Posted on 03/12/2011 11:51:43 AM PST by kcvl
Oil Industry Says Obama Didn’t Tell the Truth
Fox News (blog) - Jim Hoft - 45 minutes ago
Last week, at a House Natural Resources Committee hearing, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told Congress that oil production in the Gulf of Mexico “remained at an all-time high.” Salazar claimed: “In 2009 there were 116 rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, in 2010 in February, 120, in February 2011, 126.”
He was lying.
Energy Tomorrow blog reported
Salazar’s numbers distort the true number of working rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. According to Baker Hughes:
* Four days before the Deepwater Horizon accident there were 55 rotary rigs actually drilling offshore in the Gulf of Mexico.
* On May 28, 2010, when the administration announced the six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling, there were 46 rotary rigs operating in the Gulf.
* Last week, 25 rotary rigs were operating in the Gulf of Mexico
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What took so long?
No kidding! These morons are just now figuring out that obama and democrats LIE!
FUBO & FAD
And this is News?
Yeah, this is so cynical, it’s beyond shocking. Talk about going for the big lie.
Now there is a shocker!
Can a teleprompter lie? I’m confused.
It is impossible for Obama to tell the truth at this point. He is the definition of a lie.
And people are amazed in what way exactly?
When has that Bastard ever told the truth?? We do not even know who the hell this rat commie is!
Really? 0 is always truthful !
Obama lied?! Say it isn’t so!!!
His lips moved....what do they expect?
Yet another taqiyya moment for Hussein.
Rush even made the comment he couldn’t believe how he lied so boldly.
Obama lied, a country died.
Well, that is where we are headed.
In the same hearing, the Secretary also claimed that “the production has remained at an all-time high” within the Gulf of Mexico and there is no way to actually make this true. The Energy Department’s Energy Information Administration reports that production in the Gulf of Mexico is in decline, forecasting a decline of 250,000 barrels a day from Gulf production, due partly to the moratorium and restricted permitting. While the annual production figure for 2010 was greater than 2009, EIA’s month-by-month production figures show a peak in May of 2010, and a relatively steady decline since.
UPDATE: This is really sad but we all knew it was coming.
Barack Obama held a press conference today on American energy and repeated the same lie… “Oil production at its highest level in 7 years. Oil production from federal waters in Gulf at an all time high.”
Bump.
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