We are saved! Republicans control Senate

• QuakerOats

  http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/14/obama-hits-oil-and-gas-industry-demands-massive-re/
  
  
  
  
  Again proving his disdain for the energy complex which drives our economy and sustains our citizens.
  
  With this imposter, it is most important to watch what he actually does instead of listening to what he says.
• jmog

  rydawg5;1693901 wrote:How is contaminating people's water and disregarding people's health "propaganda"
  
  
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  Sorry, but you can't be serious. When you cite Gasland you are done being credible. If I come on here and cite some documentary by Beck or Rush and use it as proof of something scientific you would laugh at me as an idiot. I am now doing the same to you for using that blatant piece of propaganda.
  
  What's next? An Inconvenient Truth? Fahrenheit 9/11?
• jmog

  QuakerOats;1696204 wrote:http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/14/obama-hits-oil-and-gas-industry-demands-massive-re/
  
  
  
  
  Again proving his disdain for the energy complex which drives our economy and sustains our citizens.
  
  With this imposter, it is most important to watch what he actually does instead of listening to what he says.

  More proof that the administration doesn't get it.
  
  Since natural gas is about 90% methane, the oil/gas industry has every incentive in the WORLD to reduce methane emissions from their production. Since, you know, one of their main products they sell is natural gas, and 90% of that is methane, any methane released during their production is actual MONEY GONE to the atmosphere.
  
  They have already reduced methane emissions on their own for this obvious reason over the last 10 years. They have all the incentive in the world monetarily to keep reducing methane emissions. There is NO reason to add this regulation OTHER than posturing to look like you are trying to affect "climate change".
• gut

  jmog;1696265 wrote:More proof that the administration doesn't get it.

  They get it (I assume), this is just politics. Dems pander for votes by fabricating a Repub "War on ____", and then supporting that claim with whatever junk science suits their propaganda. To label the Repubs as anti-science by spamming the media with junk science is just sickening.
  
  It's also convenient that the enviro positions dovetail nicely with the anti-big business, anti-rich campaigns. It seem absolutely silly to think Dems would prefer to narrow the wealth gap by making everyone a little poorer, but it's also hard to dismiss. No, I don't think they're communist, but it's easy to find the parallels - that no one should have too much, along with the misguided belief the government is more efficient and can run and plan things better.
• Dr Winston O'Boogie

  

  QuakerOats;1696204 wrote:http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/14/obama-hits-oil-and-gas-industry-demands-massive-re/
  
  
  
  
  Again proving his disdain for the energy complex which drives our economy and sustains our citizens.
  
  With this imposter, it is most important to watch what he actually does instead of listening to what he says.

  If you'd look into this beyond simply the Washington Times, you'd see that the standards only apply to new sites, not existing. The technology required to comply is beneficial to the companies because it ultimately identifies leaks within their system, preventing losses. Several energy executives have gone on record in saying the new standard will not have any kind of negative economic impact. It simply gives an acheivable goal that industry should be held to.
• QuakerOats

  The Washington Post (1/15, Warrick) reports that API president and CEO Jack Gerard said, “Emissions will continue to fall as operators innovate and find new ways to capture and deliver more methane to consumers, and existing EPA and state regulations are working. Another layer of burdensome requirements could actually slow down industry progress to reduce methane emissions.”
• Dr Winston O'Boogie

  

  Having worked in the natural resource industry for the past 10 years, I can tell you with all certainty that left to their own devices, companies will pollute extensively. It is not generally in their self interest to seek out ways to limit emissions. My company staffs a hall full of lawyers to figure out the absolute minimum we need to do in order to maintain our "license to operate". That's not a judgement, it's a simple fact of financial return. I spend a lot of time in China for work and I can give you plenty of examples of what an environment looks like when companies are allowed to police themselves.
  
  Our economy remains the most powerful in the world by a long, long measure.
• isadore

  Gosh a ruddies and what do we get with Republican control
  demagogues-Ted Cruz
  idiots-Louie Gohmert
  and the man from the Klan-Steve Scalise