Showing posts with label Oil spill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oil spill. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Ray Stevens-"The Global Warming Song"
Since Barack Obama decided to politicize the BP oil spill by pushing cap and trade legislation, which is based on the alleged science of global warming, it is appropriate that Ray Stevens would release "The Global Warming Song." As usual, Ray is funny and spot on. We all want a clean planet, but follow the money trail. This is worth watching if just for some of the pictures and reading the crawl on the bottom of the screen during the "news" segments.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Obama's Oval Office Speech
I have to confess that I did not pay close attention to Barack Obama's speech last night. I was somewhat occupied with my son in the room and taking care of getting him ready for bed. There were a couple of things that did catch my attention during the speech.
First, was his comment that part of the reason that the spill has been so difficult to plug is because we are dealing with drilling a mile below the water. This is true. However, he says the reason is that we are running out of places to drill on land and shallow water. That is patently false. I would go so far to call it a lie. The reason we are drilling so far our to sea and in such deep water is because of caving to the far left environmentalists.
The second thing that got my attention was his taking the opportunity to use the spill as an excuse to push another unpopular piece of shit piece of legislation on the American public, cap and trade. Here we are hovering just under 10% unemployment and he wants to further depress the economy. Cap and trade will send jobs overseas, causing more unemployment. It will raise everyone's energy costs leaving less money available for other things, further depressing the economy.
I really did not need to pay real close attention to Obama to know it was a bad speech. I found out all I needed to know when I saw this clip of Chris "I get a thrill up my leg when Obama talks" Matthews, Keith Olbermann, and Howard Fineman trashing the speech. If you have these three died in the wool members of the Barack Obama fan club trashing the speech, it must have been horrible.
First, was his comment that part of the reason that the spill has been so difficult to plug is because we are dealing with drilling a mile below the water. This is true. However, he says the reason is that we are running out of places to drill on land and shallow water. That is patently false. I would go so far to call it a lie. The reason we are drilling so far our to sea and in such deep water is because of caving to the far left environmentalists.
The second thing that got my attention was his taking the opportunity to use the spill as an excuse to push another unpopular piece of shit piece of legislation on the American public, cap and trade. Here we are hovering just under 10% unemployment and he wants to further depress the economy. Cap and trade will send jobs overseas, causing more unemployment. It will raise everyone's energy costs leaving less money available for other things, further depressing the economy.
I really did not need to pay real close attention to Obama to know it was a bad speech. I found out all I needed to know when I saw this clip of Chris "I get a thrill up my leg when Obama talks" Matthews, Keith Olbermann, and Howard Fineman trashing the speech. If you have these three died in the wool members of the Barack Obama fan club trashing the speech, it must have been horrible.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
BP Boycotts
Image by Rusty Boxcars via FlickrI am not here to be an apologist for BP. They should be held accountable for the devastation taking place in the Gulf right now. If it turns out that BP was criminally negligent, as opposed to this just being a horrible accident, then appropriate punishments should be meted out. Having said all that, the call to boycott BP will hurt small business more than it will hurt BP.
The vast majority of gas stations that carry the BP banner are not owned and operated by BP, but by independent operators. Most of the big oil companies are out of the gasoline retailing business. For every BP or Exxon station you encounter, you are most likely dealing with a local business and not Big Oil.
Jonathan Berr wrote a piece for AOL's Daily Finance page regarding how the boycott of BP hurts small business and not BP. He quotes Jay Ricker who owns a chain of convenience stores in Ohio that operate under the BP banner. Ricker is also president of the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS). NACS members account for 80% of the gasoline sold in the US, and 56% of the gasoline sold is from operators that own one store. Unfortunately for those operating under the BP banners, they have contracts that prohibit them from changing banners. Those are the folks who are hurt by a BP boycott.
I have been, and continue to support drilling for oil, this disaster not withstanding. Historically, our drilling has been remarkably free of spills. Our political leaders continue to talk about weaning ourselves from our dependence on foreign oil. One way to reduce that dependency is through utilizing our own resources. Until alternative energy sources are commercially viable, oil continues to be the energy source that drives the economy.
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