Friday, October 24, 2008

Is this a Game Changer, with 10 days to go?  How you can help.

by TheTruthSquad

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Sunday, October 5, 2008

Veep Debate Fallout #1:  “AMTRAK Joe” Lied About His Stance on Clean Coal

by Charles W. Fairbanks

During the Veep debate, “AMTRAK Joe” tried to deflect Sarah’s criticism of his energy policy by obscuring the issues.  Make no mistake, the Obama-Biden team would, if elected, have to answer to their environmental extremist buddies, and other special interests that oppose development of American energy sources.  Obama and “AMTRAK Joe” oppose true efforts at American energy independence.

During the Vice Presidential debate, Sarah Palin accomplished several things.  For one, she proved that she could go toe-to-toe with career politician, “AMTRAK Joe” Biden.  Sarah forced “AMTRAK Joe” into several “mistakes” by confronting him with his record.  She forced his hand on energy independence by bringing up his September 17, 2008 comments in Marmee, Ohio that Obama-Biden would not allow coal electricity plants in America.

America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.  We have vast coal reserves.  Over the past one hundred years, we have developed clean coal technology.  Clean coal technology is clean enough that the environmentalist Sierra Club has signed off on several clean coal plants.  Through clean coal technology, we have virtually eliminated the pollution produced by the coal-fired plants of the industrial revolution.  For some reason AMTRAK Joe doesn’t support clean coal.

When Governor Palin confronted him with those September 17 remarks, he lied his way out of the moment, stating that his remarks had been takent out of context.  The transcript of the colloquy between a PERSON in a BIDEN public appearance follows:

PERSON: “Senator, Senator, wind and solar are flourishing here in Ohio, so why are you supporting clean coal?”
BIDEN: “Say ... I didn’t hear what you said.”
PERSON: “Wind and solar are flourishing here in Ohio, so why are you supporting clean coal?”
BIDEN: “We’re not supporting ‘clean coal.’ Guess what. China’s building two every week. Two dirty coal plants. And it’s polluting the United States. It’s causing people to die.”
PERSON: “So will you support wind and solar?”
BIDEN: “Absolutely. Before anybody did. The first guy to introduce a global warming bill was me, 22 years ago. The first guy to support solar energy was me, 26 years ago. It came out of Delaware. But guess what. China is gonna burn three hundred years of bad coal unless we figure out how to clean their coal up. Because it’s going to ruin your lungs and there’s nothing we can do about it. No coal plants here in America. Build them, if they’re going to build them over there make ‘em clean because they’re killing you.” (Joe Biden, Remarks, Maumee, OH, 9/17/08)

You can see for yourself:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rXyTRT-NZg

The fact is that when AMTRAK Joe and Senator Obama are alone with their liberal buddies, they speak their mind, but when they are speaking to you, the American people, they do their level best to obscure the fact that they are the single most liberal pair of candidates ever to run for the top two offices in the Republic.  Buyer beware!

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Democrats’ attempt to keep new energy jobs out of Colorado fails

by Charles W. Fairbanks

Obama, the Democrats and their allies amongst the environmental extremists have done everything they can to prevent the responsible development of oil shale reserves in Colorado, reserves that rival the proven reserves of Saudi Arabia.  They use the canard that increasing domestic production will not have an immediate effect on prices at the pump.  That misses the point:  A competitive domestic oil shale industry would reduce the wealth transfer overseas and provide as many as 200,000 jobs in Colorado and its neighbors.

“We can’t drill our way out of this mess,” is what the left will tell you.  “Domestic drilling will not have an effect on prices at the pump,” is another of their arguments.  The latter is a fallacy.  It misses the point.  Allowing the creation of a competitive domestic oil shale industry will bring huge economic benefits to working class Americans.

There are vast reserves of oil trapped in the shale of the Rocky Mountains.  These reserves are larger than the proven reserves of Saudi Arabia.  Congressional Democrats passed a moritorium preventing development of shale oil reserves and stopping the Bureau of Land Management from drafting regulations concerning commercial development.  Again the left is hurting the very working people that they pretend to protect.

The moratorium expires on September 30.  In anticipation, Obama’s Democrats attempted to extend the moratorium, but their attempt failed in the Senate but only narrowly.

Many of these reserves lie within the northwestern area of the battleground state of Colorado in the Piceance Basin.  According to Senator Wayne Allard of Colorado, there are 360,000 acres in Colorado that are useable for domestic prodcution.  In a comprehensive 2005 study, the Rand Corporation found that the economic benefits of commercial development of shale oil would be significant. 

First, there would be the construction workers.  Construction work would be continuous as it will take years to reach full capacity.  Rand estimates that 20,000 construction workers would be needed to achieve an annual expansion of capacity of 200,000 barrels.  The left argues that the impact of development would be insignificant because it would take years.  Actually, the reverse is true:  Because construction would be an ongoing process over a period of years, contruction workers would be employed over the long haul in good jobs.

Second, there would be the oilfield workers, approximately 70,000.  These are good, high-paying blue collar jobs.  And these jobs would have health benefits!  Doesn’t the left want to see families covered by healthcare benefits?

Third, there would be the indirect employment for suppliers of the oil shale industry, for the small businesses where the workers would be spending their paychecks and yes, the government employees that would be needed in the production zones.

Rand estimates that a thriving oil domestic shale industry producing 3 million barrels per day would provide direct and indirect employment of 200,000 to 300,000. 

And imagine the total economic benefit of production of one billion barrels of oil per year.  At the current price of $110 per barrel, that would mean $110 billion per year that America would not have to dedicate to purchasing oil from people who don’t particularly like America.  That is as significant.  Pieced together with development of alternate sources of energy such as wind, solar and nuclear, and done in concert with a culture of conservation, domestic oil shale production provides America with a path to future prosperity.  But Obama and his buddies are standing in the middle of the path, and blocking our way.