Cal Thomas’ article on Big Oil doesn’t even address the huge oil find in South Dakota, North Dakota, and Canada recently found. Maybe once our standard of living goes down in the US because of high oil prices, we’ll take back our country from the environmentalists.
Robertson said there would be plenty of oil available to the United States if the oil companies were allowed to get it: “Eighty-five percent of offshore oil is off-limits.” Responding to objections to offshore drilling by environmentalists and their allies in Congress, Robertson noted that some of the strongest pro-environment nations in Europe — he mentions Denmark, Norway, the United Kingdom — lease offshore locations for oil exploration. The technology has become so good, he said, that during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, “one thousand offshore wells were destroyed (in the Gulf of Mexico), but not one leaked.” Australia, he said, has allowed offshore drilling for 40 years without any environmental damage.
According to government estimates, there is enough oil in areas accessible to America — 112 billion barrels — to power more than 60 million cars for 60 years. The Outer Continental Shelf alone contains an estimated 86 billion barrels of oil and 420 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Had President Clinton not vetoed exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in 1995, when oil was $19 a barrel, America would currently be receiving more than 1 million barrels a day domestically, all of it taken by better technology than existed more than 30 years ago. That was when the Alaskan pipeline was built despite protests from environmentalists who claimed it would destroy the caribou. It didn’t, but the environmentalists are back with the same discredited arguments. Because most of the oil remains “off-limits,” we are becoming more dependent on foreign oil.
No, we can’t “drill our way out” of our addiction to oil, but we can make the transition to other energy sources easier while lessening our dependence on foreign oil and propping up dictators who use our money to subsidize terrorists. A slow transition will also give us time to consider more fuel-efficient cars and greater use of public transportation, even bicycles for short trips. Bikes would help more of us lose weight and get in shape. A friend bikes to work every day, saving gas, car payments, insurance and repair costs.
What is McCain talking about? Bigger government and higher taxes is what this global warming junk science is about. Look at Al Gore getting rich off bogus carbon credits. All of the presidential nominees want this. How does this differentiate McCain from Clinton and Obama? Great, now McCain is doing the same as Al Gore’s carbon credits, but for industry and nations.
As a program under the Clean Air Act, the cap-and-trade system achieved enormous success in ridding the air of acid rain. And the same approach that brought a decline in sulfur dioxide emissions can have an equally dramatic and permanent effect on carbon emissions. Instantly, automakers, coal companies, power plants, and every other enterprise in America would have an incentive to reduce carbon emissions, because when they go under those limits they can sell the balance of permitted emissions for cash. As never before, the market would reward any person or company that seeks to invent, improve, or acquire alternatives to carbon-based energy. It is very hard to picture venture capitalists, corporate planners, small businesses and environmentalists all working to the same good purpose. But such cooperation is actually possible in the case of climate change, and this reform will set it in motion.
Listen to how green tariffs being talked about by all the Presidential Candidates could cause your standard of living to go down the same as “your house burning down”.
Interviewee: Sebastian Mallaby , Director, Center for Geoeconomic studies, Council of Foreign Relations
Read about what an NASA scientist has to say about this:
McCain pointed to shrinking Arctic sea ice and collapsing Antarctic ice shelves as obvious evidence that humans are to blame, even though the sea ice did the same thing in the 1920s and 1930s, and those ice shelves must break off eventually, as new glacial ice flows toward the sea to take their place.
Even though there has never been a single scientific paper published that has ruled out natural variability for most of the warming we’ve seen since 1850, Big Science has managed to convince politicians and much of the public that the science is settled. Apparently, our addition of nine molecules of carbon dioxide to each 100,000 molecules of air over the last 150 years can now be blamed for anything and everything we choose. Hurricanes, tornadoes, heat waves, floods, glaciers flowing toward the sea…. all of these used to happen naturally, but no more.
The warming that allowed the Vikings to farm in Greenland 1,000 years ago was surely natural. But we are now told that warming in Greenland today is surely manmade. Glaciers retreating in western Canada have revealed evidence of previous forests, showing that warming and cooling cycles do indeed occur, even without SUVs. Yet the SUV is now the scapegoat for retreating glaciers.
What??? If McCain made a mistake like this it would be front page news. The headline would say “McCain is too old”. Will the left wing media even pick up on this? I bet not. What was that Dan Qualye did again? Oh yeah he misspelled tomato. At least he knew how many states there are in the U.S.
Meeting with our enemies has not been successful in the past. Specifically this is not recommended in dealing with Al Qaeda. I think Obama needs a history lesson.
In his victory speech after the North Carolina primary, Sen. Barack Obama said something that is all the more remarkable for how little it has been remarked upon. In defending his stated intent to meet with America’s enemies without preconditions, Sen. Obama said: “I trust the American people to understand that it is not weakness, but wisdom to talk not just to our friends, but to our enemies, like Roosevelt did, and Kennedy did, and Truman did.”
I assume the Roosevelt to whom Sen. Obama referred is Franklin D. Roosevelt. Our enemies in World War II were Nazi Germany, headed by Adolf Hitler; fascist Italy, headed by Benito Mussolini, and militarist Japan, headed by Hideki Tojo. FDR talked directly with none of them before the outbreak of hostilities, and his policy once war began was unconditional surrender. FDR died before victory was achieved, and was succeeded by Harry Truman. Truman did not modify the policy of unconditional surrender. He ended that war not with negotiation, but with the atomic bomb. (Real Clear Politics) Read the full article for yourself.
From the September 7, 2006 Congressional Hearing 9/11 FIVE YEARS LATER: GAUGING ISLAMIST TERRORISM:
In order to defeat Al Qaeda the following recommendations are given to Congress:
I would just very quickly summarize some of those
ideological tools or counter ideological tools, if you would, as born
of very much the same sort of mindset that Ronald Reagan used
to defeat the last terrible totalitarian movement with global ambitions;
namely, Soviet communism. They are, in short, a comprehensive
strategy using energy, financial, legal and security measures,
and integrating them into what might be called a political warfare
program. Its goals should be to undermine and divide the enemy,
to split apart and peel away the enemy’s base, to deny the enemy
the social support infrastructure and, needless to say, the safe havens
that shelter its forces, fund its operations and provide its
cadre, pitting enemy factions against one another wherever possible,
and most especially, discrediting the ideological belief system
that legitimizes its cause
For example, it was striking that, in his excellent speech before the Military
Officers Association of America on September 5th, President Bush forcefully explained
why it is not possible to appease or negotiate with Islamofascists like al
Qaeda and its allies. He then proceeded to show convincingly that the behavior and
ambitions of such Sunni extremists are shared by their Shia counterparts led by
Iran. Yet, his State Department is actively promoting the notion that we can safely
and successfully engage in negotiations with Islamofascists like Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad and the ruling mullahs in Tehran.
Friends and foes alike are affected in ways harmful to our interests by such a
manifest lack of consistency and principle. (One case in point is the recent, increasingly
aggressive behavior of Iran, both directly on the nuclear issue and in Iraq and
through its proxy, Hezbollah, in Lebanon. Another is the deal recently struck by our
putative ally, Pakistan with tribal leaders in its western territories, affording what
amounts to a safe haven there for al Qaeda.) The same applies to the American people. (p.16)
We have to bring coherence to this effort because whether it is the Khatami visit, or whether it is the notion that we can’t negotiate with the bin Ladens of the world, rightly so, but we can negotiate with their Shiia Islamofascist counterparts in Iran is crazy making and, I think, discredits our efforts. (p. 12)
I’m very concerned about Obama who is all about “Change We Can Believe In.” He was an only child. Do I care, not really except that it seems to have left him open to the most radical Marxist mentors.
From Cone’s book, A Black Theology of Liberation:
..changing the political, economic, and social structures so that distinctions between rich and poor, oppressed and oppressors, are no longer a reality. To be reconciled with white people means destroying their oppressive power, reducing them to the human level and thereby putting them on equal footing with other humans. There can be no reconciliation with master as long as they are masters, as long as men are in prison.
The above statement is obviously Communistic and Marxist in nature. The fact that Reverend Wright has modeled his church after Cohen’s divisive Marxist black power movement is scary.
Another Obama mentor that is also a Marxist:
Barack Obama’s childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, a member of the Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA, wrote a poem dedicated to the Soviet Red Army. “Smash on, victory-eating Red Army,” he declared. He also wrote poems attacking traditional Christianity and the work of Christian missionaries.
The “Red Army” poem goes beyond hoping for the communists to beat the Nazis in World War II and hails the Soviet revolution. It says:
“Show the marveling multitudes
Americans, British, all your allied brothers
How strong you are
How great you are
How your young tree of new unity
Planted twenty-five years ago
Bears today the golden fruit of victory!”
(from AIM)
Secret History
In remarks at a reception of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) archives at the Tamiment Library at New York University, Horne, a contributing editor of the Communist Party journal Political Affairs, asserted that Davis had come into contact with Obama’s family in Hawaii and became the young man’s mentor, influencing his sense of identity and career path.
Obama writes in Dreams From My Father that he saw “Frank” only a few days before he left Hawaii for college. He said that Davis called college an “advanced degree in compromise,” warned Obama not to forget his “people,” and not to “start believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and the American way and all that ####.”
The record shows that Obama was in Hawaii from 1971-1979, where he developed his close relationship, almost like a son, with Davis, and listened to his “poetry” and views.
I’ve addressed this previously. See the Hillary Part 1 Oreilly interview post below. What is really interesting is where this windfall profits idea came from - The Carter Administration. Historian says “Its hard to imagine this is a good idea“
So global warming may stop temporarily? I thought temperatures were going up so fast that we were doomed. This global warming stuff is a joke. Come on the weather people can’t even predict the weather accurately 5 days out. Now they are saying it will cool until 2015 and then warm up. I won’t forget this and in 7 years we’ll revisit their prediction.
Hillary wants to take oil company profits!!! This is communistic. The record oil profits are actually 9%. I’ve talked about this before, but since many politicians don’t seem to know about basic economics and the free market, I’m posting it again. The uneducated masses are like yea without thinking this through.
If the government sets a precedence of taking oil profits, what’s next the pharmaceuticals industry? This would be a disaster for the US economy.
The government is going to take your profits if your business does well? If this is enacted, then the oil companies are likely to move their headquarters to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This is what happened with Haliburton. When Congress voted to make it virtually impossible to drill in the Gulf of Mexico, Haliburton moved their headquarters to the UAE. Read article about Halliburton headquarters moving out of the US.
The reality is the gas prices are based on supply and demand and the price of the dollar. This is basic economics. Of course OPEC has a determination on the price also, but their control has lessened as more oil has been found outside of the Middle East. The government has tied the oil companies hands in being able to drill and refine oil in the US. If the US would allow for the free market exploration, drilling, and refining of oil and gas, prices would be low. We should let the free market set the price, not the government. Wake up America and stop letting the left control our economy.
See the articles below to read more about the huge oil find 2 years ago in the Gulf of Mexico that Congress voted against.
ANWR Oil Drilling Amendment - To prevent consideration of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in a fast-track budget reconciliation bill. 3/19/2003 Vote: Yes
Offshore Drilling in Virginia - Vote to pass an amendment that would allow the Governor of the state of Virginia to petition the Secretary of the Interior to allow for natural gas exploration and extraction at least fifty miles from the coastal zone.6/14/2007 Vote: did not vote
All of the sudden Reverend Wright is big news. He didn’t say anything different at the press conference than he’s said for the last 20 years. No surprises here.
