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Palin Fires Back At Biden Over Energy
I’m not going to paraphrase here, because it’s just too good. Here’s Sarah Palin’s latest Facebook post:
Response to Vice President Biden’s Comments Today About My Position On Energy Independence
As the vice president knows, I have always advocated an all-of-the-above approach to American energy independence. Among other things, my alternative energy goal for Alaska sits at 50 percent because Alaska reached more than 20 percent during my term in office. The Obama-Biden administration, on the other hand, recently announced a renewable goal of only 25 percent. However, domestic drilling should remain a top priority in order to meet America’s consumption and security needs.
The vice president’s extreme opposition to domestic energy development goes all the way back to 1973 when he opposed the Alaska pipeline bill. As Ann Coulter pointed out, “Biden cast one of only five votes against the pipeline that has produced more than 15 billion barrels of oil, supplied nearly 20 percent of this nation’s oil, created tens of thousands of jobs, added hundreds of billions of dollars to the U.S. economy and reduced money transfers to the nation’s enemies by about the same amount.”
This nonsensical opposition to American domestic energy development continues to this day. Apparently the Obama-Biden administration only approves of offshore drilling in Brazil, where it will provide security and jobs for Brazilians. This election is about American security and American jobs.
There’s one way to tell Vice President Biden that we’re tired of folks in Washington distorting our message and hampering our nation’s progress: Hoffman, Baby, Hoffman!
– Sarah Palin
BP Makes Big Oil Discovery In Gulf Of Mexico
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.
Palin Rips Obama For Funding Off-Shore Oil Drilling In Brazil
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)
Obama Funding Off-Shore Oil Drilling In Brazil — But Not In America
Why are we paying Brazil to develop their natural resources while blocking the development of our own?
Because we have nutty left-wing assholes in power, that’s why.
Kerry And Boxer Say Palin Is Wrong On Energy
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.
Gasoline Prices – Countdown To Rip-Off
Calendars have all the official seasons and days conveniently pre-printed. No calendar has, or even attempts, to have them all. For instance, you have to write in your boss’s day off.
Only very special calendars have “driving season” indicated. It’s our oil producer’s favorite holiday- and it’s on the way. The clock is already ticking.
For them, “the driving season” is a cherished ritual. Are you ready?
Last year they ran the price up above one hundred and forty dollars a barrel. That was a new record. Although they run this scam every summer, 2008 exceeded their wildest hopes. Prior to our “sky is falling” episode last September, it was the number one topic; some even had the temerity to suggest that it could cause a recession. Imagine!
Now that we have a real recession, will they have the nerve to run the racket again, even though demand is clearly down? Despite the obvious oil glut, will interests still find a way to jack us up again?
Well, that’s not really a serious question, is it? They’re certainly going to try. These are very bright boys and girls; and they’ve got the eggs. Who knows, maybe this year they will convince us that higher prices are good for us! Perhaps an “oil rescue” plan?
While it’s less than a year since oil prices had us by the short hairs, very little notice has been taken by official punditry of the fact that the price of a barrel has increased from around thirty five dollars to fifty dollars in the last several weeks. While all the media hasten to remind us of how much better off we are than last year, independent thinkers must wonder what market forces are at work to raise prices in the face of declining demand.
OPEC is ready. As with other producers, they have begun to manipulate supply. Hugo Chavez is hopeful; and Amadinejad is wearing a hole though his prayer rug. In the various financial towers that grace this great land, the “Wall Street” types are at it again with schemes of buying and storing oil until this artificial withdrawal causes the price to rise. Already, so much oil has been diverted that the planet is running out of places and tankers to stash the stuff. They’re all puffing as hard as they can to inflate the “summer bubble”.
We can predict with confidence that, once again, in broad daylight, the theft of trillions of dollars will be attempted this year. Must we also expect the canned banal response from both the mainstream media and the blogosphere that we usually get? That is, the dreary after-the-fact and impotent post-mortems?
In a way, it does take your breath away. You have to admire the spectacular nerve it’s going to take this year, in the face of the suffering caused by the crash, to squeeze us again.
Maybe, like good little chumps, we should just sit back, relax, and have a good time? You’ve probably heard that old joke? Don’t drop the soap at the pump? We’re such good people. Maybe we could make a game of it, or a lottery?
The average “Joes” from “Main Street” could try to guess how high the price will go this year. Two seventy-five? Three dollars? Three seventy five? Four forty? Five sixty eight? Good clean fun; a diversion, a game to keep our minds off our emptying pockets. Something like an election.
Yet, it doesn’t have to be that way again. This is the perfect opportunity for an independent-minded alternative press to earn the respect and gratitude of the public. For, this is the ideal issue: Everyone will benefit from the effort. Democrats and Republicans, Conservatives and Liberals, every color, every religion, every creed, and every individual will stand up and applaud if somebody finally comes to the rescue.
Will this be the year that we stop them before they get over? Dead in their tracks- the first ever populist pre-emptive strike? Like a war that doesn’t start, sometimes the best story is the story that doesn’t happen.
This year, we can either spend the summer wringing our hands and protesting the hardships at the pump, or we can be the story, and stop this crime before it occurs.
There has to come a time when our efforts show effect.
The time is now.
-Richard Hirschhorn
Obama Shelves Plans For More Coastal Oil Drilling
Like any good clueless liberal, president Obama ordered his Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to shelve plans that would have opened up America’s coastlines to offshore oil drilling. As we all know, liberals are controlled by environmental wackos who don’t want America to use its own natural resources. We have oil (a shit load of it) under the ocean and we can’t get at it because of left-wingers who want energy prices to keep rising and stay high to force people to accept global warming regulations.
As any sane person also knows, global warming is the biggest fraud in world history. Sooner or later these hucksters are gonna be exposed and Al Gore is gonna be out of a job.
While I love the mantra of “Drill, Baby, Drill”, I think the time has come to make it “Drill, Motherf*cker, Drill.”
-Chris Jones
(image courtesy of Doug Ross)
Putin Visits Iran, Threatens U.S.
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.
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