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Obama's Interior Department Still Going Rogue

shubi_ Wrote: Jul 13, 2012 12:36 PM
Notice the trolls and the Obamunists never mention when oil companies lose money when they drill an empty hole or when the price of oil drops below the cost of production or when refinery operations are unprofitable.
Colrichardson Wrote: Jul 14, 2012 11:42 AM
I love your term, " obamunist" . Henceforth I will abandon the term, " Obamao" and use it.
James_Offshore Wrote: Jul 13, 2012 12:42 PM
Shubi, that's because they are tax-payer subsidized. Don't you know anything!
arpiem Wrote: Jul 13, 2012 2:19 PM
They're not subsidized, although both ethanol producers and corn growers are. How's that ethanol working out, by the way, what with having to truck it by rail because of its corrosive qualities? Oh, that's right, it blew up when a train derailed. . .
inkling_revival Wrote: Jul 13, 2012 2:23 PM
Don't get us all started on ethanol. What a joke! And our good friend, George W. Bush, was taken in by it.

Poor people in the 3rd world are having to do without food because of the price impact of US ethanol policy. I do love how the progressives protect the poorest among us...
Reginald10 Wrote: Jul 13, 2012 3:43 PM
"Truck it by rail"

By RAIL? Really?

Ship it, by rail, I think you mean. And if it were loose on the highways, you'd have 10x the shipments, with probably 10x the accidents, all in places with lots of people. Railroads don't let people on their right-of-way much.
James_Offshore Wrote: Jul 13, 2012 5:37 PM
That was a bit of sarcasm bud.
jripp Wrote: Jul 14, 2012 5:30 AM
The only subsidies oil companies get are tax deductions!!

The Obama administration's loathsome cowboy, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, won't take no for an answer. He's been smacked down repeatedly by federal courts for imposing a draconian, junk science-based moratorium on the oil and gas industry. Yet, the job-killing zealot and his boss just introduced another ruinous offshore drilling ban two weeks ago.

The White House rationale for the renewed crackdown? Because we said so.

Thomas Pyle of the D.C.-based Institute for Energy Research reports that the Salazar scheme "reinstitutes a 30-year moratorium on offshore energy exploration that will keep our most promising resources locked away until long...

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