Now that the election is safely behind him and he has been successfully re-elected, with the help of our society’s parasites and the state-controlled media, Barry has now ordered his Interior Department, on Friday, to issue a final plan to close 1.6 million acres of federal land in the West originally slated for oil shale development. The proposed plan would fence off a majority of the initial blueprint laid out in the final days of the George W. Bush administration. While it faces a 30-day protest period and a 60-day process to ensure it is consistent with local and state policies, the department will render a decision for implementation. In other words, it’s a done deal and we the American people get screwed yet again!
It should be obvious that this latest move by Barry is sure to rankle most, if not all, Republicans and is something they are not in agreement with. They say Barry’s grip on drilling in federal lands is too tight. Supposedly, the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management cited bogus environmental concerns for the proposed changes. Among other things, it labeled lands with the catchall nomenclature of "wilderness characteristics" and areas that conflicted with sage grouse habitats. Under his plan, roughly 677,000 acres in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming would be open for oil shale exploration. Another 130,000 acres in Utah would be set aside for tar sands production. And as recent history would indicate, the areas left will most likely provide the lowest possibility of a positive outcome.
And still Barry’s administration and congressional Democrats attempt to persuade us how wonderful this plan is and how they are doing more than anyone else in the effort to make us energy independent. And it’s all lies! Accord to this scum, the plan, while significantly curtailing the options that were originally sought for oil shale development, would still supposedly open up what is defined as a significant amount of land that was previously unavailable for the energy production method. And in trying to portray this plan as somehow being a boon, Barry also made the claim that the plan pushed forward Friday also included two research, development and demonstration (RD&D) leases for oil shale development.
Doing his best to put lipstick on this pig of a deception being perpetrated against the American people, some spokesmoron for the Interior Department, some jerk named Blake Androff said, "The proposed plan supports the Administration’s all-of-the-above approach to explore the full potential our nation’s domestic energy resources and to develop innovative technology and techniques that will lead to safe and responsible production of resources, including oil shale and tar sands, which industry recognizes are years from being commercially viable, but require RD&D today." What a load of Barry "Almighty" crap! Come on, does these idiots really think we’re that stupid. Granted the retards who voted for Barry might, but not the rest of us.
And then we have Sen. Mark Udall, DEMOCRAT, who, of coursed, praised the plan, actuallly said that Barry had exercised the right amount of caution on oil shale development, which has not yet been brought to commercial scale and brings concerns about the amount of water used in the practice. "I am glad the Interior Department is taking measured steps to encourage research and development of our oil shale resources. With water being one of our most precious commodities in the West, I have concerns about the potential impacts of commercial oil shale development. Nonetheless, I look forward to seeing this technology explored further," Udall said in a Friday statement. And again, only those who voted for Barry are likely to believe such drivel.
Oil shale development is not to be confused with drilling into shale formations for oil and natural gas. The practice, which involves separating hydrocarbons bound up in rocks, has not been widely executed since Exxon's failed Colorado venture in the 1980s. Bobby McEnaney, senior lands analyst with some nutty environmental group called the Natural Resources Defense Council, praised Interior Secretary Ken Salazar for the proposed final plan. "By significantly reducing the acreage of wilderness potentially available for leasing, Secretary Salazar is laying out a creative, thoughtful and more responsible approach in managing some of our most precious resources," McEnaney said in a Friday statement.
Congressional Republicans, of course, are not likely to be as pleased nor should any American who disagrees with policies that has us sitting atop massive energy reserves and fail to take advantage of them as our energy prices continue to go up. GOP lawmakers, along with some Democrats, have pushed for more fossil fuel production in the West. Republicans have led the charge, saying Barry’s policies on fossil fuel drilling on federal lands are far too restrictive. While Barry likes to brag that domestic oil-and-gas production has increased during his administration, Republicans point out that it is activity on private and state land that is driving the boost. They point to this year’s significant dip in oil-and-gas production on federal land.
The Congressional Western Caucus released a report this past August that was designed to deliver that very same message. "This proposal will place further limitations on the exploration and development of our country’s natural resources and is yet another example of how this administration continues to stand in the way of North American energy independence," Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.), the chairman of House Energy and Commerce's subcommittee on Energy and Power, said in a recent statement. Oil and gas lobby the American Petroleum Institute (API), an ally of congressional Republicans, slammed the decision. And knowing how uninformed most Americans are, I doubt many even knew about any of this, it may not have mattered anyway.
Jack Gerard, API’s chief, said Thursday he would take a "wait-and-see" approach to Barry's second term to gauge whether he would live up to campaign rhetoric in which he praised the domestic oil-and-gas industry. Reid Porter, the lobby's spokesman, said Friday's news was a disappointing sign from the administration. "This is another step in the wrong direction that limits development and investment in one of the nation’s most energy-rich areas and goes against a prior government decision that would allow for research and development over a much wider geographical area. Just days after the election this decision by the administration sends negative signals to industry and capital markets at a time when we need to encourage growth and innovation in the U.S.," Porter said.
Look, I think we all know what’s behind this. Barry’s insists on using bogus claims of climate change as a way to drive up energy costs so that the can then, through such economy killing policies as "Cap and Trade" garner more cash for the government. And he also sees it as a way to allow the government to creep even farther into our lives. So I have a little message for all of the brain dead parasites who voted for this creep, when the price of gas doubles again, like it did during Barry’s first term, and it costs us all $1000 a month just to heat our homes in the winter and cool them in the summer don’t come crying to me. Of course, those leeches will most likely be getting everything free, or heavily subsidized, from the government at taxpayer expense.
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