Posted on 03/03/2009 6:00:05 PM PST by Kaslin
Who is really in charge of our public lands and resources? The American public — or the radical left?
The recession continues to worsen. Stores and companies are closing their doors. Millions are unemployed. Families are struggling to pay for homes, food, cars and fuel.
President Obama just signed a controversial, pork-laden, trillion-dollar "stimulus" package. We'll spend another $350 billion this year on imported oil.
And with the stroke of a pen, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar canceled 77 Utah oil and gas leases that had gone through seven years of studies, negotiations and land-use planning. In an instant, he eliminated hundreds of jobs, terminated access to vital oil and gas deposits, and deprived taxpayers of millions in lease bonus, rent, royalty and tax revenues.
The canceled leases represent one-third of acreage estimated to contain enough oil to fuel 3 million cars and enough natural gas to heat 14 million homes for 15 years. They were rejected because temporary drilling operations might be "visible" from several national parks more than a mile away.
(Excerpt) Read more at ibdeditorials.com ...
The Kenyan’s war on capitalism must be stopped.
We should leave it that way.
Why stop at just two?
Spoken like a true Liberal.
Spoken like an Ahnold supporter.
Even with Roy Innis for cover, he's a day late and a dollar short.
You don’t need energy if you don’t have a job.
Destroying Both Jobs And Energy Security? Just the usual Progressive economic chaos. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Aha! The unemployed don't bath in hot water, wash their clothing, cook food, heat or cool their homes or drive a vehicle? That's a revelation.
And the best you can come up with is:
"Utah is pretty. We should leave it that way."
Utah is as pretty as a gravel pit in the uninhabital areas that could solve our energy dependence.
“Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.” Gilbert K. Chesterton. I doubt that you have ever seen a modern oil/gas field. You would be hardpressed to notice it with modern methods.
“Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.” Gilbert K. Chesterton. I doubt that you have ever seen a modern oil/gas field. You would be hardpressed to notice it with modern methods.
Jobs are dropping like flies around here. I have never in my lifetime seen things fall apart so fast. It appears it is by design by this administration to push its agenda forward.
bttt
When they’re done with us, we will all be unemployed and homeless, cold, hungry, in-the-dark, half-naked, huddled masses yearning to be free.
Every place I have ever been is 'naturally' pretty in it's own way -- especially when looking at a distance. Does that mean we should never disturb anything?
Yet it's ok for envirokooks to cover our California landscape miles and miles in any direction with god-awful windmills. And, when we run out of land, put them offshore blighting the landscape permanently, not temporarily.
If we're so spineless as a nation that we allow that to happen, then we deserve it.
I guess so.
The bitterness on this site has become so deep that we suspect one another of being Obama shills and liberals-in-training.
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