Bakken. Marcellus. Utica. These three short words represent not just the country's enormous reserves of oil and natural gas, but also one of the biggest divide between President Obama and Mitt Romney, the likely opponents in November's presidential contest.
Obama and his team at the Environmental Protection Agency and his allies in the United States Senate have done all that could be done to slow down the exploration and development of the vast and mostly untapped ocean of energy beneath the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Dakota and Montana.
Like the president's permitorium in the Gulf and his veto of the Keystone XL pipeline, this is the anti-energy administration, the Solyndra gang, the "sons of Gore" club.
Despite the widespread and growing repudiation of the alarmism of the global warming fanatics and the revelation of the anti-science agenda that drove the manipulation of the warming enthusiasts' pubic pronouncements and private manipulations, still the anti-carbon bias of Team Obama is deeply embedded throughout the federal government.
Despite the job growth that is waiting to explode upon full-fledged endorsement of and backing for vigorous production wherever oil and gas is found, still the president obstructs.
Want to get a glimpse of what the country's energy boom could bring? Google "Shell ethane cracker plant" and review the competition among Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia for the location of the $2 billion facility.
This will be just the first of such facilities and the jobs that will go into the construction and operation of such a plant are a desperately needed boost for a region that is just now beginning to feel the effects of the country's and the world's deep need for energy.
Need more evidence of the potential of the natural resources of the country to power the second American century? Try researching French oil and gas pipeline company Vallourec, which has made a huge investment in a steel pipe factory in Youngstown, Ohio, with another on the way. That's what happens when the world finds energy: It goes to where the energy is and develops it, employing the people in the region and those who want to move there.
North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple gave the GOP weekly radio address Saturday, and in it he stated bluntly that the Obama administration is "killing energy development" in the country.
Dalrymple was talking specifically about the president's war against the Keystone XL pipeline but the point is true across the country, from the new deposits in the old Rust Belt, south to the Gulf Coast and north to the Canadian border.
The Keystone XL pipeline "would carry oil sands crude from Alberta, Canada, to refineries on the Gulf Coast, which would not only benefit North Dakota but the rest of the country," Dalrymple argued, adding "it's the common sense thing to do."
Commons sense has never been the long suit of the anti-carbon environmentalist absolutists, many of whom now occupy key positions in the Obama administration, including in the Oval Office. It is a theology of sorts: that new carbon-based energy development simply delays the dawn of the Solyndra-led golden age of green energy.
That theology is holding back the creation of hundreds of thousands of jobs directly connected to the production of energy, and millions more that will flow from the reinvigorated economies adjacent to the deposits.
Governor Romney would do well to employ those three words -- Bakken, Marcellus and Utica -- in every speech and not just in the key swing states of Ohio and Pennsylvania, but everywhere in the country as he explains how energy equals not just explosive job growth but energy independence.
Examiner Columnist Hugh Hewitt is a law professor at Chapman University Law School and a nationally syndicated radio talk show host who blogs daily at HughHewitt.com.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2012/03/deep-deposits-common-sense-needed-energy-debate/361426
Like the president's permitorium in the Gulf and his veto of the Keystone XL pipeline, this is the anti-energy administration, the Solyndra gang, the "sons of Gore" club.
Despite the widespread and growing repudiation of the alarmism of the global warming fanatics and the revelation of the anti-science agenda that drove the manipulation of the warming enthusiasts' pubic pronouncements and private manipulations, still the anti-carbon bias of Team Obama is deeply embedded throughout the federal government.
Despite the job growth that is waiting to explode upon full-fledged endorsement of and backing for vigorous production wherever oil and gas is found, still the president obstructs.
Want to get a glimpse of what the country's energy boom could bring? Google "Shell ethane cracker plant" and review the competition among Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia for the location of the $2 billion facility.
This will be just the first of such facilities and the jobs that will go into the construction and operation of such a plant are a desperately needed boost for a region that is just now beginning to feel the effects of the country's and the world's deep need for energy.
Need more evidence of the potential of the natural resources of the country to power the second American century? Try researching French oil and gas pipeline company Vallourec, which has made a huge investment in a steel pipe factory in Youngstown, Ohio, with another on the way. That's what happens when the world finds energy: It goes to where the energy is and develops it, employing the people in the region and those who want to move there.
North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple gave the GOP weekly radio address Saturday, and in it he stated bluntly that the Obama administration is "killing energy development" in the country.
Dalrymple was talking specifically about the president's war against the Keystone XL pipeline but the point is true across the country, from the new deposits in the old Rust Belt, south to the Gulf Coast and north to the Canadian border.
The Keystone XL pipeline "would carry oil sands crude from Alberta, Canada, to refineries on the Gulf Coast, which would not only benefit North Dakota but the rest of the country," Dalrymple argued, adding "it's the common sense thing to do."
Commons sense has never been the long suit of the anti-carbon environmentalist absolutists, many of whom now occupy key positions in the Obama administration, including in the Oval Office. It is a theology of sorts: that new carbon-based energy development simply delays the dawn of the Solyndra-led golden age of green energy.
That theology is holding back the creation of hundreds of thousands of jobs directly connected to the production of energy, and millions more that will flow from the reinvigorated economies adjacent to the deposits.
Governor Romney would do well to employ those three words -- Bakken, Marcellus and Utica -- in every speech and not just in the key swing states of Ohio and Pennsylvania, but everywhere in the country as he explains how energy equals not just explosive job growth but energy independence.
Examiner Columnist Hugh Hewitt is a law professor at Chapman University Law School and a nationally syndicated radio talk show host who blogs daily at HughHewitt.com.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2012/03/deep-deposits-common-sense-needed-energy-debate/361426
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