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Oil-Rich America? (Yes, If Democrats will allow it)
National Review ^ | 12/08/2011 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 12/08/2011 7:02:06 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 12/08/2011 7:02:08 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
There is a revolution going on in America. But it is not part of the Tea Party or the loud Occupy Wall Street protests.

Perhaps, but the TEA Party is far more aligned with it -- deregulation plus job creation certainly fits in with TP objectives.

2 posted on 12/08/2011 7:05:33 AM PST by kevkrom (Separation of Business and State)
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To: SeekAndFind

Frack Here, Frack Now!


3 posted on 12/08/2011 7:08:25 AM PST by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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To: SeekAndFind
"Oil-Rich America? (Yes, If Democrats will allow it)"

"Oil-Rich America?" (Yes, If the United States can overcome the DECADENCE that is destroying it!)

The Left/Democrat Party/Counter-Culture Movement/Occupy
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DECADENCE
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THE DESTRUCTION OF THE U.S.A.

4 posted on 12/08/2011 7:10:05 AM PST by Savage Beast (The Left/Democrat Party = Decadence)
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To: neodad

RE: Frack here, Frack now!

What ever happened to the slogan — DRILL BABY, DRILL?


5 posted on 12/08/2011 7:10:39 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Fossil fuels of any variety are on the “Greens” abolishment list. Using global warming as an excuse, they saw “renewable” energy as the way to take America down from our admirable and envied standard of living to that of most of the rest of the world. Now that man-caused global warming is being exposed for the fraud it is and fossil fuel energy discoveries are reducing our dependence on foreign oil, they are throwing up every roadblock possible to prevent their plans from being overturned. Permit delays on drilling offshore and the arctic, threatened endangered species listing of a small lizard in the Permian Basin of West Texas and New Mexico, and blocking of the Keystone pipeline are just some of the tactics being used by enviro-nazis in cooperation with the Obama administration.

However technology and American ingenuity are once again overcoming obstacles, though government greens continue their attempt to throw up roadblocks as in the use of hydraulic fracturing to release natural gas trapped in shale formations. The public believes and enjoys its current lifestyle and the “chicken little” cries from the enviros are falling on increasingly deaf ears. Hopefully the next election will solidify poll numbers that show global warming to be down at the bottom of problems the country faces, well behind jobs, the economy and increasing national debt.


6 posted on 12/08/2011 7:31:11 AM PST by CedarDave
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To: SeekAndFind

if the dems don’t want to do what is good for the country, it is our duty to toss them out.


7 posted on 12/08/2011 7:32:04 AM PST by television is just wrong
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To: SeekAndFind

Deepwater Horizon


8 posted on 12/08/2011 7:32:48 AM PST by antidisestablishment (Our people perish through lack of wisdom, but they are content in their ignorance.)
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To: television is just wrong

RE: if the dems don’t want to do what is good for the country, it is our duty to toss them out.

You gotta understand, to them, what’s better for the country is not jobs, but “Protecting the environment”


9 posted on 12/08/2011 7:37:16 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: thackney

FYI ping.


10 posted on 12/08/2011 7:47:50 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: SeekAndFind

Our future as a country depends on the outcome of this next election year. We must end up with an administration that will put jobs and energy self reliance up as a vital and immediate issue. Sarah Palin is the only possible candidate who has made the right calls all along. We need ANWR opened to revitalize the AK pipeline. We need the X Pipeline. We need to resume offshore drilling. We need to frack like hell..and look at all applications for Natural gas. We need to start exporting oil as well.


11 posted on 12/08/2011 7:51:43 AM PST by Oldexpat
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To: antidisestablishment

Deepwater Horizon showed even a massive screw-up followed by delays in the clean-up, still result in far less damage than the environmentalists, NIMBYS and other democrats would have us believe.

Gulf of Mexico’s Health Nearly Back to Pre-Spill Level
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/gulf-mexico-s-health-nearly-back-pre-spill-level
April 18, 2011

More than three dozen scientists grade the Gulf’s big picture health a 68 on average, using a 1-to-100 scale. What’s remarkable is that that’s just a few points below the 71 the same researchers gave last summer when asked what grade they would give the ecosystem before the spill. And it’s an improvement from the 65 given back in October.


12 posted on 12/08/2011 7:52:56 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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If Democrats will allow it"

That is precisely why Democrats must be ruthlessly purged from all levels of government!

13 posted on 12/08/2011 8:42:04 AM PST by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: thackney

Only perception matters. Drill, baby , drill was killed by the incident—regardless of the truth.


14 posted on 12/08/2011 10:00:37 AM PST by antidisestablishment (Our people perish through lack of wisdom, but they are content in their ignorance.)
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To: thackney

Only perception matters. Drill, baby , drill was killed by the incident—regardless of the truth.


15 posted on 12/08/2011 10:00:53 AM PST by antidisestablishment (Our people perish through lack of wisdom, but they are content in their ignorance.)
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Only perception matters.

Which is why, we should not roll over and stop pointing out the truth. It takes time to bring peoples perceptions back to reality and away from their preconceived imagination.

16 posted on 12/08/2011 10:03:37 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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Oil men are calling the next Oil Boom in Wyoming the NeoBakken. Deep drilling in Converse County is expected to produce another huge oil reserve.
17 posted on 12/08/2011 10:05:59 AM PST by BooBoo1000 ("Think for yourself")
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Drill, baby , drill was killed by the incident—regardless of the truth.

Tell that to anyone who has pumped their own gas in the last week.

We have more rigs drilling than ever before in North Dakota, and we're only part of the domestic energy picture.

Wherever the Federal Government holds the leases, they can control, but on private concerns they can do little to stop the continued exploration, exploration which accounts for the <2% unemployment in areas like Western North Dakota, and which accounts for tremendous economic activity wherever it is conducted.

Drilling in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico may be tremendously slowed, but we're doing our best to take up the slack elsewhere.

18 posted on 12/08/2011 10:22:38 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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Frack Here, Frack Now!

SAVE THE WELLS!

19 posted on 12/10/2011 8:28:54 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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I am not suggesting anything except that the Administration leveraged the DWH incident to unconstitutionally attack domestic oil production.

I thank God for people developing all our resources—especially when it is private development. I pray for the day when we are completely energy independent. The only reason it hasn’t happened is politics.


20 posted on 12/12/2011 4:30:33 AM PST by antidisestablishment (Our people perish through lack of wisdom, but they are content in their ignorance.)
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