Posted on 02/12/2010 3:53:09 PM PST by pillut48
NYT SATURDAY: White House officials are searching for ways for Obama to 'use executive powers to advance energy, environmental and other policy priorities'... Developing...
(Excerpt) Read more at drudgereport.com ...
Or just another scheme to grab unConstitutional power over yet another industry??
What say you all?
He just wants a war, doesn’t he?
Cap and trade via eo is my bet.
He doesn’t have the votes, so instead he’ll manufacturer another “crisis”...
Following the Hugo Chavez playbook.
Cap and trade.
Although they will dress it as something else. The “Comprehensive” strategy.
What he’s gonna get is impeached.
You can pretty much attempt anything you want when you have no intention of running for office in the US again. He’ll be looking at the UN in 2012.
The only good news is, whatever he does by EO can be undone by EO. And it will probably really piss Congress off if he tries usurping their authority.
He can cause a damage in the meantime.
Institute for Energy Research says Obama has locked off OCS exploration until at least 2014
Obama Admin Delays Atlantic OCS Development until at Least 2014, Will Congress Force Interior’s Hand?
Washington, DC – Following up on the Interior Department’s recent announcement that lease terms in the Gulf will be dramatically shortened, a letter from the agency made public today suggests that Sec. Salazar is well on his way to ensuring that no offshore energy exploration can take place in the Atlantic until at least 2014 – even as it works furiously to “fast track” permits and leases important to the wind and solar industry.
Subsequent to the release of this letter, Institute for Energy Research (IER) vice-president Dan Kish released the following statement:
“What this letter suggests is that Sec. Salazar isn’t looking to kick the can down the road when it comes to responsible offshore exploration – he’s looking to take that can, crush it, and then shut down the road altogether. Despite the overwhelming majority of Americans supporting robust energy development off our coasts, this Administration continues to view our domestic energy resources as an environmental liability, not the job-creating assets that they are.”
In particular, Mr. Kish pointed to a letter from the Interior Department dated February 3 in which a prospective timeline is laid out for conducting a Programmatic Environment Impact Statement (PEIS) on the Atlantic OCS. A PEIS must be completed prior to seismic testing taking place — a process that will ultimately determine where oil and gas resources are located beneath the seafloor. In addition to the PEIS, additional permits and environmental analyses must take place prior to holding a lease sale.
“Tossing a few acres up for lease, as this Administration has done, and implementing a robust plan to safely expand domestic oil and gas production are two radically different things. This decision to slow-walk development in the Atlantic is perfectly consistent with the administration’s record on these issues – and perfectly inconsistent with its rhetoric.
“Sec. Salazar is breaking all speed records to deploy the most expensive and unreliable forms of energy that exist, while dragging his feet on the type of energy that makes America run. He is establishing a road map that sends us off an energy cliff, at the expense of American jobs and economic growth.”
Somehow the word “dictator” comes to mind.
Since we will not allow him to pass any of his destructive “kill America first” bills he is going to do it anyway and say to all Americans F U! How do we stand for such arrogance!
More legislation by the executive branch. “Executive Orders” - laws declared by the White House without the interference of the two other branches of government.
“advance” is as much as a misnomer as “progressive” ... this will be the application of cap and trade through executive order and the EPA.
Because if cap and trade goes through and electricity goes up by 90% their is not technological solution to lower the ice time cost.
I do not see a Co-gen Natural Gas generator for rink use, or plug in your technology.
Many hockey players and figure skaters parents may not be able to absorb the added Ice Time cost, and the sports will suffer dramatically IMHO potentially going forward.....
You heard it here 1st....
How is that Hope and Change working for you....
It's a very difficult call ...
How about wind generaters all around?
So does this mean Obama is taking Roland Martins suggestion and going ‘gangsta’ on us?
I just hate the word comprehensive anymore when he says it.
I hate all his comprehensive ‘packages’ completely.
It is all over Obama and Co. have won.
Please flame and give me some hope for the elections in November.
New Jersey, Virginia and Massachusetts!
Hang in there, keep the faith, this too shall pass! (and I don’t mean cap and trade or obamacare or...)
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