Progressive Control of Energy : Control the Precess & Outcomes

Our progressive socialist government can not allow a carbon based energy source to succeed as this would allow the country to create jobs and prosper. Individuals will become independent and seek out success. This is unacceptable.

For the agenda of "fundamental change" to occur as Mr Obama proclaimed back in 2008, the socialist government must demand dependency of all citizens for it's agenda to succeed. It is no accident that billions of dollars have been spent on 'green' energy and that it has failed completely.

But failure is part and parcel of the agenda of wealth transfer. See this as spending huge amounts of money we don't have and can't afford on acknowledged bad technology. Denying any form of fossil fuel development is also an agenda item of forcing the population to divert discretionary funds into energy to heat our homes and drive our cars.

The progressives know that higher energy cost drives up costs on everything, which in turns forces the population into fewer and fewer alternative choices for success in their personal lives. This is a form of control which is the very bases of socialist progressivism. Control the process and thereby control outcomes.

U.S. Government Holding Back Economic Growth
Source: Mark Mills, "The Case for Exports: America's Hydrocarbon Industry Can Revive the Economy and Eliminate the Trade Deficit," Manhattan Institute, May 2013.
June 3, 2013

The U.S. energy sector has become one of the largest energy producers in the world. The world has changed since the passage of the 1975 Energy Policy and Conservation Act, a law that set the tone for energy policy for nearly a half-century. Technology and demographics have eviscerated old ideas of limits and import dependency. Given the new abundance, the United States now has the opportunity to become a major energy exporter, says Mark Mills, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

Today, oil imports account for about 40 percent of America's $750 billion annual trade deficit, a deficit that drains the gross domestic product and kills jobs. Expanding the domestic production of hydrocarbons to reduce imports as well as increase exports will function as an enormous subsidy-free stimulus to the U.S. economy, directly creating all manner of jobs across the nation.

• Over the coming decade, private investment in the American energy renaissance is projected to grow to a cumulative $5 trillion without subsidy or taxpayer assistance.
• In the past four years alone, $150 billion of foreign direct investment has been made in America's hydrocarbon domains.
• No government stimulus program or infrastructure investment could create these results.

To ensure and accelerate all the economic, employment and geopolitical benefits from America's hydrocarbon capabilities, the U.S. government should immediately:

• Approve any and all qualified entities seeking to export natural gas.
• Approve the Keystone XL pipeline, allowing Canadian crude to replace Venezuelan imports.
• Direct the Department of Commerce to approve any application to export crude oil, which is illegal under current law.

Then the Obama administration and Congress should work together to do everything possible to:

• Encourage private domestic and foreign investment in hydrocarbons.
• Open up greater access to hydrocarbon resources on federal lands, where 85 percent of offshore -- and half of onshore -- territory remains off-limits.

Finally, Congress should:

• Pursue 21st century omnibus energy legislation, starting with a clean slate.
• Repeal the authority of the Departments of Energy and Commerce over hydrocarbon exports to open up a free market consistent with historical trade principles.
• Restructure federal energy priorities away from funding commercial projects, focusing instead on basic research and development.