BigMike wrote:
Which is why America needs to be completely energy independent...something we could easily achieve once we divest ourselves of the g*******t pigs in Washington pretending to be Americans.
I agree and I believe Trump is setting up the chess board to do just that. Of course I'm just guessing, but consider the following pieces on the chess board of oil independence:
Nearly $1 Trillion Worth Of Oil Found In Texas, Largest Deposit Ever Discovered In US
http://www.ibtimes.com/nearly-1-trillion-worth-oil-found-texas-largest-deposit-ever-discovered-us-2448534Now a look at some of the key cabinet positions and who Trump wants to fill them with:
Scott Pruitt
E.P.A. Administrator
Senate Hearing: Jan. 18, 10 A.M.
The Oklahoma attorney general is a close ally of the f****l f**l industry and has taken on the E.P.A. directly in his current job. He would oversee an agency that the president-elect has vowed to dismantle “in almost every form.”
Senate Democrats have requested information about Mr. Pruitt's relationship with the energy industry as well as potential conflicts of interest related to his representation of Oklahoma in a lawsuit against the E.P.A.
(Oklahoma is another big oil producing state)
Rick Perry
Energy Secretary
Mr. Perry, the former Texas governor...is far more familiar with issues involving the oil and gas industry..."
Rex W. Tillerson
Secretary of State
Senate Hearing: Jan. 11, 9:15 A.M.
The president and chief executive of Exxon Mobil would oversee a department that has centered on alliance building and globalism...
Exxon operates in about 50 foreign countries, and Mr. Tillerson has relationships far and wide...
Twenty years ago, as Rex W. Tillerson was rising through the ranks at Exxon, he was charged with negotiating with the government of Yemen to build a natural gas export plant. The talks got bogged down over Yemen’s insistence that it have veto power over important business decisions...In the end, Yemen got at least some of its demands...
...Mr. Tillerson, 64, who has made a career at Exxon — and Exxon Mobil since the 1999 merger — by drilling more f****l f**ls out of Russian soil...He sent his company’s top exploration official in his place...<who> signed an agreement to promote more business with state-owned Rosneft to expand joint drilling in the Arctic Ocean, develop shale fields with new technologies and cooperate on a gas export plant in Siberia...
...He can be expected to encourage the permitting of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would deliver more oil from the Canadian oil sands to American refineries. Having just successfully bid for a deepwater drilling block off the coast of Mexico, and understanding the importance of Mexico as a growing natural gas export market, he can also be expected to try to smooth relations with Mexico City...
My ex-husband, an engineer, works for a fairly big company that makes oil field equipment and has been heavily involved in ND oil. While they have suffered lay-offs over the last 4 years, they are now d**gging in all the rusty equipment that was sitting unused in the yard and refurbishing it and getting it ready to be used again. He said that many other oil industry companies (in Houston, where he works) are suddenly talking about mass re-hiring.
Again just a guess on my part looking at a bigger picture and the long game.