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Given that we’re spending billions of stimulus dollars to rebuild our highways, it makes sense to think about what we’ll be driving on them. For years to come, most of what we drive will be powered, at least in part, by diesel fuel or gasoline. To fuel that driving, we need access to oil. The less use we make of our own reserves, the more we will have to import, which leads to a number of harmful consequences. That means we need to drill here and drill now. We rely on petroleum for much more than just powering our vehicles:...

Ramsey County health officials have come up with a novel way to prepare for what's called the novel H1N1 flu: Operation Big Shot. They're holding a mass vaccination drill called "Operation Big Shot" today to test their ability to immunize a lot of people quickly.

Northern Virginia Emergency Response System (formerly known as MMRS) Full-Scale Exercise WHAT: The Northern Virginia Emergency Response System’s (NVERS) – formerly known as the Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS) – upcoming Full Scale Exercise (FSE) will be held on Saturday, Sept. 26. This is the third in a series of three exercises. A tabletop exercise was held in April 2008, with a command post exercise held in September 2008. This full scale exercise will use the same scenario as the previous exercises – simulated multiple bombings in the region. All radio communications will clearly indicate that this is a training...

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Here is video of CNN's Jean Meserve explaining how they mistook a Coast Guard Training Exercise on the Potomac River in Washington D.C. today, for a real live-fire incident. Meserve explained they heard audio from the Coast Guard saying "10 rounds have been expended." There were boats on the river that appeared to be trying to evade the Coast Guard as well. Eventually, they got the word from the Coast Guard that it was a training exercise and no rounds had ever been fired. With the exercise coming on September 11, it caused quite a stir for about half an...

BP has announced the discovery of yet another huge oil field in the Gulf of Mexico. At the same time, communist Russia is ready to work with Cuba to begin drilling 50 miles offshore Key West in the Gulf, and China is negotiating with Canada for the right to develop the vast oil resources in Alberta. Still, the Obama administration has remained resolute in opposing U.S. offshore drilling, Jerome Corsi's Red Alert reports. Found 250 miles southeast of Houston, the Tiber well was found under 4,132 feet (.8 mile) of water and was drilled to a total depth of 35,055...

The fight over global warming and Canadian oil is heating up, and Minnesota, which gets 80 percent of its oil from Canada, is sitting on the griddle. A group of oil companies and big industries launched a TV and radio ad campaign this week to try to snuff out rules that might raise the cost of piping Canadian tar-sands oil through the Dakotas to refineries in the Twin Cities. Meanwhile, environmentalists on Thursday appealed a federal decision that allows construction of another major pipeline across northern Minnesota to bring in even more tar-sands oil from Alberta.

The US Department of the Interior is seeking comments from American citizens about drilling for oil. Except, they are not widely promoting comments from conservatives who understand that our historical reliance on foreign oil has greatly contributed to the collapse of our economy. Keep AMERICAN DOLLARS IN AMERICA! American Solutions will submit your comments to Secretary Salazar. Go to: www.yourenergyopinion.com and let government know, Drill Here, Drill Now!

A poster mentioned something on a previous thread that needs exploration. Why not drill and mine federal lands and use the profits to clean the national debts. There must be billions or even trillions in Alaska, the Gulf, and on other federal lands. We could clean up our debts and become solvent and not put us into default. End cap and trade and cut great deals with differnt companies. Oil, natural gas, timber, mining rights. There is a lot here. Why not use it?

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- Former and current U.S. officials say a CIA report details the U.S. agency’s threatened use of a drill and gun in the interrogation of an al-Qaida suspect. The unidentified officials said the report, due for release to the public next week, details how captured al-Qaida commander Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was threatened with a power drill and a gun by CIA interrogators in an attempt to procure information, The Washington Post said Saturday. The anonymous officials said he gun and drill were not used on Nashiri but placed nearby in an attempt to instill fear in...

With all do respect, Governor Palin’s point is rather simple: Why are we investing in and contracting with more foreign corporations & countries to provide energy for the US? The real reason is Øbama is the worst type of hypocrite which makes him dangerous and very anti-American. On-the-one-hand, he thinks he is attempting to appease the crazy environmentalists while supplying the US with more of its energy needs. 1st, with out a doubt the Brazilians will do more harm to the environment than any US corporation. 2nd, states like CA, ND, AK and others have large untapped oil reserves and...

PARIS — Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School will be the site of a National Guard riot control drill Thursday morning to prepare in the event of a panic over distribution of serum to treat the swine flu. The school on Route 26 at the Paris-Norway town line has been designated by state officials as a distribution site for the H1N1 flu vaccine. The drill is to prepare for a worst-case scenario should the serum have to be transported from Augusta and people rush to get it. On Thursday morning, four or five National Guard Humvees will travel from Augusta to...

FORT JACKSON, S.C., Aug. 4, 2009 – Army Command Sgt. Maj. Teresa King of the 369th Adjutant General Battalion has been selected the next commandant of the U.S. Army Drill Sergeant School. Army Command Sgt. Maj. Teresa King will become the first female commandant of the Army’s Drill Sergeant School in September. U.S. Army photo by Crystal Lewis Brown  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. When she assumes responsibility in September, the ceremony not only will be commemorating a new school leader, but also the school’s first female commandant. King, who learned of the selection in June, will replace Army...

"They" will also decide when healthcare is mandatory. A surgeon writes to Lew Rockwell: I am a surgeon in the Baltimore area. My main hospital decided to run a “Swine Flu Drill” for the employees and doctors over the last 2 days. Apparently, the general public was excluded because only hospital workers get swine flu. I am sure that the ability to coerce employees had nothing to do with it. All entrances were blocked by security and tables were set up with 3 nurses. People lined up and answered embarassing private questions regarding bowel habits and the like. They then...

Alaska editorial: Palin should decide to run Alaska or run for national officeStory last updated at 6/22/2009 - 9:30 am If it wasn't noticeable before, it is now painfully obvious: Alaska is no longer big enough for Sarah Palin. This became clear with the announcement of the partnership between ExxonMobil Corp. and TransCanada Corp. To be sure, this could be a big deal toward getting a prosperous Alaska gas pipeline built in the coming years. But the big question at the press conference in Anchorage June 11 to discuss the agreement was, "Where's Sarah?" In what could be one of...

The Gulf of Mexico contains very thick and concentrated gas-hydrate-bearing reservoir rocks which have the potential to produce gas using current technology. Recent drilling by a government and industry consortium confirm that the Gulf of Mexico is the first offshore area in the United States with enough information to identify gas hydrate energy resource targets with potential for gas production. Gas hydrate, a substance comprised of natural gas and water, is thought to exist in great abundance in nature and has the potential to be a significant new energy source to meet future energy needs. However, prior to this expedition,...

JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israel started its biggest emergency drill in the nation's history Sunday to prepare civilians, soldiers and rescue crews for the possibility of war, the defense force said in a statement. The five-day drill, nicknamed Turning Point 3, comes amid the nation's rising tensions with Iran. It will be conducted in public facilities, including schools, military bases and government offices. Students, soldiers and other civilians will practice how to gather at protected places during an emergency. Officials said the drill will include simulated rockets, air raids and other attacks on infrastructure and essential facilities, and use of weapons...

Energy: As administration officials tilt at windmills and talk of painting our roofs white, a real energy solution has emerged from the Arctic deep. So why has only Alaska's Sarah Palin noticed?Back in July, when IBD first interviewed the then-little-known governor, Palin emphasized developing Alaska's Chukchi Sea resources. Under those icy waters, it was then believed, was enough oil and gas to supply America for a decade. "It's a very nonsensical position we're in right now," Palin told us. "(We) ask the Saudis to ramp up production of crude oil so that hungry markets in America can be fed, (and)...

Drill, baby, drill? Shame, shame Three to 10 miles offshore exploration and drilling — the first oil spill from the Gulf onto our beautiful beaches will happen. All who voted for this should have to stand barefoot in oil and explain why they voted for this. It would make a wasteland on the Florida West Coast, for supposed profits in the distant future. Lillian Savage Bradenton Safe drilling OK I want to keep Florida’s beaches pristine, too. They are why I moved here! I also support offshore oil and gas exploration and recovery in a safe and environmentally responsible manner....

More Than 800 Responders Stage Ground Zero Emergency Drill NEW YORK (AP) ― It was an emergency drill, yet the scene of hundreds of firefighters, police officers and other first responders hustling around the World Trade Center site Sunday evoked the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. Firefighters carried oxygen tanks, hoses and heavy axes into an underground train station, while police and other emergency personnel helped those playing injured — all part of a large disaster response exercise at ground zero.

Sens. Hutchison, Bond & Vitter Introduce Provision to Expand OCS Production under FY ‘10 Budget Amendment will Add OCS Production as an Option in U.S. Energy Portfolio April 2, 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Hutchison (R-TX), Bond (R-MO), and Vitter (R-LA) today introduced an amendment to the Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 Budget to expand oil and gas production in the Outer Continental Shelf in order to minimize future gasoline price spikes and to help reduce our nation’s dependence on imported energy. Also cosponsoring the amendment are Sens. Roberts (R-KS), Inhofe (R-OK), Voinovich (R-OH), Wicker (R-MS), Brownback (R-KS), Cornyn (R-TX),...

President Barack Obama's first budget includes $15 billion a year for renewable energy programs and an ambitious plan to raise $646 billion from a carbon reduction proposal. "Because our future depends on our ability to break free from oil that's controlled by foreign dictators, we need to make clean, renewable energy the profitable kind of energy," Mr. Obama said Thursday morning. "That's why we'll be working with Congress on legislation that places a market-based cap on carbon pollution and drives the production of more renewable energy." The plan uses money from a cap-and-trade program — which would allow companies to...

The California budget deficit could go away easily if liberals removed some of its unnecessary environmental regulations. California holds deposits of many resources including oil and gas that could be leased to companies for over 50 billion dollars. Unfortunately, the elite are blocking those efforts with shrieks of global warming and the fear of more people using cars and depending less of public transit, not to mention fears of oil spills and all this mumbo jumbo about animal rights. (Which take precedent over the rights of human beings every time, especially if they are not yet born.) Rich liberals and...

Barack Hussein Obama will propose a massive business tax on greenhouse gases in his FY 2010 federal budget to be presented this week.The massive tax increase and power grab was buried at the end on article on Obama's forthcoming budget proposal in The New York Times:On energy policy, Mr. Obama’s budget will show new revenues by 2012 from his proposal to require companies to buy permits from the government for greenhouse gas emissions above a certain cap. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the permits would raise up to $300 billion a year by 2020. Since companies would pass their...

This is the winter of oil's discontents. It is the winter after oil prices whipsawed world markets. A year ago, when oil prices were on their way to all-time highs, wildcatters stampeded North Dakota land offices to search for unclaimed mineral rights in the oil-rich Bakken Formation. In summer, oil boosters slapped bumper stickers on pickups boasting of 'Rockin' the Bakken,' with its 4.3 billion barrels of recoverable oil. Now, with oil trading under $40 a barrel amidst a global recession, oil companies are pulling rigs from frozen farm and grazing land. But a small Twin Cities-based startup has a...

While everyone is distracted with the Pelosi Reid Obama artery–choking, cardiac arrest, Pork Barrel Spending Bill, congress is sneaking-ly trying to pass the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. Left-wing environmentalists are behind this bill to purposely undercut current progress toward affordable domestic energy. Essentially they will be stealing 300 million barrels of proven oil and 8.8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas from any future use.

California Rep. Henry Waxman said Thursday the environment and U.S. economy depend on congressional action to confront the threat of climate change. Waxman, chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, spoke as he opened Congress' first hearing on climate legislation. A group of 14 corporate

From a distance, it resembles any Arab village, complete with minarets, oriental architecture and narrow alleyways. But in reality it is the Tze'elim urban combat training zone in the western Negev. On Thursday, the largest police drill in Israeli history took place there. Seven thousand officers descended on the site to face a host of continuous simulations of mass Arab rioting, shooting attacks, hostage situations, attacks by extremist Jewish gunmen, and attempts by a mob of hundreds to break through a Gaza checkpoint. Police have received intelligence on plans for a mass push through a Gaza checkpoint, a senior Border...

THIS summer's cry of "drill, baby, drill" quickly faded once gasoline prices tumbled. Now that the price is below $2 a gallon again, many people want to abandon offshore drilling again. That would be a mistake. Gasoline will top $4 a gallon again if the politicians in Washington retreat into their cocoons once more. America must prepare for the next energy crisis now by passing legislation to enable drilling when the need arises. Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito is calling for Congress to keep the options open for offshore drilling. "The price drop - of course that's a good thing," she...

The Interior Department is seeking public comment on the possibility of selling oil and gas leases 50 miles or more from Virginia’s shore, an area that has been off limits along with most U.S. federal waters for more than 20 years. Randall Luthi, director of the Minerals Management Service, the agency that regulates offshore oil and gas activity, said today that the call for public comments as well as intent to submit statements on environmental impacts are the first steps in a “scoping process” for a lease sale tentatively scheduled for 2011. In July, President Bush lifted a presidential ban...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices jumped nearly 11 percent on Tuesday on signs Saudi Arabia had made substantial cuts in its crude exports and as global financial markets rallied. Saudi Arabia has reduced exports after OPEC agreed last month to lower output, according to trade sources, with some estimating the world's top exporter had cut shipments by around 900,000 barrels per day from a peak in August. U.S. crude rose $6.97 at $70.88 a barrel by 1:31 p.m. EST. London Brent crude was up $6.51 at $66.99 a barrel. Crude prices have plummeted from a record above $147 a...

Sue Here, Sue Now, is the liberal response to those who support immediate domestic energy production. Once the Totalitarian Trio of President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and Senate Leader Reid is in place you can be sure there will be no new drilling. The OPECkers must be giddy with glee as they look to November 4th. Sure, Democrats let the drilling ban expire, but it's already raining lawsuits citing protection of polar bears, beluga whales, jumping mice and any other excuse enviro-radicals can get their hands on. The Bush Administration has given ammo to the Dems by making dubious endangered species...

New song Drill Baby Drill Song. Video is lame but I needed one to put on youtube. Tell me what you think of the song. My co writing buddy is singing this one. Thanks

House Democrats will allow a quarter-century ban on offshore oil drilling to expire next week. Currently, drillers are banned from the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, but the moratorium on oil drilling will officially end when congress returns from its November recess. Republicans have made lifting the ban a key campaign issue after gas prices soared this summer, and President Bush lifted an executive ban on offshore drilling in July. The U.S. Department of the Interior estimates there are 18 billion barrels of oil in waters now off-limits.

President Cecil Roberts says the United Mine Workers is planning a brief work stoppage at a Consol Energy mine after what the union contends was an attempt to get miners to badmouth Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on camera. Roberts said the union will call the memorial period at Consol's Blacksville No. 2 mine next week. UMW contracts allow the periods, which halt production by allowing members a day off. Roberts says Consol allowed a National Rifle Association camera crew to ask UMW workers at the Monongalia County mine leading questions suggesting Obama opposes gun ownership. NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Republican congressional candidate Jay Wolfe, a businessman and former state senator from Harrison County, told Gazette editors Friday that he's been trying to get his opponent, U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, to agree to a public debate this fall, without success. Wolfe said Rockefeller also wouldn't debate him when the two ran against each other six years ago. Rockefeller won his third term in the 2002 election. "He wouldn't debate me six years ago. I sent him a letter asking him to debate [this year], but I have not received an answer." Wolfe has long been an opponent...

Nashville, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Aaron Tippin Official Website) - Like many Americans, platinum-selling recording artist, songwriter and producer Aaron Tippin is enduring the effects of high gas prices. Tippin's put his thoughts into music to pen "Drill Here, Drill Now," a song about how Americans truly feel and what we can do to help correct the problem. "I think we are all frustrated and I've seen how people are suffering," Tippin introduced. "It's severely hitting the blue collar, working class Americans-and those are the folks that have supported me throughout the years. It takes half a paycheck to cover the...

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution With Washington swamped by the crisis on Wall Street, U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss and his Democratic partner have pulled the plug on their bipartisan “Gang of Ten” energy bill until after the November elections. Chambliss phoned this evening with the news. But before the Senate adjourns next week, the Georgia senator said a revised version of the bill will be unveiled — one that will feature expanded territory for offshore oil drilling. Chambliss, a Republican up for re-election, had formed an alliance with Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) this summer. Support had grown from the original 10 senators...

ALLEN WEST F O R C O N G R E S S September 18, 2008 For Immediate Release: Ron Klein: Worthless on Energy, Ignoring the Economy (Boca Raton, FL.) Once again, the do-nothing Congress "rookie of the year", spent the day bragging about a worthless energy bill while Wall Street and the American tax payer suffered heavy losses. The Comprehensive American Energy Security and Consumer Protection Act (H.R. 6899) passed the House by a 236-189 vote total. "The American people are tired of Ron Klein and the cabal of status quo Congressmen in Washington focused on political gain instead...

Tonight on C-SPAN is the unfolding debate regarding the Democrat's proposed 290 page energy bill. This bill severely limits potential oil production and includes price increasing taxes as well as a limit on drilling closer than 50 miles from the coast.

I'm hearing disconcerting rumors that McCain is planning to endorse the so-called Gang of 10 16 20 energy legislation. That would be a huge mistake. In terms of its effect on the conservative base, supporting the Gang of 20's energy bill would be like McCain pouring a big bucket of cold water on the fire he started with the Palin pick.

** RALLY FOR ENERGY FREEDOM DAY** ***WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2:30PM*** ***CANNON TERRACE*** Speakers: Sen. Jim DeMint Rep. Jeb Hensarling Rep. John Shadegg Republican Study Committee Members AFP President Tim Phillips ATR President Grover Norquist NTU Vice President Pete Sepp **Others to be announced** Please encourage your staff and members to attend so we can send a strong message to leadership on the Hill and to the media. The rally will make a powerful statement that compromises and half-measures are unacceptable with the clock ticking down to an outright victory for American consumers. It will also give us an opportunity to...

"Buy American" What could be more simple and to the point? It goes right to the core of the union workers in states like Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. Let's drill here, and let's drill now.

WASHINGTON: Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives attacked a Democratic offshore drilling plan Friday for including a 50-mile coastal buffer that they said would leave untouched most of the 18 billion barrels of oil in waters now off-limits to energy companies. A Democratic drilling proposal expected to be taken up by the House next week would allow energy development access to waters 50 to 100 miles from shore along almost all the country's coastlines as long as a coastal state agrees to drilling off its shores. Waters off Florida's Gulf coast and a nationwide 50-mile coastal buffer would remain...

U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., joined a group of senators Thursday in a letter asking Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell to allow the Oct. 1, 2008, expiration of current bans on American energy exploration and production. The letter was authored by U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C. In addition to DeMint and Corker, the letter is signed by Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and 36 other Republican senators. "We need a balanced approach that will allow us to produce more energy here at home and use less, with a strong emphasis on conservation as we move...

View This E-Mail As A Web Page Unless we take immediate action, some conservative legislators may cave in and give up when it comes to giving the American people a measure of energy independence and relief from high prices at the gas pump. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid just played his trump card, which is the political equivalent of blackmail and extortion. Simply put, Reid is telling conservatives in Congress to give up on "drill here, drill now" ... agree to "sham" legislation that will increase your taxes and drive up your cost for gasoline at the pump ......

Never underestimate a politician's ability to wriggle out of a clear choice. So it is with the so-called "Gang of 10" energy plan that is becoming the political escape hatch for Members of Congress, especially those "green Democrats" who suddenly want to appear to favor more oil and gas drilling. The Gang of 10 compromise was released before the August recess by five Senate Republicans and five Democrats. The plan would at least allow drilling offshore of four states -- Georgia, Virginia and the Carolinas -- and in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. It would also allow modern seismic surveillance,...

Large and dangerous Hurricane Ike approaching the Upper Texas coast. Mandatory evacuations began in earnest Thursday as an estimated one million coastal residents headed inland. There were widespread reports of gas stations running out of fuel. The National Weather Service posted dire storm surge predictions of 20-25 ft storm surge along the coast and bay heads. Hurricane warnings covered a 400 mile swath of the Gulf of Mexico. Wholesale gasoline prices spiked 30 percent Thursday, or nearly $1 a gallon, out of fear of what Ike might do. Public Advisory Updated every 3 hours Discussion Updated every 6 hours Buoy...