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It’s About Time
It’s Day 70 of the Oil Spill Crisis: Finally we are taking help! From AP The United States is accepting help from 12 countries and international organizations in dealing with the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.The State Department said in a statement Tuesday that the U.S. is working out the particulars of the help that’s been accepted. The identities of all 12 countries and international organizations were not immediately announced. … Read entire article »
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Obama Isn’t Listening
While the Wall Street Journal tells us that confidence is waning in Obama, The Washington Examiner is telling us that Obama listens to no one, he just rolls on with his agenda. One headline might have everything to do with the other. Will Obama listen to anybody? Examiner Editorial June 24, 2010 There is a disturbing passage in federal Judge Martin Feldman’s Tuesday decision overturning President Obama’s six-month moratorium on oil and natural gas drilling in all … Read entire article »
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Clearly
Apparently Obama (some 63 days later) has put together a panel to investigate to oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. What I have noticed and what people are talking about is how few experts are on the panel, and how many are just like Obama in his energy policies. From Yahoo News The panel appointed by President Barack Obama to investigate the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is short on technical expertise but long on talking publicly about “America’s addiction to oil.” One member has blogged about it regularly. Only one of the seven commissioners, the dean of Harvard’s engineering and applied sciences school, has a prominent engineering background — but it’s in optics and physics. Another is an environmental scientist with expertise in coastal areas and the after-effects of oil spills. … Read entire article »
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Stop Sucking Up That Oil
From ABC News Eight days ago, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal ordered barges to begin vacuuming crude oil out of his state’s oil-soaked waters. Today, against the governor’s wishes, those barges sat idle, even as more oil flowed toward the Louisiana shore. “It’s the most frustrating thing,” the Republican governor said today in Buras, La. “Literally, yesterday morning we found out that they were halting all of these barges.” Sixteen barges sat stationary today, although they were sucking up thousands of gallons of BP’s oil as recently as Tuesday. Workers in hazmat suits and gas masks pumped the oil out of the Louisiana waters and into steel tanks. It was a homegrown idea that seemed to be effective at collecting the thick gunk. “These … Read entire article »
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Obama Surrenders Gulf oil to Moscow
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. From the Washington Times 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 … Read entire article »
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Pelosi Pork And Big Oil
While we consider big Oil and the price of gas (petrol)… Oh by the way, did you know that big oil companies DON’T control the majority of the oil, about 70 – 90% is owned by, guess what. GOVERNMENTS, depending how you count it. Now it all starts to make sense: Yet Big Oil is pretty small next to the industry’s true giants: the national oil companies (NOCs) owned or controlled by the governments of oil-rich countries, which manage over 90% of the world’s oil, depending on how you count. Of the 20 biggest oil firms, in terms of reserves of oil and gas, 16 are NOCs. Saudi Aramco, the biggest, has more than ten times the reserves that Exxon does. Those with misgivings about oil—that its price is too high, that reserves are … Read entire article »
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The Best Man for the Job…
is a woman. After being mayor and governor she certainly doesn’t have the thin executive resumé that is NoBamba & McSame . She actually RAN a city and a state where they haven’t. Now, I don’t ordinarily sing the praises of politicians, and I won’t start here and now, as people are people. We’re all imperfect and all will disappoint - being human and all. {I am not sure Obama knows that}. There are however, a few things to note and … Read entire article »
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Drill!
“You should be happy your gas is $4.00 a gallon, some of Europe pays twice that.” It is often said and yet there is an error in this logic. Much of Europe has an amazing connection of transport that makes cars unnecessary. Many can roam about comfortably and never own a car. In many cases, a car is pure luxury. This is not so where I live, and without the convenience of a metro or a bus route, I don’t have options other countries have. Yesterday, President Bush lifted an executive ban on offshore drilling. This doesn’t solve our problem however, as it is now put in the hands of our lazy, do nothing, democractic Congress. (Let’s not forget their leader Pelosi’s promise that the democrats had a plan to bring down … Read entire article »
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Forget Presidents, Vote the Democratic Congress OUT
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) makes the claim “Since George Bush got into office…[gas prices saw a ] 250% increase.” The truth of the matter is the day Democrats took control of Congress, January 4, 2007, gas prices averaged $2.33 per gallon, according to AAA. Today, the national average is $4.04 – a whopping $1.71 increase per gallon in less than a year and a half. Who is Barbara Boxer? She’s the brainchild of the Boxer Climate Tax Bill which was a deceptive piece of legislation that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell acknowledged would raise the price of gasoline at the pump BY ANOTHER $1.40 a gallon! Ok, so while you and me suffer at the high cost of gasoline, these democrats in congress can only think of ways to make it worse? They … Read entire article »
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Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay LESS
As the House passes bill to sue OPEC, (Is this the best those liberal democrats can do?), Oil hits $132 a barrel, and Obama tells us to do with less, Newt Gingrich emailed me with another thought: Drill Here Drill Now Pay Less He continues: Last week, liberals in Congress voted for the equivalent of a $150 billion tax increase. They voted to make your next trip to the gas station more expensive; to make your next airplane ticket more expensive; to make heating your home more expensive — even to make feeding your family more expensive. How did they do it? By voting to block environmentally sound production of U.S. energy in favor of continuing to be held hostage to oil from foreign dictatorships. Who’s to blame for our high gas prices? The oil companies? The … Read entire article »
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It’s Our Oil and We’ll Pump if We Want To
This picture shows President Bush with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, asking for higher oil output, and the King refused. He is allowed to say no. It’s their oil, and they can pump it if they want to. I have no problem with that. This is just another in a list of mistakes Bush makes in my opinion. Bush should be on the television talking to the American people about this problem. If Bush wants … Read entire article »
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17 Billion Dollars in Profits
I was behind a lady in a line of cars at BJ’s the other day, we were at the gas pump. I looked at her as she was filling her car, and if I wasn’t mistaken, she looked close to crying. Watching the numbers roll around and accumulate was obviously adding to her stress level. I didn’t even have to TRY to imagine what had her so upset. I wondered what she couldn’t buy, so she could fuel her car with gas. I tell this story as I read the headlines: BP PLC and Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Europe’s two biggest oil producers, posted forecast-busting first-quarter earnings on Tuesday thanks to record crude oil prices that are expected to bolster profits across the industry. Revenue at BP jumped 44 percent to $89.2 billion (57.1 … Read entire article »
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Food or Fuel?
If you read the news headlines at all, between the economy, housing crisis, and food issues, it’s all starting to sound like the Black horse of the Apocalypse. Consumer Confidence Falls to a 26 year low Many States Appear to be in a Recession UN secretary-general calls food price rise global crisis… Oil Prices Jump Oil shortage in UK ahead of strike: ‘Stations running dry’… STUDY: Oil prices to double in next 4 years… But it’s this headline that I thought was a no-brainer even when this started: PAPER: Gore Ducks, as Backlash Builds Against Biofuels… When they started to grow corn for the sole purpose of fuel, and even though I am no rocket scientist, I saw that as trouble. Forgetting for a moment that not all environmentalists are even sure that growing corn for fuel doesn’t consume … Read entire article »
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All Talk Pelosi
Apparently, “Nanny” Pelosi made a promise to reduce gas prices: In a press release dated April 24, 2006, Pelosi said, “Democrats have a commonsense plan to help bring down skyrocketing gas prices by cracking down on price gouging, rolling back the billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies, tax breaks and royalty relief given to big oil and gas companies, and increasing production of alternative fuels.” I think it’s time that someone pointed out that the price of gasoline has spiked $1.18 since Democrats took over in January and stands at $3.51. Indeed someone has. House Republicans. House Republican leaders on Tuesday challenged Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to release a plan to lower gas prices that they say Democrats touted when they were in the minority. “Two years ago this week, you stated that House Democrats … Read entire article »
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What Oil Buys
Having oil just seems to allow the world to look away and defend radicals to blow us up, each other up, and treat women (retarded and not retarded) like subhumans, that’s what I have concluded. Even though there is a promise of a 50 cent drop in price per gallon come this spring, no one should look away at such headlines. In Today’s Times Online: A 37-year-old American businesswoman and married mother of three is seeking justice after she was thrown in jail by Saudi Arabia’s religious police for sitting with a male colleague at a Starbucks coffee shop in Riyadh. Yara, who does not want her last name published for fear of retribution, was bruised and crying when she was freed from a day in prison after she was strip-searched, threatened and forced to … Read entire article »
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China and Cuba drills oil off the coast of Florida
While we in the U.S. weigh responsibly the environmental outcomes, and while doing so keeps us dependant on foreign oil, China has sealed a deal with Cuba to seize the opportunity to drill and tap into our oil reserves. At the same time, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who controls the largest oil reserves in the Western Hemisphere, is making deals to sell his country’s oil to China, oil that is currently coming to the United States. Meanwhile, a new left-wing populist regime in Bolivia has nationalized the natural gas industry, threatening to cut off supplies to the United States. The irony is that Chinese drilling could be even more of an environmental hazard since China is not as concerned about or equipped to deal with any potential ecological disaster as a result of … Read entire article »
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Top Keyphrase search: Diesel Secret Energy
Being a stats nut, when I learned that my host at PowWeb had free stats, I opted to run them and see what they were like. Now active for a full month in April, I decided to see which was the top keyphrase search for the whole of XerraireArt.com. It should come as no surprise I suppose; Diesel Secret Energy. With the headlines talking of little else but bad news regarding the price of oil, and our hurting wallets at the gas pump, I am not surprised that there is a newfound interest in alternative gasoline ideas. No doubt the search engines are leading these people to my past blog on this idea of Diesel secret energy - in fact, it comes up #1 on the google search engine. Where this blog isn’t totally … Read entire article »
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Nothing Could be Finer than to be a Refiner…
…in the morning…or anytime of the day! I will be the first to admit, I know little about oil, gas, refineries and such, but as we fill up our cars of late at the gas station, it just lends ourselves to get a little educated. Why on earth did two hurricanes increase the prices sky high? Is it true that someone is profiting, and much, from these disasters? Indeed, after watching the news this morning, Marc … Read entire article »
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Keep Your Eye on China
“When China awakes, it will shake the world.” - Napoleon Bonaparte One day last year, my children and I were deep in study of world geography. Before we would start on a new country, we would review some quick facts about each. (Population, capital city, military facts, main exports, etc.) Perhaps I was very naive when we hit the nation of China, and I saw the size of its military. Their population is well known, but I had no idea of their military size. I went back and forth from the US to China’s military stats and was very surprised! China population: 1,273,111,290 Armed Forces: Army: 1,830,000 Reserves: 1,000,000 Navy: 230,000 Air Force: 420,000 US population: 278,058,881Armed Forces: Army: 495,000 Navy: 388,760 Air Force: 390,000 Marines: 174,000 That was my first awareness of this county as something to take notice of – a nation … Read entire article »
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Don’t Get Mad, Get Diesel Secret Energy
There are a number of headlines across the country regarding people up in arms with the price of gasoline, some taking it to the point of filling their tanks and then driving off without paying. Where I agree that the dependency on foreign oil is and always has been crazy, making ourselves vulnerable to these oil rich nations, I always felt I had little knowledge on my own as to what to do about it. … Read entire article »
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Beauty, Nature & Oil
I love beauty and nature. I’m part artist and photographer, and definately one who appreciates the beautiful planet created for us. So when you see the headline Senate Votes to Open Alaskan Oil Drilling you can react a few ways. One of being totally against it, so as to not disturb Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or you can react very pro the idea, feeling we are far too dependant on foreign oil. Or last you can … Read entire article »
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