Raise taxes on the evil Oil Companies, Michelle needs another Vacation !!!...

Looks like Obama and company is talking once again about raising taxes on those evil oil companies and make them pay "Their fair share" by taking away tax incentives to explore and develop more domestic sources of energy....

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IBD has an interesting piece on this...

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President Obama's 2011 budget would do away with $4 billion in accelerated depreciation, depletion allowances and other long-established incentives for oil and gas drilling. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., has introduced a bill that would remove another $20 billion of industry "tax breaks."

According to the American Petroleum Institute, over the next decade tax hikes on the industry could exceed $80 billion. But both the president and Sen. Menendez argue that because profits are so high, removing these tax preferences will not be a disincentive to robust domestic production. They're dead wrong.

Without question, hiking the tax burden on America's oil and gas companies will mean less, not more, domestic energy production. And though the "enemy" is Big Oil, according to the Independent Petroleum Association these tax increases will fall disproportionately on small drilling companies and could potentially reduce domestic oil and gas production by 20% to 40%.

How far off is this?....

New Poll shows Governor Bob McDonnell with a 64% approval rating....

Al Franken and his "felon" friends?....

Turns out now that more than 300 felons were allowed to vote during the 2008 general election in Minnesota where Al Franken, after an intensive and extended recount where the above ballot was recorded for Franken, was elected the Senator for the state...

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Michael Walsh has the following post on this manipulation of the voting process. Remember 2000 when Gore played the system for all its worth trying to steal that election?....

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Mr. President, "Surprised, disappointed, and angry"?...

That is what was reported coming from the President and his administration...

The document, acquired by a well-placed US source, threatens to undermine US President Barack Obama's claim last week that all Americans were "surprised, disappointed and angry" to learn of Megrahi's release.

The note added: "Nevertheless, if Scottish authorities come to the conclusion that Megrahi must be released from Scottish custody, the US position is that conditional release on compassionate grounds would be a far preferable alternative to prisoner transfer, which we strongly oppose."

But then there were these statements coming out of the Obama Adminstration in August 2009

"It's the policy of this administration as enunciated ... by Secretary of State [Hillary] Clinton, that this individual should serve out his term where he's serving it right now," said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs.

What happened to just blaming everything on BP?...

Obama and gang looking to destroy our energy independence....

Exactly...

The Obama Equation...

(a) (y) - k = x (oil allowed to leak into the Gulf)

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Now it has been a few years since high school algebra class with Mrs. Resnick, but if I remember correctly it is possible to calculate a unknown result if you are able to find and use other known factors of the equation...

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Let us take the Deepwater Horizon incident in the Gulf of Mexico as an example...

Let us also take a look at the "Obama factors" in this equation...

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The Deepwater Horizon incident is an unfortunate accident that has resulted in 13 members of the Deepwater Horizon rig being killed as well as large damages to the coastal environments and economies. This will be a event that will take decades to know the actual costs to communities, individuals, economies, wildlife, and direction the country takes towards energy independence...

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There has already been much written about how this event will highlight the evils of fossil fuels, their effects on the environment, global warming, and how the country must switch to "renewable" or "alternative" forms of energy to save the world...

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With that there has also been much written about the 40+ years since the last large oil spill like this type and the impressive track record during this time. Also how efficient and productive oil and Natural gas is compared to many of the "alternative" forms of energy and how Oil\Gas has powered and continues to power the worlds economies....

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There has also been much written about how BP is at fault and how BP must pay for the whole incident clean-up and damages to the environment and working communities. In fact the Secretary of the Interior has stated that they (obama administration) must keep "their boot on the throat" of BP to ensure they stop the leaking well and Pay for Everything...

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It is also apparent that the Obama administration took its time in initially responding to this incident. But let us also look at other algebraic factors we can incorporate into the "Obama equation" to determine the amount of oil allowed to leak into the gulf as the result of the administrations inept handling of this incident...

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a = flow rate at well head

y = actual days allowed to leak

k = amount of oil skimmed off surface by ships

b = amount of oil burned off by using fire booms

d = days it took to get the fire booms to the site since the fedgov

did not have them as required by their own law

q = number of days that the Obama admin refused foreign offers of help

j = the Jones act that Obama refused to suspend thus keeping foreign ships from helping

h = number of hours wasted by Fedgov incompetence and infighting

f = results of the Fedgov in actually doing anything that stopped the leak

bs = Obama's visits to the Gulf and actual action to stop the physical leak

r = days it took the Obama admin before they even acknowledged the incident

m = jobs and production lost due to the Obama admins moritorium on offshore drilling

c = concerts held to aid the coastal communites effected by the spill

w = the number of times that Obama blames this whole thing on George W. Bush

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2010 Stuarts Draft Firemen's Parade...

Craig Shrewsbury with his truck that we used for the 2010 Stuarts Draft Firemen's Parade representing the Augusta County Republican Committee...

Congressmen Bob Goodlatte did stop by the parade line-up area for a short time but had to leave to get to the Bridgewater parade that he already committed to walk in. The Congressman's wife, Maryellen Goodlatte did elect to walk the Draft parade to represent the Congressmen...

Cougar Carwash in Stuarts Draft

Delegate Ben Cline greeting many of the people along the parade route.....

Maryellen Goodlatte and Delegate Steve Landes along the parade route....

Delegate Steve Landes

Delegate Ben Cline

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The Science of the Oil Spill in the Gulf...

There is a audio Podcast over at the Energy Tomorrow site where they have a conversation with Dr. David Vaughan from the Mote Marine Lab regarding the oil in the Gulf and its movement..

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I had the opportunity to meet Dr. Vaughan during my last trip to the Keys and it was a pleasure to talk with a knowledgeable person regarding the oil spill who did not have a political, environmental, or industry "spin" to the topic...

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