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Two weeks ago, we told you about the Obama administration's outrageous decision to lend taxpayer money to Brazil's national oil company Petrobras (George Soros is a major investor) to finance Brazil's offshore drilling, while at the same time blocking private companies from drilling offshore here in America.
Since then we've collected over 18,000 comments from activists urging the Minerals Management Service of Obama's Department of the Interior to allow offshore drilling in America.
If you haven't filed a comment yes, please do it today. The official deadline is September 21st, but we're setting our own deadline of September 17th to make sure we have time to get all the comments included in the official record.
Please click here to tell the Obama administration to allow offshore drilling here in America!
Activists like you won an amazing policy victory last year when public outrage forced Congress to finally end its ban on offshore drilling, after 26 long years of keeping America's vast energy resources in the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) locked up and off the market.
Now the Obama administration is doing everything it can to drag its feet and prevent us from accessing American energy resources. They are trying to ignore the millions of Americans who demanded access to American energy resources by secretly putting the ban back in place.
The Obama administration is required by law to listen to public comments on the subject of energy exploration and production in the OCS.
Offshore drilling in the OCS would be a real economic stimulus that would create jobs and economic growth. ICF International estimates more than 160,000 well-paying American jobs would be created from allowing oil and gas drilling offshore.
According to federal government estimates, the OCS contains 86 billion barrels of oil and 420 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. We can't afford to wait until the next price spike to start drilling. We need to drill here in America now.
Please click here to tell the Obama administration to allow offshore drilling here in America!
Time is running short. The docket closes in just a few days, and the radical environmentalists are filing comments in huge numbers from the other side. Please comment today and pass this email on to anyone you know who can help us get as many comments as possible by September 17th. Thanks for all you do.
Sincerely,
Phil Kerpen
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America has the resources and the abilitys to overcome this situation if we weren't tied down by bans of no drilling
This is another non-issue that the conservatives will twist to suit their agenda of 'Anti-Obama on everything'
The money is being loaned by the US Export-Import Bank
The US Export-Import Bank does not use taxpayer money. It does not use Treasury funds. It is self-sufficient as a banking entity.
The great thing about it is that a large percentage of the money that is loaned for purposes like this must be spent on American products and services.
It is there to capture foreign investment into USA-made goods and services.
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its something to be discussed
he's said and done so many dumb things here, they took his username away.
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indy_maico wrote: This is a lie. There is no taxpayer money at stake here.
This is another non-issue that the conservatives will twist to suit their agenda of 'Anti-Obama on everything'
The money is being loaned by the US Export-Import Bank
The US Export-Import Bank does not use taxpayer money. It does not use Treasury funds. It is self-sufficient as a banking entity.
The great thing about it is that a large percentage of the money that is loaned for purposes like this must be spent on American products and services.
It is there to capture foreign investment into USA-made goods and services.
well,at least this will help get out of the middle east
but now i'm PC correct.
President Barack Obama’s national security adviser, Gen. James Jones, discussed the matter with officials this week during a visit to the South American country, Brazilian Planning Minister Paulo Bernardo da Silva told reporters.
He said the U.S. Export-Import Bank already has signed a letter of intent in that regard with Brazilian state oil company Petrobras.
From: http://www.exim.gov/
The Export-Import Bank supports the financing of U.S. goods and services, maintaining, and creating more U.S. jobs
From:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export-Import_Bank_of_the_United_States
he Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) is the official export credit agency of the United States federal government. It was established in 1934 by an executive order, and made an independent agency in the Executive branch by Congress in 1945, for the purposes of financing and insuring foreign purchases of United States goods for customers unable or unwilling to accept credit risk. The mission of the Bank is to create and sustain U.S. jobs by financing sales of U.S. exports to international buyers. The Bank is chartered as a government corporation by the Congress of the United States; it was last chartered for a five year term in 2006.[1] Its Charter spells out the Bank's authorities and limitations. Among them is the principle that Ex-Im Bank does not compete with private sector lenders, but rather provides financing for transactions that would otherwise not take place because commercial lenders are either unable or unwilling to accept the political or commercial risks inherent in the deal. Its current chairman is Fred Hochberg.
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