Congratulations, House Republicans!

What data did I get wrong? I posted the first 5 years of each persons administration. I can't post the last 3 years of Obama's admin, because we haven't reached it yet.

The number of leases since Obama took office has exceeded 9000. The yearly chart ends in Oct of 2013.

Posting total numbers of leases doesn't mean much of anything when technology has changed. The number of leases producing has increased. The number of acres producing has increased. We are more efficient today. In an earlier post I did a link to acres up for lease vs the actual acres leased. You can't blame Obama if people aren't willing to pay to lease the land.

That wasn't the only issue; many government lands were leased to oil companies, but they didn't drill for oil for whatever reasons. It wasn't that they didn't have any leases; they just left them inactive. That's not the government's fault.

Once more: name one lie, attach it to more than some googled RW booby-hatched opinions. Google you up a real dictionary IE: Websters and look up "facts", find some and attach them to your opinion. If you don't start doing that more, I will put you on ignore. Answering your "Oh yeah, well so's Obama's mother," retorts is a tiring and wasteful enterprise. Its like couple of kids in the backseat, "are we there yet"-ing in a traffic jam.

Grow up. "Obama lies," doesn't further the conversation a lick. If you want to convince me, don't feed me that blogger's opinion and tell me that crap is fact.

Thanks for reminding me of fact check.org.

coopsnoop changed after the Supreme Court ruling news organizations (Fox specifically) are not Constitutionally bound to tell the truth. cowpatty is no liar. He's a "journalist". Like Glen Beck claimed he was "rodeo clown", not a reporter. Guess that's why he smells like cowflop.

Yeah, that's the ticket, carpfart is a Fox 'journalist'.

Do you have anything that has been updated? I mean 2012 was prior to the last election.

Here is an example:

This was updated before the ACA was even passed.

Idiot. What part of net exporting, largest oil producer on the planet don't you get. Bigger than Saudi, bigger than Kuwait, bigger than Iraq, bigger than Iran - anybody. Numero Uno! Why is it that barrel prices went down and gas prices didn't? That wasn't the President. That was the 1%, the guys like the Koch brother ******* you eight ways to Sunday.

We don't need to drill more, we need to try and hang a couple of bankers and oil men.

That's it. You're blocked.

A lot of which comes from public lands. Why are we exporting oil anywhere? The oil companies are ******* us worse than OPEC ever did. This President, Barack Obama pumps more oil than any other President in history. This President still allows billions of dollars to go to oik companies as subsidy. Why have the oil companies capped THOUSANDS of Gulf of Mexico wells that could produce millions of barrels for years? They want to **** up public lands, that's why. Why do you support people who don't give a fart in a windstorm about you?

No **** Sherlock, as it should be. As a Republican and a business owner, I believe in capitalism. Even for capitalists. I don't think the government should protect businesses from the foibles of the market. Socialism for no-one, not even WalMart, a major welfare queen.

Bullshit on your bullshit, ace. EVERYBODY want jobs and a good economy regardless of how they feel about the environment. The fact is nobody, NOBODY, wants this unnecessary **** in their freaking backyards or tha national lands. NOFUCKINGBODY.

For example:


Fri Feb 21, 2014 at 02:27 PM PST
Exxon CEO sues to stop fracking project, hurts his property values

by Rob DaporeFollow

Before going on, take the time to take that last sip of whatever you're drinking, swirl it in your mouth, really enjoy the flavor, the texture, all of it. Then swallow it before jumping over the orange swiggle thingy because this is so funny that you might spit it out all over you're computer screen. This ain't snark or from the Onion. You've been warned, don't blame me.

Thinkprogress reports:

As ExxonMobil’s CEO, it’s Rex Tillerson’s job to promote the hydraulic fracturing enabling the recent oil and gas boom, and fight regulatory oversight. The oil company is the biggest natural gas producer in the U.S., relying on the controversial drilling technology to extract it.

The exception is when Tillerson’s $5 million property value might be harmed. Tillerson has joined a lawsuit that cites fracking’s consequences in order to block the construction of a 160-foot water tower next to his and his wife’s Texas home.

The Wall Street Journal reports the tower would supply water to a nearby fracking site, and the plaintiffs argue the project would cause too much noise and traffic from hauling the water from the tower to the drilling site. The water tower, owned by Cross Timbers Water Supply Corporation, “will sell water to oil and gas explorers for fracing [sic] shale formations leading to traffic with heavy trucks on FM 407, creating a noise nuisance and traffic hazards,” the suit says.

Aww, poor Texas Rex! Apparently his fee fees are going to hurt from hydrofracking. C'mon Rex, this is Texas! Like everything there, ya gotta think big! Think of all the thousands... hundreds... dozens of jobs that will be created right outside your door. You're a job creator. Where's you're pride? And it all be on the up and up. No worries about that water either. It's just a tower that will hold water before it's blended in with all those totally safe chemicals that only Dick Cheney and the Supreme Court need to know about so shut your yap. And those hundreds of earthquakes happening in no fault areas like in Oklahoma, and within your state west of Dallas and in the tiny town of Azle where they're feeling it over 3.0 on the Richter scale? Why should they have all the fun? Now you can have it right at your doorstep! It's not a bug, it's a feature.

I say turn that frown upside down and welcome Cross Timbers as your new neighbors. Be a shining example of how wonderful and safe hydrofracking can be. Put your money where your mouth is.

Or are you full of ***t?

Feb 24, 2014, 12:02pm CST Updated: Feb 24, 2014, 12:30pm CST
Exxon CEO, Dick Armey sue to stop water tower in Bartonville

Nicholas Sakelaris
Staff Writer- Dallas Business Journal
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Dick Armey, former U.S. House majority leader, and Rex Tillerson, the CEO and chairman of Exxon Mobil Corp. have filed a lawsuit to stop construction of a 160-foot water tower in Bartonville. In addition to supplying water to the community the tower would sell water for hydraulic fracking.

The story has garnered national attention because it involves high-profile names, especially Tillerson, whose Irving-based Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM) is the world's largest oil company and fracks oil and gas wells all over the country.

The lawsuit was filed against the Bartonville Water Supply Corp., who was building the water tower on 4.75 acres in Bartonville, a rural town with several million-dollar properties just south of Denton. The BWSC has since changed its name to Cross Timbers Water Supply Corp.

The water tower was about 30 days away from completion when construction was halted by the lawsuit, said Jim Leggieri, general manager for the CTWSC.

Armey, the lead plaintiff in the case, owns a 78-acre ranch valued at $2 million adjacent to the water tower site. The lawsuit explains that he bought the home with the understanding that the BWSC would build a low-rise water tower that would be shielded by trees.

The plaintiffs say the 750,000-gallon tower is a nuisance and accuse BWSC of making a “false misrepresentation” by promising to build ground level tanks that wouldn’t be visible over the trees.

“The construction of the water tower will create a constant and unbearable nuisance to those that live next to it,” the lawsuit says.

Leggieri said the bigger tower was needed to supply water to homes and for fire protection. The site has a water well that taps an underground aquifer in addition to a 52-inch water supply line from the Upper Trinity Regional Water District.

Initially, an elevated water tower was not planned for the site.

"Things change. Times change. The area grows," Leggieri said. "It's just a great location based on the facilities we have up there."

Tillerson and his wife, Renda, own the Bar RR Ranches LLC, a $5 million property with homes, horse stables and training facilities.

Several other homeowners joined the suit and have properties valued at $1 million or more.

The plaintiffs bought their homes so they could live in an “upscale community free of industrial properties, tall buildings and other structures that might devalue their properties and adversely impact the rural lifestyle they sought to enjoy,” according to the suit.

The water from the tower would be sold to oil and drillers, leading to heavy truck traffic on FM 407, “creating a noise nuisance and traffic hazards,” according to the suit.

The lawsuit seeks $40 million in total damages and calls for the dismantling and removal of the water tower.

When the contractor, Landmark Structures, got pulled off the job last year, it cost CTWSC penalties, Leggieri said.

"Whenever we get the go-ahead, then they will return and we will use the same contractor to finish," he said.

Bartonville denied the initial permit to build the tower because of its height. But CTWSC sued the city and was granted a building permit by the court, which ruled that the Texas State Water Code gives broad authority to water districts that trumps city zoning restrictions, said Bill Wood, an attorney for the CTWSC.

Bartonville appealed, and that's when construction stopped. All that remained to be done was to lift the water bowl into place, paint it and turn on the pipes, Wood said.

Both the CTWSC's lawsuit against the city and the property owners' suit have been consolidated now, Wood said.

A call to the plaintiff's attorney has not been returned.

Nicholas covers the energy and banking beats for the Dallas Business Journal. Subscribe the Energy Inc. newsletter

Hey, asshole, whats wrong with Joan McCarter?

Better credentials than your freaking John Birch/Posse Commatatus blogs read by fifteen or twenty wanna be militia mooks in their mother's basement.



Joan McCarterJoan McCarter is a contributing editor and Kos Fellow at Daily Kos, one of the foremost progressive blogs. She was born in Corral, Idaho to Joe and Mercedes McCarter. Her father is a former state chair of the Idaho Democratic Party. She first gained political experience going door to door for Senator Frank Church with her mother. She has since worked for then Congressman Ron Wyden. Afterwards she received her master’s degree from University of Washington in international studies. She is now a full-time writer and blogger.

Q: What has helped shape your progressive values?

A: I grew up in a deeply Democratic and progressive family, sort of an oddity in Idaho. But there was never a time when I held any other values. I think it’s genetic: my paternal great-grandfather served in Idaho’s second legislature as a populist.

Q: What role did progressive faith groups play, if any, in the success of progressive candidates in the western states.

A: Not a lot, frankly. Unfortunately the faith groups that have been politically active and successful in western states tend to not be particularly progressive. There have been examples of civic action by progressive and mainstream faith groups, like the coalition that worked with the southern poverty law center in northern Idaho to bring down the Aryan Nations.

Q: How are progressive Democrats able to compete in states like Idaho, Wyoming and Nebraska?

A: They’ll be able to compete by articulating the important message that government needs to look out for all of us again, that when the Farm Bill isn’t even relevant to family farmers and ranchers anymore, we need change. It’s a pragmatic message about what the government can do to help–making health care affordable, making sure that hunters and fishermen still have access to public lands, that the air and water aren’t being ruined by oil and gas drilling and mining–and staying out of things like the Patriot Act.

Q: In the upcoming 2008 election do you see even more races coming into play for progressive candidates?

A: It depends largely on whether the Democrats can sustain the fight on ending the war. We voted for them in 2006 because of the Iraq debacle, and while I think most Americans understand the obstacles in the way of ending the war–the Republicans–they still need to see that the Democrats will fight tooth and nail to end it. That will mean getting serious about using the power of the purse–using the power granted to the legislative branch by the Constitution to check an out-of-control executive.

Q: If you had to bet on one race, which one would it be and why?

A: I’m going to go out on a limb and say Oregon Senate. Gordon Smith hasn’t really made anyone happy on his Iraq war flip-flopping. Moderates and liberals don’t trust him, and conservatives are angry. But more than that, his record on the environment is abysmal, particularly his role along with Dick Cheney in the Klamath Basin Fish Kill which devastated salmon runs in southern Oregon and northern California. He’s also vowed to take on the mantle of Larry Craig as industry’s go-to guy in the Senate in opposing environmental laws and regulations. Oregonians have as strong a conservationist bent as any voters in the nation, and Smith’s opponent–whether Jeff Merkley or Steve Novick–will have a stronger record on the environment.

Q: Much of Larry LaRocco’s campaign to represent Idaho in the U.S. Senate has been about working a day in the life of a middle class Americans. How is this resonating with voters in Idaho and is it actually having an effect on the policies in his campaign?

A: It’s still early in the campaign, but LaRocco’s received some great local news coverage. But he’s also out working in communities and meeting people. LaRocco has always been one of the state’s best at retail politics, because he absolutely loves it. He visited every county and shook nearly 30,000 hands in his race for lieutenant governor last year, a race he took on to prepare for the long slog that this Senate race would present. That commitment to meeting people face-to-face, to spending a day in their shoes working their jobs, and to spending time listening to them goes a long way in a state as small as Idaho, in population, anyway.

Q: With the current Larry Craig scandal how does this help LaRocco’s chances in the general election?

A: The scandal adds to a vague sense of dissatisfaction with Idaho Republicans that’s been growing in the state. Only one of the state’s federal representatives, Senator Crapo, is polling above 50 percent right now. A great deal is going to depend on whether Craig actually does resign, and whether Gov. Otter appoints a placeholder replacement to the office, or if he gives it to one of the likely contenders in the primary. He’s one of the most unpredictable politicians in the state, so no one knows what he’d do, but it’s well known that the candidate who seemed to everyone to be the most likely successor–current lieutenant governor Jim Risch–is one of Otter’s least favorite people. It’s still all a huge unknown. But the Craig situation has created turmoil in the party back home, and that certainly can’t hurt an underdog like LaRocco.

Q: The netroots recently came together to combat President Bush’s fundraiser for Dave Reichert by raising over 100,000 dollars for Darcy Burner’s campaign. Do you believe this kind of fundraising is the key to a people-powered political system?

A: We raised over $100K with well over 3,000 donations. It’s not the amount raised but the number of donations that is the key to people-powered politics. The combined $35 donations of thousands of people translates to thousands of people who are invested, activated, and ready to work all around the country for progressive candidates.

Q: If you had the ear of DNC Chair Howard Dean what advice would you give him regarding states like Idaho, Wyoming and other traditionally Republican states?

A: I would thank him for doing what no previous DNC chair has done–he’s invested in Idaho, in Alaska, in Wyoming. He’s provided the tools for the near-moribund party structures in these states to revive and to start organizing again. So I’d tell him to keep up the good work.

Q: Have you ever considered running for office yourself? If you were to ever serve what issue would be your pet project?

A: I worked for a member of Congress for many years, Ron Wyden from Oregon when he was still in the House. That experience taught me that I really don’t have the personality for either running for office, or serving. For one thing, I loathe the telephone, and that’s the first thing a candidate has to do. Pick up the phone and stay on the phone dialing for dollars. But more than that, legislating and governing requires more compromise than I’m often comfortable with. I much prefer being an outside observer. However, if someone were to make me queen, I’d find ways to make rural western economies work, particularly family farms and ranches, in ways that didn’t hurt the environment.
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From EIA.gov.


Looks like we've been increasing our exports of oil from 10,464 to 43,778 in five years. A four-fold increase.

ice brain has been shown to be an ignoramus again! No surprise.

Even worse. IN the Green Zone. Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi , in your own words, was in a war zone. Thank-you for pointing it out. Whats so secret? I am an ex-Navy submariner, and I enlisted on Feb 3, 1972. I'm married to an ex-Cia (28 years), she's been an officer in the county Republican women's club. I retired from mechanical desin and production engineering and now I hand dye fabrics and make dolls. My life's an open book, all you need to do is freaking ask the question. A lot of the people on this site I've know since Abuzz and even on other forums.

By the way, thank you for your service.

You're a vet and you HATE socialized medicine? Are you kidding me???????

Deadly attack in Libya's Benghazi
Nine people killed and 24 wounded after gunmen attack security headquarters in eastern city, say officials.


Gunmen have attacked a security forces headquarters in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi, killing nine people and wounding 24, authorities said, blaming a group allegedly behind the attack of a US diplomatic post there.

A security official said Friday's attack started when dozens of gunmen opened fire with machine guns and mortar bombs. The attack lasted for an hour, with the fighting heard miles away.

Libyan commandos later arrived and fought the attackers, reported the Associated Press news agency. The official said the attackers suffered heavy casualties, the agency added.

A statement issued by the interim government and read by Ahmed al-Amin, the cabinet spokesman, put the death toll at nine people.

Milad al-Zowi, a commando spokesman, said the dead were six army commandos and three police officers.

Zowi said that three soldiers and a police officer were missing after the battle.

A hospital official said his hospital treated 24 people wounded in the fighting, with most suffering gunshot wounds to the chest and the abdomen. Some were in critical condition, he said.

The government said a number of fighters were killed, while others were wounded and arrested.

Attackers likely tried to get their hands on a car loaded with weapons and ammunition that the security forces had confiscated the previous night, authorities added.

A security official at the Benghazi headquarters, Gamal al-Amami, said the driver of the vehicle belonged to the Libya Shield militia.

The government's statement blamed the Ansar al-Shariah group for the attack, along with other "criminal groups", adding it would not tolerate "the presence of armed and illegal terrorist groups".

Ansar al-Shariah is blamed for the attack on the US diplomatic mission that killed the US ambassador, Chris Stevens, and three other Americans on September 11, 2012.

Source Dimwit.

ice brain, The only dimwit on a2k is you! You never have shown you were right on anything you posted. NONE! You're batting 1,000 on being wrong. That's a new record on a2k or any social forum in this world.