The Obama administration is poised to ban offshore oil drilling on the outer continental shelf until 2012 or beyond. Meanwhile, Russia is making a bold strategic leap to begin drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. While the United States attempts to shift gears to alternative fuels to battle the purported evils of carbon emissions, Russia will erect oil derricks off the Cuban coast
Offshore oil production makes economic sense. It creates jobs and helps fulfill America’s vast energy needs. It contributes to the gross domestic product and does not increase the trade deficit. Higher oil supply helps keep a lid on rising prices, and greater American production gives the United States more influence over the global market.
Drilling is also wildly popular with the public. A Pew Research Center poll from February showed 63 percent support for offshore drilling for oil and natural gas. Americans understand the fundamental points: The oil is there, and we need it. If we don’t drill it out, we have to buy it from other countries.
We have the means to become energy independent and choose not to do so due to the destructive policies of the Obama Administration.
At what point does the deliberate destruction of The United States rise to a level high enough to be called treason?
scientists in Texas say they have found a way to convert coal into gasoline at a cost of less than $30 (U.S.) a barrel - with zero release of pollutants.
Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) announced last month that they have developed a clean way to turn the cheapest kind of coal - lignite, common in Texas - into synthetic crude. “We go from that [lignite coal] to this really nice liquid,” Brian Dennis, a member of the research team, said in describing the synthetic crude that can be refined into gasoline.
‘scientists in Texas say they have found a way to convert coal into gasoline at a cost of less than $30 (U.S.) a barrel - with zero release of pollutants.’
This is great news! Time to turn the 800 Billion Dollar faucet in the Middle East off. Time for the United States to become energy independent. NO EXCUSES!
Texas lignite coal sells for $18 a tonne. The coal conversion technology uses one tonne of coal to produce 1.5 barrels of crude oil. One barrel of crude produces 42 U.S. gallons of gasoline. In other words, $18 worth of coal yields 63 gallons of gasoline: 0.28 cents a gallon.
The Space Shuttle is being retired and Barack Obama has cancelled the Constellation program that was to be the Space Shuttle’s replacement. The cost, 23,000 jobs lost. The damage to ‘National Security’ is incalculable.
Barack Obama’s ignorance of the importance of space power is unbelievable. A paper published by the White House, A National Security Strategy for a New Century, October 1998 said the following…
Space has emerged as a new global information utility with extensive political, diplomatic, military, and economic implications for the United States. Unimpeded access to and use of space is essential for protecting U.S. national security and promoting our prosperity.
Let me repeat part of that..
‘Unimpeded access to and use of space is essential for protecting U.S. national security and promoting our prosperity.’
It’s already obvious to me that the President of the United States cares little for national security or the nation’s prosperity. He’s ruining everything else, might as well add manned space flight to the list.
If you want to read the importance of maintaining our dominance in space you should read this paper by Lt Col Mark E. Harter, USAF.
There is also a report on the incident from Chaplain Dr. Keith A. Robinson, Corps Commander of the Houston Regional Community Chaplain Corps - Air Tran Flight 297 Incident
This is not being covered in the Obama Press and there appears to be something here that merits further investigation. How it managed to get to Urban Legend so quickly makes me think someone wants to keep this quiet.
I post it here for your consumption, you will have to decide whether it is a legitimate incident or urban legend.
There seems to be some confusion among government officials on how to tell if the attack at Ft. Hood was a terrorist attack.
Here’s a simple test.
If the attacker yells “Allahu Akbar” then starts his killing spree it’s a terrorist attack.
It’s that simple.
Truth be told, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan had enough warning signs to raise a flag somewhere along the chain of command. The fact that he didn’t is a glaring example of political correctness run amok.
There is a big difference in how the Obama administration and the Bush administration fights terrorism. Under Bush’s watch the terror attack on Fort Dix was stopped before it happened however the Obama administration ignores evidence of an impending terrorist attack. Once the attack happens the Obama administration is in denial that it was a terrorist attack. They will never admit it.
They say it’s been 2,973 days since a terrorist attack on our soil. The attack on Fort Hood resets the clock to zero.
The Obama administration is going back to the pre 911 mentality of protecting America. God Help us!
I will tell you straight that I am not encouraged when intelligence officers who acted in the service of this country find themselves hounded with a zeal that should be reserved for America’s enemies. And it certainly is not a good sign when the Justice Department is set on a political mission to discredit, disbar, or otherwise persecute the very people who helped protect our nation in the years after 9/11.
There are policy differences, and then there are affronts that have to be answered every time without equivocation, and this is one of them. We cannot protect this country by putting politics over security, and turning the guns on our own guys.
We cannot hope to win a war by talking down our country and those who do its hardest work - the men and women of our military and intelligence services. They are, after all, the true keepers of the flame.
The Democrat and Republicans In Name Only, (RINO)s, have lost touch with the American People. They have become the political elite and We the People have become "fly-over country." I am not a Nazi, a terrorist, a member of the KKK, a racist, or a member of an angry mob. I'm not a birther, teabagger, truther or astroturfer. I do, however believe in the original intent of the Founding Fathers, the United States Constituton and the rule of law. I believe that Government should serve the People, not the other way around. I’m an American and conservative to my very core.
