Lizard to blame for oil prices?
Bensblurb # 605 4/30/11
High gas prices? Blame Industry, everyone else
“...[The] president condemned politicians who ‘score a few points’ by offering quick-fix solutions whenever there is a spike in gas prices. ‘The truth is, there’s no silver bullet that can bring down gas prices right away,’ Obama said...The White House unveiled a task force ...which would investigate ‘fraud or manipulation’ in oil markets that could affect gas prices.”--Politico blog (Aside: Bush and Clinton had tried the same thing, with zero effect.)
“...[On] July 14, 2008, oil prices suddenly plummeted from their historic high of $145 a barrel. Why? Because that was the day President George W. Bush signed an executive order lifting the moratorium on off-shore drilling in the eastern half of the Gulf of Mexico and off the U.S. Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Overnight, the price per barrel of oil plunged...Obama could with the stroke of a pen sign an executive order telling his appointees at EPA, the Department of Interior and the Department of Energy to stop throwing up obstacles to increased U.S. oil and natural gas production.” --Washington Examiner
Obstacles? You betcha. For instance: The Fish and Wildlife Service is holding hearings in a huge West Texas oilfield on severely limiting activity there. Why? Because bureaucrats want to list the dune sagebrush lizard there as an endangered species. Peculiar, indeed. But it’s happened elsewhere too--an owl to shut down logging in the Northwest, a mouse to shut down wheat farming in Colorado, a minnow and rat to end vegetable growing in California, and more.
But you already knew the federal g
overnment’s power is just too awesome, from an example right here in the Harbour. Yes, we benefited from a wacky environmental directive, at a construction company’s expense.
In constructing the new Wilson Bridge over the Potomac River several years ago, the company was forced to compensate for destroying some mudflat acreage there, by creating newly sacred “wetlands.” Where? Right here on Aquia Creek, just past the end of Dewey Drive in section two. You can drive up to the elevated sea wall there and fish from it.
Contractors had dug out about an acre and a half there beside the creek, so its water would “naturally” soak it at just the right depth for the introduced weeds. Our land surrendered for the project netted us about $96,000.
Many thanks. Even so, I don’t know about you, but I say our all-powerful bureaucracy in Washington is too full of itself, and needs to be taken down a peg or two.
Also, "Growing the economy is simple. The key is that America’s citizens must push for policy-induced prosperity. Wouldn’t it be great if the federal government once again helped, instead of hindered?" --Newsmax Ben Blankenship
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High gas prices? Blame Industry, everyone else
“...[The] president condemned politicians who ‘score a few points’ by offering quick-fix solutions whenever there is a spike in gas prices. ‘The truth is, there’s no silver bullet that can bring down gas prices right away,’ Obama said...The White House unveiled a task force ...which would investigate ‘fraud or manipulation’ in oil markets that could affect gas prices.”--Politico blog (Aside: Bush and Clinton had tried the same thing, with zero effect.)
“...[On] July 14, 2008, oil prices suddenly plummeted from their historic high of $145 a barrel. Why? Because that was the day President George W. Bush signed an executive order lifting the moratorium on off-shore drilling in the eastern half of the Gulf of Mexico and off the U.S. Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Overnight, the price per barrel of oil plunged...Obama could with the stroke of a pen sign an executive order telling his appointees at EPA, the Department of Interior and the Department of Energy to stop throwing up obstacles to increased U.S. oil and natural gas production.” --Washington Examiner
Obstacles? You betcha. For instance: The Fish and Wildlife Service is holding hearings in a huge West Texas oilfield on severely limiting activity there. Why? Because bureaucrats want to list the dune sagebrush lizard there as an endangered species. Peculiar, indeed. But it’s happened elsewhere too--an owl to shut down logging in the Northwest, a mouse to shut down wheat farming in Colorado, a minnow and rat to end vegetable growing in California, and more.
But you already knew the federal g
overnment’s power is just too awesome, from an example right here in the Harbour. Yes, we benefited from a wacky environmental directive, at a construction company’s expense.
In constructing the new Wilson Bridge over the Potomac River several years ago, the company was forced to compensate for destroying some mudflat acreage there, by creating newly sacred “wetlands.” Where? Right here on Aquia Creek, just past the end of Dewey Drive in section two. You can drive up to the elevated sea wall there and fish from it.
Contractors had dug out about an acre and a half there beside the creek, so its water would “naturally” soak it at just the right depth for the introduced weeds. Our land surrendered for the project netted us about $96,000.
Many thanks. Even so, I don’t know about you, but I say our all-powerful bureaucracy in Washington is too full of itself, and needs to be taken down a peg or two.
Also, "Growing the economy is simple. The key is that America’s citizens must push for policy-induced prosperity. Wouldn’t it be great if the federal government once again helped, instead of hindered?" --Newsmax Ben Blankenship
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posted by Ben Blankenship at
11:49 AM
