Gulf of Mexico: No Drilling, No Jobs, No Money

New Obama regulations out the wazoo … moratorium lifted ban still in place through other means.

Still no word why the US Coast Guard filled the oil rig Deepwater Horizon with water? Didn’t they know it was a boat and Coast Guard regs required foam be used, when dousing fires. That’s what caused the rig to sink and resulted in a disastrous oil spill. Simple mistake, big results. Can’t wait until a judge asks some questions …

The Obama Administration lifted the moratorium on new permits and drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, but the same problem persists as it has for over a year now. There’s not a whole lot going on down there.

Our country faces a severe fiscal crisis as well as significant economic challenges related to private industry job creation. Revenue cannot be generated from lease sales that do not occur, and jobs cannot be created on leases that private industry cannot acquire.

Increasing access to our domestic energy would help lower energy prices, create jobs, and bring revenue into the financially strapped government. Federal regulators should work to return permits to pre-moratorium levels, and Congress should completely open America’s coasts for exploration and drilling and move forward with federal offshore leasing.

Beck Special: See Who Is Pushing Caliphate in America Right Now

Watch the full program tonight at 5pm, on GBTV.

Fermilab Shutdown

Is “big physics” in America coming to an end? Or taking a leftists hiatus?

Accelerator Division head Roger Dickson, stands in front of a CockcroftWalton generator at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill. a week before its scheduled shutdown.

What else can Obama do? He needs the US’s money for his voters. NASA, now Ferilab … What a visionary that Obama regime.

On Friday, physicists will shut down the facility’s accelerator called the Tevatron, a once-unrivaled atom smasher that has been eclipsed by its European successor, the Large Hadron Collider, buried beneath the border of France and Switzerland.

For some at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, or Fermilab, it will be a somber moment, akin to losing a family member. Others wonder whether it signals a lack of commitment to high-level particle science on U.S. soil.

Democrat Enthusiam Tanks, Republican Enthusiam Steady Since 2010 Mid Term Elections

Democrat enthusiasm tanks…

Democrat enthusiam tanks, down since 2010 midterm elections

Republican enthusiasm steady since 2010 midterms…

Republicam enthusiasm steady

Hugo Chavez ‘rushed to hospital after kidney failure’

US News sources, and Chavez lovers, were silent, as his socialist paradise slowly slips below the waves. Did you actually expect them to report this?? Shame on you.

Unclear when this Chavez photo was taken

The London Telegraph reports:

The radical leftist leader only returned home a week ago following the completion of his fourth cycle of chemotherapy in Cuba.

A meeting scheduled for last weekend with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, was then postponed indefinitely to allow Mr Chavez to “fully recover”, adding to question marks over his health.

According to a report in the Miami-based El Nuevo Herald newspaper, Mr Chavez was taken to the Military Hospital in Caracas on Tuesday morning.

“He was in fairly serious overall condition,” an anonymous source told the Spanish-language daily. “When he arrived, he was in quite serious shape and that is why he was brought in for emergency care.”

It added that doctors had considered transferring him to a private hospital in Caracas for better treatment.

On Thursday, Mr Chavez, 57, mocked the claims in a phone call to Venezuelan state television but did not reveal where he was calling from.

Blinded By Green Light: Green Energy Hoaxers, Dem Contributors, Money Laundering

It’s what happens to you when you invest on ideology, in this case the disproven, and discredited green house warmist theories. There is no way that solar energy at 10-15 times the cost of conventional coal power generation.

Already the carnage among the ethanol manufacturers … is legend, for the total waste of money. Zero sum mentality is what is perpetrated by the regime. There is no limit to economic growth, regardless of what government says.

The list of the Obama regime failures is long. Thermal solar technology. Synfuels. Ethanol. Toxic mortgages through GSE’s Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Light rail. Solyndra. And on and on it goes …

Investors has the story …

Leadership: The administration is bent on finalizing as many as 15 loan guarantees for green energy ventures before the stimulus deadline. How detached from reality can this White House be?

The administration is separated from the real world on two levels.

On one, the White House is operating as if there were no Solyndra scandal.

Are “a la carte” Programming The Future Of Cable?

A number of cable operators are seriously considering implementing some sort of  “a la carte” option for customers. It is way too soon to say whether they will actually move forward with the plan, or whether it would let users choose individual channels or some sort of customized bundle. Nonetheless, the news is startling in that MSOs and networks have long argued that bundling is the best model for buying TV.

But executives now say the change is a necessary response to shifting dynamics such as higher carriage costs and using the Web to watch programs, as well as a weak economic recovery that has forced many consumers to cancel cable television subscriptions.

Networks like ESPN, which charges upwards of $4 per subscriber per month, are cited as driving up the cost of the basic cable package.

 “We feel that some of those expensive channels should be offered a la carte so only those people who want to watch them actually pay for them,” said Jerry Kent, chief executive of Suddenlink, which has 1.3 million cable customers.

Among TV news channels, Fox News has the highest carriage fee at $0.58 according to SNL Kagan, and is angling for even more carriage cash as new deals come up. Any sort of a la carte option could strike a blow to many smaller channels, such as Fox Business or Bloomberg, which may not be able to sustain themselves on the number of subscribers that would actually “buy in.” Major media companies such as News Corp. and NBC Universal vociferously oppose all a la carte measures, knowing that essentially all of their channels could be adversely affected.

Rather than simply letting consumers choose only the channels they want, some sort of hybrid model–which leaves off expensive channels such as ESPN, Fox News and TNT, could emerge as an option.

Gassing Up: Why America’s Future Job Growth Lies In Traditional Energy Industries

I preface this article with one simple fact. According the the US Government EIA, the US has the world’s largest reserves of fossil fuels, it’s just that liberals will not allow American energy companies to go and get it.

As Spain found out, green energy destroys jobs. The technology just isn’t there, and may never be. Spain now has an unemployment rate of over 20% after their experiment with green jobs. Not good for anyone. For the near future, traditional fossils fuels will power the future, no matter how much babble comes out of Washington.

Most of Obama’s green jobs initiatives is not but liberal money laundering. I bet the majority of these companies go the way of Soylyndra … There is no viable self sustaining business that is green energy.

The relative strength of the energy sector can be seen in changes in income by region over the past decade. For the most part, the largest gains have been heavily concentrated in the energy belt between the Dakotas and the Gulf of Mexico. Energy-oriented metropolitan economies such as Houston, Dallas, Bismarck and Oklahoma City have also fared relatively well. In energy-rich North Dakota there’s actually a huge labor shortage, reaching over 17,000 — one likely to get worse if production expands, as now proposed, from 6000 to over 30,000 wells over the next decade.

What message does this send to politicians seeking to turn around our moribund economy? Perhaps   they should target oil and gas development as a spur not only to new employment, but to the kind of “good jobs” that Gallup’s Clifton speaks about. With the proper environmental controls, these industries could provide a major jolt to the economy while cutting down on energy imports, reducing debts and bringing jobs back home. As long as Americans consume oil and gas, why not produce close to the market and with reasonable environmental controls?

The monthly proliferation of new energy finds can provide a much brighter future than many have anticipated. Industry experts say that the shift in energy exploration is moving from the Middle East to the Americas, with rich deposits of oil and gas uncovered from Brazil to the Canadian oil sands.

Much of the new action is on the U.S. mainland, including the Dakotas, Montana and Wyoming. Increasingly, there’s excitement about finds in long-challenged sections of the Midwest such as Ohio. The Utica shale formation, according to an estimate by Chesapeake Energy, could be worth roughly a half trillion dollars and be, in the words of CEO Aubrey McClendon, “the biggest to hit Ohio, since maybe the plow.”

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20,000 Heat-Seeking Missiles Reportedly Feared Missing From Libyan Warehouse

Give them the missiles, terrorists need missiles too ….

A recent secret White House meeting revealed that an estimated 20,000 portable, heat-seeking missiles appear to have vanished from an Army warehouse in Libya, ABCNews.com reported.

The new revelations stoke ongoing fears that such weapons, which are light, relatively easy to use and have the capacity to take down a commercial airplane, could end up in the wrong hands as the Libyan war that ousted Muammar Qaddafi winds down.

“Matching up a terrorist with a shoulder-fired missile, that’s our worst nightmare,” Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., told ABCNews.com.

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