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Title: Obama: Drill, Brazil, Drill!
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Investors Business Daily
URL Source: http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAna ... 8/Obama-Drill-Brazil-Drill.htm
Published: Mar 22, 2011
Author: Investors Business Daily
Post Date: 2011-03-22 08:32:23 by Happy Quanzaa
Keywords: Obama-doma-ding-dong, Obamanom
Views: 5423
Comments: 17
Energy Policy: While leaving U.S. oil and jobs in the ground, our itinerant president tells a South American neighbor that we'll help it develop its offshore resources so we can one day import its oil. WHAT?!? With Japan staggered by a natural disaster and a nuclear crisis, cruise missiles launched against Libya in our third Middle East conflict and a majority of U.S. senators complaining about a lack of leadership on the budget, President Obama decided it would be a good time to schmooze with Brazilians. His "What, me worry?" presidency has given both Americans and our allies plenty to worry about. But in the process of making nice with Brazil, Obama made a mind-boggling announcement that should make even his most loyal supporter cringe: We will help Brazil develop its offshore oil so we can one day import it. We have noted this double standard before, particularly when — at a time when the president was railing against tax incentives for U.S. oil companies — we supported the U.S. Export-Import Bank's plan to lend $2 billion to Brazil's state-run Petrobras with the promise of more to follow. Now, with a seven-year offshore drilling ban in effect off of both coasts, on Alaska's continental shelf and in much of the Gulf of Mexico — and a de facto moratorium covering the rest — Obama tells the Brazilians: "We want to help you with the technology and support to develop these oil reserves safely. And when you're ready to start selling, we want to be one of your best customers." Obama wants to develop Brazilian offshore oil to help the Brazilian economy create jobs for Brazilian workers while Americans are left unemployed in the face of skyrocketing energy prices by an administration that despises fossil fuels as a threat to the environment and wants to increase our dependency on foreign oil. Obama said he chose Brazil to kick off his first-ever visit to South America in recognition of that country's ascendancy. He has also highlighted one of the reasons for America's decline — an energy policy that through the creation of an artificial shortage of fossil fuels makes prices "necessarily skyrocket" to foster his green energy agenda. In an op-ed in USA Today explaining his trip, Obama opined: "Brazil holds recently discovered oil reserves that could be far larger than ours. And as we seek to increase secure-energy supplies, we look forward to developing a strategic energy partnership." Yet in his alleged quest for "secure-energy supplies," he refuses to develop oil and natural gas resources in U.S. waters. His administration has locked up areas in the West where oil shale reserves are estimated to be triple Saudi Arabia's reserves of crude. His administration is even stalling on plans to build a pipeline to deliver oil from Canada's tar sands to the U.S. market. That project would build a 1,661-mile pipeline from the tar sands of Alberta to U.S. refineries near Houston. It would create 13,000 "shovel-ready" jobs and provide 500,000 more barrels of oil per day from an ally. Yet it's now being held up by the State Department because it crosses an international border, on the grounds that it needs further environmental review. Shipping oil by tanker from Brazil is safer and more secure? If Brazil had copied our current energy policy, it wouldn't have discovered in December 2007 the Tupi field, estimated to contain 5 billion to 8 billon barrels of crude, or its Carioca offshore oilfield that may hold up to 33 billion barrels. Haroldo Lima, head of Brazil's National Oil Agency, estimates that Carioca might hold as much as five times the reserves of Tupi. Somehow the Brazilians aren't too worried about oil spoiling the pristine beaches of nearby Sao Paulo or Rio de Janeiro in the tourist season. We suggest that President Obama return home and start worrying about an unapologetic American renaissance in which we focus more on American energy and American jobs and less on mythical environmental hazards and foreign accolades.
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#1. To: Happy Quanzaa (#0)
I'll be needing that quote. And a BTW. Brazil will be selling nothing but Value added product. The oil will stay.
Think about it, we have holocaust going on in Japan and suddenly they ignore it. Not an accident ok? There IS NOTHING to repair. Period. 4 reactors x 20 yrs fuel =80 reactors burning on the earth all at once with one year’s worth of fuel each 6 reactors x20 years fuel=12o reactors burning on the earth all at once with one year’s worth of fuel each This is not under control and it will not get under control. We have the equivalent of roughly 80 to 120 reactors burning. Let that sink in.
" Like a sarcophagus that fits over a failed and out of control nuclear plant, seemingly solving problems, but in reality only pushing immediate issues forward into the future, where our very own children will be confronted with the dire consequences of our dramatic failures, we also distinguish a pattern of the sarcophagus of war being laid over economic crises. I see many comparisons of the 2011 western attacks on Libya with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, but when I saw the first footage a few days ago, I was thinking that we need to wonder where and how 2011 differs from, say, 1938. War has throughout history been used by "leaders" as a means to cover up their economic failures. The Great Depression never truly ended before World War II broke out for real in 1939." theautomaticearth.com I still think Obama was looking for his retirement home. Next to bush's.
Well, [W.A-R.'s] got to do something for attention, his multiple personalities aren't speaking to him any more, and his imaginary friends keep finding excuses not to come over.
Good News. Not one more nuke is going to be built in the US.
disinfo BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA NEWS: Brazil criticizes US attack on Libya. see the difference? 8D
Well, [W.A-R.'s] got to do something for attention, his multiple personalities aren't speaking to him any more, and his imaginary friends keep finding excuses not to come over.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA What did Obama accomplish in Brazil? War has throughout history been used by "leaders" as a means to cover up their economic failures. The Great Depression never truly ended before World War II broke out for real in 1939. Going so far as to launch a Third US war from Brazil.
Hiding and selling this country out.
Well, [W.A-R.'s] got to do something for attention, his multiple personalities aren't speaking to him any more, and his imaginary friends keep finding excuses not to come over.
Bet that Carrier G Washington was full when it pulled out of Yokosuka yesterday. Corps issues 30-day delay for Japan moves - Navy News | News from ... Mar 21, 2011... issued a 30-day hold for all permanent change-of-station moves for all ... Marines with PCS orders to Japan who haven't yet detached from their ... States for up to 30 days and suspended travel to Honshu for all DoD ... www.navytimes.com/.../marine-corps-issu ... es-032111/ - Cached Now that's the way you get rid of the Empire. :twisted: :roll: 8-) Just nuke yourselves. a neat little Seppuku. "There’s about 190 children and 50 adults who just passed through customs," said Don Leingang, executive director of the local USO, which is helping feed the arrivals and help the to connecting flights. "It's pretty eye watering, if you really want to know." Leingang told The News Tribune that the next flight is due Monday. The USO is seeking donations as they plan to support an influx of people in the coming days. Donations can be made online at www.usopsa.org. The USO said about 200,000 U.S. personnel are being evacuated from Japan to U.S. West Coast cities including San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle/JBLM. I note a Complete Zero on the number of live reports out of Tokyo. The World's Most Efficient City being evacuated.
Are you deranged?
Well, [W.A-R.'s] got to do something for attention, his multiple personalities aren't speaking to him any more, and his imaginary friends keep finding excuses not to come over.
Are you deranged? According to Reaganauts who've been trying to drive us Dirty Fuckin Hippies to Extinction? You bet. Beyond the Pale. And? 8D OK. Here. Let me bring you Wingers up to speed: "With Japan staggered by a natural disaster and a nuclear crisis, cruise missiles launched against Libya in our third Middle East conflict and a majority of U.S. senators complaining about a lack of leadership on the budget, President Obama decided it would be a good time to schmooze with Brazilians." US evacuating All personnel from Tokyo North. Obama the CinC. In Brazil when the orders issued. Next.
Bet that Carrier G Washington was full when it pulled out of Yokosuka yesterday. Corps issues 30-day delay for Japan moves - Navy News | News from ... Mar 21, 2011... issued a 30-day hold for all permanent change-of-station moves for all ... Marines with PCS orders to Japan who haven't yet detached from their ... States for up to 30 days and suspended travel to Honshu for all DoD ... www.navytimes.com/.../marine-corps-issu ... es-032111/ - Cached Now that's the way you get rid of the Empire. :twisted: :roll: 8-) Just nuke yourselves. a neat little Seppuku. "There’s about 190 children and 50 adults who just passed through customs," said Don Leingang, executive director of the local USO, which is helping feed the arrivals and help the to connecting flights. "It's pretty eye watering, if you really want to know." Leingang told The News Tribune that the next flight is due Monday. The USO is seeking donations as they plan to support an influx of people in the coming days. Donations can be made online at www.usopsa.org. The USO said about 200,000 U.S. personnel are being evacuated from Japan to U.S. West Coast cities including San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle/JBLM. I note a Complete Zero on the number of live reports out of Tokyo. The World's Most Efficient City being evacuated.
Are you deranged? And speaking of the CinC and deranged. I note this story not quite making the cut here at LF: The magazine, which is planning to publish only three images, said that in addition to the crimes the men were on trial for there are "also entire collections of pictures of other victims that some of the defendants were keeping". The US military has strived to keep the pictures out of the public domain fearing it could inflame feelings at a time when anti-Americanism in Afghanistan is already running high. In a statement, the army said it apologised for the distress caused by photographs "depicting actions repugnant to us as human beings and contrary to the standards and values of the United States".
To: mcgowanjm Are you deranged? I'll add a few more ugly truths, concerning those who supported Obama believing that he represented some kind of important change from the Bush policies they claimed to detest so profoundly. First, your support of Obama represented a confession of comprehensive ignorance about politics and political systems, and how those systems develop and operate. Once again, the truth about Obama and the policies he would follow was not a secret that required special knowledge to decode. Some of us were screaming the truth about Obama repeatedly throughout 2007 and 2008. Almost everyone ignored us.
. "All HAIL the messiah king obammy!" "Useful IDIOTS UNITE!" The spectator in chief has spoken! Tug yer forelock and genuflect peon. Don't even look em in de eyes. "WHO do you think YOU are?"
Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
Am I? Building nukes on every fault line possible. Attacking anyone in our way of getting oil. Trophy Killing. Looking like fucking SS Storm troopers. POTUS who can kill anyone on just his say so. I'm deranged? Fuck me. 8D Look up Neutron Beam Plutonium. See what shows up.
president tells a South American neighbor that we'll help it develop its offshore resources so we can one day import its oil.
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What did Obama accomplish in Brazil?
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Are you deranged?
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