America’s Vast Energy Resources
by The Elephant's Child December 7, 2011, 4:59 pm
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Our Vast Energy ResourcesJohn Hinderaker at Powerline has an important and clear article based on a new report from the Institute for Energy Resources that I hope you will read. It is brief, comprehensive, and especially pertinent in the wake of the president’s speech yesterday and his ongoing lack of understanding of America’s energy resources.
The constant theme that America uses 25% of the world’s oil but has only 2% — to 3% of the world’s oil reserves is repeated constantly by Barack Obama and his sycophants. It is false. Mr. Obama’s lack of understanding, whether innocent or deliberate, of this simple fact has nearly bankrupted the United States and killed millions of high paying jobs.
Dec.5, 2011 — The U.S. Navy and the Agriculture Department announced plans to buy 450,000 gallons of non-food biofuels at a cost of $16 per gallon in the largest federal purchase of biofuels in U.S. history. The purchase is authorized by an executive order under the Obama administration’s “we can’t wait” (for Congressional debate or approval) campaign.
The biofuel, made from used cooking oil and algae, is meant as a demonstration aimed at promoting the use of biofuels to reduce dependence on unstable sources of foreign oil and reduce budget shocks from oil price hikes. The biofuel will be used for aircraft and surface ships of the “Great Green Fleet Carrier Strike Force” as a demonstration aimed at commercial aviation and the Defense Department. Surely the bankrupt and near bankrupt airlines would be delighted to spend $16 a gallon gor fuel as would the Defense Department whose budget is being slashed.
Please read this important Powerline post, with clear graphs, beautiful maps and a very short video. You will be glad you did. It is a beautifully done and clear exposition of the dangerously wrong direction that the administration has taken and is continuing to take in their misunderstanding of the world’s energy supplies.
Be sure to download the report from the Institute for Energy Research, it’s a keeper.
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The Sad Truth About ObamaCare.
by The Elephant's Child
When you are all excited about single-payer, government-run health care, as Democrats have been, wouldn’t the normal, intelligent thing be to look at other countries that have experienced one of the longest-running versions of the liberal-socialist dream?
British citizens who smoke, drink, or tip the scales because they’ve eaten too many fish and chips could soon be denied medical treatment for lifestyle-related illnesses. It’s a system the United States will be forced to implement under Obama Care. (emphasis added)
Great Britain’s government-run health care system, the National Health Service (NHS), has long considered limiting coverage for people with illnesses deemed to be lifestyle-related. In 2005 the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), the NHS’s guiding body, advised that smokers and obese people be refused health care. Now HHS North Yorkshire and York is preventing certain operations for the obese or smokers because they say unhealthy lifestyles lower their chance of success.
The chair of the Royal College of General practitioners, told UK reporters, ‘These policies are being introduced because of financial constraints.’
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius issued new regulations last July, for the newly mandated electronic health records—that all Americans are required to have by 2014 under the terms of the stimulus law that President Obama signed in 2009—must record not only the traditional measures of height and weight, but also the Body Mass Index, a measure of obesity.
The law also requires that these electronic health records be available—with appropriate security measures—on a national exchange. The new regulations are one of the first steps towards the government’s goal of universal adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) by 2014 as outlined in the 2009 economic stimulus law.
A person’s BMI score is used as a tool to screen for obesity or excessive body fat that could lead to other health problems. It does not measure body fat, and was never intended to be used as such a measure.
The regulations stipulate that electronic records be capable of sending public health data to state and federal health agencies such as HHS and CDC.
The Center for Disease Control calls American society “obesogenic”—meaning that American society itself promotes obesity.
I don’t believe that my health records are any of the federal government’s business. I believe that these two stories are related. Should ObamaCare not be repealed, the intrusion, the rationing, the denial of treatment will accelerate and multiply. They had to lie about the cost to get it passed. They took $500 billion out of Medicare payments to doctors and hospitals to help falsify the numbers. The whole thing is a lie. It will not be free— it’s already driving costs up. It will not improve anyone’s health—it’s not intended to do that. It is designed to redistribute the wealth—which won’t help anyone, and to make all Americans dependent on the Democrat party for their access to health care.
For Further Reading:
—Cancer Patients told life-prolonging treatment is too expensive for NHS, The Scotsman
—Patients dying because of NHS staff shortages, The Scotsman
—NHS rationing is ‘necessary evil’ say doctors, The Scotsman
—Elderly patients dying of thirst; Doctors forced to prescribe drinking water to keep the old alive, reveals devastating report on hospital care, Daily Mail
—Mediscare: The Surprising Truth: ObamaCare already has seniors’ health care slated for draconian cuts. The Wall Street Journal
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Promises, Promises, Promises!
by The Elephant's Child
How can one resist posting on this? The Obama administration, you know — the folks who promised the most transparent government ever — held a workshop on government openness.
On his first full day as President, Obama told government offices that “The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails. The government should not keep information confidential merely because officials might be embarrassed by disclosure, because errors and failures might be revealed, or because of speculative or abstract fears.”
The workshop on openness was closed to the public and to the press.
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