Obama's Regulatory Tsunami More Destructive than Taxes

The genuinely scary thing isn't that Obama is president - it's that millions of people voted for this fraud.

Worse, many of them are lining up to do so again.

God help us.

Right-O!!!

who said if you are educated that you have brains!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Many have asked how much of the ObamaGas™ and ObamaDiesel™ per gallon costs are Taxes and NOT the actual costs of drilling, transporting, refining and selling. This does NOT include research and fees for leasing drilling sites.

Many have asked why are ObamaGas™ and ObamaDiesel™ per gallon costs different in my State, City or Locale, from other areas?

The charts in this post should answer most if not all of those questions - see for yourself.

http://thpatriots.blogspot.com/2011/04/gasoline-and-diesel-taxes-combined.html

Another example of regulatory creep

Alaska was given complete control over our submerged lands in a 1953 law, the Submerged Lands Law. This means that the State controls all activities on navigable waterways up to the high water mark.

Last summer, a man who lives near Eagle (Jim Wilde) was headed back from picking up supplies. He had a full boat and two elderly passengers, one of them his wife. He was himself 70 years old. The Yukon River flows through a National Park at some points and the National Park Service waved him over. He thought they were having boat problems, so in Alaska tradition, he pulled up to ask them if they needed help. He was asked for his boat registration. He was in violation on that, which I'd estimate 90% of the residents of Eagle and surrounding area are in violation. It's a State law, anyway.

The officers said they were going to board his boat. He was heavily loaded in the middle of a river that is the 5th largest US river by water volumn -- in other words, he risked swamping, so he told to meet him at the bank. On the way there, they tried to ram his boat several times and then when they got there, they tased Mr. Wilde and threw him in the mud (in other words, still on State land), handcuffed him and dragged him off to jail. They pointed their weapons at his passengers and told them to get face-down in the mud.

As the hearing has unfolded, it has come out that neither the State of Alaska nor the Coast Guard, which does have some ceded jurisdiction along the Yukon near the Canadian border, had granted the National Park any authority to stop people on the Yukon over State regulations. The Park Service is insisting that they "assimilated" the authority and that it is perfectly all right for them to do so. Just sit down and shut up, Americans, because we have assumed the authority!

So, regulations. If a State Trooper or a Alaska Fish & Game officer had stopped Mr. Wilde for that same violation, they would have given him a 50 dollar ticket and that would have been that. They also would have had better sense than to try to board his boat in the middle of the Yukon. THe feds however, tased him, physically assaulted him, handcuffed him, threatened his passengers and cost him untold amounts of money in attorney's fees. Don Young, our US Rep, is demanding to know how much the NPS has spent on the case so far.

Regulatory tsunami indeed!

The EPA just shut down Shell Oil's project in the Beaufort Sea. It had passed the Alaska permitting process, and the DOE permitting process, but the EPA is concerned that a village of 200 people 70 miles away will experience some additional air pollution. For those unfamiliar with the Alaska coast -- WIND!!!!! Lots and lots of WIND!!!!

But there you have it! Obama's regulatory tsunami. What does it mean to you and I?

We're talking an estimated 27 billion barrels of oil, according to the US Geological Survey for that portion of the Arctic Ocean. That probably means nothing to you, but for comparison, that represents 2 1/2 times more oil than has flowed down the Trans Alaska Pipeline throughout its 30-year history. The TAPS is running at 1/3 capacity, so has plenty of room for this oil.

You don't think that would make a difference at the pump? Too many years out?

Well, Gull Island, another site just north of Prudhoe, but far enough away not to be affected by percolation, was tapped in the 1970s, then forced into mothball by the feds. It could be up and running in 12-18 months if the feds would just give the go-ahead.

Get it now?

The uneducated boneheads the liberals have developed with their indoctrination camps (public schools and colleges) voted in a communist dictator. Just Great!

How High will ObamaGas™ go? Prices expected to be 6 Dollars for a Gallon ObamaGas™ by Mid-Summer.

The price for a gallon of ObamaGas™ in Chicago is now the highest in the nation.

The AVERAGE price for a gallon of unleaded regular ObamaGas™ in Chicago now stands at 4.27 – a 12 cent increase in the past two weeks.

Several stations in Chicago were selling ObamaGas™ for between 4.60 and 4.70 a gallon.

http://thpatriots.blogspot.com/2011/04/gas-prices-up-for-30-straight-days.html

Hey ya noticed he's from Chi-town! At what point in time did you think he was Honest&Fair;?!!!

REGULATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!

We had wars for less insult.

This is one of key elements of picking winners and losers. FDR was famous for this sort of favaoritism. We now have it in spades. And with no accountability. Who will stop this madman??? To call him Orwellian is to insult Orwell!!! What a dilemma....

Uh, oh, you said "spades", you must be a racist!

How much does Barack Obama hate the poor working class?

Barack Obama policies has cost millions of the poor working class to lose their Jobs.

Now ObamaGas™ is so high the working poor cannot even afford to look for Jobs.

Barack Obama policies has made ObamaGas™ so high that it won't be long until it will cost more for the working poor to fill up their cars - than the car is worth.

Grocery prices are rising because of ObamaGas™.

Barack Obama wants to raise taxes on the working poor so that Big Corporations like General Electric can be tax free and contribute to his re-election.

Understand he's alway's been swinging deal's! They fit in with his B.S. Agendas,regardless towards who he hurts! Once a Tard-Always a Retart!!!

Barry has his boot on the throat of the US economy. Only those who are politically connected reap the benefits of protection from competitors by regulation.

Where are the Democrats complaining about ObamaGas™ prices of over 4 dollars a gallon and 5 dollars a gallon in many areas?

July 8th of 2008: "Pelosi Asks Bush to Draw from Petroleum Reserve to Combat Surge in Oil Prices."

Now, remember, we're talking about four-dollar-a-gallon here, four years ago. "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked Bush on Tuesday to draw down a portion of the country's strategic petroleum reserves as a way to reduce crude prices and help motorists who are suffering from the rising cost of gasoline."

Politics USA, April 26, 2008: "Democrats Blame Bush and Republicans for High Gas and Oil Prices -- This week Senator Frank Lautenberg delivered the Democrat radio address. Lautenberg placed the blame for high prices of gasoline and oil firmly at the feet of George W. Bush and the Republican Party."

Hey, Lurita. Why does your after-story bio say that you are "African American"? Who cares? There are other black commentators that don't feel the need to tell us this inconsequential fact. What's the reason?

Well at Least She is Edjamacated?!!!

How in the world did the executive office obtain so much power through executive orders? Is this a dictatorship? How did tis come to pass!

This man is a lying, back stabbing, two faced, anti-ameircan hypocrite. He broadcasts a - "Do as I say, not as I do" mentality, same as his America-hating wife has. They deserve a hut in Kenya, nothing more.

And a daily BEATING.

Ha! Ha! Ha! Good One!!!

Large old corporations also don't mind regulation as it limits competition from smaller leaner firms. Indeed that is one of their primary purposes in the first place. Its all a scam, has nothing do do with protecting consumers or savers, or the enviornment. It all has to do with raising money and cutting deals with big corporate management, with unions and other organized Washington interests. For this reason congress should focus first on the discretionary budget, gut the regulatory agencies, then turn to the entitlements which can't be reformed until Republicans control the White House.

Oh, yeah....and Republicans are going to change all that? Dude. Keep smokin' that pipe.

johnm h Your are spot on . If we do not get the regulatory agencies under control we will have no chance at recovery .

The Regulation Game

Politicians love "regulation" (and I use quotes, as control is more accurate) for the simple reason that they lead to bribes (I mean campaign cash) from those in the industry who want favors, or want to avoid penalties, costs or favors for their competitors.

What would a good Democrat who investigates government regulation of industry say? As Matt Welch wrote at http://reason.org/news/show/the-corporation-word:

"December saw the passing of a great American: the academic and bureaucrat Alfred E. Kahn, father of airline deregulation. Kahn was a liberal Democrat who, after applying rigorous study to the impact of federal regulation on industry, came to the conclusion that in many cases regulation served to raise prices, blunt innovation, form government-sanctioned industrial cartels, and discriminate against new businesses. The market, not the government, was the most effective tool to discipline big business, because corporations that punished their customers were doomed to failure. In short, Kahn understood that misguided regulation produced exactly what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claims to despise: big business and government entwined in unholy corporatism."

When politicians grant favors, it's often at the expense of taxpayers or customers of the industry. And Obama's regulations are exactly what Kahn says they are, namely "big business and government entwined in unholy corporatism."

Doan is right that laissez-faire is better, and was the rule prior to the 1900s when America was the envy of the world. Perhaps only God knows how much poorer government regulations are making us, and in spite of the title of the article, Doan doesn't tell us. But it might well cost us more than we pay in taxes.

I might add, government regulation, in causing prices to rise as corporations pass on the financial burden of following the regulations to consumers, makes US businesses less competitive compared to businesses in other countries. That means we lose jobs and income as a result of regulation. It's not just higher prices for "regulated" products/services.

The tax code IS a form of regulation – they keep it complicated so they can tweak it now and then as a regulatory tool. Everything Washington does is about regulation.

The only thing that stirs politicians more than “budget cuts” in “deregulation.”

Are we Americans catching on yet?

Obama's methodology in EIGHT EASY STEPS.

Applicable to energy prices, deficits, and anything else.

1. Create Problem

2. Blame others for problem.

3. Assemble a commission, task force, or some other group of "experts" to study the probem and make recommendations,

4. Ignore recommendations.

5. Do nothing.

6 Allow problem to worsen.

7 Repeat step 2.

8. Issue propaganda with sob stories to fool people into believing Obama is a hero who is moving us "in the right direction". .

(Never waste a good crisis.)

Conservative methodology in eight steps:

1. Deregulate everything.

2. Cut taxes disproportionately higher for the wealthy

3. Convince voters that jobs will be created and wealth will trickle down. (Try not to snicker)

4. Creat short term profits to raise stock prices and create bubble in economy at the expense of middle class and poor.

5. Extract as much money as possible knowing full well knowing that regualtions have been laxed and that the bubble is about to burst.

6. When bubble bursts and economy crashes blame democrats and ask for bailout.

7. Complain about government intervention and ask for more tax cuts.

8. Repeat steps over and over and over and over.

Raul ... Do you have anyy real eamples of each of those? Show them

This list doesn't include the behind the sceen changes being made in the various government departments by the Czars or the changes made with the Stimulus packages. By the time all if this unravels, there is going to be such anger that, the Democrats, will have to leave town to save face. The lies, deals and corruption within this administration is just out of control. By the way the list should include the biggest debacle so far, the Obama Healthcare bill. Ouch!

...all of these regulations can be changed with a stroke of a pen... just as Barry-0 put them in place, they can be erased.

Time for all those subject to those irrational and unconstitutional regulations to simply engage in peaceful civil disobedience.

Jeff Perren

Between the lawyers and the bureaucrats, we are fast becoming a third world nation.
With all the unnecessary complication that only lawyers can invent, I have to remind myself at times that I'm dealing with the U.S., not one our South American or West African countries of operation.

When Obama took over he PROMISED to CUT THE DEFECIT IN HALF, CLOSE GITMO,AND END BUSH 2 UNWANTED WARS

bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

hows that change doing,,,better put your hands over your WALLET and in YOUR POCKETS
GITMO STILL OPEN AND OBAMA, THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WIENER HAS STARTED A WAR HIMSELF

Out of 280 MSM price of energy stories, only 3 mention White House.

http://www.mrc.org/bmi/articles/2011/Rising_Gas_Prices_Linked_to_Obama_Drilling_Ban_in_Just__of_Evening_News_Stories.html

The mainstream media in this country is a disgrace.

If the Obama administration declares the sage lizard as an endangered species, then oil and gas production in west Texas will go bye-bye.

Obama has never told the whole truth about anything. I always surprises me that we American or at least some see right though his bluff's and bull but the "give me give me " crowd still thinks he will give them happiness. I will be a sad day when they have to wake up and smell the sewer lies and half truths he has told. WAKE UP AMERICA

Socialis Goverments is not the answer and that is what he belives in....we the people are not able to care for ourselves and his government provide for us.......more lies.