Tag Archive 'Oil'

Congress Seeking Comment Until Sep. 15th To Lift Ban on Offshore Drilling

From the U.S. Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service:
On July 30, 2008, Interior Secretary Kempthorne and I announced a major new energy initiative for the nation’s Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). Today’s action not only highlights the important role the OCS plays in meeting America’s energy needs — it will also open discussions across [...]

Another Blow To Global Warming Scare Mongers: Chicago Has Fewest 90 Degree Days Since 1930

Whoa, when Democrats step in it they usually step in it big. Thus is the case with global warming. You see building a position based on consensus is a lot different than actually building it based on something more concrete, like perhaps fact.
Perhaps that’s why the position on global warming changes so often, to the [...]

Stupidity on Stage: Barack Obama’s Most Recent Energy Speech

Barack Obama showed up in Michigan and spouted the typical idiocy on America’s addiction to the big bad evil oil. Here’s how he started out.
When it comes to our economy, our security, and the very future of our planet, the choices we make in November and over the next few years will shape the next [...]

In the Pocket of Big Oil

Webloggin Editor Note: Another indication that Barack Obama isn’t smart enough to run this country. When will the media ask him or any Democrat to define windfall profit? Nice flip flop on gas tax rebate.

New Obama ad reported by Jake Tapper of ABC News:
As Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., kicks off a week focused on [...]

Our dipsticks are located in DC

Garfield on the oil crisis: A lot of folks can’t understand how we came to have an oil shortage here in our country. Well, there’s a very simple answer.:
Nobody bothered to check the oil.
We just didn’t know we were getting low.
The reason for that is purely geographical.
Our OIL is located [...]

Saudi Arabia: Help or Hype on Oil?

The Saudis announce they will produce more to help out the world, but the Globe and Mail says: “Saudi Arabia to the rescue! Or maybe not: Not everyone is celebrating the news over the weekend that the world’s largest oil exporter will open its taps to supply the world with the oil it so desperately [...]

Democrats Brazenly Move Toward Socialism

It is no secret among thinking people that the Democratic Party is a socialist group. Most of them mask their Socialistic or Communistic tendencies but they are moving closer and closer to everything being run by the government and redistribution of all wealth except for the wealth of the ruling class. They will remain rich [...]

Two Years and Counting: Still Waiting on Democrat Plan/Promise to Lower Fuel Prices

On April 24th 2006, Nancy Pelosi released a press statement that was reported to address the Republican’s empty rhetoric with regard to gas prices. In the press release from over two years ago Pelosi wrote:
“With record gas prices, record CEO pay packages, and record oil company profits, Speaker Hastert and the Majority Congress continue to [...]

Logic Error - Obama Criticizes High Gas Prices While Proposing Higher Taxes on Oil Companies

Barack Obama demonstrated the pure idiocy of certain liberal Democrat policies when he criticized high oil prices while concurrently promising to raise taxes on oil companies.

Obama offered no new policies in his speech, which he read from teleprompters. Rather, he used the occasion to emphasize his economic differences with McCain and to summarize earlier proposals. [...]

Brazilian Oil Find Might End US Nightmare

Brazil has made a huge discovery of oil and if the initial estimates on quantity hold true, the US might finally be able to reduce or eliminate dependence on oil from the Middle East. The find, some 8 billion barrels would be one of the largest and pales in comparison to another discovery in the [...]