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Posted on 02/11/2015 4:38:41 PM PST by Bratch
Governor Palin wrote a great article for the Houston Tribune today loaded with a lot of good facts on energy. She also notes an interesting flip flop from our president on the matter.
It’s always a pleasure returning to the beautiful Lone Star State. This week I’m in Houston speaking with the industrious men and women of America’s oil patch at the North American Prospect Expo. These are the unsung heroes of our nation’s energy renaissance.
In the brutal economic environment of the last six years, one sector had good news to report, and it came straight out of America’s oil patch. From 2007 to 2012, employment in the energy industry rose a dramatic 31.6 percent while employment nationwide fell 2.7 percent. U.S. oil production increased from 6.5 million barrels per day in 2012 to 7.4 million barrels per day in 2013, and in December, the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas produced its billionth barrel of oil. Thanks to American energy entrepreneurs’ drive and innovation, we’ve surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world’s largest oil and gas producer. This truly is a great American success story, and it’s a proud moment for those of us determined to educate D.C. bureaucrats on the link between energy and our security and prosperity.
Apparently, the president is pretty proud, too. In his State of the Union address last month, he boasted about the surge in oil and gas drilling, saying, “We are as free from the grip of foreign oil as we’ve been in almost 30 years.” From the way he’s talking, you’d think he coined the phrase “drill, baby, drill.” But it was just three years ago while campaigning in Miami that he lectured, “We can’t just drill our way to lower gas prices.” Respectfully, Mr. President, “yes we can.” And yes we did. Average gas prices were well over $3 in 2012, but in the first months of 2015, they’re near $2, with some states enjoying even lower prices.
Despite his newfound appreciation for drilling, the president fails to mention that most production is on private and state lands out of his control rather than on federal lands he can over-regulate and lock up. In fact, under the Obama administration, natural gas production on federal lands — onshore and offshore — has fallen an astonishing 28 percent while production on private and state lands, many sitting atop prolific shale plays like the Bakken and Eagle Ford, thankfully increased by 33 percent. Similarly, under Obama, oil production on federal lands has fallen 6 percent but increased by 61 percent on nonfederal lands.
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Our nation is blessed with the natural resources, the knowledge and the workforce to now take this energy renaissance to the next level. What we lack is the political leadership and courage to do so. T. Boone Pickens summed up the problem by observing that “a five-minute conversation on energy can’t happen in Washington, because within three minutes, you’ve run out of everything they know.” The private sector’s natural adversary has always been the market forces of supply and demand, so the last thing it needs is the artificial adversarial forces of political machinations.
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If the administration sincerely wanted to help our domestic energy sector, it would lift the four-decade-old ban on exporting crude oil. American producers shouldn’t have to beg permission of our own government to export our resources while the White House negotiates increased oil exports with Iran. For an administration not shy about acting on its own, it has no excuse to ignore this and not even consider lifting the ban. I challenge the watchdog press to ask why this is so.
The energy sector has been a star athlete, and Washington is scrambling on the sidelines, unaware of how to react. Let’s remind them that our government is supposed to work for us, not get in our way. Let’s tell them, “Just watch.” Watch how America’s oil patch fuels our nation’s economic engine. Watch how continued investment, innovation, exploration and production allow the U.S. to remain the global economic powerhouse. Watch the men and women of America’s new energy boomtowns in states like Texas show the bureaucrats in D.C. that no matter what roadblocks are placed in their way, they’ll find a way through and build a stronger America.
Read the entire article here.
She knows it will be the Hildebeast. You have to admit that Identity Politics gets more mileage for the buck. That’s how the DemonRATs have been working it all these years. This will be the battle of the Beast vs. Mamma Grisly. The effort by the Hildebeast to put on a new fresh face will fail. You can’t put lipstick on a pig. As much as they will try to make her over, the Beast will have her legacy of nothing to show, except a tired old past.
We are thinking in similar lines
Anything but President, right? </s>
The only rough edges she has are the ones PDSers assign her regularly on the threads.
It is going to be a hoot if she runs whatever shall the Cruz Control freepers do?
I read she removes the ring when meeting people because they shake her hand with such vigor that it hurts her fingers.
This is NOT the “Houston Tribune” -— this is from “The Texas Tribune”.
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Apparently the poster changed the title as at the souce it reads as follows:
“Governor Palin Pens Energy Op-Ed for Texas Tribune”
Faith-family then Her own future. She’s spending time with her younger children now
oh PLEASE!!!!
Stop with the sexist “after her family is grown.”
Just. Stop. Now.
Both of Ted Cruz’s daughters are younger than four of Palin’s “children.” (incidentally, Palin’s “kids” are 25, 24, 20, 12, and 6)
Several of Santorum’s kids are younger than Palin’s.
Ditto, Rubio. Paul.
Just. Stop.
S T O P
And her “rough edges” are ENTIRELY media made up.
When will Biden’s “rough edges” be cut and polished?
Obama’s?
Romney’s?
Give me a break.
Who’s your candidate?
How old are HIS kids? How much of a cut and polished consultant automaton is HE?
She has addressed her not wearing her wedding ring MANY MANY times.
She lives an outdoor lifestyle and rings can often interfere with that. Todd never wears a ring.
When she’s meeting crowds, greeting them with both hands, the squeezing of the ring hurts.
Geezaloo!
Has FR become such a site for majoring in the minors?
And the LEFTIST SWINE minors to boot?
She shakes hands with her left hand?
You would do all this?
So, are you running for president?
Or what candidate currently running has more experience him or herself of actually shrinking government? Which would then give him the experience and authority to order Palin to do these things?
If you’ll look at Palin’s record, she herself did this as mayor and governor.
S T O P
Her younger children are 12 and 6.
Which means by the time she would be president they would by 14 and 8.
How old are your candidate’s children?
If you won’t state this, then stop saying that the Little Woman cannot run for president while she has children.
Just. Stop.
If you paid attention to anything Palin ever does, you would know that she often reaches into the crowd with, yes, both hands.
Unbelievable stupidity and obtuseness on FR today.
Her actions say it all:
While working for FOX she chose to build a studio on her property so she could stay near family and home.
She could have run for senate and moved to DC. She didn’t.
Even the TV work she is currently doing allows her to stay close to home most of the time but make a good salary
She admits to loving her home and family
She successfully used Twitter FB etc to support conservative candidate
All reasons I will support her when SHE decides to run.
But the decision belongs to Sarah and her family not you.
Good Lord! You have spammed this thread to death with your S T O P crap.... As another person posted, “Obnoxious”
Probably both hands.
Where is her wedding ring in this pic?
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