Posted in Bailouts, Energy, Financial Crisis, Freedom, Global Warming and Climate Change, Government Corruption, Income Taxes, Inflation, Lobbyists / Special Interests, Public Concerns, Republic, Revolution, Senate, Stock Market, U.S. Government, congress, economy, pork barrel, rights on Feb 20th, 2009 1 Comment »
Majority leader says the Senate in the next few weeks will move to pass an energy bill focusing on several of President Barack Obama’s priorities, but then ” hopefully late this summer do the global warming part of it.”
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Posted in Bailouts, Constitution, Democratic Party, Energy, Financial Crisis, Freedom, Global Warming and Climate Change, Income Taxes, Lobbyists / Special Interests, Public Concerns, Republic, Senate, U.S. Government, congress, economy, rights, taxation on Feb 5th, 2009 1 Comment »
“The 77 parcels that the Bush administration offered on the doorsteps of some of our national icons raised several troubling questions. I have directed the BLM not to accept the bids. We will take time to review the processes behind their inclusion in the lease sale,” he told reporters in a teleconference.
Salazar indicated that he does not expect his decision to be legally challenged. “The government contract is not formally completed until the BLM accepts the bids, which has not happened in this case,” he said. Payments for the winning bids on the 77 parcels will be returned and leasing will proceed on the 39 remaining tracts from the sale, he added.
The decision was the secretary’s second action involving a BLM oil and gas lease sale in less than a week. He ordered the DOI agency on Feb. 2 to remove eight tracts from a Feb. 3 lease sale after Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal expressed concerns about them (OGJ Online, Feb. 4, 2009). The offering of 137 remaining parcels went ahead as scheduled, raising nearly $2.4 million from the sale of leasing rights and from rental fees on 112 parcels.
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Posted in Constitution, Democratic Party, Energy, Financial Crisis, Freedom, Global Warming and Climate Change, Government Corruption, Lobbyists / Special Interests, Public Concerns, congress, economy on Jan 26th, 2009 No Comments »
President Obama has halted all new leases for offshore drilling and oil shale exploration in Western states. The Department of the Interior was poised to begin the lengthy process of issuing 31 new federal leases for energy development. Obama’s actions reflect his view that America should not pursue all available forms of energy to escape from our dependence on foreign oil, but instead, that we should only increase our use of boutique energy sources that are pre-approved by liberal environmental extremists.
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Posted in Energy, Financial Crisis, Freedom, Global Warming and Climate Change, Government Corruption, Inflation, Lobbyists / Special Interests, Public Concerns, Senate, U.S. Government, congress, economy on Nov 18th, 2008 No Comments »
America needs more and better sources of energy. That’s not up for discussion. But what a firestorm has erupted over what those sources should be!
Despite public opinion (e.g. with prices down, support for offshore drilling remains high—at 68%), America’s energy solutions continue to be dictated and repressed by Hard Left environmentalist groups—and they are increasingly turning to the courts to enforce their liberal, anti-energy agenda.
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Posted in Americans For Prosperity, Election, Energy, Freedom, Inflation, Marinette, Revolution, Senate, U.S. Government, Wisconsin, congress, economy, rights on Sep 17th, 2008 No Comments »
Congressman Steve Kagen, along with other Congressional Representatives from the State of Wisconsin, have voted to keep BILLIONS of barrels of oil just out of reach of our oil companies. This obviously means that supply will remain tight and very likely get even tighter when our economy picks up and the demand for oil, the life blood of prosperity and wealth creation, picks back up. Without the freedom to drill for our offshore oil our economy may never recover, especially if the U.S. Congress starts regulating everything and screwing everything up like they always do.
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That’s because the plan is a Democratic giveaway. New production on offshore federal lands is left to state legislatures, and then in only four coastal states. The regulatory hurdles are huge. And the bill bars drilling within 50 miles of the coast — putting off limits some of the most productive areas. Alaska’s oil-rich Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is still a no-go.
The highlight is instead $84 billion in tax credits, subsidies and federal handouts for alternative fuels and renewables. The Gang of 10 intends to pay for all this in part by raising taxes on . . . oil companies! The Sierra Club couldn’t have penned it better. And so the Republican Five has potentially given antidrilling Democrats the political cover they need to neutralize energy through November.
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The “bipartisan” Republican senators have undercut these efforts, and boosted Ms. Landrieu. They’ve even put a smile on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s face. He’d been struggling to tamp down the energy debate through November, where he hopes to increase his majority and permanently shelve drilling. He’s now counting on the Gang to fruitlessly continue “negotiations” straight through the Senate’s short September session and solve his problem for him.
Not one of the five Republicans in the Gang is facing a tough election this year. That’s the so
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Chinese workers are buying SUVs and big sedans while the U.S. Congress is demanding that we use rickshaws, bicycles and walking. The Democrats in Congress are happy that the price of gasoline is so high. They do not have to pay for it, because we pay it for them.
Meanwhile, China is drilling for oil not far from off our Atlantic coast to harvest our domestic oil out from under us while the U.S. Congress keeps it illegal for our companies to harvest our oil off shore.
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THIS IS WHAT THE DEMOCRATS, LIBERALS AND “GREENS” SHOW YOU WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT ANWR
The map showed that the proposed drilling area is in the ANWR Coastal Plain
Do those photographs look like a coastal plain to you? WHAT’S GOING ON HERE?
OH… AND THEY SAY THAT THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE EFFECT ON THE LOCAL WILDLIFE…
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