AMERICA’S COMBINED ENERGY RESOURCES ARE, ACCORDING TO A NEW REPORT FROM THE CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE (CSR), THE LARGEST ON EARTH. They eclipse Saudi Arabia (3rd), China (4th) and Canada (6th) combined – and that’s WITHOUT INCLUDING AMERICA’S SHALE OIL DEPOSITS and, in the future, the potentially astronomic impact of methane hydrates….
…The CRS estimates US RECOVERABLE COAL RESERVES AT AROUND 262 BILLION TONS (not including further massive, difficult to access, Alaskan reserves). Given the US consumes around 1.2 billion tons a year, that’s A COUPLE OF CENTURIES OF COAL USE, at least….
…. In 2009 the CRS upped its 2006 estimate of America’s enormous natural gas deposits by 25 percent to around 2,047 trillion cubic feet, a conservative figure given the expanding shale gas revolution. AT CURRENT RATES OF USE THAT’S ENOUGH FOR AROUND 100 YEARS. Then there is still the, as yet largely publicly untold, story of methane hydrates to consider, a resource which the CRS reports alludes to as “immense…possibly exceeding the combined energy content of all other known fossil fuels….”
…. While the US is often depicted as having only a tiny minority of the world’s 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 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….”
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/03/26/us-most-energy-resources-in-the-world-and-most-incoherent-energy-policy/
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=04212e22-c1b3-41f2-b0ba-0da5eaead952
Next time someone talks about “peak” oil or how we are running out of fossil fuels, remember what you’ve read here. America is the most energy independent country on earth, if only the left would let us exploit it.
Obama’s Energy Policies and George Soros
ARE BARACK OBAMA'S ENERGY POLICIES INFLUENCED BY HEDGE FUND BILLIONAIRE AND POLITICAL PATRON, GEORGE SOROS?
Abby Wisse Schacter, in the New York Post, notes that the OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IS CLAMPING DOWN ON OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT IN AMERICA (BOTH ONSHORE AND OFFSHORE) but is hell-bent on helping other nation's tap their resources and points out that such help is being showered specifically in New Guinea, of all places.
IT IS STARTING TO LOOK OBVIOUS THAT THE ADMINISTRATION DOESN'T WANT OIL EXPLORATION AND EXTRACTION AT HOME WHILE IT IS PROMOTING THE SAME EXPLORATION AND EXTRACTION ELSEWHERE -- specifically Brazil and New Guinea. "The Bureau of Ocean Management, Regulation, and Enforcement (BOEMRE) has assigned only six drilling engineers to process all permit applications pending in the Gulf of Mexico. While Michael Bromwich bemoans a lack of the staff necessary to speed up the process, he's sending his staffers to Papua New Guinea to advise its officials on ways to develop the country's offshore drilling infrastructure. A significant portion of the agency's budget is covered by fees, royalties, taxes, and rents from energy production, so curtailing drilling closes off cash flow too.
Others have commented on Obama's generosity regarding Brazil's oil wealth and how those actions might help George Soros.
BUT FOCUS SHOULD NOW TURN TOWARDS THE EXOTIC LAND OF NEW GUINEA…
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/03/soros_wins_under_obamas_energy.html
This dovetails nicely with the story right before it. We need to be exploiting our own energy reserves.
How Long Will U.S. Forces be Involved in Libya? White House Says Nobody Knows
The United States has been at war in Afghanistan for almost ten years, at war in Iraq for almost eight years and AT WAR IN LIBYA FOR NINE DAYS.
On “This Week,” ABC News’ Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper asked Secretary of Defense Gates HOW MUCH LONGER WE MIGHT BE THERE.
“Some NATO officials say this could be three months, but people in the Pentagon think it could be far longer than that. Do you think we'll be gone by the end of the year? Will the mission be over by the end of the year?” Tapper asked
“I DON'T THINK ANYBODY KNOWS THE ANSWER TO THAT,” GATES SAID.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/03/how-long-will-us-forces-be-involved-in-libya-white-house-says-nobody-knows.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Honest answers are hard to come by because they can be so unsatisfying.
Is NPR unbiased?
....ADVOCACY BEGINS WITH THE CHOICE OF STORIES TO COVER. When you cover the "controversial" Arizona immigration law with great attention and give very little attention to stories that reflect badly on immigrants, you exhibit bias even though no clear advocacy has been shown. OF COURSE, THE MEDIA WILL ARGUE THAT THEY COVER THE "NEWSWORTHY" STORIES. THIS IS CONVENIENT COVER WHEN YOU GET TO DECIDE YOURSELF WHAT IS AND ISN'T NEWSWORTHY.
Advocacy continues with the sources used in covering a story. YOU CAN STACK THE DECK BY CITING ONLY SOURCES THAT AGREE WITH YOUR POSITION. That level of bias is rather obvious and, frankly, not NPR's modus operandi. NPR tends to be quite scrupulous in including multiple sides of a story. When they run a story on gay marriage, for example, they will typically interview both advocates and strong opponents of the practice. At times they will tilt in one direction on their source list, but other times they will tilt in the other direction. Does this mean that NPR does not use a source list to advocate? Not so fast.
HOW MUCH DOES EACH SOURCE GET TO SAY? WHAT MATTERS IS EACH SOURCE ASKED TO SPEAK UPON? IN WHAT ORDER ARE THE SOURCES CITED? Is the source heard in his or her own voice, quoted in the reporter's voice, or paraphrased? All of these are questions that demonstrate ways to inject the "objective" reporter's position into the story. Several years ago, FAIR did a source-counting report in which they proclaimed NPR's news to be largely unbiased. Such a simplistic view of communication either reflects poorly on FAIR's abilities or their honesty.
SELECTION, EDITING, AND REPORTER TRANSITIONS PROVIDE A POINT FOR ADVOCACY TO ENTER A STORY. Without seeing the entire available information from which a reporter assembled a story, we cannot make a firm claim of fairness or bias, but neither can Bill Moyers.
ONE ADDITIONAL ENTRANCE OF ADVOCACY COMES IN THE QUESTIONS ASKED OF SOURCES….
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/03/the_bias_they_cant_see_the_npr.html
A good evaluation of NPR and how bias can get into news stories. In fact, the major problem the left has with Fox News is their choice of stories. Fox covers something the left would rather they not and force the other news sources to cover it as well.
Transparency?
Ahead of a congressional hearing this week on whether senior political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security have blocked the release of some documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act, A SERIES OF NEWLY UNCENSORED EMAILS INDICATE THAT SOME STAFFERS COMPLAINED FOR MONTHS OF INTERNAL "MEDDLING" BY OBAMA-APPOINTED OFFICIALS.
Obtained by The Associated Press under a FOIA request, THE EMAILS DESCRIBE "CRAZY" AND "BANANAS!" POLITICAL REVIEWS OF DOCUMENT REQUESTS, AND "CONSTANT STONEWALLING" AS FILES WENT TO HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY JANET NAPOLITANO'S POLITICAL STAFF AS PART OF THE PRE-RELEASE VETTING process.
President Barack Obama has said that federal workers should "act promptly and in a spirit of cooperation" to fulfill FOIA requests, and Attorney General Eric Holder has stressed that "unnecessary bureaucratic hurdles have no place in the new era of open government." But critics say that the administration has been bogged down by political interests in fulfilling document requests from journalists, watchdog groups and ordinary citizens.
In one recent instance cited by the AP…..
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/52033.html#ixzz1HtlvD3jB
So much for the most Transparent Government in history…
Transparency (part 2)?
The Obama administration failed to set up an "effective" communications system during last year's BP oil spill and THREATENED ITS OWN CREDIBILITY BY "SEVERELY RESTRICTING" THE RELEASE OF "TIMELY, ACCURATE INFORMATION," ACCORDING TO A NEWLY RELEASED REPORT COMMISSIONED BY THE U.S. COAST GUARD.
Quietly posted on the Coast Guard's website two weeks ago, the report offers the first major assessment of the federal government's communications efforts during the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
"Several layers of review and approval by the White House and (Department of Homeland Security) prevented timely and effective crisis communications and HINDERED THE COAST GUARD'S ABILITY TO ... (KEEP) STAKEHOLDERS INFORMED ABOUT THE STATUS OF THE RESPONSE," THE REPORT READS, adding that "accurate and timely messaging from the response organization improves transparency with the public."
Information centers in Houma, La., and Mobile, Ala. -- established by the Coast Guard in accordance with pre-set plans for major disasters -- WERE "EFFECTIVELY MUTED," THE REPORT READS….
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/28/slowing-bp-oil-spill-administration-slowed-flow-information-claims-coast-guard/
Rather than one of the most Transparent Government in history, it appears this is one of the least transparent governments in recent years.
Senate Dems, White House to offer $20B more in cuts; tensions rise
Senate Democrats and the White House on Monday were working to finalize a new counteroffer to the GOP on 2011 spending cuts.
The counteroffer would cut an additional $20 billion from 2011 spending on top of the $10 billion already cut by two short-term continuing resolutions enacted this month, sources close to the talks said.
http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/152131-senate-dems-white-house-to-offer-20b-in-spending-cuts
Considering this is .45% of the budget this isn’t much of an offer. If you are spending $50,000 per year and you are borrowing $16,000 of that amount and the bank told you that you have to cut your spending, this is the equivalent of offering to cut your spending by $222 per year. That probably wouldn’t impress your banker.
Who damaged the environment the most in human history?
Here’s a funny look at this question.
http://www.professorbainbridge.com/professorbainbridgecom/2011/03/the-worlds-worst-environmental-villan.html
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