Fuel Price Up? EPA wants to "Crucify" Gas, Oil & Coal companies

[Melensdad]

Got to see this one on video to believe it.

If you didn't believe the EPA was the biggest job killer in this nation before this then you will believe it now . . . and you'll also understand why prices are going up for conventional energy despite its abundance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ze3GB_b7Nuo


And here is one of several news articles I was able to find:

http://cnsnews.com/blog/craig-banni...-companies-crucify-them-just-romans-crucified

EPA Official's 'Philosophy' On Oil Companies: 'Crucify Them' - Just As Romans Crucified Conquered Citizens

Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) took to the Senate floor today to draw attention to a video of a top EPA official saying the EPA’s “philosophy” is to “crucify” and “make examples” of oil and gas companies - just as the Romans crucified random citizens in areas they conquered to ensure obedience.

Inhofe quoted a little-watched video from 2010 of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official, Region VI Administrator Al Armendariz, admitting that EPA’s “general philosophy” is to “crucify” and “make examples” of oil and gas companies.

In the video, Administrator Armendariz says:

“I was in a meeting once and I gave an analogy to my staff about my philosophy of enforcement, and I think it was probably a little crude and maybe not appropriate for the meeting, but I’ll go ahead and tell you what I said:

“It was kind of like how the Romans used to, you know, conquer villages in the Mediterranean. They’d go in to a little Turkish town somewhere, they’d find the first five guys they saw and they’d crucify them.

“Then, you know, that town was really easy to manage for the next few years.”

“It’s a deterrent factor,” Armendariz said, explaining that the EPA is following the Romans’ philosophy for subjugating conquered villages.

Soon after Armendariz touted the EPA’s “philosophy,” the EPA began a smear campaigns natural gas producers . . .

 

[joec]

Please tell me what new EPA rules have been put into effect that would cause this post. What has changed really, since I sure haven't seen any new rules reported for a long time now.

 

[Melensdad]

Are you serious?

 

[joec]

Are you serious?

As a heart attack, please point out rules passed anytime over the last 10 years that have hurt any of the industries please.

 

[Melensdad]

It has been in the media, and even posted here, so many times that I'll let you do the work.

 

[muleman]

it is estimated that the hysteria created by the EPA toward fracking has cost my area over 30,000 good paying jobs and thousands of landowners millions of dollars. Since the moratorium was enacted 3 years ago there has been no drilling and even the state has been stiffed on their leases on forest land. Now the companies have left town for areas that are not so crazy with rules.

 

[joec]

it is estimated that the hysteria created by the EPA toward fracking has cost my area over 30,000 good paying jobs and thousands of landowners millions of dollars. Since the moratorium was enacted 3 years ago there has been no drilling and even the state has been stiffed on their leases on forest land. Now the companies have left town for areas that are not so crazy with rules.

Ok, I grant you that however why and don't use the word hysteria. Clean air, water and our environment are not hysteria that is unless you like dieing of cancers and other health issues. So I ask when did the GOP find the environment wasn't worth protecting as for most of my life they where the leaders in that area that is until just the last few years.

Again I ask show me specific rulings that aren't in the public interest that have been pushed.

 

[joec]

It has been in the media, and even posted here, so many times that I'll let you do the work.

Really Mel then perhaps point me to the posts since I read little of the crap anymore.

 

[waybomb]

Clean air, water and our environment are not hysteria that is unless you like dieing of cancers and other health issues. .

Put your money where your mouth is. Do not do ANYTHING from now that can pollute air, water, or the environment. Buy nothing, using nothing, do nothing that does so. Also means get off the damn internet. What a load of hypocritical bullshit. Stop telling people how to act if you do not already do so yourself.

and ps - most people die from health issues. Very few are crushed to death, shot to death, eaten by sharks, carried away by pterodactyls, etc, relatively speaking.

What a completely dumb statement JoeC.

 

[tiredretired]

This is an article from 2009 concerning a decision by the EPA that turned a lot of heads. Read it here.

The EPA's war on coal is ill timed and ill conceived. An opinion, yes. Think about it. Right in the middle of the worst economic depression since the 30's? New advances in Natural Gas extraction will make this all a moot point anyway so why not just let the free market evolve and take care of this issue on its own. If they believed in the free market that is.

There seems to be a lack of balance and common sense within the Obama administration. A real failure to balance the needs of the economy and the needs of the environment. Too much pandering to the enviro-nazis with not enough consideration given to finding an equal balance to maintain and increase jobs during this downturn. Another example of how the Obama administration has failed this country.