Posted on 10/29/2012 12:21:12 AM PDT by bruinbirdman
>>>>”Besides which, fracking destroys the environment!”
Sarc!
A number of years ago, the US flipped the bird to Europe and Asia regarding the Kyoto Protocols on “global warming” and reducing the so-called “carbon footprint” (CO2 emissions) of the signatories. Guess what? The US — which is NOT a signatory — has reduced its CO2 emissions more than any country in the EU; conversely, the countries in the EU that are signatories, have increased their own CO2 emissions!
I believe the “carbon footprint” mantra is nonsense anyway; but it’s interesting to see the reaction of lefty environmentalists who are concerned about such things when you tell them the US’s carbon footprint has fallen dramatically precisely because of a new technology that they are protesting against.
Actually, it’s even worse than *that* for the Euros. Much of their continent is already dependent on natural gas sent in from Russia for winter heating. Russia doesn’t need the Middle East at all, and the Euros may decide better Red than dead (because they have no military to ensure their energy supply from the Middle East) and essentially become client states in a new Russian economic empire.
I don’t think those windmills can spin fast enough to get them out of the hole they are jumping into.
Liberalism has very little to do with reality.
It's all about an agenda. <
And there are the "useful idiots", the "true believers"...and the power structure that uses them.
I’m sure Obama’s EPA already has plans to but the brakes on any American comeback from this source.
Re: New Obama EPA rules - I guess even when Romney gets elected Obama STILL has almost 3 months to empty his bowels of all the crap he has built up.
Thanks for posting
Here is something FR’s can use and pass around in support for their conservative senatorial and congressional candidates
Let’s Get Fracking..
We have the sand * and oil and gas lay deep within our land.
Elect(insert candidate name and district) Ray Boland to Wisconsin’s Congressional 3rd district with US he ‘ll stand.
No forward progressive against progress toward energy independence but a conservative who believes in America and its greatness. He will fight the federal delays, restrictions, and prohibitions on coal, oil, and gas, exploration, extraction, and use ordered by Obama and supported by democrats like (insert names) Baldwin and Kind which has resulted in semiloads full of dollars of cost and waste, hurting everybody epecially those on fixed incomes dealing with double and tripple cost increases rapidly contributing to a collapsing economy.* (if this applys to your area personalize it)Note All of Adams county is ln the 3rd Congressional district and loaded with fracking sand.
VOTE NOV 6TH FOR ( INSERT NAME)
LETS GET CRACKING AND DO SOME FRACKING AND GET OUR OWN GAS AND OIL
Low energy prices, low regulatory burdens and low taxes are the winning trifecta.
Romney could simply cripple the EPA, et al. by demanding that Congress approve all the regs.
I remember a bumper sticker from Houston in the 80’s
” Lord if we have another oil boom I promise not to piss it away this time”
Build the Keystone pipeline and another 600,000 barrels/day of secure oil will flow into America. Keystone will pass through the Bakken field and get that oil to market also.
Energy is needed to produce and transport virtually every good and service. North America has a comparative advantage in energy and that advantage is growing daily.
Elect Romney and America will be saved from poverty by the wealth beneath your feet.
That is a fantasy hope not based in reality.
The want to compare to Saudi Arabia, but neglect to point out that most of Saudi's output is crude oil. Our current crude oil output, with all the expansions into shale, is 6.27 mmbpd.
http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MCRFPUS2&f=M
All this wonderful oil and gas production despite Obama’s green obstructionism.... Imagine how this will play out with a fair president. The straight shooter Mitt Romney
“Just because you are raking in revenue now is no reason to spend like a drunken sailor.”
Thank you, Sir!
You are exactly right. An increase of that nature in the national production wealth would create tax revenues that should be used to pay off debt, trim government and build savings. The ultimate goal should be to get government out of the way of private business so that private business can earn income from their endeavors.
It’s our Ace in the hole. Assuming Obama doesn’t foul things up.
“EPA laws”
EPA, probably the most effective tool obama has used to crush private enterprise can be erased with the stroke of a pen - the whole agency!
It was created by Nixon with an exec order, it could be eliminated the same way. I hope Mitt has the guts to do it.
The envro-whackos would go nuts.
For those who want to see a short 6 minute video showing how horizontal drilling and fracking is done Northern Gas and Oil has done a great video.
This includes a piece on how groundwater contamination is avoided: http://www.northernoil.com/drilling
Knowledge is power, keep the link and pass it on.
I would just send a memo around to the effect that anyone in the EPA who has written or assisted in writing a regulation in the last four years has seven days to resign or retire.
Then I would assign all EPA enforcement actions to the individual States by Executive Order.
Then I would cut their budget to 10% of the 2008 level.
That way, really serious matters could still be addressed.
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