Obama Lifts Oil Export Ban: Listen To the Idiocy of Another “Sustainability” Advocate

Democrats Cut Insane Deal with Climate Terrorists

Lifting Oil Export Ban In Exchange for Renewable Energy Tax Credits

“It will mean more jobs, more drilling,” said Scott Sheffield, chief executive of Pioneer Natural Resources, which is based in Texas. Mr. Sheffield, a leading advocate for lifting the ban, added: “That helps the entire economy, energy security, it helps with our allies, it will help our trade balance. To me, it’s very, very big.” ~~~ NY Times

Just now catching up on the national news this week, and as Joni Mitchell sang, “it sure looks bad”.

After the negotiations are over and the news coverage celebrated the Paris Climate accord and Obama’s “leadership”, the NY Times finally suggests that the agreement falls far short of what scientists warn needs to get done to avoid catastrophic climate change.

But beyond the too little too late journalism of the NY Times, it is becoming increasingly obvious that this country simply has lost its mind.

In the latest example of that, pitiful Congressional Democrats cut a really bad deal with climate terrorists to eliminate the current ban on oil exports in exchange for extending the renewable energy credits: (NY Times).

The effect of politics — and political horse trading — on these policies was underscored last week when members of Congress agreed to a deal that ended a ban on oil exports (helping the fossil fuel industry) but also extended tax credits for wind and solar industries. That move is expected to give renewable-energy industries a huge boost. 

And it looks like Obama will sign the legislation – which reveals the fatal flaws and corruption of his “all of the above” energy policy. [Update 12/21/15 – Obama signed it]

But as bad as that political deal is, this quote in particular set me off, and confirms exactly what I’ve been writing for a long time about the useful idiots who spew drivel on “sustainability”: (NY Times)

“The U.S. crude oil export ban is the symbolic manifestation of the historical trauma of America’s experience of the 1973 oil embargo,” said Amy Myers Jaffe, executive director of energy and sustainability at the University of California, Davis. “Taking this law off the books reflects the new reality of America’s energy power.”

A legal ban on oil exports is “symbolic? Are you kidding me?

That phrase “American energy power” sounds exactly like the warped myth the energy industry is promoting to make the USA! USA! USA! the New Saudi Arabia. (CFR, Davos – CIA too?)

[That view is shared by Gov. Christie, who over a year ago: Christie Calls for End To Oil Import Ban and has a warped vision, see: 

Get a grip folks – scientists warn we need to keep at least 85% of known fossil reserves (coal, oil, gas, tar sands, etc) in the ground!

You can’t do that by expanding fossil markets – period.

[Update: Oh my, Real News says it’s worse than I thought, when subsidies are considered.]