Thanks Barack, Thanks Dems… Oil Set to Reach $100 a Barrel

For decades, democrats have blocked one effort after another to responsibly develop the energy resources our country possesses, transforming vast areas of opportunity into “The No Zone.”

Because of current U.S. policy, U.S. companies are prohibited from developing oil fields that lie in Cuban waters and come within 50 miles of Florida. However, Cuba is exploring and potentially developing these oil fields, estimated by the U.S. Geological Survey to possess more oil than the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge, and Cuba is partnering with China and other countries, such as Spain, France, and Canada.

The Castro Regime will begin drilling off the coast of Florida next year and will go deeper than the Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in April.

But, US companies are not so fortunate.
Last month the Obama Administration issued a massive new ban on offshore oil drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico or off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.

Now, we’re seeing oil rise to $100 a barrell.
Reuters reported:

The global economy can withstand an oil price of $100 a barrel, Kuwait’s oil minister said on Saturday, as other exporters indicated OPEC may decide against increasing output through 2011 as the market was well supplied.

Analysts have said oil producing countries are likely to raise output after crude rallied more than 30 percent from a low in May because they fear prices could damage economic growth in fuel importing countries.

European benchmark ICE Brent crude for February closed at $93.46 on Friday after hitting $94.74 a barrel, its highest level since October 2008.

Arab oil exporters meeting in Cairo this weekend said they saw no need to supply more crude as stocks were high and prices had been inflated temporarily by cold weather in Europe.

Asked by Reuters if the world economy could stand a $100 oil price, Kuwaiti Oil Minister Sheikh Ahmad al-Abdullah al-Sabah said: “Yes it can.”

But, don’t worry…
The media will blame it on Bush, Sarah Palin or the tea partyers.

#1 January 14, 2011 at 11:42 am
bitterclinger commented:

The headline and graphic need to be enlarged and put all over the place like the “Why so socialist” posters.
#2 January 14, 2011 at 11:43 am
BackwardsBoy commented:

Is this the “hope” part or the “change” part?

And next time, will we bother to ask whether the hope and change will be good kind or the bad kind?
#3 January 14, 2011 at 11:58 am
Joe Astroturf commented:

“Daddy did you plug the hole”. Yes baby and we have $100 a barrel oil and we put 12,000 of them guns and religious freaks out of work. Uncle George (Soros) is making a killing down in Brazil and he has some good presents for us next kwanza.
#4 January 14, 2011 at 11:59 am
befuddled commented:

this is the wealth redistribution part he talked about with joe the plumber. obama takes care of his buddy soros and gets to funnel money to all those oil producers who hate America. the rest of us can heat our homes with those wonderful speeches he reads off the teleprompter.

why do democrats hate America? it seems to me, they are always trying to impoverish some segment of society.
#5 January 14, 2011 at 12:01 pm
Finncrisp commented:

Recovery is based on affordable oil. This administration is trying to force “Green energy” as the focre for recovery. It is , in fact, the force of ruin. We are the only ones following this course. How dumb are we?
#6 January 14, 2011 at 12:06 pm
Chisum commented:

America Under Socialism

http://www.flickr.com/photos/x-ray_delta_one/4600001645/
#7 January 14, 2011 at 12:06 pm
OC Rick commented:

Domestic oil production can’t fix the supply side. Opec production and Speculators drive up prices. American Clean Energy Production is the only way to save our Great Nation. I’m sure the Oil co’s and our “friends” in Saudi Arabia would disagree.
#8 January 14, 2011 at 12:11 pm
tarpon commented:

A UT study in 2009 pegged the price of diesel fuel derived from coal at less than $30 a barrel oil equivalent. Of interest is who funded the pilot demonstration plant to do the study, CANADA.

The USA has proved coal reserves of about 30% OF THE WORLD’S KNOWN RESERVES. The Crow Indians have a $7 billion dollar deal with Australia to supply about 50,000 barrels of diesel a day … from their reservations coal supply — But alas the US Energy Department has been blocking this refinery for years.

You do the math …
#9 January 14, 2011 at 12:13 pm
kansas commented:

OC Rick.

What?
#10 January 14, 2011 at 12:18 pm
Henry Hawkins commented:

“American Clean Energy Production is the only way to save our Great Nation.”

Um, I’m not sure any citizens of our Great Nation are willing to live like dark age peasants for the next hundred years while the research and development required to replace coal and oil takes place.
#11 January 14, 2011 at 12:21 pm
pst314 commented:

I’ve known a lot of liberals who want economic decline and deindustrialization.
#12 January 14, 2011 at 12:22 pm
OC Rick commented:

America needs a “Apollo” size clean energy project to insure we have a future as a nation. We could develop new energy sources so powerful, Opec would Pay Us Trillions not to impliment them. Or is that too capitalistic for you? American Jobs, Clean Enviroment and Trillions NOT sent to OPEC. To say we can’t do this is Un-American.
#13 January 14, 2011 at 12:29 pm
haybob commented:

E mail Blast all your elected officials with every article on common sense energy solutions, day in,day out. Until the current anti America regime is reigned in we will continue send energy money and jobs overseas. Salazar and his cronies along with “nodrillybilly” nelson and sgt shultz’s sister,wasserman slitz
#14 January 14, 2011 at 12:33 pm
auntie em commented:

#3 January 14, 2011 at 11:58 am
Joe Astroturf commented:
“Daddy did you plug the hole”.

This could mean more than one thing when speaking about Bi-rack.

Sorry to be crass, but the safe school czar, frank marshall, sinclair, barney frank, lindsey graham, etc…..
#15 January 14, 2011 at 12:34 pm
OC Rick commented:

Stop the 45 Billion in Corpoate Socialist Welfare we give to Oil co’s every year. We can cut the INSANE 800 Bil. Pentagon budget in half and still outspend the rest of the World and be secure. Use just half that money to creat jobs start to balance the budjet and keep Billions we spend on Foreign OIL in America. China is spending over 200 bil on clean energy. Take the future and make it ours, don’t be afraid. Or do you want to chase the Chi-coms in this field.
#16 January 14, 2011 at 12:34 pm
RS commented:

Imagine, in a free economy, what kind of investment in oil exploration $100/barrel oil would bring. Imagine the jobs that would result. Imagine the wealth staying in the USA.

We have to only imagine this since Obama and the US green government is stopping this natural economic process which would lead to enormous increases in production and the creation of wealth.
#17 January 14, 2011 at 12:38 pm
OC Rick commented:

Guys, Oil is 100 year old Dirty technology, coal is over 200 year old Dirty technology. Get out of the past. it will be over in about 40 years. We already know what kind of economy $150 barrel oil will bring. Crap.
#18 January 14, 2011 at 12:46 pm
Edouard commented:

#7

“Speculators” cannot “drive up prices” forever; that’s the nature of speculation. Speculators never, ever dominate markets ultimately; that goes back to good old supply and demand in 100% of cases.

You cannot formulate national strategies for energy policy based on anxiety about speculators. That is insane.

Face it, the economic winners and losers of the new century will be those who produce the actually-demanded energy such as oil, natural gas & coal (winners) and those who forsake energy production and must import it (losers).

In other words, DRILL, BABY, DRILL.
#19 January 14, 2011 at 12:46 pm
Henry Hawkins commented:

OC Rick, your sentiments are fine, but sentiments don’t pay the rent. Whether the world likes it or not, the world is stuck with oil and coal for a long time, because the technology for clean energy isn’t there yet, not even close, decades and decades away. You’re pitching an either/or false dichotomy. What we need to do is, all at the same time:

Build nuclear power plants
Build oil refineries
Develop domestic coal, natural gas, and oil exploration, extraction, and refining
Increase clean energy research and development
Transit slowly away from foreign oil as domestic production and new energy allow it

This should all be done as much as possible in the private sector, with appropriate gov’mt partnership, and taxpayer money should be used only when and where it is demonstrably impossible for the private sector to achieve a necessary goal. The only things stopping the above now are prohibitive government regulation and taxation.
#20 January 14, 2011 at 12:47 pm
mark commented:

When the global warming crowd, trying to profit from taxing CO2, is not making the sort of progress it wants, it must raise the price of competing energies. Obama Motors electric car too expensive? No problem, ensure gas prices rise so high that the value gap begins to shrink. Tax receipts down due to Obamaconomics? No problem, raise the price per gallon of gas and tax receipts on gas sales go up too. Wonderful. Supports big government. Big oil likes the deal. Obama likes the deal. Too bad Mom and Dad. But hey, if you voted for Obamaeconomics then shut up. This is just one consequence of your vote. If you didn’t, then you’re complaints are valid.

In related news—under Obama’s leadership, the US drops to #9 on the list of the World’s Economic Freedom Index, just a hair above Bahrain. http://www.heritage.org/Index/
#21 January 14, 2011 at 12:54 pm
ebayer commented:

Why so serious?
After all,we have the Chevy Volt ,Windfarms and mass transit to save us from our dependence on so called “fossil fuels”

Oh wait…nm
#22 January 14, 2011 at 12:58 pm
OC Rick commented:

The Technology is there to have a real impact in less 5 years with wind and solar creating millions of American Jobs. Oil will be the Death of our Great Counrty. We could have dont this already with the 2 trillion Wasted in Iraq, not to mentinon the 4500 dead and 40000 wounded. Not to mention cure caner, rebuild our entire infrastructrure & sent millions if Americas kids to school. What did we get our of Iraq? Nothing but $4 gas. Ironic since that nation is sitting on Gobs of OIL. Bush / Cheney and friends got over on USA on that one.
#23 January 14, 2011 at 1:02 pm
garrettc commented:

China is spending opening new coal and oil fueled plants on almost a monthly basis. China has begun heavy investment in nuclear energy facilities, including (with Bill Gates) a large scale investment in the new thorium fueled micro reactors.

One intermediate key to moving the cost of oil down, is to increase supply. As long as OPEC controls supply, it can set the base cost. Basic economics: demand drives supply and controling supply increases revenue to the resource owner.

Oil extracted in US waters and on public lands generates huge revenues to the states and the federal coffers (thereby reducing state and federal deficits), without which, the funds to research new energy sources will be severely limited.

Huge deposits of oil, shale oil and natural gas can be safely and cleanly extracted from US territory using existing technology, enough to supply US requirements for 1-2 more centuries. Enough thorium and other fissile materials exists on US territory to satisfy our electical requirements for the next thousand years. Plenty of time for research and development of clean technologies, such a fusion ( and who knows what else.)

Solar? Not promising. China owns the entire supply of rare earths. We are just trading one master for another with the current technology. Do the math; you cannot even break even installing solar panels on your home, including government tax breaks, manufacturer rebates and sell back benefits. The panels loose 10-20% efficiency in the first year and there arfter wear out at about 5% effciency los each year. at current costs it takes 20 years to recoup the cost, about 5 years longer than the expected lifetime (calculated on 300 sunny days a year in Denver for a south facing roof and estimating an anual increase of 4% in electricity costs.) most of the ocuntry is not so fortyunate as the West in having so many sunny days per year.

Wind? Again, the rare earths necessary for high sheer force turbines is exclusively mined in China. That is why almost all wind turbine engines are manufactured in China. The only wind-turbine plant in the US is closing. Again, it is a technology that doesn’t, or can’t, meet requirements for anything more sporratic low wattage contributions.

High capacity lithium batterires (current best technology for storing energy when the wind isn’t blowing, sun not shining). Made in Korea from Lithium mined in China.

Notice the pattern?
#24 January 14, 2011 at 1:10 pm
Edouard commented:

#22

“…wind and solar creating millions of American Jobs….”

You are dreaming.
#25 January 14, 2011 at 1:15 pm
Henry Hawkins commented:

OC Rick. I get it now. How much are they paying you per post? Do you know or care your numbers are absurd?
#26 January 14, 2011 at 1:18 pm
olm commented:

Dreaming is right.
The western far left states are trying desparately to save their own socialist states with green technology. solar, wind. Guess what? Not working.
But what is working is the crushing of traditional fuel sources.
There are not millions of jobs, if there were CA and OR would be hubs of great economic activty. Again, not happening.
#27 January 14, 2011 at 1:20 pm
DigitalTroglodyte commented:

The Technology is there to have a real impact in less 5 years with wind and solar creating millions of American Jobs.

BS. You have no idea what you’re talking about. I’ll link just one of several articles I have bookmarked for people just like you. It’s even from that reichwing rag the Washington Post.
The enviro-whackos are suing to prevent transmission lines required to carry the electricity from the wind and solar farms to where it is needed. Ever hear of an environmental impact study? The greenies will keep this tied up in court for at least 5 years, but go ahead keep talking. BTW, do you still drive a vehicle? Fly to any destination? When the greenies start acting like they give a damn, I’ll start listening.
#28 January 14, 2011 at 1:27 pm
DigitalTroglodyte commented:

You know what, OC Rick? Don’t bother reading anything I wrote in my last comment. You’re not worth the effort. Every time one of these articles is posted, we get a visit from someone like you, who makes the same claims. If there is any justice in the world you’ll get to live in the hell you want for the rest of us. You obviously have no idea what products are made from oil and its by-products. Look it up!!!
#29 January 14, 2011 at 1:32 pm
mark commented:

OC Rick. Since CO2 output is raising the temperature, the sun should be hotter. Therefore, Solar Power is the way to go. Right? Since the oceans are rising, or so we hear, then we also need hydro power. Right?

As #27 says, why don’t you go fix this problem before you solve the world’s energy issues?

LOS ANGELES | Wed Jan 5, 2011 10:31am EST

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A leading environmental advocacy group is suing the state of California’s Energy Commission over its approval of a giant solar plant, underscoring the growing challenge to the nation’s renewable-energy goals from within the environmental community.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70432N20110105
#30 January 14, 2011 at 1:34 pm
mark commented:

And I resolve in 2011 to spend 98% less time trying to educate liberals with facts. It’s pointless and a waste of CO2.
#31 January 14, 2011 at 1:37 pm
ebayer commented:

lol@# 22 OC Rick

Ricks answer to the energy problem:

“It’s Bush’s fault!!”

hahahaha
#32 January 14, 2011 at 1:37 pm
Granny commented:

#22 January 14, 2011 at 12:58 pm
OC Rick commented:

The Technology is there to have a real impact in less 5 years with wind and solar creating millions of American Jobs.

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Oh crap on a crutch Rick. Solar is simply not viable in huge swathes of the country. Even in Arizona where the sun shines 350+ days a year solar is not big. They’ve been trying to sell solar since the 80s out there.

Wind? You’re kidding, right? Do you have any conception of exactly how much of our nation we would have to cover with windmills in order to generate enough electricity to even meet our present needs?

Get a grip.
#33 January 14, 2011 at 1:40 pm
Granny commented:

#29, Mark

Meanwhile in the People’s Republic of California, the entire San Fernando Valley, once the breadbasket of the nation and much of the world, has been laid literally to a desert wasteland all in the name of a 5″ fish. People are facing starvation and a critical food shortage worldwide? Who cares! Fish are much more important than people.
#34 January 14, 2011 at 1:52 pm
olm commented:

I worked for a solar panel company in the late 70′s that was putting solar panels on houses.
I have to call major bs on solar. That was a long time ago and solar is no further along.
#35 January 14, 2011 at 1:57 pm
Granny commented:

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#34 January 14, 2011 at 1:52 pm
olm commented:

I worked for a solar panel company in the late 70′s that was putting solar panels on houses.
I have to call major bs on solar. That was a long time ago and solar is no further along.
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Yup, they have been trying to sell us solar ever since the energy “crisis” back in the 70s – almost 40 years and billions upon billions of dollars. If anything, solar is less far along than it was then. Nothing but a scam, almost right up there with selling “carbon credits” (pick me up off the floor while I die laughing!).

And then there is the building of the first hydrogen filling station that my Congressman proudly brought home to Vermont, despite the fact that there are no cars running on hydrogen. Billions in waste.
#36 January 14, 2011 at 2:00 pm
olm commented:

We have the first plug station for cars, I think. They may as well just put up a shrine to the Mayan god of whatever. eye roll.
#37 January 14, 2011 at 2:02 pm
Joanne commented:

Socialism is all about the government taking over the industries, and this is why Obama wants to take over the largest industry in the U.S. – the Healthcare Industry. But when it comes to fuel resources, Obama doesn’t want to take over existing resources, oh no, he is intent on destroying the coal and oil industries, because he wants to control the American people with the rationing of the power supply, just like rationing the healthcare industry helps him to control the populace.
#38 January 14, 2011 at 2:03 pm
Joanne commented:

I’ve recently read that solar panels do not function in the severe cold….probably just an oversight. Hah.
#39 January 14, 2011 at 2:13 pm
bitterclinger commented:

Rick, you and your “dirty” comments should dismount that unicorn and hop in a car. My cousin is a chemical engineer and just shakes his head when people say coal is dirty. Have you ever heard of “clean coal technology?” No? Just that pie-in-the-sky “green” religion, huh?

Your boy Zero just pulled a coal permit in Appalachia — first time in 25 years. I’m sure those folks know it’s for their own good. They prob’ly figure “Old Rick will be over to blow on my car to make it go.” I hope you can bring them groceries and heat their homes, too. President Zero is just that — and evil, too.
#40 January 14, 2011 at 2:13 pm
Drider commented:

Oil skyrocketing is NOT Bush’s fault for God Sakes.

Everyone knows it’s Palin’s.
#41 January 14, 2011 at 2:33 pm
Sparky commented:

Obama is doing wonders for the Canadian oil and gas industry.
#42 January 14, 2011 at 2:37 pm
Granny commented:

#39 January 14, 2011 at 2:13 pm
bitterclinger commented:

Rick, you and your “dirty” comments should dismount that unicorn and hop in a car. My cousin is a chemical engineer and just shakes his head when people say coal is dirty. Have you ever heard of “clean coal technology?” No? Just that pie-in-the-sky “green” religion, huh?

Your boy Zero just pulled a coal permit in Appalachia — first time in 25 years. I’m sure those folks know it’s for their own good. They prob’ly figure “Old Rick will be over to blow on my car to make it go.” I hope you can bring them groceries and heat their homes, too. President Zero is just that — and evil, too.
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One of the first acts of this regime was to pull the permit allowing the Navajo Nation, which owns one of the largest deposits of coal in the country, to build a second coal fired power plant. There is but a single power plant for the entire reservation, which covers an area larger than all of New England and numerous residents have no access to power of any kind.
#43 January 14, 2011 at 2:50 pm
squeaky commented:

[Evergreen Solar will close its Massachusetts factory, saying that the U.S. is at a disadvantage in the face of low-cost Chinese solar suppliers.] and after receiving 58 million from the state of ma.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20028245-54.html
[BOSTON Â– A quarter of the tax breaks given to movie companies under Massachusetts' film tax credit program have gone to help filmmakers cover the paychecks of millionaire Hollywood stars.]
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/01/12/1499652/mass-tax-credits-used-to-cover.html?storylink=rss
#45 January 14, 2011 at 2:58 pm
Andreas K. commented:

Oil is essential for the economy. Most of the goods are transported on oil-based vehicles.

I really want to see how Obama is going to transport goods with electric cars and windpower.

Oh wait, he won’t, because this stuff is only useful as toys.
#46 January 14, 2011 at 3:04 pm
DigitalTroglodyte commented:

I can’t wait for the animal rights activists to sue because windmills(aka bird blenders) are killing migratory birds! Ohnoes!!!
#47 January 14, 2011 at 3:08 pm
Buffalobob commented:

Progs who purport to be for the poor and working man will drive the economy into the ground and cause untold hardship on families. The people in the third world countries who struggle to afford fuel for cooking and heat will be driven deeper and deeper into despair. The progs mission is, save mother earth, destroy the humans that infest it.
#48 January 14, 2011 at 3:10 pm
dunce commented:

There is a time delayed effect on the supply chain that will be felt in the price of everything because everything has an energy price component. Expect this to show up in violence in poorer countrys or the cost of food staples. This administration thinks they can repeal and control the laws of supply and demand just has every other socialist regime that goes into a slow death spiral of fixing errors with blunders.
#49 January 14, 2011 at 3:17 pm
squeaky commented:

#48 January 14, 2011 at 3:04 pm
DigitalTroglodyte commented:
there was one of sorts a few years back when protected birds were being creamed by the windmills. two environmental groups haggling it out….
and now on e-bay….be respectible and try to not knock one another out.
http://cgi.ebay.com/TOGETHER-WE-THRIVE-T-SHIRT-GABRIELLE-GIFFORDS-TUSCON-/200565429777?pt=US_CSA_MC_Shirts&var=&hash=item746afa5892
#50 January 14, 2011 at 3:45 pm
donabernathy commented:

I blame Sarah Palin. She can see OPEC from her window and did nothing.

roflmao
#51 January 14, 2011 at 3:47 pm
befuddled commented:

#22 January 14, 2011 at 12:58 pm
OC Rick commented:

The Technology is there to have a real impact in less 5 years with wind and solar creating millions of American Jobs.

Solar company that got $58M leaving Massachusetts

The Associated Press at 6:15pm on Jan 11, 2011 Modified at 6:25pm on Jan 11, 2011

BOSTON — A solar panel manufacturer that received $58 million in state aid in 2007 to open a factory at a former Massachusetts military base is closing the plant and laying off 800 workers.

Evergreen Solar Inc. announced Tuesday it is shutting down the Devens plant by the end of the 2011 first quarter.

Gov. Deval Patrick had heralded Evergreen as key to the state’s economic future in clean energy. Economic Development Secretary Greg Bialecki said the administration is disappointed and will work to recover any money Evergreen owes the state.

Evergreen CEO Michael El-Hillow said dropping prices and competition from heavily subsidized solar manufacturers in China made the plant “no longer economically feasible.” Evergreen will continue to run facilities in China and Midland, Mich.

Evergreen reported losses of $265 million in 2009, and $54 million through the first nine months of 2010.

Read more: http://www.kentucky.com/2011/01/11/1595440/solar-company-that-got-58m-leaving.html#ixzz1B34e7DAq
#52 January 14, 2011 at 4:48 pm
tommy mc donnell commented:

to marxists you have to destroy the existing order. no gas, no oil, no coal, no nuclear energy, no economy. when the marxists have completely destroyed our economy they will use any kind of energy they damn well please (COMMUNIST COUNTRIES ARE BIGGEST POLUTORS IN HISTORY). and if any of you green people try to say anything about it the black car will come in the middle of the night and take you away.
#53 January 14, 2011 at 5:00 pm
Catherine commented:

Remember it is not just cars that run on oil?
I would love to go into a leftist house and take out all things that are made from oil and tell them to do without.

Okay now what

http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2011/01/12/evergreen_solar_to_cut_800_jobs_as_it_tries_to_compete_with_china/
Plant will shut after $58m in state aid

Evergreen itself has a factory in Wuhan, China, built in collaboration with a Chinese company, Jiawei Solarchina Co. Ltd., and with money from a Chinese government investment fund. The company had previously said it would shift some production from Devens to the Wuhan plant but yesterday was the first time it said Devens would be closed.

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The company will continue operating a plant in Michigan, which provided Evergreen with $5.7 million in tax incentives.
Closing the Devens plant will help Evergreen preserve its remaining cash. Burdened with debt, Evergreen reported losing $54 million through the first nine months of 2010 and since its founding in 1994 has run up a deficit of over $685 million.
In September, its longtime chief executive, Richard Feldt, left Evergreen.

WORTH THE READ
BUT THEN
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/epa-handing-out-millions-taxpayer-money#
EPA Handing Out Millions in Taxpayer Money to Study Combination of Pollution and ‘Social Stressors’ in Poor Neighborhoods
Thursday, January 13, 2011

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1346638/George-Osbornes-fuel-hike-hits-families–70-petrol.html
Government urged to scrap ‘escalator’ rise on fuel duty

shows what people paid 2 years ago after Oct when the democrats let the restrictions on drilling lapse before the election?

remember the rage about cost of 100$ to fill the tank?
what did the leader say?

http://tv.breitbart.com/obamas-answer-to-oil-crisis-inflate-your-tires/
Obama’s Answer to Drilling Debate: Inflate Your Tires
July 30, 2008 at 3:27 pm – CNN
Dateline: Springfield, MO

WHY GAS IS SO HIGH
Catherine
#54 January 14, 2011 at 5:17 pm
DigitalTroglodyte commented:

.be respectible and try to not knock one another out.

squeaky, was this meant for me? Have you seen me call anyone a name? I didn’t name windmills bird blenders. This is serious stuff. They’re screwing up our food supply. They’re going to put our energy production capability in jeopardy. If you can’t take sarcasm, that’s your problem. I hear Mitch “No Labels” Dworkin is looking for someone he can “sell the middle” politics to.
#55 January 14, 2011 at 5:27 pm
squeaky commented:

#54 January 14, 2011 at 5:17 pm
DigitalTroglodyte commented
nope not you sorry – i was referring to the t-shirt on e-bay jokeingly. as if we’re all going to be knocking each other out to buy it.
#56 January 14, 2011 at 5:29 pm
squeaky commented:

and there was an issue with one environmental group arguing with another over birds [protected] being killed by the other groups windmills.
#57 January 14, 2011 at 5:38 pm
avery commented:

OC RICK No#15,are you being paid by “Soros”,the China are buying up every oil flied and coal depotest in the world,are we saving our for them.On the news today the new china jet planes plane is way ahead of our.
#58 January 14, 2011 at 6:02 pm
DigitalTroglodyte commented:

Sorry squeaky. I misread your comment. We’ve had too many commenters here complaining about remarks that they find personally offensive. It’s tiresome. I use sarcasm, and do my best to not call anyone a name. I may fall short of that goal, but I’m only human, and therefore, fallible.
#59 January 14, 2011 at 6:09 pm
befuddled commented:

i too remember obama’s response to the drilling debate was to tell Americans to maintain proper tire inflation, which is equivalent to president carter (the nuclear engineer) telling the American people struggling in the midst of an energy crisis to wear a sweater and turn down their thermostat. i was also appalled that obama was reported to not be troubled about gas prices rising to $10/gal– as long as the price increased gradually.

needless to say, the press was quick to put down palin’s motto: drill baby drill
and when she dared to question the feds response of qualitive easing in the wall street journal, their own reporter castigated her along with the other so called media sources…

History is on our side: Sarah Palin Is Right About Food And Energy

“Radical environmentalists: you are damaging the planet with your efforts to lock up safer drilling areas. There’s nothing clean and green about your misguided, nonsensical radicalism, and Americans are on to you as we question your true motives.”

- Sarah Palin
#60 January 14, 2011 at 6:15 pm
Catherine commented:

remember it was Clinton who shut down coal while signing the leftist bill in front of the Grand C.
the left have been doing this for a long time

don’t forget the EPAs attacks on TX

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29017638/ns/us_news-environment/
Bush-era energy drilling leases in Utah canceled
Interior Department to review whether to open those federal lands

http://coloradoindependent.com/45432/salazar-blasts-oil-industry-while-outlining-new-land-lease-reforms#

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Wednesday once again blasted the oil-and-gas industry for attacking his policies and for abuses committed under previous administrations.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/energy/backtracking-obama-administration-closes-eastern-gulf-to-oil-drilling/1137511
Backtracking Obama administration closes eastern gulf to oil drilling
By Alex Leary, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Thursday, December 2, 2010

http://republicanifi.com/news/BP-shuts-down-part-of-Alaska-oil-field-in-wake-of-court-ruling-1508709.html

BP shuts down part of Alaska oil field in wake of court ruling
5jan2011

it is a shakedown of the American people as well as all free peoples

and it goes on and on
So will the American people stand by and not gas for their cars or heating for their homes??
Catherine
#61 January 14, 2011 at 6:20 pm
befuddled commented:

china has locked up the oil reserves in iraq. we can’t even get a discount on the gas to fly our dead back. china will also be drilling for the Cubans off the coast of Florida (where we are prohibited) at a far riskier depth than our oil rigs. does anyone believe they will be hindered by safety or environmental concerns? the next time some “greeny -enviro-nazi” lectures me, i will tell them to go preach their nonsense to the Chinese. As for me, i would rather have growth, prosperity, and jobs for Americans.
#63 January 14, 2011 at 6:48 pm
Catherine commented:

well they are taking those away
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2011/01/12/epa-will-regulate-greenhouse-gases-in-texas-court-rules/
EPA Will Regulate Greenhouse Gases in Texas, Court Rules
12JAN2011

Catherine
#64 January 15, 2011 at 12:45 am
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:

I wonder where all the media pieces are about the current high gas prices having the greatest impact on the poor?
#65 January 15, 2011 at 5:48 am
Jones commented:

I suppose Nancy Pelosi will be calling for Congressional hearings on the administration’s collusion with the oil industry to inflate prices for personal profit any day now

the country is in the best of hands