GOP Energy Blitz: Obama’s ‘All of the Above’ Disregards What’s Below
And Rep. Tim Griffin (R-Ark.) met with employees of a Little Rock pipe-manufacturing company that announced it was laying off 60 workers as a result of Obama’s delay of the Keystone XL pipeline.
“Not only are there the jobs of the pipeline, but there are also the secondary effects of the businesses surrounding the pipeline,” Griffin said.
And tomorrow, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) will join Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) and others on a trip out to a platform in the Gulf of Mexico, where lost jobs and runaway rigs have been the result of a permitting slowdown in the wake of the 2010 BP oil spill.
“Surely you won’t find oil if the federal government won’t let you,” Scalise told PJM.
McCarthy told PJM that he believes Obama booked his Iowa trip as a defensive move in response to the GOP energy blitz, which had been planned for months.
He said the country disagrees with the president’s policies. “If he’s truly for ‘all of the above,’ why did he do Keystone?” McCarthy said.
When asked about Obama backtracking on Keystone — approving a southern leg of the pipeline while vowing to expedite the approval process for the cross-border section — McCarthy said he didn’t believe Obama had repaired the damage from his original denial.
“I don’t think it’s worked for him,” the Majority Whip said. “The price of gas is still 100 percent higher. We need to have a real policy and this patching that he’s trying to do, with political photo shoots, doesn’t work.”
As the production increases cited regularly by Obama are on private lands, McCarthy noted on the tour that production has “fallen behind” on public lands. The Interior Department released a report last week complaining that too much of the public land leased by oil and gas companies was “idle,” but the congressman noted that the “complete opposite” is going on when producers on private lands aren’t so hamstrung by regulations.
“I think he’s doing that from uncertainty and the regulations that his agencies create,” McCarthy said of the report, adding that a substantial amount of land is walled off from development in the first place and the “permitting process takes so long.”
As Obama touted energy independence while pointing at wind turbines in Iowa — “the less oil we buy from other countries – the more jobs we create at home” — Republicans had already spent the day canvassing the country stressing that independence is right below our feet.
And as Denham noted, the GOP-controlled House has already passed bills promoting domestic oil and gas production and sent them to the Senate, where they gather dust in the chamber of Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.).
“This is an opportunity for the American public to say enough is enough,” Denham said.
The Blow and Glow president as far as energy production the blowing wind to generate electricity at least as long as the wind is blowing a good backup perhaps but a solution to other methods never, you can only harness it at certain conditions happens, and as far as the glowing sunshine the logistics and inefficiencies involved are not very reliable either and is only slightly better than wind energy which also kills birds and bats and possibly upsets the ecology and also looks ugly and is costly to maintain!
It is technology which sounds good as an idea but in reality doesn’t work. Using solar energy is kinda like trying to have a barbeque using a magnifying glass it just is plain stupid and won’t work as well as charcoal or gas ever. Obama is now funding magnifying glass manufacturers as another new stupid green job idea with taxpayers money…what a dope!
Solar and wind are just part of the solution. Coal, traditional gas and oil are going to run out eventually and we need to pursue and invest in other options and technologies to better equip us for that time and to prolong it. I look forward to the day when I pull up to a gas station and see regular gas all the way to B100 as fueling options.
In his “all of the above,” he just doesn’t believe about anything from below.
Fake emergency has been a central element in the decades long program to convert the nation to globo-socialism. Hilliary and Rahm said never waste a good emergency, but even they never talked about the great potential of fake ones. Energy is a political football that evokes class warfare, national self-denial, fake science and all the perverted gubmintal imperatives such science entails.
True, this fracking thing is a curveball they didn’t anticipate, what with all the production under private lands, but oh but wait, there’s a new emergency now, fresh off the press: fracking is causing tens of thousands of earthquakes. The activists have moved, evolved really, from a scenario of the world environment descending into chaos because of man-caused global warming (megastorms, rising sea levels, massive droughts and floods) up to a much better scenario: a sudden outbreak of seismic activity that could kill us all. It’s a better scam than global warming cuz with this new fake science program, the activists can point to seismographs instead of computer models. Ojective and numeric, no denier arguments will be brooked this time.
From what she’s said, the powerful Lisa Jackson ain’t gonna let America descend into a hell caused by profit hungry energy companies. That not only would mean mass suffering and fatalities, it would impede the country’s newly minted principle of economic justice, whatever that is.
Lets compare Obama’s record on investing in green energy with Bain Capital’s record shall we?
Statistics is a strange beast. The Obama says ‘we are producing more energy than ever since I was elected. More green energy.’ I remember when, in the 80′s, the news was that there was a better than 50% increase of AIDS among heterosexuals and fewer than a 6% increase among homosexuals. What wasn’t reproted were the actual numbers. 5 new heterosexuals (all drug related) and 3800 new homosexual were added to the ‘new’ cases of AIDS among the population. The Point? More jobs saved, more money per household, more cars built in America, more civil liberty, more transpaency, more jobs…etc. Statistics is a strange beast.
Elided factual information is the lifeblood of a well executed fictive reality. The stuff’s everywhere now, all around us, and has become more obvious of late, out of the closet, so to speak. Sure, the news entertainers can claim that they’re just bad at reporting, and hey nobody’s perfect. And they are bad at reporting facts, but the sum of what they let into the national consciousness has gotten to the point that even average people are starting to question whether there’s some motive behind all the confusion, and not the lack of air time to go into the full details of this or that. Next time you watch Bill O’Reilly run a segment on body language, a fake game show or a hard hitting piece on some criminal case, remember we are in the 24 hour news cycle now, and that we probably are better off not being told the real story.