[quote=Homestead]How would a pathological liar ever be able to recognize a lie when he sees one?
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"The gulf moratorium was only 6 months long....But it only lasted from June 2010 to Oct 2010.."[/b]Day 9: Obama repeatedly defied federal court with Gulf oil policiesSep 26, 2013
On April 30, 2010, Obama ordered a temporary ban on all new oil and gas leases in the region and asked Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to produce a report with further recommendations.
On May 28, 2010, Salazar produced the report, and in it he recommended a new six-month ban on offshore drilling in the Gulf, a recommendation Salazar immediately put in force. That recommendation was purportedly based on nothing but the best peer-reviewed sound science.
But it turned out Salazar’s report was a lie. According to a later report from the Interior Department Inspector General, White House energy czar Carol Browner unilaterally changed the language in the report to suggest that a seven-member panel of outside scientific experts all endorsed the moratorium.
That claim was false. The Obama administration was caught making up the “science” it wanted to fit the policy outcome it desired.
So oil companies again took Obama to federal court, this time seeking an order holding the chief executive in contempt of court and asking that the government pay all of their legal fees.
Again, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana ruled against Obama, finding him in contempt of court for “a flagrant and continuous disregard of the Court’s Order.”
Finally, on Feb. 28, 2011, almost a month after he had been found in contempt, Obama granted the first oil lease in the Gulf of Mexico.
But while the Interior Department has since stepped up the pace of issuing leasing permits, Gulf oil production is still far below pre-Deepwater Horizon levels
Today they are pumping just 1.07 million barrels a day, a 33 percent drop in production.
All told, according to a 2012 American Petroleum Institute study, Obama’s Gulf oil drilling moratorium cost the United States more than $24 billion in lost energy investments and about 90,000 jobs.
Those losses make the $440,596.68 in legal fees the Eastern District forced Obama to pay the oil companies for defying its court order seem like a drop in the bucket.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/day-9-obama-repeatedly-defied-federal-court-with-gulf-oil-policies/article/2536401[b]
The OPEC move to attack US oil was in 2014...[/b]No shit Dick Tracy!
It was Obama's attempt to shut down America's fossil fuel energy production, in order to usher in his wind and solar energy production that raised the cost of oil, justifying the expense of slat oil drilling for shale oil.
It was Obama's anti production policies that drove the need for more drilling on private and state properties.
It was that production that scare OPEC that caused them to keep increasing their oil production in the hopes of bankrupting the Horizontal drilling.
They did reduce the shale oil production, but, only until they force the price of oil back up, to a point where horizontal drilling will be profitable again.
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"US shale oil production got going around 2009 or so.."[/b]In other words a year after Obama got swore into office and got his cabinet together, he forced his will on the country.
Really?
No kidding.
BREAKING NOW: President Trump DESTROYS Obama Coal Killing LegislationFeb 16, 2017
The legislation ends the Office of Surface Mining’s Stream Protection Rule, a regulation to protect waterways from coal mining waste that officials finalized in December.
According to The Hill,
The legislation is the second Trump has signed into law ending an Obama-era environmental regulation. On Tuesday, he signed a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution undoing a financial disclosure requirement for energy companies.
Both the mining and financial disclosure bills are the tip of a GOP push to undo a slate of regulations instituted in the closing days of the Obama administration. The House has passed several CRA resolutions, and the Senate has so far sent three of them to President Trump for his signature.
Regulators finalized the stream protection rule in December, but they spent most of Obama’s tenure writing it.
The rule represented what Obama and other green energy frauds hoped would kill the industry. It is among the most controversial environment regulations the former administration put together, as the coal mining industry said it would be costly to implement and lead to job losses across the sector. Given that the coal industry was already in triage from other Obama policies, this would have been the death nail.
http://theblacksphere.net/2017/02/president-trump-rolls-back-obama-coal-killing-legislation/[/quote]
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So for you, the destruction of the Gulf and the death of workers is no reason to put a halt on deep water drilling???
The contempt of court by that southern judge was on the dept of Interior.. not Obama.. you make it sound as if he was personally involved.
Also, we have this....
WASHINGTON, Dec 16 (Reuters) - The U.S. Interior Department will not be held in contempt over its actions in the aftermath of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill after the U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to review an appeals court ruling in the government's favor.
The nine justices refused to hear an appeal filed by Hornbeck Offshore Services LLC, a drilling company subsidiary of Hornbeck Offshore Services Inc, and other businesses affected by a moratorium on deep sea drilling that the federal government imposed in May 2010. The federal appeals court ruling that overturned a federal district judge's contempt finding remains intact.
In April 2010, the Deepwater Horizon rig, owned by Transocean Ltd and leased by BP PLC , exploded, causing 11 deaths and a massive oil spill.
The Interior Department's temporary drilling moratorium was immediately challenged by the drilling industry, prompting U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman of the Eastern District of Louisiana to rule in June 2010 that the government could not enforce it.
Despite the court order, the moratorium remained in effect in a modified fashion until October 2010.
The following year, Feldman held the government in contempt for violating his order and said it must pay almost $530,000 in legal fees to the companies that challenged the moratorium.
In an April 2013 ruling, the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Feldman's ruling. It said that although the government had violated the spirit of his order, its actions did not technically violate it. The companies then sought high court review.
The case is Hornbeck v. Jewell, U.S. Supreme Court, No. 13-56.
Opec held a meeting concerning the fall in prices and the world wide oil glut. the consensus was for all to cut production.
The Saudis took the chance to drive all the American shale oil companies out of Business. As you know, that did not succeed..
How do you connect less production out of the Gulf with excess production world wide?
The coal industry signed their won death in 1991 when they made the decision not to invest in clean coal...
do you see all attempts to save the environment as an attack on industry???