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Why does the right suddenly pretend to care about workers and jobs? They care about "corporate welfare" and bible-ism. When they are not hating the gays, Muslims, blacks, Hispanics and trying to slash women's rights, that is.
The stupidity on tap in this forum is 200 proof. Almost every conservative I know works for a living. A conservative is someone who understands that sending money to tics on the ass of society doesn't help anyone but the tics.
Why does the right suddenly pretend to care about workers and jobs? They care about "corporate welfare" and bible-ism. When they are not hating the gays, Muslims, blacks, Hispanics and trying to slash women's rights, that is.
Unemployment benefits are creating jobs faster than practically any other program, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday.
Talking to reporters, the House speaker was defending a jobless benefits extension against those who say it gives recipients little incentive to work. By her reasoning, those checks are helping give somebody a job.
“It injects demand into the economy,” Pelosi said, arguing that when families have money to spend it keeps the economy churning. “It creates jobs faster than almost any other initiative you can name.”
More American Jobs lost...More domestic production shut down.
The EPA Continues to Feed The Speculators: Shell Oil Loses $4 Billion as They Abandon Drilling in The Arctic
(FOX News) Shell Oil Company has announced it must scrap efforts to drill for oil this summer in the Arctic Ocean off the northern coast of Alaska. The decision comes following a ruling by the EPAs Environmental Appeals Board to withhold critical air permits. The move has angered some in Congress and triggered a flurry of legislation aimed at stripping the EPA of its oil drilling oversight.
Shell has spent five years and nearly $4 billion dollars on plans to explore for oil in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas. The leases alone cost $2.2 billion. Shell Vice President Pete Slaiby says obtaining similar air permits for a drilling operation in the Gulf of Mexico would take about 45 days. Hes especially frustrated over the appeal boards suggestion that the Arctic drill would somehow be hazardous for the people who live in the area. We think the issues were really not major, Slaiby said, and clearly not impactful for the communities we work in.
The closest village to where Shell proposed to drill is Kaktovik, Alaska. It is one of the most remote places in the United States. According to the latest census, the population is 245 and nearly all of the residents are Alaska natives. The village, which is 1 square mile, sits right along the shores of the Beaufort Sea, 70 miles away from the proposed off-shore drill site
Energy in America: EPA Rules Force Shell to Abandon Oil Drilling Plans - FoxNews.com
More American Jobs lost...More domestic production shut down.
The EPA Continues to Feed The Speculators: Shell Oil Loses $4 Billion as They Abandon Drilling in The Arctic
(FOX News) Shell Oil Company has announced it must scrap efforts to drill for oil this summer in the Arctic Ocean off the northern coast of Alaska. The decision comes following a ruling by the EPAs Environmental Appeals Board to withhold critical air permits. The move has angered some in Congress and triggered a flurry of legislation aimed at stripping the EPA of its oil drilling oversight.
Shell has spent five years and nearly $4 billion dollars on plans to explore for oil in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas. The leases alone cost $2.2 billion. Shell Vice President Pete Slaiby says obtaining similar air permits for a drilling operation in the Gulf of Mexico would take about 45 days. Hes especially frustrated over the appeal boards suggestion that the Arctic drill would somehow be hazardous for the people who live in the area. We think the issues were really not major, Slaiby said, and clearly not impactful for the communities we work in.
The closest village to where Shell proposed to drill is Kaktovik, Alaska. It is one of the most remote places in the United States. According to the latest census, the population is 245 and nearly all of the residents are Alaska natives. The village, which is 1 square mile, sits right along the shores of the Beaufort Sea, 70 miles away from the proposed off-shore drill site
Energy in America: EPA Rules Force Shell to Abandon Oil Drilling Plans - FoxNews.com
How quickly the tide turns!
This from April 15:
RIGZONE - Shell Expects to Drill in Alaska's Arctic in 2012
My..how fast Obama and his cronies at the EPA work.
Brings to mind that I've been meaning to read this book:
Amazon.com: Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them (9781596985858): Steven Milloy: Books
Ahhhh. Poor little oil companies. We're making them wait until we're sure that they're not going to ruin everything again before we let them start extracting our resources from the ground while paying us a fraction of what it's worth.
Any oil company that doesn't have more than a year's worth of operating capital in reserve is in the wrong business. Oil drilling is speculation. Sometimes you win, sometimes you loose. Deal with it. Don't complain that the government won't let you start drilling until you have a safety protocol in place. That just makes you look reckless and makes me glad for the moratorium, because obviously you'd be out there risking another huge disaster otherwise.
Ahhhh. Poor little oil companies. We're making them wait until we're sure that they're not going to ruin everything again before we let them start extracting our resources from the ground while paying us a fraction of what it's worth.
Any oil company that doesn't have more than a year's worth of operating capital in reserve is in the wrong business. Oil drilling is speculation. Sometimes you win, sometimes you loose. Deal with it. Don't complain that the government won't let you start drilling until you have a safety protocol in place. That just makes you look reckless and makes me glad for the moratorium, because obviously you'd be out there risking another huge disaster otherwise.
according to the CRS in reality it has around 163 billion barrels. As Inhofe’s EPW press release comments, “That’s enough oil to maintain America’s current rates of production and replace imports from the Persian Gulf for more than 50 years”
You are an intellectually vapid individual.Ahhhh. Poor little oil companies. We're making them wait until we're sure that they're not going to ruin everything again before we let them start extracting our resources from the ground while paying us a fraction of what it's worth.
Any oil company that doesn't have more than a year's worth of operating capital in reserve is in the wrong business. Oil drilling is speculation. Sometimes you win, sometimes you loose. Deal with it. Don't complain that the government won't let you start drilling until you have a safety protocol in place. That just makes you look reckless and makes me glad for the moratorium, because obviously you'd be out there risking another huge disaster otherwise.
What context might that be? Why don't you explain it to the group....CNS news. The right news. Right now.
When it says right news, does that mean news for right wingers? Or does that mean they show you the right news, and not the wrong news? Don't want you seeing the wrong news. It might broaden your perspective.
Obama is clearly exporting our wealth in the form of subsidies to other nations' infrastructure creation because he hates America and wants it to fail. There is no other rational explanation. I'm sure that there is no context that is being ignored in that article.
Thus it perhaps falls to a friend of the US (i.e. me) to state that if the White House is in any way serious about impacting the economic Black Hole that is the burgeoning national debt, reinvigorating business big-time, creating real jobs and restoring ebbing national wealth, the best shot by a distance if youre American ... well, youre standing on it, or rather above it.
While love, spiritually speaking and in fiction, may make the world go around, it is energy and mostly hydrocarbon energy that actually drives it. As blockbuster thrillers sometimes put it, Who will tell the President?
Political pantomime
From over here, the lack of a comprehensive US energy policy and the incoherence of President Obamas political take on energy, reminds me of a pantomime I saw last Christmas, Aladdin. The cave is full of energy riches, but Emperor Obama or is it Wishy-Washy? refuses to allow the words open sesame to be spoken.
Senator Lisa Murkowski, Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and National Resources Committee, takes up the theme: As we debate ways to reduce gas prices and provide relief to American families and businesses, this report should be required reading for every member of Congress. How about for every American citizen too, Senator? Murkowski adds, For the sake of our national security, our economy, and the worlds environment, we need to explore and develop more of our own resources.
The Obama administration has made a conscious policy choice to raise energy prices, accomplished in good measure by restricting access to domestic energy supplies. So says Senator James Inhofe, a Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. He adds forthrightly, We could help bring affordable energy to consumers, create new jobs, and grow the economy if the Obama administration would simply get out of the way so America can realize its true energy potential.
Wow, heavy stuff. But then theres much to be heavy about.
While the US is often depicted as having only a tiny minority of the worlds oil reserves at around 28 billion barrels (based on the somewhat misleading figure of proven reserves) according to the CRS in reality it has around 163 billion barrels. As Inhofes EPW press release comments, Thats enough oil to maintain Americas current rates of production and replace imports from the Persian Gulf for more than 50 years
Energy Tribune- U.S. Has Earth
More energy production here in this country would bring in billions of dollars to state and federal governments and would also put 100s of thousands of people to work and lower gas prices. Obama doesn't care about these workers...
Seahawk becomes first Gulf of Mexico drilling company to file bankruptcy due to offshore drilling moratorium
The first off-shore drilling company in the Gulf of Mexico to declare bankruptcy has blamed the government-imposed standstill for a shortage of shallow-water permits following the summers massive oil spill. Texas-based Seahawk Drilling, the second-largest shallow-water driller operating in the Gulf, announced it had filed for bankruptcy Friday and would be selling its remaining assets to Hercules Offshore.
The asset sale through Chapter 11 is valued at $105 million.
According to the press release announcing the sale, the companys liquidity and revenue stream have been adversely affected by the dramatic slowdown in the issuing of shallow-water permits in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico following the Macondo well blowout.
Chief Executive Randy Stilley said that while the outcome is best for the companys stakeholders, I think it is important to note that Seahawk was forced to seek strategic alternatives only after an unprecedented decline in the issuance of offshore drilling permits following the Macondo blowout.
Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana called the bankruptcy an economic nightmare.
I have repeatedly said that the administrations excruciatingly slow release of oil and gas permits will cause job losses, Landrieu said in a statement. How many more rigs have to leave and how many more businesses have to close before it realizes the havoc the de facto moratorium is wrecking on the Gulf Coast?
Read more: Obama Drilling Moratorium | Gulf Oil Drilling Company Bankrupt | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment
More energy production here in this country would bring in billions of dollars to state and federal governments and would also put 100s of thousands of people to work and lower gas prices. Obama doesn't care about these workers...
Seahawk becomes first Gulf of Mexico drilling company to file bankruptcy due to offshore drilling moratorium
The first off-shore drilling company in the Gulf of Mexico to declare bankruptcy has blamed the government-imposed standstill for a shortage of shallow-water permits following the summers massive oil spill. Texas-based Seahawk Drilling, the second-largest shallow-water driller operating in the Gulf, announced it had filed for bankruptcy Friday and would be selling its remaining assets to Hercules Offshore.
The asset sale through Chapter 11 is valued at $105 million.
According to the press release announcing the sale, the companys liquidity and revenue stream have been adversely affected by the dramatic slowdown in the issuing of shallow-water permits in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico following the Macondo well blowout.
Chief Executive Randy Stilley said that while the outcome is best for the companys stakeholders, I think it is important to note that Seahawk was forced to seek strategic alternatives only after an unprecedented decline in the issuance of offshore drilling permits following the Macondo blowout.
Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana called the bankruptcy an economic nightmare.
I have repeatedly said that the administrations excruciatingly slow release of oil and gas permits will cause job losses, Landrieu said in a statement. How many more rigs have to leave and how many more businesses have to close before it realizes the havoc the de facto moratorium is wrecking on the Gulf Coast?
Read more: Obama Drilling Moratorium | Gulf Oil Drilling Company Bankrupt | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment
You are an idiot.
"We" don't have any oil. The rights to drill "our" oil are leased to corporations mostly multinational and the oil is sold on the open market to the highest bidder. The high cost at the pump is a direct result of record profit taking by the refineries. But you don't really care about facts do you? 370 million in profits a day sparky last qtr.. Supply is not the problem..it is production regulated at the refineries. But don't let that slow down your bullshit. The more people that are miss-informed the better for your overlords.
More energy production here in this country would bring in billions of dollars to state and federal governments and would also put 100s of thousands of people to work and lower gas prices. Obama doesn't care about these workers...
Seahawk becomes first Gulf of Mexico drilling company to file bankruptcy due to offshore drilling moratorium
The first off-shore drilling company in the Gulf of Mexico to declare bankruptcy has blamed the government-imposed standstill for a shortage of shallow-water permits following the summers massive oil spill. Texas-based Seahawk Drilling, the second-largest shallow-water driller operating in the Gulf, announced it had filed for bankruptcy Friday and would be selling its remaining assets to Hercules Offshore.
The asset sale through Chapter 11 is valued at $105 million.
According to the press release announcing the sale, the companys liquidity and revenue stream have been adversely affected by the dramatic slowdown in the issuing of shallow-water permits in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico following the Macondo well blowout.
Chief Executive Randy Stilley said that while the outcome is best for the companys stakeholders, I think it is important to note that Seahawk was forced to seek strategic alternatives only after an unprecedented decline in the issuance of offshore drilling permits following the Macondo blowout.
Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana called the bankruptcy an economic nightmare.
I have repeatedly said that the administrations excruciatingly slow release of oil and gas permits will cause job losses, Landrieu said in a statement. How many more rigs have to leave and how many more businesses have to close before it realizes the havoc the de facto moratorium is wrecking on the Gulf Coast?
Read more: Obama Drilling Moratorium | Gulf Oil Drilling Company Bankrupt | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment
You are an idiot.
"We" don't have any oil. The rights to drill "our" oil are leased to corporations mostly multinational and the oil is sold on the open market to the highest bidder. The high cost at the pump is a direct result of record profit taking by the refineries. But you don't really care about facts do you? 370 million in profits a day sparky last qtr.. Supply is not the problem..it is production regulated at the refineries. But don't let that slow down your bullshit. The more people that are miss-informed the better for your overlords.
Idiot?.....Umm genius. The harvesting of more oil no matter where it is sold increases the supply. Commodities exchanges by which the price of oil is set, do not care where oil comes from nor do they care who buys it. They bid the price based on supply vs demand vs the value of the US Dollar. The currency on which the price is based.
Intellectually you brought a knife to a gun fight. Nice move.
Who is the idiot now? You don't have to answer that.
Profit taking? Hey Einstein, once again you've exposed yourself. The refiners pay the same price as those companies that drill for the oil just as the shipping companies and pipeline owner pay to get the product to market.
Jesus Christ ,you are stupid.
