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To: tejek who wrote (639210)	12/13/2011 11:59:42 PM
From: i-node	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578937

>> And aren't you tired of the imbalance in our imports/exports which benefit the ME oil countries and screws the US? And why is that? Because the US has to fight its own liberal base to produce the oil it has. We could very well be producing MORE OIL than Saudi Arabia within five or ten years. But we have an Obama administration throwing up roadblocks to it at every turn. Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing combined threaten to dramatically reduce our dependency on imported oil over the coming decade. But the Obama administration is cranking out FALSE REPORTS of drinking water contamination in an effort to stop it. We have a glut of natural gas so big that prices have dropped to a point that producers hardly see it as worthwhile; what were going to be import terminals for natural gas are now being scrapped in favor of building export terminals. Yet, we have no energy policy that would encourage, even by giving lip service, to the idea of using natural gas in lieu of oil. Natural gas producers are having to sell off their leaseholds because gas is so cheap. The president is standing in the way of building a pipeline for the US to have access to Canadian resources, preferring, I suppose, to buy oil from the Saudis in the meantime. He does so stupidly -- I might add -- since it would create thousands of "shovel ready" jobs, it would pose a far lower risk of environmental catastrophe than the tanker shipments to China that will occur if the pipeline isn't built. And instead of buying crude from Canada, we'll continue buying it from Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. And in a total over-reaction to the Gulf Spill, we still have thousands of unemployed roughnecks who have stood by and watched their jobs float away to other nations with more sensible leadership. Jobs that won't be coming back which would have produced oil we'll now have to buy from unfriendly suppliers. It is YOUR IDIOT-ASSED president causing the problem, Ted.

To: tejek who wrote (639210)	12/14/2011 9:58:25 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1578937

build the pipe line then

To: tejek who wrote (639210)	12/14/2011 10:29:40 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578937

Confusion Follows Claim That Corzine Knew of Funds Transfer By BEN PROTESS and AZAM AHMED During a Senate hearing, Terrence A. Duffy, head of the CME Group, appeared to contradict Congressional testimony by Jon S. Corzine, MF Global’s former chief.

To: tejek who wrote (639210)	12/14/2011 10:30:21 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578937

To: tejek who wrote (639210)	12/15/2011 3:06:26 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1578937

Obama’s Cronyism Compromises National Security by John Hinderaker POWERLINE For Barack Obama, governing is all a matter of payoffs: it’s the Chicago Way. The latest Obama administration scandal shows that when it is a choice between cronyism and national security, cronyism comes out on top. Investors Business Daily explains: SolyndraGate was no isolated case of corrupt government misspending. The U.S. Navy was just forced to buy 450,000 gallons of biofuels from an Obama-connected firm at an outrageous $16 per gallon. … Now we find the Navy partnering with the Agriculture Department to purchase hundreds of thousands of gallons of alternative biofuel in place of standard JP-5 fuel for Navy aircraft — the biggest federal purchase of biofuel ever. It’s part of the White House’s “we can’t wait for Congress” strategy as the 2012 election year looms. But JP-5 typically costs less than $4 a gallon. If a family on a budget started filling up with $16-a-gallon gas, it might want to adopt the motto, “we can’t wait to go broke.” A look at the lucky seller of this environmentalist version of the proverbial $600 Pentagon toilet seat indicates that the move is not just wasteful, but ethically suspect. As J.E. Dyer noted over the weekend on the Hot Air Green Room, “a member of Obama’s presidential transition team, T. J. Glauthier, is a ‘strategic advisor’ at Solazyme, the California company that is selling a portion of the biofuel to the Navy. Glauthier worked — shock, shock — on the energy-sector portion of the 2009 stimulus bill.” Solazyme had already gotten a nearly $22 million chunk of change out of the taxpayers thanks to the 2009 stimulus. We heard the ludicrous excuse last week from Obama Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, as quoted in the National Journal, that “we are doing this for one simple reason: It makes us better fighters” because “our use of fossil fuels is a very real threat to our national security and to the U.S. Navy ability to protect America and project power overseas.” What about the “very real threat” to the Navy of not having enough money for the ships, fighters and ammunition it needs to protect America? President Obama’s assault on the Pentagon could scrap 60 of the Navy’s ships, including two carrier groups. So the extra money that Obama diverts to enrich his inefficient “green energy” providers will contribute to the demise of our naval fleet. This really is an outrage. The Obama administration is all about stealing from the efficient to enrich the inefficient, as long as the inefficient are Democratic Party supporters–which, not surprisingly, they generally are. But here, Obama has carried cronyism to the point of endangering national security. Under the thumb of the Obama corruptocracy, the Navy has announced that it will largely transition to “alternative energy.” Michael Ramirez was all over this in a matter of hours: From “We have not yet begun to fight” to “We may be ineffective, but we’re green!” That is the Obama legacy.