Before the 2008 election, Obama promised to bankrupt the coal industry. He’s keeping this promise.
Writing in The Daily Caller yesterday, Deneen Borelli with Project 21 describes the foolishness of President Obama’s energy policies.
Borelli is being kind when she describes his policies as foolhardy. He has made it abundantly clear in statements since before he was elected that he planned on deliberately bankrupting the coal industry and creating an economic situation that would result in sky-high gasoline prices.
Be that as it may, Borelli points out how, in his State of the Union Speech, Obama pretended to be concerned about energy production. Just days before his speech, Obama nixed the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have produced 20,000 jobs and helped us become less dependent on Muslim oil.
Borelli notes:
Obama’s energy policy excludes coal. Coal now provides approximately 45 percent of our electricity, but regulations generated by the Obama EPA are imposing significant costs on utilities, costs that are forcing some power plants to close and others to spend billions of dollars in order to comply. Those compliance costs will be passed on to consumers in the form of higher electricity prices. Those higher electricity prices will inevitably force more companies to build manufacturing facilities overseas.
Fossil fuels — coal, oil, and natural gas — provide roughly 85 percent of America’s energy needs. Yet, despite the failure of companies such as Solyndra, Obama is doubling down on renewable energy by calling for a national renewable energy mandate, forcing the Department of Defense to buy enough renewable energy to power a quarter of a million homes and using public lands for “clean” energy development but not for fossil fuel production.
She also notes that renewable fuels are inefficient, costly, and require huge amounts of land:
An analysis by Robert Bryce of the Manhattan Institute sheds light on the fundamental limitations of renewable energy. Bryce compares the footprint of the two nuclear reactors at Indian Point, New York, which generate 30 percent of New York City’s electricity, to the footprint of a wind farm that could generate the same amount of power. Wind turbines would require a space equivalent to the size of Rhode Island to produce the same amount of electricity as Indian Point does on approximately 250 acres of land.
Nothing is going to change if Obama remains in office in 2013. In fact, it will get much worse than it is now. He is already unchained from the Constitution, but he wants to get elected so his anti-energy aggression will be subdued until he’s safely back in the White House next year. Once that happens, get ready for long gas station waiting lines, $6 a gallon gas (if you can get it), black outs, and out-of-control prices on everything we need for daily living. Now is probably a good time to stock up on non-perishable food items and candles.
The Obama Dark Ages will descend upon us if he is reelected this November.
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This is one of his hope and change that came true…
In his state of the (dis)union speech Obama said, “We have a supply of natural gas that can last America nearly 100 years and my administration will take every possible action to safely develop this energy.” His EPA then attacks the (60 year and counting safe) method of hydrolic fracking to get to it. The liar-in-chief’s fudge word here is “safely” which means don’t look for the real development of this fuel as his EPA will determine that it cannot to be “safely” obtained. Add to this the less than 3% of federal lands that exploration will be allowed on and all he has accomplished is to reassure the dimwitted voter out there that he is actually concerned about the middle class.
Up or down?
Where does Obama stand on Nuclear energy? I feel it’s a very irresponsible energy source and am for ending it right now.
Why Jusko? What’s irresponsible about nuclear energy? The only irresponsibility with which I’m aware of that is associated with nuclear power is building a nuclear power plant along the pacific rim of fire that is immediately adjacent to the pacific ocean whence an earthquake induced tsunami can and did swamp the plant in Japan. How many people were killed by the nuclear radiation that escaped from that plant? How many people were killed by the tsunami? The Chernoble accident was the result of incompetence of the regime idiots placed in charge of running it who couldn’t find their asses with both hands when things started going to hell. 3 mile island amounted to nothing. Oh, sure you can always manufacture a doomsday “China Syndrome” scenario but so what, you can come up with something similar to that with any power system or any man-made machine. Why not stop manufacturing automobiles because its a fact that we slaughter thousands of people every year with those machines on our nation’s highways and byways? That I’m sure you would agree is irresponsible but I bet you get into one every day and drive it just like the rest of us.
I have an idea where you can stick that nuclear waste each plant makes but what am I to do with the fallout hitting Hawaii every day? Oh, you didn’t hear about that? Why am I not surprised. I guess you don’t know about how Japan is dumping their radioactive water directly into the ocean either. Did you ever hear about the “dead areas” in the ocean? They are there and they are huge.
You brought up petroleum and cars, I would really like to get into that and other fuels instead of gas but not with you personally.
I searched your question “dead from radiation Fukushima”, there were 3,130 links, I picked one for you.
Radiation – Chernobyl v’s Fukushima
We all know that Chernobyl is responsible for over 1,000,000 deaths through radiation. Hate to say this , but , Fukushima has 4 Chernobyls happening at once. The difference is , Chernobyl was contained and stopped in 2 weeks. Fukushima has been going for over 7 months . 2 weeks [ 1 million people dead] x 4 Chernobyls x 2 weeks [ for month] x 7 months = 56,000,000 people at least will die and It’s still spewing radiation at 4 Chernobyls every 2 weeks . The really sad part is, Chernobyls population is nowhere near the concentration and numbers in Japan [ Tokyo ] . 56 million is the low end of the scale , from this catastrophy .
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1693149/pg1
Is that enough information for you to deem it irresponsible? I can give you a lot more but your really should look it up yourself.
If this creature from the black lagoon, Obama, is reelected it will be entirely due to the republican establishment having its collective heads buried up its posterior presumably because it enjoys the view. Never before has a political party been so completely out of touch not only with reality but with the people it is elected to serve. It is hopelessly lost and should be expressly abandoned for a party dedicated to conservatism and limited government as codified in our Constitution. We have been under the control of essentially a single political entity, the masterminds of a liberal utopia, for at least the past 23 years whether they have a D or an R by their name. Not until we rid ourselves of these selfish useless excuses for leaders will we have any chance of maybe, just maybe, restoring America to its once heralded greatness. I cringe every time I hear some wind bag politician engage in hyperbole by invariably using the word “great” as a preceding adjective for country. We once were but we’re far from that now. We are now living in and subjects to post constitutional America whence there is an increasingly expanding central government while our liberties are proportionally decreasing and our personal property is being confiscated. Adherence to our unique Constitution is what made the American experiment great as De Toqueville observed . The twisted, tortured, living document that it has become is essentially useless. It has been made to say anything an activist (read outlaw) black robe has wanted it to say. We have failed to hold the republic which Benjamin Franklin spoke of when asked what the constitutional convention had accomplished: “We have given you a republic, if you can hold it.” Obviously we didn’t. We allowed it to slip away incrementally. It’s no longer an issue of saving the republic but restoring it. That can only be done with the help of Providence which is the only way the revolutionary war for independence of Colonial America was ultimately won. We are in the midst of another revolutionary war which though not of shot and shell isn’t far from that if Obama continues pushing us into a corner from which we have no other way out but by force. Let’s pray that it never comes to that but we must never forget that it is ultimately for that purpose that the Founders included the Second Amendment to the Constitution knowing full well that men are fallen creatures and will if given the opportunity gravitate to evil corruption when entrusted with power. It is axiomatic that absolute power corrupts absolutely.