Jon writes:
In all honesty, how many jobs are we just passing up in the name of growth, progress, the economy, andmost ironically of alljob creation?
You're missing the Big Oil Picture. U.S. energy companies can help you with that.
Here in the U.S., we're producing more domestic oil than at any time in the past eight years.
Still, energy companies and their stooges continue to attack Obama administration energy and environmental policies, notwithstanding the large numbers of existing oil leases they have not even begun to develop. Asking them to support green policies is absurd--cutting demand would be like cutting their own throats.
That's because they see the BOP.
They could get bigger, richer, more powerful.
They could enjoy fewer regulatory constraints...if those pesky liberals, and their namby pamby concerns for the environment, jobs and equitable income distribution, were driven into a wilderness clear-cut and fracked.
Right now, minimizing the number of jobs created during 2008-2012 is a big part of the BOP. Everything else will flow from that.
Besides, they don't need no stinking jobs.
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