Obama on the ropes, California environmentalists stymied.....
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1. "Boom: California greens try, fail to pass a fracking moratorium
2. .... an especially interesting and kind of epic piece of news from a state thats home to some of the largest, most cultishly do-or-die green interests in the country and a legislature currently dominated by a liberal supermajority.
3. .... enough of Californias legislators are at least somewhat tuned in to the economic realities of hydraulic fracturing, and enough so to thwart the often overwhelming clout of the states many eco-lobbies.
4. At the moment, California is the fourth-largest oil producing state in the union, but production has been steadily declining while the state has been dropping plenty of cash on forcibly integrating wind and solar into their energy grid.
5. 'Democratic leaders brought their fracking moratorium bill to the Assembly floor last week, and their rank and file revolted. The bill lost 37-24, with 12 Democrats joining 25 Republicans to defeat it. Another 18 Democrats abstained, and its a good bet they were no votes who didnt want to publicly cross their leadership.'
6. 'This was a rare rout of the Sierra Club and other greens that denounce fracking for polluting water and inducing earthquakes, among other horrors.'
7. A study by University of Southern California scientists funded by the oil industry estimates fracking would deliver 500,000 jobs over the next several years and $24.6 billion in state and local tax revenue in 2020 alone. If those numbers are even close to accurate, drilling could be a financial salvation for a state that has $167.9 billion in long-term liabilities .
8. Expect to continue to see the eco-zealots continuing to work their tailfeathers off impose deliberately onerous regulations on hydraulic fracturing and to sue oil and gas companies for various offenses, real or imagined,....
9. ....the natural gas that could come out of increased hydraulic fracturing is one of the most effective and economical methods weve yet discovered for reducing the carbon emissions they claim to loathe so much."
Boom: California greens try, fail to pass a fracking moratorium « Hot Air
Folks are waking up to the threat posed by the eco-fascists.
The sky is blue!
1. "Boom: California greens try, fail to pass a fracking moratorium
2. .... an especially interesting and kind of epic piece of news from a state thats home to some of the largest, most cultishly do-or-die green interests in the country and a legislature currently dominated by a liberal supermajority.
3. .... enough of Californias legislators are at least somewhat tuned in to the economic realities of hydraulic fracturing, and enough so to thwart the often overwhelming clout of the states many eco-lobbies.
4. At the moment, California is the fourth-largest oil producing state in the union, but production has been steadily declining while the state has been dropping plenty of cash on forcibly integrating wind and solar into their energy grid.
5. 'Democratic leaders brought their fracking moratorium bill to the Assembly floor last week, and their rank and file revolted. The bill lost 37-24, with 12 Democrats joining 25 Republicans to defeat it. Another 18 Democrats abstained, and its a good bet they were no votes who didnt want to publicly cross their leadership.'
6. 'This was a rare rout of the Sierra Club and other greens that denounce fracking for polluting water and inducing earthquakes, among other horrors.'
7. A study by University of Southern California scientists funded by the oil industry estimates fracking would deliver 500,000 jobs over the next several years and $24.6 billion in state and local tax revenue in 2020 alone. If those numbers are even close to accurate, drilling could be a financial salvation for a state that has $167.9 billion in long-term liabilities .
8. Expect to continue to see the eco-zealots continuing to work their tailfeathers off impose deliberately onerous regulations on hydraulic fracturing and to sue oil and gas companies for various offenses, real or imagined,....
9. ....the natural gas that could come out of increased hydraulic fracturing is one of the most effective and economical methods weve yet discovered for reducing the carbon emissions they claim to loathe so much."
Boom: California greens try, fail to pass a fracking moratorium « Hot Air
Folks are waking up to the threat posed by the eco-fascists.