spursncowboys
02-13-2013, 08:43 PM
Claim 1. “We produce more oil at home than we have in 15 years.”The vast majority of increased oil and gas production has come from drilling on private lands, over which — thankfully — the Obama administration has no control. Where the administration does have control, federal lands and offshore, it has denied, delayed or slow-walked countless drilling requests.
Claim 2. “That’s why my administration will keep cutting red tape and speeding up new oil and gas permits.”
Almost immediately upon taking office, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar began withdrawing tracts (http://www.speaker.gov/general/obama%E2%80%99s-energy-freeze-blocking-american-energy-production-would-lower-gas-prices-create-jobs) of public land that had already been approved for oil and gas leasing. Most of these tracts had undergone a thorough, seven-year-long environmental review.
Claim 3. “Last year, wind energy added nearly half of all new power capacity in America.”
If you take one penny and double it, you have a 100 percent increase — but you still don’t have very much. And that’s where we are with renewable energy.
According to the government’s Energy Information Administration (http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/annual/pecss_diagram.cfm) (EIA), oil, natural gas and coal were responsible for 82 percent of U.S. energy consumption in 2011. Nuclear power accounted for 8.3 percent. Biofuels made up 1 percent and all other renewable sources represented 8 percent
Claim 4. “Solar energy gets cheaper by the year — so let’s drive costs down even further.”
That’s code for handing out billions more of taxpayer dollars. Solar energy only gets “cheaper” because the administration has poured money into it. As the Wall Street Journal (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903285704576559103573673300.html) points out, “for every tax dollar that goes to coal, oil and natural gas, wind gets $88 and solar $1,212.” And let’s not forget Solyndra, one of Obama’s model solar companies that got $535 million dollars before it went belly up.
Claim 2. “That’s why my administration will keep cutting red tape and speeding up new oil and gas permits.”
Almost immediately upon taking office, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar began withdrawing tracts (http://www.speaker.gov/general/obama%E2%80%99s-energy-freeze-blocking-american-energy-production-would-lower-gas-prices-create-jobs) of public land that had already been approved for oil and gas leasing. Most of these tracts had undergone a thorough, seven-year-long environmental review.
Claim 3. “Last year, wind energy added nearly half of all new power capacity in America.”
If you take one penny and double it, you have a 100 percent increase — but you still don’t have very much. And that’s where we are with renewable energy.
According to the government’s Energy Information Administration (http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/annual/pecss_diagram.cfm) (EIA), oil, natural gas and coal were responsible for 82 percent of U.S. energy consumption in 2011. Nuclear power accounted for 8.3 percent. Biofuels made up 1 percent and all other renewable sources represented 8 percent
Claim 4. “Solar energy gets cheaper by the year — so let’s drive costs down even further.”
That’s code for handing out billions more of taxpayer dollars. Solar energy only gets “cheaper” because the administration has poured money into it. As the Wall Street Journal (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903285704576559103573673300.html) points out, “for every tax dollar that goes to coal, oil and natural gas, wind gets $88 and solar $1,212.” And let’s not forget Solyndra, one of Obama’s model solar companies that got $535 million dollars before it went belly up.