[paint_your_wagon]

I’ve heard the argument that while American’s cannot compete with the extremely low labor costs in other parts of the world we have geat potential with having cheap energy that we could be so much more economically competitive.

Yet our government blocks the development of our known
energy sources.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Jan 13, 2011 --Agency Revokes Permit for Major Coal Mining Project WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency revoked the permit for one of the nation’s largest mountaintop-removal coal mining projects on Thursday, saying the mine would have done unacceptable damage to rivers, wildlife and communities in West Virginia. It was the first time the agency had rescinded a valid clean water permit for a coal mine.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

OMSA Praises Ruling Holding Obama Administration in Contempt for its Moratorium on Gulf Oil Drilling NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Offshore Marine Service Association today praised a federal judge's ruling holding the U.S. Interior Department in civil contempt and called for the Obama Administration to end its de facto moratorium on offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

"The ruling highlights the disparity between President Obama's stated policy objectives -- to grow jobs and promote American energy independence -- and his actions, which instead deliver higher unemployment, higher fuel prices and greater dependency on foreign energy sources. This ruling demonstrates the President is more interested in shutting down our domestic oil and gas production than he is in establishing clear rules to enhance safety and environmental protection. President Obama's policies are destroying American jobs and exporting American technology to countries that value safe offshore energy production," said Jim Adams, president and CEO of the Offshore Marine Service Association (OMSA).....

[Thermalseeker]

Yet our government blocks the development of our known energy sources.

Not just hydrocarbons, either. Do a search on "thorium"

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

The coming GOP majority MUST be encouraged to aggresesively allow us to drill for oil, extract shale gas, built nuclear powerplants and built oil refineries.

The socialists had their heyday under Obama. We have to place great pressure on the coming GOP majority to ignore the environmental whack jobs and to exploit our own energy.

Man, there are so many things we need to demand from the coming GOP majority. So many things.