Believing themselves to be smarter than the average bear, bureaucrats in the Obama administration continue their quest to create a, well, bear market — at least for oil. The White House decided to designate more than 200,000 square miles of Alaskan land and coastline as “critical habitat” for polar bears — the same bear population that has reached greater numbers than previously recorded in history. In fact, despite what Al Gore and his fellow global warmists would have us believe, the population has actually risen by 40 percent since 1974.

This new non-endangered species habitat is enormous enough to qualify as the third largest state in the union, placing it between Texas and California in terms of square miles. Former UnitedHealth general counsel and now Assistant Interior Secretary Tom Strickland claimed at a news conference that the greatest threat to the bear is Arctic ice melt and that “we will continue to work to protect the polar bear and its fragile environment.”

However, the new designation as a critical habitat is the first step in requiring even more government consideration of the supposed negative effect on the escalating polar bear numbers before allowing oil and gas development. The state of Alaska responded by filing a complaint in an effort to stop the listing under the Endangered Species Act.

In the meantime, some 30 percent of the world’s gas supplies and 4 percent of the estimated global oil supply will be placed off limits because of this deceitful claim that the polar bear population is endangered. Next up, the loggerhead turtle, which, if listed as endangered, would bring regulations on everything along the eastern seaboard, including what lights you can put on the ocean-facing side of your house.

Here are some more reasons:

• CNSNews.com – Interior Secretary Wants Probe of Bush …

Obama Administration Blocking Domestic Oil Leases

Posted by nationalforestlawblog at 09:06 PM on October 08, 2009

In a graphic illustration of the new world order, Arab states have launched secret moves with China, Russia and France to stop using the US currency for oil trading

By Robert Fisk

Tuesday, 6 October 2009

Iran announced late last month that its foreign currency reserves would henceforth be held in euros rather than dollars.

In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning – along with China, Russia, Japan and France – to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council, including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar.

Secret meetings have already been held by finance ministers and central bank governors in Russia, China, Japan and Brazil to work on the scheme, which will mean that oil will no longer be priced in dollars.

The plans, confirmed to The Independent by both Gulf Arab and Chinese banking sources in Hong Kong, may help to explain the sudden rise in gold prices, but it also augurs an extraordinary transition from dollar markets within nine years.

The Americans, who are aware the meetings have taken place – although they have not discovered the details – are sure to fight this international cabal which will include hitherto loyal allies Japan and the Gulf Arabs. Against the background to these currency meetings, Sun Bigan, China’s former special envoy to the Middle East, has warned there is a risk of deepening divisions between China and the US over influence and oil in the Middle East. “Bilateral quarrels and clashes are unavoidable,” he told the Asia and Africa Review. “We cannot lower vigilance against hostility in the Middle East over energy interests and security.”

This sounds like a dangerous prediction of a future economic war between the US and China over Middle East oil – yet again turning the region’s conflicts into a battle for great power supremacy. China uses more oil incrementally than the US because its growth is less energy efficient. The transitional currency in the move away from dollars, according to Chinese banking sources, may well be gold. An indication of the huge amounts involved can be gained from the wealth of Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar who together hold an estimated $2.1 trillion in dollar reserves.

The decline of American economic power linked to the current global recession was implicitly acknowledged by the World Bank president Robert Zoellick. “One of the legacies of this crisis may be a recognition of changed economic power relations,” he said in Istanbul ahead of meetings this week of the IMF and World Bank. But it is China’s extraordinary new financial power – along with past anger among oil-producing and oil-consuming nations at America’s power to interfere in the international financial system – which has prompted the latest discussions involving the Gulf states.

Brazil has shown interest in collaborating in non-dollar oil payments, along with India. Indeed, China appears to be the most enthusiastic of all the financial powers involved, not least because of its enormous trade with the Middle East.

China imports 60 per cent of its oil, much of it from the Middle East and Russia. The Chinese have oil production concessions in Iraq – blocked by the US until this year – and since 2008 have held an $8bn agreement with Iran to develop refining capacity and gas resources. China has oil deals in Sudan (where it has substituted for US interests) and has been negotiating for oil concessions with Libya, where all such contracts are joint ventures.

Furthermore, Chinese exports to the region now account for no fewer than 10 per cent of the imports of every country in the Middle East, including a huge range of products from cars to weapon systems, food, clothes, even dolls. In a clear sign of China’s growing financial muscle, the president of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, yesterday pleaded with Beijing to let the yuan appreciate against a sliding dollar and, by extension, loosen China’s reliance on US monetary policy, to help rebalance the world economy and ease upward pressure on the euro.

Ever since the Bretton Woods agreements – the accords after the Second World War which bequeathed the architecture for the modern international financial system – America’s trading partners have been left to cope with the impact of Washington’s control and, in more recent years, the hegemony of the dollar as the dominant global reserve currency.

The Chinese believe, for example, that the Americans persuaded Britain to stay out of the euro in order to prevent an earlier move away from the dollar. But Chinese banking sources say their discussions have gone too far to be blocked now. “The Russians will eventually bring in the rouble to the basket of currencies,” a prominent Hong Kong broker told The Independent. “The Brits are stuck in the middle and will come into the euro. They have no choice because they won’t be able to use the US dollar.”

Chinese financial sources believe President Barack Obama is too busy fixing the US economy to concentrate on the extraordinary implications of the transition from the dollar in nine years’ time. The current deadline for the currency transition is 2018.

The US discussed the trend briefly at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh; the Chinese Central Bank governor and other officials have been worrying aloud about the dollar for years. Their problem is that much of their national wealth is tied up in dollar assets.

“These plans will change the face of international financial transactions,” one Chinese banker said. “America and Britain must be very worried. You will know how worried by the thunder of denials this news will generate.”

Iran announced late last month that its foreign currency reserves would henceforth be held in euros rather than dollars. Bankers remember, of course, what happened to the last Middle East oil producer to sell its oil in euros rather than dollars. A few months after Saddam Hussein trumpeted his decision, the Americans and British invaded Iraq.

Folks, the reason for all of this is because we have not taken care of our INDIVIDUAL responsibility to be educated as to: 

• The one and only meaning of freedom and liberty as defined by our founding fathers.
• The purpose and meaning of The Constitution
• The meaning and purpose of The Declaration of Independence
• To understand that The Constitution is a set of LAWS that We The People wrote, established and ordained on All Three Branches of the U.S. Government to make sure that they do not do what they have done to us, our country and, in the process, our DOLLAR and our economy.
• To realize that it is an encumbrance upon all of us, individually, to be informed and to enforce the laws that we wrote, established and ordained on all three branches of the U.S. Government.  This means that it is our responsibility to talk about all these things, that you “might” call politics, although in reality it really isn’t politics it is law, morality, principles and economics, wherever you go because it directly impact your lives, our economy, our freedom, our liberty and your personal income and potential.  We have become uneducated (about freedom and Constitutional principles) and how to enforce our own laws on our own Government.  Do you even know the last ten words, which allow us to hold our Government entirely accountable and to redress infringements, of the first Amendment?
• We all must realize that we CAN do something about all of these things if we are educated with regards to the tenets, purpose, spirit and intent of the Constitution and our ultimate authority that we were individually given by our creator.
• We all must understand and PERSONALLY IMPLIMENT the 28 Freedom Principles.
• Do you know that Thomas Jefferson wanted that only gold coins would be used for our currency?  If this were still true and there was no “Central Bank” Federal Reserve “System” we would be as wealthy as our minds have been programmed to think we are in this real world MATRIX that only exists in our minds because we have been led to believe that paper and ink in the form of FEDERAL RESERVE “NOTES” are worth 100 cents when in the real world, outside of The Matrix, they are really worth only 2 – 3 cents, which is exactly worth the world will value our dollars in less than three years.
• If you ‘think’ in your mind you are getting paid $50.00 per hour, in the real world, outside of the Matrix of your mind, you are really getting paid only $1.00 an hour.  Soon the entire world will revalue the dollar to the true reality of this.  When the world does this will you really drive to work and actually work for a dollar an hour when a single gallon of gasoline costs you $100.00 and a loaf of bread costs $80.00?  This is what is going to happen in LESS than three years; All because you thought you had more important things to do than talk or care about what you ‘think’ is politics when it is NOT politics but it is your very life, your rights, your money, your freedom and your liberty.  But you just didn’t care to talk about it.  How about if you go out some place RIGHT NOW, IF NOTHING ELSE go to a tavern and have a beer and START TALKING ABOUT ALL OF these things you should have been talking about all along?  Where ever you go you need to start learning and talking about all of these things to your friends, relatives and people you just bump into at the beach or camping or whatever you do.  You all have to start caring enough to at least talk about all of this so that we can unite and do what we must do to ENFORCE the LAW on our Government.
• We must realize that the entire collapse of The MATRIX, our economy that only exists in our minds, is a blessing because until THE MATRIX is totally destroyed we will never be free of the tyrants and despots in all three branches of the U.S. Government and the cartel of twelve privately owned banks, who ultimately control them and us through monetary supply and manipulation, called THE FEDERAL RESERVE “SYSTEM” who created The MATRIX in the first place, through Constitutionally contemptuous legislation by usurping tyrants.
• The utter collapse of The MATRIX is going to be a horrible hardship for a few years, about five or so, and we may even need a Re-Revolutionary War to ENFORCE The Law in The Constitution on our Government, but if we stay the course the vast majority of common average Americans will become wealthy through hard work, the blessings of God and being able to keep our own earnings and choose for ourselves and our families how and on what we will spend our money (gold and/or silver coins) on.
• Pray, people, for the collapse of the Matrix, be ready and prepare to survive the hardships and be ready to fight physically if necessary, for the rule of LAW of The Constitution to the full force and effect of it word for word, in spirit and intent, as it WAS meant on the day it was ratified.
• If you don’t want to see war than support We The People Congress.  This organization and the NEW Continential Congress, is our ONLY chance to avoid it; by peacefully holding every single member of all three branches of the U.S. Government accountable to the LAWS in The Constitution.

Regardless of receipt of the report they both LIED directly to the American public about the cost of this proposal now in Congress.  Waxman stated that it would only cost about 40 cents per day.  Obama stated that it would only cost ”about the same as a postage stamp per day”. 

Waxman and Obama BOTH - – - LIED BY OVER 1,200 PERCENT!

See for yourself, in the following video, the horrendous corruption of the U.S. Congress.  See what this MASSIVE TAX increase for Cap and Trade will cost you as reported by The U.S. Treasury Department as received by Henry Waxman and Barack Obama BEFORE they lied to us about the cost of the Waxman – Markey Cap and Trade Climate bill.  It seems self-evident that President Obama, Henry Waxman and the vast majority of both houses of Congress are trying to make us Americans go broke.  The only question is,,,  Why?  In any case, they certainly cannot be trusted. :

Isn’t That Special?

How are we ever going to trust either house of Congress or EITHER Party or President Obama again?  I say that we are not so stupid as to trust any of them.  I say we completely investigate ALL OF THEM, try them ALL just like we did the NAZIs at Nuremberg, make the appropriate convictions and PROSECUTE each and every one of them to the FULLEST EXTENT of THE LAW; upto and including treason if so found.  While this is going on we rebuild our country under THE LAW word for word as WE The People wrote, established and ordained on the U.S. Government in The Constitution. – - Capt. Karl

God created all sorts of energy resources, only a few of which have been developed and utilized to drive our economy.  Energy is the life blood of freedom and it is what allows our economy to produce individual wealth for all Americans.  And, this is why energy, in all forms, is so very important to the average working American.  Cheap inexpensive oil is what results in the costs of everything to go down to reasonable affordable levels for us all.  When energy is inexpensive it is also an incentive for Americans to start new small businesses, because then it is easier to make a good profit, and therefore lower energy costs results in hundreds of thousands of new jobs and allows for significant increases in money available for wages on the shop floor or out in the field.

Energy prices, like prices for everything, are determined by the principles of supply and demand.  The more supply of energy the United States has available to meet the demand of our large and small businesses and individual needs and desires the less it costs.  That is why we the American people have so much power to lower the cost of our energy and make ourselves individually more wealthy.

The fact is that there are HUNDREDS of BILLIONS of barrels of oil and vast volumes of natural gas available DOMESTICALLY right here in and around America.  In addition America has vast resources in coal energy.  Combining the unfathomable quantities of these resources with new developing energy sources would immensely improve all of our families’ economic conditions.  The Liberty Tree Lantern is astonished at how little the mainstream media is reporting all of the new and existing volumes of domestic energy available for us.  We also find it interesting how little it is reported that the Obama Administration is standing in the way of releasing the leases necessary to drill and harvest these vast resources that would so greatly improve our economy and restore the prosperity of individual citizens.

What we need to do as Americans is to get together and with one Tea Party like voice demand that Obama and his Secretary of The Interior release the leases that our Oil companies need to drill for oil out west on federal lands and offshore all around our country and Alaska so that we can build up America and strengthen our freedom through massive infusions of domestic energy.

The Liberty Tree Lantern is happy to provide just one story, of dozens of available, regarding domestic American energy just waiting for the Obama Administration to let us produce the energy we so desperately need to lower our costs of everything.   Please send a personal message to Congress via, paper, e-mail and phone that you want Obama to release the drilling leases immediately.  Tell them to DRILL  HERE AND DRILL NOW!  (Do you know that Obama is stealing American taxpayer money to “give” to Brazil for ‘them’ to drill for oil offshore?  See:  U.S. Taxpayers to Provide Financing To Brazil for “Their” Offshore Drilling)

When you write or talk to your Congressman, make sure that you mention that the LAST thing we need are taxes on energy that will increase costs on every single thing the American family needs to live and businesses need to create well paying jobs.  Reject Cap-n-TAX in any form, folks, because such taxes will set our entire country back by decades destroy jobs, wealth, savings and create poverty.

The Liberty Tree Lantern has a few questions for our readers to ponder: 

1. Why, after the people of America demanded that the ban on offshore and western Federal Lands expire, which it did some months ago now, has the Obama Administration withheld exploration leases and not allowed oil companies to go where they know the domestic oil likely is for exploration and harvest? 
2. Why is the Obama Administration keeping America from our own domestic energy instead of depending on and importing energy from other countries?
3. Why doesn’t the majority of mainstream media report on the Billions of Barrels of crude oil available in Western Federal Lands and offshore when this energy would obviously improve the lives of so many Americans?
4. America is in a horrible recession RIGHT NOW that could OBVIOUSLY be greatly remedied by dramatically increasing that availability of our own massive volumes of domestic energy, doesn’t the Obama Administration care about the average individual American who is out of work and quickly running out of money due to job loss and increased prices on utility bills, gasoline, food and just about everything else?

The U.S. House of Representatives may vote this Friday on the “American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009” (the Waxman-Markey bill).  We need the many voices of the Partnership for America’s Energy Security to write and call your legislators, urging them to oppose this harmful and misguided legislation.

Addressing climate change is an important issue, and the U.S. oil and natural gas industry has made substantial commitments to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.  The industry supports balanced legislation to reduce greenhouse gases and replace the patchwork of state and federal regulatory programs, but the Waxman-Markey bill is not the answer.  This hastily drafted legislation would:

• Significantly increase consumer and business costs for gasoline and other fuels;
• Hurt American refiners—costing U.S. jobs and impeding our nation’s ability to produce energy domestically;
• Discourage domestic development of clean-burning natural gas.

We ask that you take two immediate actions:

• Call your U.S. Representative and urge him or her to vote “NO” on the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act
  Just call 877-354-7783 toll free, enter your PIN—10456—listen to the brief instructions, and you will be patched through to your U.S. Representative’s office automatically.
• Send an email to your U.S. Representative urging him or her to vote “NO” on the Waxman-Markey bill
  Visit the Partnership website to send an email.  It takes just a few minutes to participate.

Our nation needs sensible energy policies that meet economic and environmental needs—without giving advantages to foreign competitors or costing U.S. jobs. Unfortunately, the Waxman-Markey bill will cause new problems without solving our nation’s energy needs.

Remember—your voice is a vital part of our nation’s discussion about energy. Please take action on this issue today. Thank you.

Sincerely,
Bill Rozett
Executive Director
Partnership for America’s Energy Security

Folks,

  There Is No Atmospheric Green House Effect 

More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims

Scientists Denounce AP For Hysterical Global Warming Article

31,478 American Scientists Sign Petition to reject Global Warming: http://www.petitionproject.org/

Sorry to ruin the fun, but an ice age cometh

Very Serious and Important Research on Global Warming by Mankind

Arctic ice refuses to melt as ordered

MORE GLOBAL COOLING AHEAD, STUDY SAYS

Democrats Plan to Maneuver Around GOP on Healthcare and Cap-and-Trade

Global Warming Cap-and-Trade Will Destroy More of Our Economy

Salazar orders BLM to reject bids on 77 Utah leases

Obama Climate Czarina Was Member of Socialist Group’s Environmental Commission

WAKE UP AND DO SOMETHING!   YOU ONLY HAVE A FEW HOURS TO ACT!  If you don’t act, it is your own personal individual fault that this happens; And, you will have NO RIGHT to complain that you are starving or losing your financial future, your way of life and, very well perhaps your home. This bill will push our country over the edge, if YOU do not personally and individually act, NOW…  The U.S. Government is using this “emergency” that doesn’t even exist, as an excuse to steal our freedom, liberty and money, to control and manipulate each and every one of us and businesses through usurpation, oppression and despotism by way of fear of something that doesn’t even exist…   Most of them know Global Warming, caused by mankind, doesn’t exist, but they are power hungry for your money and your compliance to their will and bidding.  This is a call to arms.    - - Capt. Karl

I received the following e-mail from a reader recently:

As the U.S. Government gets ready to institute a new AGENCY to be the watchdog over the banking industry, one should reflect on the creation of the Department of Energy!

Funniest joke ever…….ON US!!!

Absolutely the funniest joke ever…….ON US!!! Let it sink in. Quietly we go like sheep to slaughter. Does anybody out there have any memory of the reason given for the establishment of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ….. during the Carter Administration?   Anybody?   Anything? No?   Didn’t think so ! Bottom line .. we’ve spent several hundred billion dollars in support of an agency … the reason for which not one person who reads this can remember. Ready???????   It was very simple … and at the time everybody thought it very appropriate… The ‘Department of Energy’ was instituted on 8- 04-1977   TO LESSEN  OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.    Hey, pretty efficient, huh?????  AND NOW IT’S 2009, 32 YEARS LATER  … AND THE BUDGET FOR THIS    NECESSARY DEPARTMENT IS AT$24.2 BILLION A YEAR  IT HAS 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES  AND APPROXIMATELY   100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES   AND LOOK AT THE JOB IT HAS DONE!THIS IS WHERE YOU SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD AND SAY  ‘WHAT WAS I THINKING?’ Ah, yes, good ole bureaucracy.. And NOW we are going to turn the Banking System, health care & the Auto Industry over to them?     God Help Us     This was my reply: Why does anybody think that the Government is the solution to almost anything?  Government is not the solution to our current problem, Government IS THE PROBLEM!   Do you know that although the law AGAINST oil and gas exploration, “the ban”, was let sunset as per written in the legislation a few months ago, so now it is legal to explore and drill for oil and gas, the Obama administration is not allowing leases to be sold to the oil exploration companies, on land nor sea!    This IS the reason that the price of crude is around or near $70/barrel.  INSANITY! ! ! !  The price of crude would be between $25.00 and $35.00 per barrel RIGHT NOW if the tyrants would let our oil companies and free markets do their thing.   The $70.00/barrel crude price is now GREATLY impacting our economy, businesses, jobs and general cost of living for every single family in America.  It is also impacting the stock market which would be another 500 – 1000 points higher in the DOW if it wasn’t for the oppressive impact of our unnecessarily high energy costs destroying our lives right now.  If people had any idea what Obama and his Secretary of The Interior Salzar was doing to each one of us “personally”, as a result of not simply selling the oil exploration leases, we would all be rising up in the streets, right now; Tea Party fashion but by the hundreds of thousands like Iran. The cost of crude has and will continue to cause not only the high price of gasoline and diesel, but all products produced and sold to the American public.  This Government action of refusing the sale of leases will cause a great deteriorating impact on our individual lives and finances, due to the impact on the cost of all energy products.

April 7, 2009, 10:06 AM ET

By Keith Johnson

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is heavily touting the offshore wind-power potential of the U.S. Is he overdoing it?

 

Salazar: Offshore wind is like 3,000 coal plants (AP)

Secretary Salazar, in Atlantic City for the first of four public meetings to discuss America’s offshore energy resources, raised eyebrows when he said offshore wind farms could replace 3,000 coal-fired plants. He contends that the offshore wind potential just in the Atlantic—the easiest region to develop–totals about 1,000 gigawatts.

Let’s put that in context. The entire electricity-generation capacity of the U.S., including coal, gas, nuclear, hydropower and other renewables, is just over 1,000 gigawatts. There are only about 1,400 coal plants in operation in the U.S., accounting for about 336 gigawatts of power. So that would indeed be a lot of wind.

But of that nominal 1,000 gigawatts of Atlantic wind potential, 770 gigawatts are in deep waters (that is, 200 feet or more). There are currently no deep-water wind farms anywhere in the world.

Even shallow-water wind farms are far from a slam-dunk: Of the world’s 120 gigawatts of wind power, less than 1% are installed offshore. A single landlocked project, T. Boone Pickens’ planned wind farm in Texas, would be three times bigger than the world’s stock of offshore wind farms.

But one thing is the theoretical wind resource and another is the amount of power the country can realistically develop. Secretary Salazar focused on the wind-power potential of the mid-Atlantic, which is about 463 gigawatts. Realistically, he said, 40% of that could be developed—or about 185 gigawatts. That’s still almost double the power potential of the U.S. nuclear fleet.

But wind power, even offshore wind power, isn’t the same as coal or nuclear. Offshore wind farms in Europe are lucky to generate 40% of their listed capacity. So that limits that mid-Atlantic resource to about 74 gigawatts. And that doesn’t even consider the technical and economic hurdles that still dog offshore wind power and make it less competitive than its onshore cousin.

Vestas, the world’s leading maker of wind turbines, knows a thing or two about wind power. Chief executive Ditlev Engel is obviously bullish on U.S. wind power—he figures the U.S. could easily pull a Denmark and get 50% of its electricity from the wind. But not even Mr. Engel, who makes the massive turbines for offshore wind farms, thinks that path makes much sense for the U.S.

“Why would the U.S. do offshore wind? It has plenty of resources on land; offshore wind is for countries without that kind of resource,” he said in February.

Now that begs the question why?  There are VLCCs (Very Large Crude Carriers = Super Tankers) at anchor around the world storing billions of barrels of crude.  Crude oil land storage facilities around the world are bulging at the seams with crude.  So why are the prices on energy going up?

The reason is because the American people have stopped DEMANDING that the U.S. Congress and the Administration allow leases for drilling and exploration to go ahead out west, like in Utah, or offshore.  Secretary of the Interior Salazar has stopped leases.  It takes almost a decade for new sources of oil and natural gas to be found, harvested and structures created to be brought to market.  This means that the HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of barrels of oil and massive volumes of natural gas will not be available for mankind after the collapse of “The Matrix” and the combination Civil / Re-Revolutionary War in 100% support and enforced compliance of every single word and original intent of The Constitution by the U.S. Government, when these resources will be sorely needed due to the massive ensuing growth of the U.S. economy and individual wealth from the rebirth of “true” freedom in victory over the dark forces of Socialism / Communism and Global Fascism being planned for us by The Federal Reserve company’s private exclusive club of megalomaniacs called The Trilateral Commission. 

The increased costs, resultant from individual Americans asleep at the switch and not compelling our Government to proceed to develop our own God given domestic energy resources will cause more cash reversals for all American families resulting in additional usurpation of the power of individual “free” American people by our enemies and despots of all branches of the U.S. Government who are trying to rob us of money, power and liberty all the while trying to convince us with puppy dog eyes that they are trying to help us.

The U.S. Government breaks our financial legs, gives us a Socialist / Communist crutch of dependency, and then has the gull to state; “See, without us you wouldn’t even be able to walk”.

People who are not “in the know” think that the reason for the price of crude to go down to as low as $35.00 per barrel is solely the result of the international economy.  While that does have an impact on the price of crude, the fact is that when the American public screamed and demanded the U.S. Congress open our lands out west and offshore to exploration and drilling, where there are HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of barrels of God given energy just waiting for our use and economic growth, and Congress blinked and let the ban on exploration to expire, THIS IS WHAT CAUSED THE PRICE OF CRUDE, gasoline, diesel, clothing, milk, groceries and other products TO GO DOWN to an affordable level.  But now Mr. Ken Salazar is not allowing the leases to go forward to the oil companies to develop the energy we will need in the future.  Without these future resources heat, light and electricity for our homes will be too expensive for us to bear.  The markets price product on expectations of the future.  This purposeful obliteration of our own domestic future energy resources is causing these prices to increase again, even after our successful battle with the U.S. Congress to Drill, Baby, Drill!  These usurpers and tyrants are now going behind our backs and effectively rescinding our orders.  We must INDIVIDUALLY get back on the phone, mail and e-mail to force our bastard “servants”  to obey our will before they completely destroy us and our economy through massive gasoline costs at the pump, on our utility and grocery bills, AGAIN!

The so called “new” technologies are going to be far too expensive to be economically viable for at least five decades minimum.  To force these costs down the throats of economically devastated Americans is patently immoral!  But, perhaps this is a good thing!  This will help the Americans who see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil about the U.S. Government to wake up in THE COLD.  This is a very good thing because starvation and freezing helps stimulate the minds of foolish men and women who think that The Constitution is either a joke or, worse, a “living document” that can be altered anyway the elitists in Congress or the Administration want to.  It is going to be good to see those so foolish amongst us learn.  It is a shame, however, that those of us who realize that the U.S. Congress and the Administration is the problem and the enemy of freedom and individual prosperity are going to drag us down with them, until enough of us read, study and learn the true meaning of liberty and the facts of world history of these matters.

When we march on Washington, I say Salazar is the first to visit the closest Liberty Tree!  For energy is the life blood of freedom!

The Liberty Tree Lantern would suggest that all who understand what the Administration and the U.S. Congress are trying to do to us by increasing the price of oil and gas, by dramatically diminishing future supplies from exploration,  should write and call their representatives and redouble our efforts to allow for drilling and exploration of our vast domestic oil and gas resources.  Don’t wait until it is too late, like when gasoline is over $4.00 per gallon again.  Can you afford it?