Even the worst of presidents cannot stop the best of times, and it's beginning to look as if an unprecedented energy boom just might save President Barack Obama's re-election, despite his undying efforts to thwart energy development.
He's worked hard at it, you know, and few things I've read sum it up better than a Wall Street Journal article by Stephen Moore. He interviewed Harold Hamm, an oil-company CEO who first discovered the Bakken oil fields in Montana and North Dakota, which was a bit like discovering gold in California in the 19th century but more than that. This is big, big, big, maybe 24 billion barrels' worth of big, $18 trillion worth of big.
Ho-hum, said Obama when Hamm talked to him on one occasion about all of this. According to what Hamm told Moore, the president said oil and gas may count for something for a few years, but that the future is green, that things like battery-driven cars will save us. And here is a guy who walks his talk in more ways than central-planning goofs that give us such mistakes as Solyndra, the solar-panel firm the sun failed to shine on.
There are all kinds of bumbling, bureaucratic delays in granting oil permits. There are proposals for increased, targeted tax hikes for oil and gas that will take much of the energizing profit out of exploration. There are Securities and Exchange Commission rules that complicate matters enough to make criminal mistakes a major possibility. There's the Environmental Protection Agency worrying the energy industry to death, and then there was the Justice Department's unbelievable pursuit of criminal sanctions because oil companies accidentally killed 28 birds that were not even endangered.
I know that sounds impossible, but it's true. A judge saved the day. He threw the silly case out, but we still have near-prohibitions of energy development that no judge can affect.
As big a symbol of dumbfounding intransigence as you can want is the Obama decision to stop the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada, which could help provide tens of thousands of jobs over time and thousands just in the short term. Three years of study demonstrated the pipeline would do no damage, and everyone knows China will get the oil if we don't. But Obama said nothing doing.
Did the moratorium on Gulf of Mexico oil drilling go too far after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill? Plenty of experts argue that case, and an online article in Forbes estimates losses of $21.4 billion in investment and 91,000 jobs.
The great craziness here is that even if you believe green-energy production is the ultimate answer for us, it will take years to get there unless sustained poverty is your game. Otherwise, we absolutely need oil, gas and coal. We have them, and we have them in such quantity that good days are coming as soon as development gets going full steam ahead. They will come much slower than necessary, but they will come.
The energy boom — largely a consequence of a horizontal drilling technique called fracking — has already created 158,000 new energy jobs. Here is what the American Petroleum Institute projects fairly soon, as reported by Forbes: 204,000 new jobs in Ohio, 17,000 in West Virginia, 76,000 in Pennsylvania, 20,000 in New York. A lot of this is happening now and boosting an economic recovery in a country that refuses to be defeated by pork-ridden stimulus packages, an overreaching EPA or regulations that would simply kill off ordinary people without the blessing of great resources.
But don't suppose Obama can't wreck us in other ways, as in refusing to seriously address deficits and debt or in loading us with a health plan that will make things worse, not better, or with a regulatory scheme that will keep us much poorer than we need to be, hurting the poor worse than anyone. An improving economy will help him, but electoral thoughtfulness can yet defeat him.
Reach Jay Ambrose, formerly Washington director of editorial policy for Scripps Howard newspapers, at SpeaktoJay@aol.com.
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February 13, 201212:54 a.m.
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bitemeagain2 writes: 1
The one thing the author failed to mention was that the state department approved an oil pipeline out of the same area into the United States in 2009 http://news.yahoo.com/obama-administr...
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February 13, 20125:01 a.m.
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cheyenne writes: 2
Who needs a pipeline? In the Cheyenne paper yesterday, Watco Transportation will start running 100 car trains full of oil from the shale fields. This is a done deal. Swan Lake business park, built this past year south of Cheyenne, is filling up. The railroad tracks are already there, I25 and I80 cross there, the city has built a spec building for potential manufacters. Watco estimates full time jobs in the hundreds. They say this will eliminate the need for more pipelines. 100 car trains full of crude oil. Can anyone say Cantera Loop?
February 13, 20125:20 a.m.
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Attractive_Nuisance writes: 4
Bla bla bla bla. Here, let me sum this article up: Obama and the guberment are BAD! Oil is GOOD!
February 13, 20125:59 a.m.
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sound_of_reason writes: 1
"He's worked hard at it, you know, and few things I've read sum it up better than a Wall Street Journal article by Stephen Moore."
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Now that the Wall Street Journal is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who also owns Fox News, there is nothing but Reich Wing garbage in that publication!
I saw a talk yesterday at the Library about a book called the Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein. Her book talks about the current Republican policies, and how they came about in the classrooms of the University of Chicago. Economist Milton Friedman's vision for the world includes implementing the economic principles of less government, privatization, and dropping the safety nets.
Everywhere it has been implemented around the world, including in the United States as George W. Bush put the final pieces into place for Reagan's dream, the middle class has suffered, the poor have suffered, the government has lost the ability to govern properly, and the top 10 to 20% of wealth get much wealthier.
That is not the symptoms of a long term strategy like the Republicans would have you believe, but rather that is the strategy, and we have seen it here in our own country.
The rich getting richer while the country crumbles makes me think that we need to get rid of monetary exchange all together. Then the rich, who use their money to make more money so they don't need to work, can do some labor just like the rest of us.
February 13, 20126 a.m.
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Poorfarmer writes: 3
The $800 million plus the taxpayers shelled out for a 2000 acre solar array in So. CA appears to be a corrupt boondoggle that will never be completed.
Now that's an alternative a democrat can support !!!
February 13, 20126:01 a.m.
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dmikee writes: 4
Mr. Ambrose appears to have now given the R/S and all Scripps newspapers their marching orders. They are to unequivocably denigrate and oppose whatever the president proposes. We are now free to read other papers to get a balanced view.
February 13, 20127:47 a.m.
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nickotime writes: 10
Can you say SHILL for the petroleum industry?
What a bunch of slanted crap.
Mr. Ambrose is paid for by rightwing interests and should be far more forthcoming about his source of income, as should the RS.
This is little more than a paid opinion from big oil. For a little more sober look at Bakken and the silly claims Ambrose made.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoli...
To say he was exaggerating would be kind.
February 13, 20128:15 a.m.
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GaryGnu2 writes: 1
in response to bitemeagain2:
The one thing the author failed to mention was that the state department approved an oil pipeline out of the same area into the United States in 2009 http://news.yahoo.com/obama-administr...
Yes, but it has yet to be built because of other problems!
http://www.albertaclipper.state.gov/c...
February 13, 20128:45 a.m.
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pittville writes:
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Yes, but it has yet to be built because of other problems!
http://www.albertaclipper.state.gov/c...
Somebody needs to do their homework: Keystone Phase 1 & 2 have been in operation since June 2010. Also, Transcanada has already signed contracts with 6 oil companies to refine the product from Keystone XL (primarily to diesel) for EXPORT primarily to Europe and South America. No guarantee any of this goes to U.S., unless we bid high enough.
February 13, 20129:04 a.m.
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outsideofthebox writes: 4
It has been noted time and time again that pipeline project was slated for export to Asia and South America, would create few jobs here, and little revenue for the US but a lot for Canada and a few oil firms.
And the oil firms coughed up $40 million in campaign money to a few republican politicians to try to slam a bill through which got body slammed.
There is a point the right wing nonsense is just evil.
What amazes me is the extent of the lying garbage right wing republican supporter fanatics continue to spew from their lying mouths.
US oil production is currently on pace to record all time highs :
http://www.chron.com/business/energy/...
That said, oil isn't the answer for the future.
Obama is now causing an oil crisis since the rest of the BS you people tried to put on him turned out to be -
BS?
If anything the man is helping us avoid being raked over the coals more and setting us up for a growth phase throughout the entire economy, including ushering in a new era of BETTER energy conditions.
February 13, 201210:16 a.m.
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LaCross writes: 1
in response to sound_of_reason:
"He's worked hard at it, you know, and few things I've read sum it up better than a Wall Street Journal article by Stephen Moore."
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Now that the Wall Street Journal is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who also owns Fox News, there is nothing but Reich Wing garbage in that publication!
I saw a talk yesterday at the Library about a book called the Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein. Her book talks about the current Republican policies, and how they came about in the classrooms of the University of Chicago. Economist Milton Friedman's vision for the world includes implementing the economic principles of less government, privatization, and dropping the safety nets.
Everywhere it has been implemented around the world, including in the United States as George W. Bush put the final pieces into place for Reagan's dream, the middle class has suffered, the poor have suffered, the government has lost the ability to govern properly, and the top 10 to 20% of wealth get much wealthier.
That is not the symptoms of a long term strategy like the Republicans would have you believe, but rather that is the strategy, and we have seen it here in our own country.
The rich getting richer while the country crumbles makes me think that we need to get rid of monetary exchange all together. Then the rich, who use their money to make more money so they don't need to work, can do some labor just like the rest of us.
"The rich getting richer while the country crumbles makes me think that we need to get rid of monetary exchange all together. Then the rich, who use their money to make more money so they don't need to work, can do some labor just like the rest of us."
I think that we should start with getting rid of YOU!
February 13, 201210:20 a.m.
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David0000 writes: 2
in response to Poorfarmer:
The $800 million plus the taxpayers shelled out for a 2000 acre solar array in So. CA appears to be a corrupt boondoggle that will never be completed.
Now that's an alternative a democrat can support !!!
Drill baby drill us into oblivion....., the sooner we get rid of these dinosaurs emoting the better off we will be.
February 13, 201210:25 a.m.
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David0000 writes:
Republicans bent over the oil barrel with out a good night kiss, whats the problem?
Our environment.
February 13, 201210:35 a.m.
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Reddingite001 writes: 3
in response to Poorfarmer:
The $800 million plus the taxpayers shelled out for a 2000 acre solar array in So. CA appears to be a corrupt boondoggle that will never be completed.
Now that's an alternative a democrat can support !!!
Then there's Newt, who if elected, will build a moonbase! Talk about a boondoggle. Go ahead and vote for your fav, Newton "Moonbase" Gingrich! The hundreds of billions Newt will spend on that will make the $800 mil solar array look like chump change.
February 13, 201211:02 a.m.
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outsideofthebox writes: 3
Obama Futures Rallying in Correlation With S&P 500 Best Start in 21 Years - Bloomberg News
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02...
That's right US stocks have been on a tear to the upside since the day Obama took office and are off to their best start to a year in 2012 in -
21 years.
Many analysts are expecting a brief pause very soon here though, before stocks rally further throughout 2012.
Would you like to know why?
It's because he is fixing the damage the republicans caused, and making the way business and wall street function more careful, less harmful, and more cooperative.
And the analysts see it.
But in Redding? Blind as a bat.
February 13, 201211:48 a.m.
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etimed writes:
What do you call when the same group of people proclaim untruths day after day, after day, after day, and after day? Pseudologist's.
And that is what the left are, for only sane people would stop and acknowledge that all the facts completely validate just how false their assertions are.
The Stock Market is not an economic indicator, unemployment, debt as a percentage of GDP, inflation, number of people living in poverty, on food stamps, and deficits are economic indicators.
Across the board the economic indicators prove that the economy is in a crisis mode!
Unemployment - Has never been under 10% for the last three years, in fact, it is really higher than that, we know that in 2008 at this time there were 10 million less people unemployed than today.
The Debt as a percentage of the GDP has gone from 58% to over 104% under Obama.
Cost of living is skyrocketing, food, clothing, and energy are double what they were.
In 2008 there were 23 million people on food stamps, today, over 43 million people are on food stamps.
The all time deficit king, Obama is going to have 4 consecutive years of a deficit over 1.3 trillion dollars.
In three years Obama has added $6 trillion dollars to our National Debt, more than Bush added in 8 years.
No, there is not one factual economic indicator that depicts the economy as anything other than devastating.
2011 was the worst year for housing since they started keeping records, which was back in the 1960's, more people are in poverty than have been in over 60 years.
So when someone from the left attempts to con people into believing the fairytale that the economy is great, just discount them as being irrelevant.
Most of these fibbers are disgruntled underachievers who simply hate due to their deep seeded envy of those who are producers and achievers.
February 13, 201212:24 p.m.
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nickotime writes: 3
in response to etimed:
What do you call when the same group of people proclaim untruths day after day, after day, after day, and after day? Pseudologist's.
And that is what the left are, for only sane people would stop and acknowledge that all the facts completely validate just how false their assertions are.
The Stock Market is not an economic indicator, unemployment, debt as a percentage of GDP, inflation, number of people living in poverty, on food stamps, and deficits are economic indicators.
Across the board the economic indicators prove that the economy is in a crisis mode!
Unemployment - Has never been under 10% for the last three years, in fact, it is really higher than that, we know that in 2008 at this time there were 10 million less people unemployed than today.
The Debt as a percentage of the GDP has gone from 58% to over 104% under Obama.
Cost of living is skyrocketing, food, clothing, and energy are double what they were.
In 2008 there were 23 million people on food stamps, today, over 43 million people are on food stamps.
The all time deficit king, Obama is going to have 4 consecutive years of a deficit over 1.3 trillion dollars.
In three years Obama has added $6 trillion dollars to our National Debt, more than Bush added in 8 years.
No, there is not one factual economic indicator that depicts the economy as anything other than devastating.
2011 was the worst year for housing since they started keeping records, which was back in the 1960's, more people are in poverty than have been in over 60 years.
So when someone from the left attempts to con people into believing the fairytale that the economy is great, just discount them as being irrelevant.
Most of these fibbers are disgruntled underachievers who simply hate due to their deep seeded envy of those who are producers and achievers.
"What do you call when the same group of people proclaim untruths day after day, after day, after day, and after day? Pseudologist's."
I KNEW there was a term for repetitive liars like you. Thanks.
February 13, 201212:34 p.m.
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David0000 writes: 3
in response to etimed:
What do you call when the same group of people proclaim untruths day after day, after day, after day, and after day? Pseudologist's.
And that is what the left are, for only sane people would stop and acknowledge that all the facts completely validate just how false their assertions are.
The Stock Market is not an economic indicator, unemployment, debt as a percentage of GDP, inflation, number of people living in poverty, on food stamps, and deficits are economic indicators.
Across the board the economic indicators prove that the economy is in a crisis mode!
Unemployment - Has never been under 10% for the last three years, in fact, it is really higher than that, we know that in 2008 at this time there were 10 million less people unemployed than today.
The Debt as a percentage of the GDP has gone from 58% to over 104% under Obama.
Cost of living is skyrocketing, food, clothing, and energy are double what they were.
In 2008 there were 23 million people on food stamps, today, over 43 million people are on food stamps.
The all time deficit king, Obama is going to have 4 consecutive years of a deficit over 1.3 trillion dollars.
In three years Obama has added $6 trillion dollars to our National Debt, more than Bush added in 8 years.
No, there is not one factual economic indicator that depicts the economy as anything other than devastating.
2011 was the worst year for housing since they started keeping records, which was back in the 1960's, more people are in poverty than have been in over 60 years.
So when someone from the left attempts to con people into believing the fairytale that the economy is great, just discount them as being irrelevant.
Most of these fibbers are disgruntled underachievers who simply hate due to their deep seeded envy of those who are producers and achievers.
We call it more etimed trash, and then we laugh.
February 13, 201212:54 p.m.
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outsideofthebox writes: 1
No fanatical out of touch with reality right wing responses to my 11:02 post?
Interesting.
Facts they don't like hearing get no sane response as usual.
February 13, 20121:18 p.m.
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toolbag writes: 3
in response to David0000:
Republicans bent over the oil barrel with out a good night kiss, whats the problem?
Our environment.
you have used that stupid line over and over. boring!!!
February 13, 20121:23 p.m.
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nickotime writes: 4
If we grant Mr. Ambrose his 24 billion barrels, and we kept it all domestically, what are we really talking about?
The US uses 7-8 billion barrels per year.
February 13, 20121:32 p.m.
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cheyenne writes:
A tale of two cities, Cheyenne and Redding.
Cheyenne unemployment, 5% never has been over 10%. Redding unemployment what 13%?
Wyoming budget surplus in the multi millions and pushing for a 5% cut in government budgets. California budget-minus.
Cheyenne three business parks full or almost full. Redding stillwater park.
Cheyenne education fight, where to put the new school, not how to fund it the money is already available through energy taxes. Redding education, where is the next cut?
This is just two towns I am familar with, but what you posters talk about is true of certain places but not all. What I could not figure out was why people wouldn't leave high unemployment areas for low unemployment areas where they could find work quickly. I felt it was because they could collect welfare and unemployment checks and stay where they were. But, after reading Beauchamps blog about "Squatters Economy" I realized people don't leave because in addition to government handouts they pay no housing costs. A quick goggle shows that the "squatters economy" was estimated in putting 50 billion dollars into the national economy. When these areas run out of unemployment and squatters are evicted, it could take a few years, the urban refugees better not plan on moving to other areas of the country that are unaffected by the recession. I do not know if you get the info about the survivalist movement like we do, but the movement is involving Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming to repeal the invasion, as they put it, of the urban refugees. There are realtors who specialize in off the grid, defenseful, properties. What once was a whacko idea is now mainstream. Once the government freebees are gone and the OWS takes over like they have in Oakland, California will become like the city in the movie "Escape From New York". And don't think you can escape to parts of California, 30 million urban refugees will overwhelm the Trinty Alps and the Yolla Bolla Wilderness.
February 13, 20121:58 p.m.
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Reddingite001 writes: 2
in response to cheyenne:
A tale of two cities, Cheyenne and Redding.
Cheyenne unemployment, 5% never has been over 10%. Redding unemployment what 13%?
Wyoming budget surplus in the multi millions and pushing for a 5% cut in government budgets. California budget-minus.
Cheyenne three business parks full or almost full. Redding stillwater park.
Cheyenne education fight, where to put the new school, not how to fund it the money is already available through energy taxes. Redding education, where is the next cut?
This is just two towns I am familar with, but what you posters talk about is true of certain places but not all. What I could not figure out was why people wouldn't leave high unemployment areas for low unemployment areas where they could find work quickly. I felt it was because they could collect welfare and unemployment checks and stay where they were. But, after reading Beauchamps blog about "Squatters Economy" I realized people don't leave because in addition to government handouts they pay no housing costs. A quick goggle shows that the "squatters economy" was estimated in putting 50 billion dollars into the national economy. When these areas run out of unemployment and squatters are evicted, it could take a few years, the urban refugees better not plan on moving to other areas of the country that are unaffected by the recession. I do not know if you get the info about the survivalist movement like we do, but the movement is involving Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming to repeal the invasion, as they put it, of the urban refugees. There are realtors who specialize in off the grid, defenseful, properties. What once was a whacko idea is now mainstream. Once the government freebees are gone and the OWS takes over like they have in Oakland, California will become like the city in the movie "Escape From New York". And don't think you can escape to parts of California, 30 million urban refugees will overwhelm the Trinty Alps and the Yolla Bolla Wilderness.
Why then, do 1 out of 10 Americans make California their home? It's the climate here in California, not the jobs. To you, money is more important than quality of life. Wyoming is a great place to visit, a good place to be from, but not to live. That's why hundreds of millions of Americans have choosen anywhere but Cheyenne to live!
February 13, 20122:29 p.m.
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David0000 writes:
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you have used that stupid line over and over. boring!!!
So your asleep.
So what?
February 13, 20122:41 p.m.
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K_Park writes: 4
We all know that fossil fuels are a limited resource and whether or not we are able to find more bares no consequence to the fact that eventually we will run out.
I say get this new "goldrush" going and provide all of those much needed jobs to do it but with something other than profits in mind. I believe that if an oil company were to use its vast and powerful array of resources to invest in alternative energy technologies and research, that company would completely dominate the energy market when we finally run dry.
Not to mention all of the long-lasting jobs it would create and the positive impact on the environment.
February 13, 20123:20 p.m.
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Ken writes: 2
Speaking of looming, it seems clear that antipathy towards Obama looms far larger in this guy's mind than anything to do with petroleum.
If it were true that "...we still have near-prohibitions of energy development..." how is it that our biggest export is now oil?
"...the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada.....study demonstrated the pipeline would do no damage, and everyone knows China will get the oil if we don't. But Obama said nothing doing."
Ahem, that oil is going abroad no matter what route the pipeline takes. This argument is a flat out lie, and the author surely knows it.
Not a man to be listened to.
February 13, 20123:59 p.m.
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Treebones writes:
in response to cheyenne:
A tale of two cities, Cheyenne and Redding.
Cheyenne unemployment, 5% never has been over 10%. Redding unemployment what 13%?
Wyoming budget surplus in the multi millions and pushing for a 5% cut in government budgets. California budget-minus.
Cheyenne three business parks full or almost full. Redding stillwater park.
Cheyenne education fight, where to put the new school, not how to fund it the money is already available through energy taxes. Redding education, where is the next cut?
This is just two towns I am familar with, but what you posters talk about is true of certain places but not all. What I could not figure out was why people wouldn't leave high unemployment areas for low unemployment areas where they could find work quickly. I felt it was because they could collect welfare and unemployment checks and stay where they were. But, after reading Beauchamps blog about "Squatters Economy" I realized people don't leave because in addition to government handouts they pay no housing costs. A quick goggle shows that the "squatters economy" was estimated in putting 50 billion dollars into the national economy. When these areas run out of unemployment and squatters are evicted, it could take a few years, the urban refugees better not plan on moving to other areas of the country that are unaffected by the recession. I do not know if you get the info about the survivalist movement like we do, but the movement is involving Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming to repeal the invasion, as they put it, of the urban refugees. There are realtors who specialize in off the grid, defenseful, properties. What once was a whacko idea is now mainstream. Once the government freebees are gone and the OWS takes over like they have in Oakland, California will become like the city in the movie "Escape From New York". And don't think you can escape to parts of California, 30 million urban refugees will overwhelm the Trinty Alps and the Yolla Bolla Wilderness.
You are kidding, right?
February 13, 20126:52 p.m.
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randy writes: 1
Fracking is leaving behind untold damage to precious freshwater aquifers. In blind pursuit of financial profit nothing gets in the way.
"NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The Environmental Protection Agency said this week that chemicals from "fracking," a controversial method of extracting natural gas from the ground, have polluted groundwater in Wyoming.
The findings represent the first time in the heated debate over fracking that the agency has drawn such a connection, which has long been claimed by environmental activists. "
http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/09/news/...
February 13, 20129:33 p.m.
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David0000 writes:
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Fracking is leaving behind untold damage to precious freshwater aquifers. In blind pursuit of financial profit nothing gets in the way.
"NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The Environmental Protection Agency said this week that chemicals from "fracking," a controversial method of extracting natural gas from the ground, have polluted groundwater in Wyoming.
The findings represent the first time in the heated debate over fracking that the agency has drawn such a connection, which has long been claimed by environmental activists. "
http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/09/news/...
What’s wrong with methane in your drinking water.
You can tap it for heat in the winter and besides, they make gawd awful profits off you and then leave you holding the broken bag.
February 15, 201212:57 a.m.
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JoeMamma writes:
Even GW Bush thought the Keystone project was too "dirty".
For every barrel of oil extracted, it will take enough natural gas to heat a family home for four days and tear up four tons of landscape.
February 15, 201212:59 a.m.
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JoeMamma writes:
The Keystone Pipeline project will create 20-127 permanent jobs
-- Cornell Global Labor Institute
February 15, 20121:05 a.m.
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JoeMamma writes:
...and if all the author can do is quote a bunch of forbes bologna...can't even take him seriously.
February 15, 20121:09 a.m.
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JoeMamma writes:
In 2007, President Bush signed into law Section 526 of the Energy Independence and National Security Act of 2007. It prohibits the US government, which is the largest single fuel purchaser in the U.S., from using taxpayer dollars to purchase fuels that have a higher carbon footprint than conventional oil.
February 15, 20121:11 a.m.
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JoeMamma writes:
...and they aren't using American made steel, it's made is India...and it's had a lot of problems.
http://plainsjustice.org/files/Substa...
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