{"id":23070,"date":"2011-04-25T14:19:44","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T18:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23070"},"modified":"2011-04-25T14:19:44","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T18:19:44","slug":"hows-that-pump-price-feel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23070","title":{"rendered":"How’s that pump price feel?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my travels over the last few weeks, i saw gas at $4.65 near San Francisco, it was over $4 in DC last week and then topped $4 in my rural West Virginia town yesterday. So how’s it feel? Bet I can make it feel worse. The EPA denied air permits to Shell for drilling off of Alaska’s northern coast according to a Fox News<\/a> article sent to us by ROS;<\/p>\n

Shell has spent five years and nearly $4 billion dollars on plans to explore for oil in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas. The leases alone cost $2.2 billion. Shell Vice President Pete Slaiby says obtaining similar air permits for a drilling operation in the Gulf of Mexico would take about 45 days. He\u2019s especially frustrated over the appeal board\u2019s suggestion that the Arctic drill would somehow be hazardous for the people who live in the area. \u201cWe think the issues were really not major,\u201d Slaiby said, \u201cand clearly not impactful for the communities we work in.\u201d<\/p>\n

The closest village to where Shell proposed to drill is Kaktovik, Alaska. It is one of the most remote places in the United States. According to the latest census, the population is 245 and nearly all of the residents are Alaska natives. The village, which is 1 square mile, sits right along the shores of the Beaufort Sea, 70 miles away from the proposed off-shore drill site.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That cost us 27 billion barrels of oil not to mention the pain we already feel at the pump.<\/p>\n

Of course we all know that just the losses suffered by Shell in this failed attempt will be passed along to us consumers. <\/p>\n

In the meantime, the media is slavishly deflecting blame from Obama as discussed by Ace of Spades<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Ron Futtrell at Big Journalism<\/a> notices the media’s disconnect with their consumers…or rather the lack thereof.<\/p>\n

Julia Seymour at Newsbusters<\/a> notices that they blame everyone except Obama;<\/p>\n

Instead of asking whether Obama’s anti-oil policies could be increasing the cost of gas, the networks blamed other factors such as Mideast turmoil or the “money game” played by speculators. Certainly, the turmoil in Libya, Egypt and surrounding nations has increased worries about oil production and can influence the price. But the networks also should have looked for explanations much closer to home, like Obama\u2019s many regulatory actions taken against the oil industry.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Scott Witlock at Newsbusters<\/a> watched George Stephanopolis chastise you for your “gripes” and making Obama’s life difficult; <\/p>\n

Good Morning America’s George Stephanopoulos on Monday described the country’s “gas gripes” over rising fuel costs, spinning, “Soaring prices lead to new pain for the President as big oil gets ready to report record profits.” <\/p>\n

The former Democratic operative turned journalist tried to put the best face on Barack Obama’s growing problems: “And, Jake, these gas prices are also knocking down President Obama’s poll numbers, which is why he’s out there nearly every day addressing this problem.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Addressing the problem IS the problem. Instead of yapping like a constipated Yorky, our president needs to solve the problem and throw open the floodgates of developers and drillers to solve not only the fuel problem, but take a chunk out of the unemployment rate, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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