EPA Chief Claims Agency’s Energy-Killing Policies Did Not Cause High Gas Prices
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, April 26, 2011, 11:58 AM
While Obama, democrats and the EPA block oil production here at home they fund it in Brazil.
Then they complain about America’s “addiction” to foreign oil.
EPA Chief Lisa Jackson blamed high gas prices today on America’s dependence on foreign oil.
No kidding.
The Politico reported:
The EPA is getting blamed for a lot of things these days, but Lisa Jackson says rising gasoline prices are not her agency’s fault.
The EPA administrator insisted Tuesday that upward pressure on gas prices “is not coming from any environmental or health regulation.”
“The standards that we set to protect our health are so often and so inaccurately blamed for increasing prices and economic challenges that I want to make clear that that’s not what is happening right now,” she told a conference hosted by the Energy Information Administration.
Nor is increasing demand for fuel in nations such as China and India to blame for cost spikes, Jackson added — at least not yet.
“What appears to be the most important factor at work is our dependence on imported energy,” she said. “This is what leaves us vulnerable to jumps in prices. When something changes thousands of miles away, the American people pay for it at the pump.”
Shell Oil announced yesterday that due to Obama’s radical EPA, they will be forced to stop drilling off the coast of Alaska. The EPA claimed a village of 250 people 70 miles away may be harmed by emissions.
The EPA doesn’t care about jobs, either.
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Chisum commented:
It’s the fuel subsidies.
Everybody knows that.
Mark1957 commented:
Billions to drill off the coast of Brazil, billions more to build a refinery in Columbia. There is a foul wind blowing out of Washington and it don’t power squat.
http://www.ihatethemedia.com/were-giving-columbia-2-84-billion-for-oil-refinery
wheezer commented:
They need to be dismantled…
forest commented:
Government over-regulation at all levels costs the industry I work in billions of dollars in direct costs, and it would be difficult to calculate the cost in terms of delayed or killed projects, but that’s massive too. It’s probably about 10x worse in the energy sector.
I wonder is Shell can even calculate how much money the EPA just flushed down the toilet for them.
Mark1957 commented:
Obama and the dem’s want to take over the oil industry just like they did health care. They will demonize “the evil oil companies” for turning a profit. Place the blame on ” speculators” for high prices instead of themselves.
Remember this one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKh7uqucArk
Muffin commented:
Abolish EPA. Who’s running on that platform? Add TSA and NEA it becomes irresistible.
forest commented:
I was at a zoning hearing recently, and some other guys were trying to get approval for a senior apartment complex type place. They already obviously have tens of thousands in it, but some of the neighbors hate the idea. The property is empty right now in a rural/suburban area 1 mile outside a good sized town. It meets the ordinance and it’s a typical site for that type development.
The board was under alot of pressure from about 50 NIMBYs, and one member voted no explaining that he thought “it wasn’t the best use for the property”. Not whether or not it met the ordinance, but whether he thought it was the best use – as if he was a member of a politboro in a collectivist country with no private property. Unbelievable.
gus commented:
Obama and his band of Merry Hacks could tell me that water is wet and I wouldn’t beleive them.
Who the fukk is Lisa Jackson???
Rock commented:
Maybe someone should tell the bitch if we could drill our own we would not be dependent on foreign sources. Oh I know the world is a complicated place. Well yes thanks to her and many like her. If this biddy pumped out any more hot air her own agency would have to shut her down.
KR commented:
Stick note:
Obama lied,
my wallet died.
Bobbi commented:
Congress needs to defund the EPA
gus commented:
The entire Obama adminstration lies with impunity. They do so knowing the MSM will go along with them. The article about Franklin Graham illustrates this perfectly.
Graham is asked about Opie and the “birther” issue, by a LIBTARD. He answers honestly and kindly. He is attacked.
Then the story AFM reports, says that Obama showed a CERTIFIED BIRTH CERTIFICATE.
They are either IGNORANT or they are LIARS. Choose one or both. Obama has NEVER shown a BIRTH CERTIFICATE. The PROOF he has provided, is merely proof that he is ALIVE.
KR commented:
#10
Oops, my keyboard drops the “y” sometimes.
Should have been: Sticky note (for gas pump idea).
MustComment commented:
EPA, OPEC, and the falling dollar. Look there for the answers to the raising gas prices. IF we had a President that was doing his job – the EPA would be dismantled, OPEC wouldn’t be screwing us and the FEDERAL RESERVE scum (cause of the falling dollar) would be audited, cleaned out, and in prison.
pagar commented:
“The EPA doesn’t care about jobs, either.”
The EPA is part of the Obama Administration. I do not believe there is a single person in the Obama Administration that believes in private enterprise. If you’re not working in a union controlled government job they want you unemployed.
http://www.suntimes.com/business/5018262-420/federal-union-workers-urged-not-to-vacation-in-anti-union-states.html
“Local 704 which represents 1,000 workers at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Chicago.”
Anyone want to guess how many private job holders it takes to pay enough tax to cover the wages, and associated costs to have a 1000 workers at the Environmental Protection Agency in Chicago? Let alone all the other EPA workers where ever they are.
StrangernFiction commented:
“Everybody wants to go after the oil companies and, frankly, they’ve got some part of this to blame,” the Ohio Republican told ABC News today.
John Boehner is a F****** disaster!
forest commented:
There’s a big catch to defunding Bobbi. the regulations will still exist, but there will be vogons around to (eventually) sign off on approvals. Companies won’t move forward in violation of the law, so everything that’s now slow and expensive will grind to a complete halt. The regulations need to be revoked.
Bobbi commented:
Pacific Legal Funds us making some inroads against the EPA.
http://www.pacificlegal.org/page.aspx?pid=1532
TheTriGuy commented:
I’m a little confused. She says: “What appears to be the most important factor at work is our dependence on imported energy. This is what leaves us vulnerable to jumps in prices. When something changes thousands of miles away, the American people pay for it at the pump.”
But then they don’t allow drilling in our own country and force companies like Shell to close down operations withein the US. Have these people ever taken a course in logic? They’re not only idiots, they’re dangerous idiots to boot!
Chrissy B commented:
Just how retarded is this Jackson chick? We wouldn’t be dependent on imported oil if we COULD DRILL FOR OUR OWN OIL RIGHT HERE IN THE GOOD OLE U.S.A.
jimg commented:
When something changes thousands of miles away, the American people pay for it at the pump.”
Look at a map, chump.
Canada and Mexico are our largest suppliers of oil.
Freddy commented:
The EPA administrator insisted Tuesday that upward pressure on gas prices “is not coming from any environmental or health regulation.”
Liar, liar, pants on fire!
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Just giving her claim the intellectual justice it deserves.
Andreas K. commented:
Related: http://www.earthconfessions.com/
sandy commented:
According to Rush, with the stroke of a pen Obama just killed all Oil subsidies. Gas is going to go through the roof. This is ghastly.
ProLifer commented:
“This is my shocked face”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBTpjkPiVyg&feature=related
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Drider commented:
When unaccountable people who run these organizations spew such hypocritical and illogical statements, and nobody calls them on it……………It’s over until the purge.
patman commented:
I tried to fill my unicorn up with skittles today and found that ethanol was using up all the corn syrup.
skrewed again…
time to dust off the magic carpet…
Finncrisp commented:
Having worked in the Chemical industry for 40 years, I can assure the reading public that the EPA is nothing more than a bunch of unqualified academics “with a cause” who could never hold a real job if their life depended on it. And this group of malcontents are the onses who we have , bit by bit, given our future over to. We have the cleanest country on the planet by far, and If you really are concerned about global whatever, you need to look at China, the world’s number one polluter by a long shot and getting worse with every factory they construct.
workingclass artist commented:
Native Texan here….It is BS…..This is a WAR on the energy states same as the WAR on the border states….
JPeden commented:
It’s beginning to look like we won’t be able to understand why America has somehow managed to selectively breed and sustain the largest bunch of
“Progressives”mutantistic infantiles ever seen on EarthChristopher taylor commented:
Fair enough, ma’am, that means we should produce more oil here. Why is the Obama administration working so hard to stop us while subsidizing oil production in Brazil?
Oh sorry yes, I’ll just shut up.
Stuart commented:
I see this as the opening gambit of a takeover of the energy industries. Watch the next step. National Fish and Wildlife just declared that a species of sand dune lizard is endangered. Said Lizard resides in the West Texas oil fields. So now they are contemplating shutting down those fields as well.
The hell with going Galt, it’s time to go Ragnar Djanskold.
dunce commented:
These minions of obama are poisoning the well of good will that swept him into office. It will be a generation before the people will trust high office in the hands of another black man or woman. They will still be able to hold local seats but there are many groups to appeal to that would rather trust anyone else in state wide elections than these vicious, lying,stupid, blundering bunch of fools. Hispanics are large voting block, even if you just count those here lagally, and resent being taken for fools as the the dems. treat the black vote. They know who offers them violence in their neighborhoods and who shows tolerence.
workingclass artist commented:
Look at a map, chump.
Canada and Mexico are our largest suppliers of oil. – #21 Jimg
Look at this DATA & don’t tell me our energy policy is driven by a WARPED Globalist Foreign Policy that affect our national security & our sovereignty….
http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm/6933/US-Has-Earths-Largest-Energy-Resources
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/04/17/energy_a_tale_of_two_narratives_109581.html
workingclass artist commented:
bad keyboard….meant to say our energy policy which boils down to FU Energy States is being driven by a globalist reparation policy….Break us down….These folks are trying every way they can to break us down….
JPeden commented:
It’s beginning to look like we won’t be able to understand why America has somehow managed to selectively breed and sustain the largest bunch of
“Progressives”mutantistic infantiles ever seen on EarthTherefore, it must be “Climate Change”. [my apologies - I'm saturated with post-op hydrocodone 20mg., and tranxene, struggled up out of bed to take a pee and came back to find that damn thing above posted. it's nothing serious, but I'm also having some pretty good "perception is reality" delusions from the drugs.]
tommy mc donnell commented:
the EPA chief lies.
tommy mc donnell commented:
i don’t agree with dunce. the myth is not wrecking the country because he is black, he is wrecking the country because he is a marxist. if he were white he would be doing the same thing. maybe being black helped the myth get elected but the lesson we should learn from this is don’t elect a marxist no matter what color he is.
money gets votes commented:
I totally agree..he used the “black” race card to get in the door. He is a Black Arab-just ask Al Monsour. He is not a christian..we all know that don’t we?? Look how they treated easter–but worshiped Ramadoda. He gave 2B to brazil, castro will be drilling in our gulf and china? Its hIM!! Virginia begged for oil leases…states need to resign from the US and join forces. States must fight this house. Yes we can bring back 2 gas prices with supply/demand. He sucks. His policies are insan. I hope natural gas and oil fight him back. Boehner is horrible what a weak wuss and the congressman not filing impeachment charges on him!! Impeach him..now!!!! He has invoked the logan law. They need to keep filing investigations one after the other..one after the other keep them in litigation..and the 2M for defending his records? He is a trader he does not defend America sending ATF guns to Mexico??? That is treason—
Mark commented:
Reality is whatever the EPA pigs say it is. The law is whatever radical activist judges say it is. All your children are belong to us union teacher slugs.
ponderon commented:
This a part of Wealth redistribution crap ” environmental justice” they think americans are just stupid to believe anything they throw at us.
laurent commented:
U.S. has no control over the price of oil.
The unrest in the Arab world is threating a production of 25.6 million barrels per day of oil.
Today, Saudi Arabia, Libya and Algeria are producing 14 million barrels per day.
United Arab Emirates and Kuwait are producing 5 million barrels per day.
Iraq and Iran are producing 6.6 million barrels per day
That is about 30 times the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil production expected in 2025.
That’s 150 times the missing production in the Gulf of Mexico due to ban in 2011.
As oil prices are set by supply and demand worldwide, U.S. has no control over the price of oil.