I know where I'd stop providing any gas, oil, or coal energy support immediately if I were in charge. Give people what they want. If they want no gas or oil give them none. The White House can go back to burning candles for the next couple of years. Why fight it? And the people against fracking can buy imported oil and the rest of us use the cheap stuff. What could be wrong with my proposal, everyone would get what they want?

And next, he'll demand that Putin stop drilling in the Arctic regions they claim, too, right?

Such a fool.

My point exactly. They may say that the land and resources in an area are off limits today and then tomorrow when it is expedient to change their position they will.

So this will have the benefit of allowing us to use someone else's resources before we have to use ours.

Just because I can't stand a politician doesn't mean that he cannot do something beneficial, even if for all the wrong reasons.

Yes, tomorrow is inevitable. However, a politician's promise is ephemeral. As slippery as a greased eel. I have learned that one should never rely on the word of any one of them.

Fossil fuels are a finite resource unless of course you want to take a long look at it. Say 30 or 40 million years. How long will oil supplies last? 50, 100, 200 years. Not certain and depending on who you listen to on how long you believe it will be. The fact is it will run out and if we have been sitting on ours and buying theirs we will have some after they are out.

his books are expensive!

you need to read up on anything "peak" this is an erroneous concept-we have limited resources. people freaked out about whale oil, bat guano, etc.
http://reason.com/archives/2010/04/27/pe...

Resources are not a fixed pie. You need to read the works of Julian Simon, especially "The Ultimate Resource."

The bright side, if there is one, is that there will likely be another world war any day now -- and the UN will no more survive its onset than the League of Nations endured after WW2 began. Remember, the UN was leaders' attempt to lock in the result of WW2 permanently. That goal is already rapidly falling apart.

What the Civil War settled is that if any state tries to secede without Congress' permission, they will have to fight a war to do it. That doesn't mean it can't happen. If it is tried, the outcome will likely rest on how many of the soldiers and Marines from that state take which side.

I do not think we have till 2017 before we have a global economic collapse.

Plenty of states have simular problems. I know in Utah we have agreements that the feds have failed to fulfill for 100 years. We have court cases pending to get our lands the feds stole from us back, but it likely will fail as the people deciding if we can get our lands are working for the people who want to keep them.

Agreed but in reality tomorrow is a fact and any law passed today can be changed in the future. This is a perfect example of placing something off limits today that will be used in the future when the need is great enough.

Anything is possible, but Obama has shown little interest in governing except by executive fiat in his second term. The wheeling and dealing necessary for such a deal require some level of respect and trust.

A 'tip of the hat' for bringing Agenda 21 into the discussion...it is the U.N.'s blueprint for destroying American sovereignty.

Hello Stormi,
I would put nothing past our emperor. He is the most Imperial... We are just one executive order away from total tyranny. I don't know who to be more upset with, him, the rollover and play dead congress, or the idiots that voted for him twice.
Respectfully,
O.A.

Don't be fooled, this is not a one time thing, and don't be surprised if locking it up is code for turning it over to the UN. Remember before the second election, also during a news off day, Obama let the UN know he would support UN Agenda 21? Tie this to his State of the Union, when the environment was included, and you have him going right along with seizing the lands of the US for UN control. It is the beginning of the end of private property rights in this country if someone does not wake up and expose this jerk before we all lose our right to own land.! Oh, and don't expect less from Hillary, remember Bill handed over to the UN several national parks as "Heritage Sites" without asking the real owners, the taxpayers.

Just like the 529 college funds, and eventually your IRA's and 401k's.

The United States of Oil. If Alaska and Texas were the first real Galt's Gulches, people of my expertise would be in very high demand.

Hello ProfChuck,
Honestly I am surprised there is not more talk of it. Many will say the the right of secession has been invalidated and settled by the civil war, but has it really? Would our present populace support a war against States that wish to end their servitude to the federal government? The North had the high ground in the civil war when it claimed to be emancipating people from servitude in the South.
I would say that in this case the tables would be turned.
Respectfully,
O.A.

Hopefully... 2017... Moment Of Glory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMUX_4B-...
It would be glorious to see a brighter future again. Of course, at this point, it seems we have fallen so far anything positive is up.

I don't know whether it is an illusion or not, but I perceive Obama as the "Anti-American" who does whatever he can get away with to turn the USA into a 3rd world country. On second thought, maybe not an illusion.

In politics, tomorrow is an illusion. Promises are rarely, if ever, kept. If you don't get behind it and get it done now, chances are you can forget about it.

My mistake, I was referring to Jewel the singer.

I think you have the wrong Jewell Techno - she was born in the UK and moved to Washington when she was 4. Her father, Peter Roffey, is an anesthesiologist.