Posted on 10/18/2012 10:02:45 AM PDT by raptor22
Energy Policy: Leases and production are down on federal lands, the EPA is waging war on coal, and as for building enough pipelines to encircle the earth, we'd settle for just one from Canada to the Gulf.
When President Obama, in responding Tuesday to Mitt Romney's chiding about failing to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, claimed that his administration has added enough new oil and gas pipelines to "encircle the Earth and then some," we felt a perfect response from Romney would have been, "You didn't build that."
In fact, energy companies have built some 55,000 miles of pipeline, including one from Canada, mostly requiring only state and local permits, and they have operated with an admirable safety record.
Keystone XL would be just as safe, creating 20,000 jobs up front. But Obama's blockage has been about catering to his environmentalist base, not reducing gas prices or creating jobs.
Keystone XL is part of Romney's plan for North American energy independence. As the Institute for Energy Research points out, Energy Information Administration (EIA) figures released last week reveal that the U.S. buys an average of 869,000 barrels a day of oil from the Venezuela of thuggish President Hugo Chavez.
The Keystone XL Pipeline, if approved, would bring almost that same amount of oil every day from our closest trade partner, Canada, to Gulf Coast refineries — the exact destination of Venezuelan crude.
Obama's pipeline whopper was not his only falsification of the facts Tuesday night.
Romney was exactly right that domestic oil and gas production is up only because of technology the EPA has fought to extract oil and natural gas from shale formations like the Bakken in North Dakota and the Marcellus centered in Pennsylvania.
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Drill, baby, drill ping
0bama is a pathological liar. Planned Parenthood doesn’t provide mammograms to women either.. And ETC! Lie, lies, liar! Romney was right about the coal, oil and gas cuts under 0bama too.
Obama also lied about coal employment and coal production. The U.S.Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Information Administration reported the following numbers, and those numbers indicate Obama lied when he falsely claimed coal production and coal employment went up since he took office in 2009.
Number of Employees
2009 86,195
2010 87,755
Percent Change -1.8
2008 Total U.S. Coal Production: 1,171,809 (Thousand Short Tons)
2009 Total U.S. Coal Production: 1,074,923 (Thousand Short Tons)
2010 Total U.S. Coal Production: 1,084,368 (Thousand Short Tons)
2011 Total U.S. Coal Production: 1,095,628 (Thousand Short Tons)
2010 8-Month Total 714,828 (Thousand Short Tons)
2011 8-Month Total 718,761 (Thousand Short Tons)
2012 8-Month Total 684,777 (Thousand Short Tons)
Correction for a typo error for the employment numbers,they got reversed....
Obama also lied about coal employment and coal production. The U.S.Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Information Administration reported the following numbers, and those numbers indicate Obama lied when he falsely claimed coal production and coal employment went up since he took office in 2009.
Number of Employees
2009 87,755
2010 86,195
Percent Change -1.8
2008 Total U.S. Coal Production: 1,171,809 (Thousand Short Tons)
2009 Total U.S. Coal Production: 1,074,923 (Thousand Short Tons)
2010 Total U.S. Coal Production: 1,084,368 (Thousand Short Tons)
2011 Total U.S. Coal Production: 1,095,628 (Thousand Short Tons)
2010 8-Month Total 714,828 (Thousand Short Tons)
2011 8-Month Total 718,761 (Thousand Short Tons)
2012 8-Month Total 684,777 (Thousand Short Tons)
No he is not. Obama is a liar, but he is doing it on purpose. The plan is that by the time you figure it out, the damage will be done. By that measure, Obama has been widely successful.
And you don't have a clue WHY he is destroying everything he touches. It's no longer a secret that he is destroying America, W H Y ?
Did it bother you when Obama vetoed the Keystone pipeline?
Did it bother you when Obama illegally attacked Libya?
Does it bother you Obama supports the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt? The MB is a terrorist organization. Does that give you a hint why Obama is destroying the USA?
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