Posted on 07/30/2012 5:53:58 AM PDT by raptor22
Energy Policy: Buoyed by White House inaction, China's state-owned oil company has made a multibillion-dollar bid for a Canadian company with interests in Canada's oil sands — North American oil for the lamps of China.
'Do we really want to be buying our oil or Canadian oil back from the Chinese?" asked Sen. John Hoeven on Thursday as he reacted to news that China's state-owned oil company, CNOOC Ltd., had launched a $15.1 billion takeover bid for Canada's Nexen Inc., a company with operations in the Gulf of Mexico.
Our answer would be no. But it may happen, thanks to the Obama administration's indifference to developing energy resources anywhere on the North American continent or building the Keystone XL pipeline linking Alberta's oil-rich sands to refineries on the Gulf Coast.
"This is really a direct result of the administration's resistance to Keystone," Hoeven said. Hoeven, a Republican, represents North Dakota, where oil production is booming. The pipeline would carry some of that oil to southern refineries, bringing up to 20,000 immediate jobs and perhaps 10 times that many in an economic ripple effect.
Hoeven was joined by Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell to unveil a package of energy proposals that would allow for more drilling on government-owned land, reduce regulations, streamline drilling permits and approve the Keystone XL pipeline carrying oil from Canada.
Prior to Nexen, CNOOC has made roughly $6 billion in smaller acquisitions in recent years. It has most notably hooked up with Chesapeake Energy for a joint venture in the Eagle Ford Shale formation in Texas, and with Norway's Statoil in the Gulf of Mexico, an area where the Obama administration has placed draconian restrictions on U.S. drilling.
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Sen Schumer and Rep Peloski: Oops! That was not supposed to happen. That oil belongs to us! How dare the Canucks!
Only if 0bama benefits.
> Do We Want To Buy Canadian Oil From The Chinese?
WE don’t, but 0bama and his fellow travelers do.
No, but it will be far better buying it from the Chinese than not being able to buy it at all. At least the Chinese communists are interested in production, unlike our native communists.
Obama wants to buy oil from China and so do Moochell, Malaria and Sasha.
Bottom Line: Obama and the progressives do not want us to have unlimited supply of carbon-based energy, because we will continue to use it.
They will do everything they can to reduce the availability of carbon-based energy, with the goal of us developing other more expensive sources.
They do not understand that we need to do both: 1) continue to develop and use carbon-based energy sources, and 2) endeavor to make non-carbon-based energy sources more economical and competitive with carbon-based sources.
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