Barack Obama’s rejection of the massive Keystone oil pipeline connecting the US and Canada proves once and for all that he’s a radical left-wing ideologue. He had the opportunity to create 20,000+ new jobs with the stroke of his pen in an election season and chose not to. It’s amazing. Now China will get all that energy. Unlike Obama, Canada’s Prime Minister, Steven Harper, is determined to turn his country into an energy powerhouse by developing Canada’s rich natural resources. He had hoped to partner with America and generate jobs and wealth in both our countries. Sadly, that isn’t going to happen.

Obama hates the US energy industry and he’s furious that his foolish green energy programs have been a complete dud. I just pray we can defeat this son of a bitch in 2012 before he can wreck anything else.

The State Department will announce the decision on Keystone XL pipeline is “no,” as early as Wednesday, an industry source told Fox News, suggesting that the department will say 60 days is inadequate time to do the required environmental impact assessment on the path of the coveted pipeline.

While the State Department for three years has been reviewing the initial proposal to run a pipeline from Canada down to Texas through a sensitive Nebraska aquifer, it retreated early from indications it would approve the plan after environmentalists complained.

Industry workers and Republicans contend the project would create thousands of jobs, and Canada’s prime minister has warned if the U.S. can’t get on board, the North American nation will look to team with China.

(H/T Fox Nation)

If you only read one column today it should be this one. Michelle Malkin goes after Interior Secretary Ken Salazar for his ruinous war on oil drilling. She highlights the ruling by a US District Court judge yesterday that Salazar and his department have a “determined disregard for the rule of law.”

What Salazar and his eco-terrorist cronies are doing to the energy industry is horrifying. It could take a decade or more to recover from this insanity. At a time when our nation needs domestic energy production more than ever we have some asshole in a cowboy hat and bolo tie destroying it.

I worry sometimes that our country isn’t going to survive a full term under Barack Obama. The man is a menace.

President Obama’s war on energy production continued today with an announcement that his administration would renew the 7-year ban on drilling in key areas. The Eastern Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic and Pacific coasts will remain off limits to drilling. This reverses a decision by Obama in late March prior to the BP oil spill to open up these areas to drilling.

No matter what Al Gore fantasizes about we’re going to be using oil and natural gas for the foreseeable future. Rather than buy it from the Middle East we should use our own natural resources. “Getting off of foreign oil” is a mantra we hear time and again, but the greenie assholes who block drilling keep it from happening.

From Politico:

The White House rewrote crucial sections of an Interior Department report to suggest an independent group of scientists and engineers supported a six-month ban on offshore oil drilling, the Interior inspector general says in a new report.

In the wee hours of the morning of May 27, a staff member to White House energy adviser Carol Browner sent two edited versions of the department report’s executive summary back to Interior. The language had been changed to insinuate the seven-member panel of outside experts – who reviewed a draft of various safety recommendations – endorsed the moratorium, according to the IG report obtained by POLITICO.

We all knew The White House committed flat out fraud, but now this IG report confirms that. The Greenies in this administration saw the BP oil spill as an opportunity to stop oil drilling and deal a blow to the oil industry.

The report stops short of saying the WH deliberately misled, but I don’t know how you could characterize it any other way. The scientists were outraged that their views had been twisted around in the report to suggest they supported a moratorium.

One thing is for certain. The new GOP controlled Congress will get to the bottom of this.

From the AP:

BP PLC said Wednesday that it had made a "giant" oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico but had not yet determined the size and commercial potential of the find.

The well, in Keathley Canyon block 102 about 250 miles (400 kms) southeast of Houston, is in 4,132 feet (1,259 meters) of water, the company said.

The Tiber well was drilled to a total depth of 35,055 feet (10,685 meters), making it one of the deepest wells ever drilled by the oil and gas industry, BP said.

I happen to live in Houston, and unlike the fools in California we like our drilling. Since we provide most of the country with energy, I think we should cut California off until they pull their weight. There are billions of barrels of oil off the coast of California, but eco-extremists and global warming nuts are keeping it from being drilled.

Sarah Palin has responded via Facebook to the reports of the Obama administration giving Brazil $2 billion dollars to expand off-shore drilling off their coast while continuing to prevent America from doing the same.

Here’s the entire piece:

YOUR TAX DOLLARS HARD AT WORK: FIRST CARS, NOW FOREIGN OIL.

Today’s Wall Street Journal contains some puzzling news for all Americans who are impacted by high energy prices and who share the goal of moving us toward energy independence.

For years, states rich with an abundance of oil and natural gas have been begging Washington, DC politicians for the right to develop their own natural resources on federal lands and off shore. Such development would mean good paying jobs here in the United States (with health benefits) and the resulting royalties and taxes would provide money for federal coffers that would potentially off-set the need for higher income taxes, reduce the federal debt and deficits, or even help fund a trillion dollar health care plan if one were so inclined to support such a plan.

So why is it that during these tough times, when we have great needs at home, the Obama White House is prepared to send more than two billion of your hard-earned tax dollars to Brazil so that the nation’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, can drill off shore and create jobs developing its own resources? That’s all Americans want; but such rational energy development has been continually thwarted by rabid environmentalists, faceless bureaucrats and a seemingly endless parade of lawsuits aimed at shutting down new energy projects.

I’ll speak for the talent I have personally witnessed on the oil fields in Alaska when I say no other country in the world has a stronger workforce than America, no other country in the world has better safety standards than America, and no other country in the world has stricter environmental standards than America. Come to Alaska to witness how oil and gas can be developed simultaneously with the preservation of our eco-system. America has the resources. We deserve the opportunity to develop our resources no less than the Brazilians. Millions of Americans know it is true: "Drill, baby, drill." Alaska is proof you can drill and develop, and preserve nature, with its magnificent caribou herds passing by the Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS), completely unaffected. One has to wonder if Obama is playing politics and perhaps refusing a "win" for some states just to play to the left with our money.

The new Gulf of Mexico lease sales tomorrow sound promising and perhaps will move some states in the right direction, but we all know that the extreme environmentalists who serve to block progress elsewhere, including in Alaska, continue to block opportunities. These environmentalists are putting our nation in peril and forcing us to rely on unstable and hostile foreign countries. Mr. Obama can stop the extreme tactics and exert proper government authority to encourage resource development and create jobs and health benefits in the U.S.; instead, he chooses to use American dollars in Brazil that will help to pay the salaries and benefits for Brazilians to drill for resources when the need and desire is great in America.

Buy American is a wonderful slogan, but you can’t say in one breath that you want to strengthen our economy and stimulate it, and then in another ship our much-needed dollars to a nation desperate to drill while depriving us of the same opportunity.

- Sarah Palin

Well said.

(hat tip Gateway Pundit)

John Kerry and Barbara Boxer have an Op-Ed in today’s Washington Post rebutting Sarah Palin’s piece in last week’s WaPo attacking Cap and Trade.

Here’s a little taste of their stupidity:

Palin argues that "the answer doesn’t lie in making energy scarcer and more expensive!" The truth is, clean energy legislation doesn’t make energy scarcer or more expensive; it works to find alternative solutions to our costly dependence on foreign oil and provides powerful incentives to pursue cutting-edge clean energy technologies.

Palin asserts that job losses are "certain." Wrong. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and American Clean Energy and Security legislation will create significant employment opportunities across the country in a broad array of sectors linked to the clean energy economy. Studies at the federal level and by states have demonstrated clean energy job creation. A report by the Center for American Progress calculated that $150 billion in clean energy investments would create more than 1.7 million domestic and community-based jobs that can’t be shipped overseas.

Kerry and Boxer are living in the land of Oz. The left doesn’t give a damn about “breaking our dependence on foreign oil” they don’t want us to depend on any oil. They’re using phony climate change as an excuse to gain a vice-like grip on every aspect of our lives.

If Kerry and Boxer really gave a damn about ending out dependence on foreign oil they would let us use our own oil. They would allow us to build more nuclear plants and experiment with oil shale. They would allow off-shore drilling, drilling in ANWR, and drilling anywhere else we have oil.

We have a enough oil, natural gas, and nuclear potential to be completely self-sustaining if we really wanted to be. But that’s not what this is about. It’s about environmental extremism and phony science being used as a rationale for stopping human development and destroying our country.

John Kerry and Barbara Boxer are nothing but contemptible jerks who should be thrown out of office.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin met his Iranian counterpart Tuesday and implicitly warned the U.S. not to use a former Soviet republic to stage an attack on Iran. He also said nations shouldn’t pursue oil pipeline projects in the area if they weren’t backed by regional powers.

Putin, whose trip to Tehran is the first by a Kremlin leader since World War II, warned that energy pipeline projects crossing the Caspian could only be implemented if all five nations that border the Caspian support them.

Putin did not name any specific country, but his statement underlined Moscow’s strong opposition to U.S.-backed efforts to build pipelines to deliver hydrocarbons to the West bypassing Russia.

The legal status of the Caspian – believed to contain the world’s third-largest energy reserves – has been in limbo since the 1991 Soviet collapse, leading to tension and conflicting claims to seabed oil deposits.

Iran, which shared the Caspian’s resources equally with the Soviet Union, insists that each coastal nation receive an equal portion of the seabed. Russia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan want the division based on the length of each nation’s shoreline, which would give Iran a smaller share.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Crude oil prices vaulted to a record high $80 a barrel on Wednesday as dealers focused on tight inventories in top consumer the United States ahead of peak winter demand.

A rash of fires at BP’s oil fields in Alaska’s North Slope added to the record run, though BP said the accidents had minimal impact to production that was already being curtailed by routine maintenance.

The surge in oil prices came a day after OPEC agreed to a small production hike in an effort to soothe consumer nations’ fears that soaring crude costs could slow economic growth.

“The OPEC outcome was not enough of a shocker to turn around a market that likes to read extremes,” said Olivier Jakob of oil consultancy Petromatrix.

U.S. light crude for October delivery was up $1.59 at $79.82 per barrel at 2:07 p.m. EDT after setting a record high of $80.00 a barrel earlier. London Brent crude was up $1.35 at $77.73 a barrel.

Crude oil stocks in top consumer the United States fell 7.1 million barrels last week to their lowest level in eight months ahead of the winter heating season, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Analysts had expected a fall of 2.4 million barrels.

“The reality is that the crude tightness in Europe and Asia has begun to affect the U.S. market in a big way,” said Antoine Halff, analyst at Fimat Research in New York. “In retrospect, it validates OPEC’s decision to increase production.”

Heating oil futures prices also struck a record Wednesday of $2.2139 a gallon, up 3.12 cents.

Experts said OPEC’s deal in Vienna Tuesday to raise output by a half a million barrels per day starting November 1 was not enough to reverse rising energy prices.

“It legitimises the excess production that was there relative to OPEC’s previous implied quota and not much more,” said Harry Tchilinguirian, senior oil market analyst at BNP Paribas.

The new OPEC output deal will reverse most of the 1.7 million barrels per day of cuts agreed by the group since October 2006 because the group was already pumping almost 1 million bpd above their nominal ceiling.

The oil market also was getting support from concerns over energy supplies from Mexico, where a leftist militant group blew up several fuel pipelines this week for the second time since July.

Mexico has said the blasts cut 25 percent of the country’s natural gas flow, but added that exports were unaffected.

The rebel group, known as EPR, said it will continue its attacks until the Mexican government releases two of its guerrilla organizers.

[Reuters]