EPA and the White House Wash Their Hands of the ‘Crucifixion’ Mess [UPDATED]
By: Steve Maley (Diary) | April 29th at 08:00 AM |
UPDATE 4/30/2012 via Fox News: Top EPA official resigns after ‘crucify’ comment A top EPA official has resigned after coming under scrutiny for 2010 remarks in which he compared the agency’s enforcement strategy to Roman crucifixion. Al Armendariz, the top environmental official in the oil-rich South and Southwest region, resigned in a letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson on Sunday, saying he did not want | Read More »
The Way Things Are Going, They’re Gonna Crucify Me.
By: Steve Maley (Diary) | April 26th at 02:30 PM |
Apologies to John Lennon. Concept by Al Armendariz, Administrator of EPA Region VI. Repair Man Jack posted the video with analysis here. No apology is necessary, Mr. Armendariz. In a perverse way, your comments reveal the tactics of your agency, and more importantly, the philosophy which motivates Mr. Obama’s entire Administration. It also speaks of the arrogance of a government that thinks its citizens are | Read More »
Earth Day 2012: The Day the Tide Turned
By: Steve Maley (Diary) | April 22nd at 09:17 AM |
Happy Earth Day 2012, everyone! One day we may look back on this as the time when the tide began to recede – that being the tide of Anthropogenic Global Warming hysteria. The canary in this metaphorical mine is the Discovery Channel, long a mass purveyor of AGW porn. In its new seven-part series “Frozen Planet” Discovery confronts distraught polar bears and calving glaciers in | Read More »
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BP Spill: Still Hyping After All These Years
By: Steve Maley (Diary) | April 21st at 11:34 AM |
All these years? Poetic license. It’s been two years since the disastrous explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. Eleven rig workers were killed in a valiant but failed attempt to control BP’s Macondo well located 50 miles off the mouth of the Mississippi River in Gulf waters 5,000 feet deep. The ensuing blowout seemed to last an eternity. The finger pointing and legal action | Read More »
LA Dems Strip Obama Challenger’s Delegates on Technicality
By: Steve Maley (Diary) | April 16th at 10:59 PM |
In the March 24 Louisiana presidential preference primary, Democratic challenger John Wolfe, Jr. scored 17,804 votes. Wolfe is a lawyer from Chattanooga, TN and a virtual unknown in Louisiana. Party rules award delegates to the national convention for any candidate whose vote exceeds 15% in a congressional district. Wolfe racked up almost 19.6% in the 1st District, 17.2% in the 3rd and 22.0% in my | Read More »
A Little Perspective, Please.
By: Steve Maley (Diary) | April 14th at 12:28 PM |
From Business Week: Exxon’s top exec got a 17pct. pay raise in 2011 Exxon Mobil gave its top executive a 17 percent increase in compensation last year, as the oil giant posted one of its most profitable years on record. Rex Tillerson, 60, received a pay package worth $25.2 million, up from $21.5 million in 2010, according to an AP analysis of a regulatory filing | Read More »
Fracking is Blamed for … Well, Everything, Really.
By: Steve Maley (Diary) | April 7th at 11:00 AM |
Blaming natural phenomena on fracking is this year’s fad, reminiscent of the mood ring, the pet rock or Anthropogenic Global Warming. Item 1. Vice-President of the United States Joe Biden may not know what hydrofracking is, but he does know that it sounds plenty scary. “… There’s a thing called fracking. They’ve got to go crack the rock in order to get [oil and gas] | Read More »
Louisiana Primary Open Thread
By: Steve Maley (Diary) | March 24th at 10:45 PM |
With 3/4 of the precincts reporting, Rick Santorum is leading with nearly 50% of the Republican vote. Romney has 26%, Gingrich 16%. Update 10:18 pm CDT: That margin looks like it will hold. See TheHayride’s analysis here. Incumbent President Barack Obama has 72% of the Democratic vote against a powerful field that includes Bob Ely, Darcy G. Richardson and John Wolfe. Unofficial tally here. Open | Read More »
Ministry of Truth Begins the ‘Rehabilitation’ of Obama’s Energy Record
By: Steve Maley (Diary) | March 24th at 11:11 AM |
What better place to start the correction of history than in the pages of The New York Times: U.S. Inches Toward Goal of Energy Independence Taken together, the increasing production and declining consumption have unexpectedly brought the United States markedly closer to a goal that has tantalized presidents since Richard Nixon: independence from foreign energy sources, a milestone that could reconfigure American foreign policy, the | Read More »
Obama’s Big Energy Gaffe
By: Steve Maley (Diary) | March 23rd at 01:05 AM |
In his Thursday energy/pipeline speech at Cushing, OK, President Obama opened his mouth and revealed a total lack of understanding of our nation’s energy supply picture. And I’ve been saying for the last few weeks, and I want everybody to understand this, we use 20 percent of the world’s oil; we only produce 2 percent of the world’s oil. Hmmm. “We only produce 2 percent | Read More »
‘Intellectual Bankruptcy’, Dr. Krugman?
By: Steve Maley (Diary) | March 18th at 08:40 PM |
Paul Krugman’s op-ed, “Natural Born Drillers” (New York Times, March 15), purports to show with a hard look at the numbers why no thinking, perceptive person could possibly believe that “Drill, Baby, Drill” is a solution to the nation’s energy and economic woes: [G]iving the oil companies carte blanche isn’t a serious jobs program. Put it this way: Employment in oil and gas extraction has | Read More »
Flashback to 2009: Administration Policies Sought to Discourage ‘Overproduction’ of Oil
By: Steve Maley (Diary) | March 18th at 08:30 AM |
In May 2009, four months into the Obama presidency, retail gasoline prices averaged $2.32 per gallon. Rep. Charles Boustany (R-LA) wrote Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner to express concern about the impact that the Administration’s budgeted changes in tax policy would have on the oil and gas industry. Secretary Geithner clearly laid out the Administration position in his letter of response (pdf link). That was then, | Read More »
Obama, Energy Promises, and Empty Rhetoric
By: Steve Maley (Diary) | March 10th at 01:36 PM |
Voters in the November election will be acutely aware of two key economic variables above all others: the national unemployment rate, and the price they pay for a gallon of gasoline. President Obama senses his vulnerability on gasoline prices, and is busy erecting a defense against charges that his actions (or inactions) have contributed to high prices. His weekly radio address focused on the problem | Read More »
Correcting Rush on The Big Energy Lie
By: Steve Maley (Diary) | March 7th at 02:15 PM |
Rush Limbaugh is on a rant right now about the Big Energy Lie – President Obama’s assertion that: “We can’t just drill our way out of this problem — while we consume 20% of the world’s oil, we only have 2% of the world’s oil reserves,” he said. [Source.] Rush confused the issue with regard to the definition of reserves, suggesting that it has something | Read More »
Obama: ‘Drill Drill Drill won’t work. And you can thank Me that it did.’
By: Steve Maley (Diary) | March 2nd at 01:03 PM |
Irony alert. (HuffPo link. Sorry.) “Anybody who tells you that we can just drill our way out of this problem does not know what they’re talking about, or they’re not telling you the truth — one or the other,” Obama said at an event held in New Hampshire to tout his energy policies. He noted that, in fact, oil production in the United States has | Read More »
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