story from the gulf coast tourism commercials.
We use the cleanup method here in upstate NY on these old gas stations.
Mother Nature was spectacular...and Obama and his handlers tried like hell to disprove Mother Nature's work.
Yes, Spectacular....and Real!! :-)
Landrieu will make noise until she’s given a juicy chunk of pork from Obama to buy her off... just like her craven act of prostitution when Obama and Reid bought her support of Obamacare.
Landrieu’s whining means nothing more than she just wants another treat.
Little Mary should follow Collins out of the Senate. She will find she has less influence in the next Congress than she has now.
I think that's her point. She's pimpin' for some more stimulus cash. It worked like a charm during the health care scam.
Obama risks opening some very deep fissures in the Democrat Party over his energy policy.
His EPA is doing their best to stop shale fracking in PA and OH. The local Democrat pols are salivating over the revenue streams and, truth be known, have already spent them. Barry is going to have one serious uprising on his hands if he persists.
An excellent observation.
Taxes can trump environmentalism for most Dems, especially ones not on the east or west coast.
She'll be allowed to say whatever she has to in order to have a chance at being reelected in 2014.
Senator Babyfat
“She’ll be allowed to say whatever she has to in order to have a chance at being reelected in 2014.”
Mary Landrieu’s Senate seat has been Democrat since Reconstruction, but there is absolutely nothing that she can do to hold it after 2014. She cheated her way to victory (bussing in illegal voters) in 1996, won reelection in 2002 in a run-off due to the traditional LA GOP circular firing squad, and won again in 2008 thanks to a GOP nominee who had been a Democrat like two weeks before he ran and the HUGE Obama-inspired black turnout. But now the ride is over.
HAHAHA, nice reference.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX5jNnDMfxA
I think the bell tolls for her but I can’t blame her for trying. If she’s not careful she’ll get gobsmacked like Blanche Lincoln.
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