Energy, White Lies and Job Creation

Posted on Saturday, September 10, 2011 by Post Scripts

Posted by Tina

White lie, a euphemism for such lies as one finds it convenient to tell, and excuses himself for telling. – Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

The president is a man of gestures not of action. He makes statements designed to make people happy but there is no follow through. One example is in his yammering on energy production in the Gulf. Back in May, as gas prices soared, he came before the American people and made an announcement that he had directed his administration to ramp up U.S. oil production by extending existing leases in the Gulf of Mexico. Unfortunately not much has happened.

Here’s the latest dope:

It’s been eclipsed somewhat in recent months by the continued stagnation of the economy and the increasingly loud Republican presidential nomination battle, but the energy crisis caused by President Obama’s Permatorium on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico is just as serious as it ever was.

And it’s going to get worse if something isn’t done soon to lift the bureaucratic strangulation being applied to the oil and natural gas industries by Obama’s Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar.

We at Post Scripts are more than happy to share the above video brought to you by the Offshore Marine Service Association.

Unfortunately when government has shown itself to be ineffective, and when it causes more problems than it solves, it becomes necessary for the people to take matters into their own hands just as the folks at this association have by creating this video. Like many of us they have seen in their own backyards what takes place when the Washington bureaucracy runs counter to the needs of the people.

A separate Washington Examiner article describes the extent to which Mr. Salazar is blowing smoke:

Salazar claims oil production in the Gulf of Mexico has remained at “an all-time high” despite the Deepwater Horizon disaster and the federal moratorium and permatorium that have stopped all deepwater drilling activity, put thousands of people in Texas, Lousiana, Mississippi and Alabama out of work, and kept the region’s energy economy mired in a deep recession.

But according to the Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration, Gulf oil production has dropped nearly 300,000 barrels per day since the Deepwater Horizon tragedy.(emphasis mine)

This administration has all kinds of tools at the ready to help American industry create jobs. Instead, Obama, along with likeminded cohorts in Congress, has chosen to continue in the quest to “fundamentally transform” this great nation.

I SAY…IF YOU WANT JOB CREATION…VOTE THEM ALL OUT IN 2012.

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3 Responses to Energy, White Lies and Job Creation

  1. Pie Guevara says:
    Saturday, September 10, 2011 at 4:55 pm

    Excellent blog post Tina.

    Re: “The president is a man of gestures not of action.”

    Precisely. America bought an orator, not a leader of the greatest nation in the free world.

  2. Tina says:
    Saturday, September 10, 2011 at 9:39 pm

    Thanks Pie…and now…

    Quentin: “What percentage of gulf oil production is represented by that 300,000 bbl/day? How many jobs, if any, are affected by the loss? That is some information we could use.”

    What, pray tell, would you do with it?

    I’d say what is important is that permits are not forthcoming as promised!

    All the talk was just a ruse!

    Production is down…does the percentage matter in the overall ugly picture?

    Rigs have left the gulf permanently; jobs have been lost, some of them pernmanenly; revenues to our government are lost; revenues to state and local governments have been lost; related and support businesses are also hurt!

    And all of it unnecessary!

    Let’s hear from some of the folks affected, shall we?

    http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/tx08_brady/09_16_10_Job_loss_mounting.html

    “Due to the moratorium, Allamon Tool Company in Montgomery, Texas was forced to lay off 53% of its employees and lost 70% of monthly revenue,” said Jerry Allamon, “If the moratorium is not lifted, Allamon Tool Company could be forced to close the business within 6 months.”

    “Due to the de facto shallow water moratorium, we have released the 3 rigs that were drilling for us during the Spring and reduced our workforce by 300 or roughly 75%,” said Mike Minarovic of Arena Energy in The Woodlands, Texas. “We have no plans to re-hire workers until this uncertainty is resolved.”

    “Like other companies in our industry, we are doing everything we can to hold on to our employees despite having little or no work for many of them to do, said Jim Noe, Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Hercules Offshore, Inc. which has idled 173 rig workers and frozen any new hiring as their rigs wait for permit approvals that never seem to come. “In our industry, the drilling rig is the catalyst for jobs it is a floating factory. In addition to the 100 workers each rig employs directly, another 400 workers rely on the rigs for their livelihoods supply boat crews, equipment manufacturers, helicopter pilots, truckers, and grocery store owners. We have 15 of the 46 available shallow water rigs now idle. The lack of permits for new shallow water wells are slowing but surely shutting down these floating factories one-by-one.”

    Houston company provides engineering support for drilling operations has laid off or lost almost 5% of their work force and shifted many employees overseas. “There is no doubt that the moratorium has affected ours and multiple others businesses and has created numerous job loses within our industry,” said PPI CEO Randy Sullivan, who notes the deepwater moratorium has meant a 92% loss in revenue from one of their largest clients which has added up to $400,000 in lost annual wages.

    Restaurants, grocery stores, and retail are all hurt.

    And all of it is unnecessary!

  3. J Soden says:
    Monday, September 12, 2011 at 5:10 pm

    If the Prez really wanted to create jobs in this country, all he would have to do is lift his dumb moratorium on drilling.

    He evidently is convinced that jobs will magically materialize just because he says so. Just think about what’s happened with Solyndra since our Prez so heavily touted that company. . .

    But then, what do you expect from someone who has never held a real job?

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