10-8-15 Native Corporation Aggressively Explores Interior Alaska

…from an anonymous letter circulating in Saudi Arabia, said to be written by an unhappy faction of princes:

“We will not be able to stop the draining of money, the political adolescence, and the military risks unless we change the methods of decision making, even if that implied changing the king himself.”  (Our Note: between this, Amerca’s poor leadership and Russia’s Mid-East adventure, oil and gas prices may not be in a week what we believe they will be today.  -dh)

A president leading his nation toward disaster

Commentary by

Dave Harbour

When one considers the Administration’s passive-aggressive opposition to virtually all fossil energy projects, he reveals himself to be an enemy of American public interest.

• One recalls his effective opposition to the Keystone XL Pipeline, supported by Secretary Clinton’s State Department–and most Americans.
• One remembers his locking ANWR, via USFWS, into wilderness management with his ‘pen’, in an end-run around Congress.
• One knows of his action via BLM to, amazingly, lock up half of the country’s National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.
• One can easily document the delays his departmental henchmen added, year after year, to the obstacles faced by Shell in its good faith effort to properly explore the Arctic on leased acres purchased from the federal bureaucracy.

We have described these and many other attacks on the U.S. economy by this administration.

The pattern is undeniable.

Were the Congress not so lacking in self-confidence and determination to defend the Constitution against all enemies, both foreign and domestic, they should have authored impeachment charges long ago.

So now, just consider that one important result of denying the export of plentiful American oil, is to minimize international demand for U.S. oil shale and other energy projects–that could improve national security, dramatically increase employment of American citizens, neutralize much of the balance of payments deficit, reduce the national debt and improve U.S. leadership in the world power vacuum now being filled by a Russian leader– a man with fire in his belly and traditional leadership skills, no matter how badly perverted they may be.

Denying American energy exports is a frontal attack on the free market, on the wellbeing of American companies and citizens.

It is yet another act that comforts America’s enemies and denies benefits to allies and other friends of the United States.

It is another sign of a leader coaxing his flock to follow him to a cliff overlooking a very deep canyon, from which there is no returning.