Sound design by Sunil Mewani
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12
Sep
2009
2009
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10
Sep
2009
2009
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Let’s start with Ultra Liberal Number One. Obama said; “I think that I would have preferred a gradual adjustment. The fact that this is such a shock to American pocketbooks is not a good thing. But if we take some steps right now to help people make the adjustment, first of all by putting more money in their pockets, but also by encouraging the market to adapt to these new circumstances more rapidly, particularly U.S. automakers…”.
The Democrats have always wanted to tax gas up to its current price; they just never had the guts. That’s why they’ll just around and act like they’re doing something to lower gas prices, when in reality, they love it, it’s their dream come true. I’m sure everyone knows why the Democrats want the high gas prices; it’s to encourage alternate forms of energy and transportation. But I think they can’t help themselves it’s just because they love to raise taxes, and they want so badly to be like the Europeans. Apparently they have no concern for the hard working Americans who are going broke in the process.
I’m tied of their lame excuses for not drilling for oil. They tell us that drilling for more oil will not help our circumstances. Yes it will. The first thing that it will do, if the World believes we are serious about massively extracting our own oil reserves, is have an effect on the speculators who are driving up the price of oil. They will no longer see such a bleak picture of future supplies. But even if this does not happen, what’s wrong with us using our own oil, and keeping our own money, in our own country? Our trade deficit is bad enough. They say; oh if we start now, we won’t see any results for ten years. That’s what they’ve been saying for the last ten years; let’s get this show on the road.
This is a post I found on the Heritage Foundation Blog sight.
When the Democrats were still in the minority, Americans were paying $2.91 a gallon on average for gasoline. At the time, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) promised “a commonsense plan to help bring down skyrocketing gas prices by cracking down on price gouging, rolling back the billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies, tax breaks and royalty relief given to big oil and gas companies, and increasing production of alternative fuels.” This is standard boilerplate for liberal politicians when Americans complain about gas prices: blame Big Oil greed for high gas prices and promise that big government investment in alternative fuels will save the day.
Now that Democrats have been in power for 18 months, the average national cost for a gallon of gasoline is over $4 and the only change in Pelosi’s policy has been to add OPEC to her list of people to blame. Nobody seriously believes that any of these policies are capable of reducing gas prices in the short term. OPEC countries are not about to start pumping more oil because Pelosi says so, and even the New York Times openly mocked the House investigations on oil market manipulation.
The other items on the liberal gas-price-lowering agenda–increasing oil company taxes and mandating biofuel use–only increase the price of gas. Raising taxes on the cost of capital for oil production decreases supply and raises prices. In the short term, tax-paying corporations tend to recoup increased tax payments in the form of higher retail prices. The billions of dollars necessary to build the infrastructure to meet the more than doubling of the biofuels mandate also can only raise the price at the pump today. Now liberals in the Senate want to institute a Hugo Chavez-like windfall profits tax, a policy that only raised energy prices in the 1970s under Jimmy Carter.
But Dems keep encouraging the delusion that high fossil energy prices–particularly gas prices–are some sort of weird aberration resulting from the greed of oil executives or Saudi intransigence. They keep encouraging the delusion that with a few policy gimmicks we can bring those prices back down. … As long as Americans think that energy prices might go back down at any moment–that the cheap-energy good times of the ’90s are but a “windfall profits tax” away–they won’t support a policy they’re told will increase those prices. They need to be told the truth.
Roberts is right. Americans need to be told the truth. Liberals in Congress have been fighting to raise the price of gas for years. According to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), the daily oil production from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would reduce the price of gasoline by 50 cents. Liberals in the White House and Congress have been blocking the development of this oil for more than a decade now. Billions of barrels of oil in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming have also been restricted, not to mention the billions more denied from offshore drilling.
Duration : 0:2:58
10
Sep
2009
2009
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Blackwater is changing its name to “Xe”. Halliburton has sold off its KBR division. President Obama is pledging to crack down on the use of contractors by the military. Where does the future for private military contractors lie? Join us March 10th as we discuss these issues with Pratap Chatterjee, the author of the new book Halliburton’s Army: How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War, joined by Janine Wedel and Michael A. Cohen of the New America Foundation.
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Charlie Rose interviewed Amory Lovins, CEO of Rocky Mountain Institute on November 28, 2006. Mr. Lovins is an energy expert that has been advocating energy independence since 1976.
Charlie Rose (CR): What do you think of the oil companies? And for all of the political rhetoric, someone who knows where they’re — where they’re honest and where they’re not honest and knows where they are accurate or not accurate. I mean it’s a broad brush I’m asking you to paint with.
(AMORY) LOVINS: Well, I worked — for and with and sometimes within the oil majors for 33 years now.
CR: And therefore the answer is?
LOVINS: Well, they’re different. They’re not all in the same tribe. And in fact, there’s a big split down the middle of the industry now between those making smart investments and the rest. And.
CR: If you look at advertising, you would assume that BP is one of them, and …
LOVINS: BP, Shell…
CR: Shell. Shell is another because they have been… Now, would you assume that Exxon Mobil is not?
LOVINS: Well.
CR: Because they are.
LOVINS: They…
CR: …sort of demonized as the worst?
LOVINS: I’d say they’re the best in the industry in execution and probably the worst in strategy.
CR: What does that mean?
LOVINS: Well, they do inadvisable things very efficiently.
CR: That’s not good for us, is it?
LOVINS: Well, I don’t think it’s actually good for their shareholders either. But it turns out that many of their analysts have come to conclusions strikingly similar to those in our book (Winning the Oil Endgame, www.oilendgame.com). Those tend to be the technology analysts. It’s the economic forecasters that don’t get it.
CR: OK, so when their analysts present that to the CEO of these respective companies, what happens?
LOVINS: It depends. In fact, the head of Exxon Mobil has just changed, and there are already some changes perhaps emerging in policy. It’s a very capable company. And I think they could do…
CR: It’s the most…
LOVINS: …the oil endgame stuff better than anybody if they put their minds to it. CR: Say that again.
LOVINS: Well, I think they could do the oil endgame stuff better than anybody if they put their minds to it.
CR: This is your book. [Holds up copy of RMI's Winning the Oil Endgame (www.oilendgame.com).]
LOVINS: Yeah. And in fact, you may have noticed that the just-retired chairman of Shell, Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, wrote one of the two forewords to that book. And in general, the industry likes this book.
CR: And the other part is written by George Shultz.
LOVINS: Yeah.
CR: Yeah.
LOVINS: A very fine economist.
CR: Former Secretary of the Treasury.
LOVINS: And State.
CR: And State, and you know. And OMB [Office of Management and Budget] as well.
LOVINS: Yes.
CR: So what is the problem here? I mean, what do we need to do to have
them go where they ought to go in terms of whatever their responsibility is to the shareholders as well as their responsibility as good citizens, thinking about, you know, the energy policy of their country?
LOVINS: It’s a little like the question I was asked by a senior auto making official recently. What should we do about California’s attempt to regulate the CO2 that comes out of the cars and helps cause global warming? I said, well, you should throw your engineers at it and let your competitors throw their lawyers at it. Your engineers will beat their lawyers.
CR: Well, you see, I believe that too. So why don’t they do that? That’s the smart answer. And you’re right.
LOVINS: Well, let’s just look at what just happened at Ford. They hired the head of Boeing commercial airplanes to be their new CEO. And the business press said, well, that’s unorthodox but interesting, because he healed a sick airplane business and introduced lean manufacturing and did tough union negotiations. That’s not the important part of his resume. The important part is Boeing is beating the pants off Airbus with a technology leapfrog in the Dreamliner, 20 percent more fuel efficiency — same cost. That leapfrog is based on ultra light, strong materials like carbon fiber composites, which, if brought to the auto industry, will double cars’ efficiency and make them safer at no extra cost.
CR: Are we getting to go your bowl?
LOVINS: And — so he knows how to do that. He knows about the ultra-light leapfrog and how to organize people to do that and how to make the weight-saving snowball and integrate the design. Those are all the DNA transplants that auto making needed. And in our book, we actually recommended that Detroit should do what Boeing was doing. That’s a winning strategy. So watch this space. It’s a sign of how — what the economist Joseph Schumpeter called “creative destruction.” In the auto business, this gale is sweeping through. And it is either going to change the managers’ minds or change the managers, whichever happens first. There’s very encouraging signs, a tectonic plates are creaking loudly.
CR: People will get it or they won’t be working.
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In May 2009, multinational oil giant Shell will stand trial in United States federal court to answer to charges that it conspired in human rights abuses including murder in Nigeria in the 1990s. This mini-documentary tells the story of the rise of an inspiring and nonviolent movement for human rights and environmental justice, and the lengths Shell was willing to go to stop it. For more information, visit: http://shellguilty.com/wiwa-v-shell-video/
Duration : 0:8:34
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For all your fuel needs, Lavigne Oil Company of Baton Rouge delivers it on time! Serving all of Louisiana, this petroleum jobber offers a huge fleet that moves the volume needed to ensure competitive rates. Services include on-site fuel processing, emergency supply, fleet fueling and bulk delivery. Call for current rates.
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23
Aug
2009
2009
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A News Report showing a Everyday Disaster, But this Image also appears on 1-18-08.com. Meaning it is Official.
The Video Shows a Oil Rig been destroyed, The Company that Owns the Rig is called Tagruato. It has different departments which Specialize in Different things to do with the Environment. The Company Works in Space, Satellite Work (Hatsui Satellite seen falling from The Sky in The Film), Deep Sea Drilling (This video, and The Oil Tank tipped over in The Sea in The Movie), and The Company has a Sea Tested Refreshment, Named SLUSHO! This is the Company that Rob Hawkins is Vice-President of, and also the reason he is moving to Japan.
Websites:
http://Tagruato.jp/
http://Tagruato.jp/DeepSea.php
http://Slusho.jp/
Duration : 0:10:57
19
Aug
2009
2009
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Oil company murdered family. A friend of mine bought a car from an old lady. She said she was selling because she was moving out of the country. Her son a Geologist, daughter in law, and baby were found murdered. She said they were killed because her son refused to falsify oil survey findings. He son called her and told her he was in fear for his life. He and his family were killed shortly thereafter. She was so upset that she was becoming a missionary assistant and moving to the Philippines. Here are some clips that prove what she is saying. These clips are not directly related, but it shows how inventors are murdered or suppressed.
Duration : 0:7:58
17
Aug
2009
2009
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Going after oil company windfall profits. Hunting down oil speculators. Gas-Tax Holidays. Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less. Do politicians actually know about Peak Oil?
Sources:
“Peak Oil and Politicians”
http://www.energybulletin.net/node/44343
“Cries in the Dark” (Wall Street Journal)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121432276099000211.html
“The Sacrifice-Free Election Strategy”
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/08/18/energy_plans/print.html
US Government Accountability Office (GAO) Report [Feb. 2007]
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d07283.pdf
Obama 2006 Podcast:
http://obama.senate.gov/podcast/060511-a_real_solution/
Tom Udall for Senate:
http://www.tomudall.com/
Videos:
Check out Bob’s video and channel; I rarely agree with him, but his rants are epic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PIk94ow2sc
Udall: Right Now Ad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHWDcD9OMkw
Peak Oil and Politics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxQxUMbk5aQ
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Artist: Luke Vibert
Track: Voyage into the Unknown
Album: Big Soup (1997)
Duration : 0:8:7
13
Aug
2009
2009
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By sheer luck I happened across this workover rig working in the middle of a residential neighborhood in the Montebello oil field. The well appears to be “Monterey 35″ (API#03712584), an oil and gas well that hasn’t produced much of either in recent years (269 bbl in 2005, a high of 1,385 bbl in 1983). On some maps it appears marked as an “observation” well. Operator is Southern California Gas Company. No pumpjack on site – just a false shed covering the wellhead. Not sure what work they were doing on the well.
Duration : 0:0:34