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Obama vetoes Keystone XL pipeline

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Keystone XL Pipeline VETOAnd with that, he attempts to guarantee that Tom Steyer will fund his library when he has moved on from the presidency.

Keystone XL REAL BlockageMr Obama has made his choice, and he has made it loud and large.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defying the Republican-run Congress, President Barack Obama rejected a bill Tuesday to approve construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, wielding his veto power for only the third time in his presidency.

He wants you to suffer at the pump, and he wants to kill oil, to kill coal, to kill any potential energy independence of the United States of America.

Keystone XL GraphicWhat is this about?

Why would this be?  MotherJones weighs in.

Because Mr Obama still believes that the United States of America needs to be brought down a number of pegs.  The US is too big for its britches.  It is too colonialistic, too strong, too powerful.

He favors Blood Oil and Conflict Oil over that which we can bring up from our own soil, and that which we can acquire by dint of the construction of a pipeline from Alberta to the Gulf Coast.

Environmentalists bleat that allowing the Keystone XL is akin to allowing the Trans-Alaskan pipeline.  Oh yeah.  The pipeline that hasn’t suffered even one break or catastrophe in its entire existence.  Except by those persons who wished to do it harm = Leftists.

It’s back to the basics for Obama.  He hated that your gas prices went down the past three months, and is pleased that they are now rising.  He wants to hurt you and force you into energy paradigms that aren’t viable but “sound” good and support emotive arguments.  He has no primary substitute for oil, but that means nothing when you own the American Media Maggots.

Samsung 02-2015 213That must be why there are so many pristine Nissan Leafs for sale at every CarMax across the United States.  And why there are so many Smart cars that never got sold.

Samsung 02-2015 216The Nissan Leaf is a piece of crap.  The Smart car is a piece of crap.  The Smart car requires premium fuel.  No one tells you that.

Make no mistake.

Obama wants to make you hurt.

BZ

 

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OPEC: attempting to kill US shale oil

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From AP.org:

OPEC keeps oil output on hold despite low prices

by George Jahn

VIENNA (AP) — Reflecting its lessening oil clout, OPEC decided Thursday to keep its output target on hold and sit out falling crude prices that will likely spiral even lower as a result.

Oil prices fell sharply on the news. Even though the decision was largely expected, it showed the once-powerful cartel is losing the power to push up markets to its own advantage.

For the first time in years, expect even cheaper oil prices.  However:

By opposing an output cut, Saudi Arabia appears to be hoping to drive prices below the level at which shale oil production is economical. Experts say shale oil production turns too costly at the $60 a barrel level.

This is OPEC attempting to shut down oil shale production and protecting their own production interests in the Middle East.  From Bloomberg.com:

OPEC Policy Ensures U.S. Shale Crash, Russian Tycoon Says

by Will Kennedy and Jillian Ward

OPEC policy on crude production will ensure a crash in the U.S. shale industry, a Russian oil tycoon said.

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries kept output targets unchanged at a meeting in Vienna today even after this year’s slump in the oil price caused by surging supply from U.S shale fields.

American producers risk becoming victims of their own success. At today’s prices of just over $70 a barrel, drilling is close to becoming unprofitable for some explorers, Leonid Fedun, vice president and board member at OAO Lukoil (LKOD), said in an interview in London.

A short-sighted administration — such as Obama’s — would and will make hay out of this news in a renewed attempt to ensure Keystone XL does not pass.  But of course this situation is no guarantor that energy prices couldn’t rise back and the nation be in another desperate situation with regard to energy, as “alternative energy” is not yet of sufficient stature to be viable and reliable.

Accounting for about a third of OPEC output, the Saudis can weather lower prices because their coffers are well-padded and its production costs are relatively low.

But poorer OPEC members like Venezuela and Nigeria need levels close to $100 or above to fund national budgets. Saudi rival Iran is suffering, too, with the price drop adding to huge revenue losses due to sanctions on its crude sales imposed over its nuclear program.

“I think you’re going to see additional tension between the OPEC ranks,” said Jamie Webster, senior director of crude oil markets at IHS consultants.

Enjoy gas prices whilst you can.

BZ

 

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The truth about Fukushima — not then, but now

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That in mind, let there be no mistake: I am not an abolisher of nuclear power.  I believe that nuclear power is but one in a series of major steps that can be made in assuring our electrical generation future.

You just have to be smart about it.

Because there is no “one” solution for electrical generation, save that of fusion, which is not yet embraced or technologically viable in a mass fashion.  Yet.

And “smart” about nuclear power includes not placing plants on fault lines, in areas of known tsunami paths or at the bottom of avalanche sites.

At one very brief point I worked for Vanguard Security in the 70s at the Rancho Seco nuclear complex.  It was a Babcock & Wilcox design similar to Three Mile Island.  My fellow guards and I would plan and identify points of assault and weakness.  It was our job.  The one that management didn’t want to admit existed.

We were armed with .38 caliber revolvers carrying high-efficacy round-nosed lead bullets and supplanted with our grim miens.  We wore roentgen badges for personal dosimetry.  Our graveyard perimeter vehicle was a cheap-ass Chevrolet LUV pickup.  The low areas of various metal industrial water lines were tagged for collective points of radioactivity.  I actually stood and looked into the moon pool within the containment building.  I paged through industry magazines that identified suits for safely “diving” the moon pool.  I thought that was insane.

I carried a round security guard’s tour verification watchman’s clock where the keys were inserted for time validation.  I stood on the upper turbine deck and watched the hair on my head and arms stand on end as I neared the sight portal.  I identified a young female security guard with large breasts who drove an elder Chrysler product and we rampantly enjoyed frequent fornication.  Great fun.  I found that my Lieutenant wanted me to stay and apply for a supervisory position.  I left two weeks later when I found another job in actual law enforcement.  You do what you can when you can and why you must in order to keep the paychecks coming.

I, in retrospect, didn’t really wonder why I never had children; I suspect I was manually rendered sterile via my associations with nuclear power and to the massive amount of RF emanating from the Walnut Grove radio tower when I worked for the 50,000-watt AM flamethrower KFBK and climbed said tower, exposing myself there for hours.  Truly, I threw my sperm far and wide into an extended spectrum of females, as an idiot, and was never made to pay.  Except in later years with cancer.  Now I know why.

A Fukushima revelation:

And there you have it.  Nuclear power was a God-send and now it’s not.  But here’s the difference: when Rancho Seco was powered down, it was due to the incompetence of SMUD and systems unrelated to the nuclear aspect.  Control room operators smoked dope.  That was proven.  Why else did we check the briefcases and bags and purses of the civilians who entered and left the facility?

The people of Sacramento County voted to keep or dismiss their nuclear plant.  I worked there.  I voted no.  Not because of the nuclear aspect, but because of the incompetent administrative aspect.

You have to be smarter than the rads.

BZ

 

 

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