At least one of the reasons is sitting in the Oval Office (at least part of the time), and he thinks a lot smarter than you or me. He Descended from Olympus as Lightworker Genius, and set about to right all the wrongs in America. This included shackling the energy industry at every turn, and extolling the virtues of windmills and solar power (even though those sources will provide AT MOST 15% of our energy needs by 2035). That’s right – it’s Barack Obama, genius – on the order of Wile E. Coyote. Aside from paying for the gas and mortgages of about 51% of the population with money stolen from the other 49%, he’s busy wrecking the American economy with “shovel ready” porkulus projects, and Government Motors Chevy Dolts.
That he’s influenced by the eco-idiot lobby is not even in question, but to ignore information like this from the Congressional Research Service is sheer lunacy.
In case anyone missed it, let me repeat something that is of a magnitude of 10 on the scale of news-quakes for Joe Public USA: 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 energy facts in the CRS report should be making front page news all over America. Mostly it isn’t. Given the devastating news from Japan and New Zealand, it may be right to postpone dancing in the streets. But something else is going on. Even though they are going to dominate global energy supply for decades to come the insidious war on vital fossil fuels continues apace.
Thus it perhaps falls to a friend of the US (i.e. me) to state that if the White House is in any way serious about impacting the economic Black Hole that is the burgeoning national debt, reinvigorating business big-time, creating real jobs and restoring ebbing national wealth, the best shot by a distance if you’re American … well, you’re standing on it, or rather above it.
The amount of natural gas we’re sitting on is immense, almost unfathomable. Yet President dufus and his cabinet of pointy-headed junior wizards are dithering about, contemplating windmills, solar panels, and their own navels.
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.” According to the Inhofe’s
EPW, “For perspective, if just 3 percent of this resource can be commercialized … at current rates of consumption, that level of supply would be enough to provide America’s natural gas for more than 400 years.”
It seems at the least that we must oust the current regime in the next election cycle if we are to have even a chance of reversing the senseless course that the Obamabots are pursuing. Even then, there are enough Republicans currently in office that have been brainwashed by the eco-bullsh*t lobby, that we still might not be able to pursue in earnest a program to fully exploit all the resource wealth we’re currently sitting on. The American people need to educate themselves, and seek out reliable information about our energy resources. They need to know, as the author states in his closing, that windmills and solar panels aren’t going to get it done for a long time. They also need to know about Europe’s experience with so-called “green energy” programs has been disastrous. Anybody who thinks otherwise is deluding themselves. Take, for instance, California (please, take it) that has just pointed the eco-gun at their own head and pulled the trigger.
With hundreds of thousands depending on oil and gas drilling for work, it is as yet unknown just how many of Obama’s policies are putting people out of jobs – and preventing the creation of new ones. What we do know however, is that ‘green’ jobs in the alternative energies industries just aren’t cutting the employment ice. In mid-March, anew study by Verso Consultancy estimates that for every new green job created by diverting public money into renewable energy projects in the UK, 3.7 British jobs were destroyed.
Meanwhile US energy policy persists in pursuing the myth that renewables are the economically viable future, with fossil fuels already, as the president said in January, “yesterday’s energy”. With 85 percent of global energy set to come from fossil fuels till at least 2035 no matter what wishful thinkers may prefer, current US energy policy – much like European – is pure political pantomime.
Read the whole thing at Energy Tribune – there’ more useful information, and some great charts that show just how much energy resource we have available, if we’ll just quit monkeying around, and start using them.
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