Today at 3:10amToday's Wall Street Journal contains some puzzling news for all Americans who are impacted by high energy prices and who share the goal of moving us toward energy independence.For years, states rich with an abundance of oil and natural gas have been begging Washington, DC politicians for the right to develop their own natural resources on federal lands and off shore. Such development would mean good paying jobs here in the United States (with health benefits) and the resulting royalties and taxes would provide money for federal coffers that would potentially off-set the need for higher income taxes, reduce the federal debt and deficits, or even help fund a trillion dollar health care plan if one were so inclined to support such a plan.So why is it that during these tough times, when we have great needs at home, the Obama White House is prepared to send more than two billion of your hard-earned tax dollars to Brazil so that the nation's state-owned oil company, Petrobras, can drill off shore and create jobs developing its own resources? That's all Americans want; but such rational energy development has been continually thwarted by rabid environmentalists, faceless bureaucrats and a seemingly endless parade of lawsuits aimed at shutting down new energy projects.I'll speak for the talent I have personally witnessed on the oil fields in Alaska when I say no other country in the world has a stronger workforce than America, no other country in the world has better safety standards than America, and no other country in the world has stricter environmental standards than America. Come to Alaska to witness how oil and gas can be developed simultaneously with the preservation of our eco-system. America has the resources. We deserve the opportunity to develop our resources no less than the Brazilians. Millions of Americans know it is true: "Drill, baby, drill." Alaska is proof you can drill and develop, and preserve nature, with its magnificent caribou herds passing by the Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS), completely unaffected. One has to wonder if Obama is playing politics and perhaps refusing a "win" for some states just to play to the left with our money.The new Gulf of Mexico lease sales tomorrow sound promising and perhaps will move some states in the right direction, but we all know that the extreme environmentalists who serve to block progress elsewhere, including in Alaska, continue to block opportunities. These environmentalists are putting our nation in peril and forcing us to rely on unstable and hostile foreign countries. Mr. Obama can stop the extreme tactics and exert proper government authority to encourage resource development and create jobs and health benefits in the U.S.; instead, he chooses to use American dollars in Brazil that will help to pay the salaries and benefits for Brazilians to drill for resources when the need and desire is great in America.Buy American is a wonderful slogan, but you can't say in one breath that you want to strengthen our economy and stimulate it, and then in another ship our much-needed dollars to a nation desperate to drill while depriving us of the same opportunity.- Sarah Palin

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  • In California, gas is over $3.00 again and going higher and the State is bankrupt but Brazil & Saudi Arabia get our money. As you can see, Obummer is accomplishing his promise to spread our wealth with redistribution. Bet those fawning, tickle up the leg supporters of OhNo didn't think he meant to other countries. So many things could be fixed if only ....sigh! Thanks for reminding me Benjamin that I have been living in the Socialist State of California America.

    Sarah should have been the Presidential candidate instead of McCain.
    • Gasoline in the environmentalist Rip-Off State, California, costs 50 cents a gallon more than in the rest of the country because of the "special summer blend" that is supposed to limit "Smog" emmissions. After paying the higher rate on the gasoline the state requires "Smog Check Certificates" in addition to the license "fees" to reregister your car or truck.

      The County of Los Angeles voters approved another half-cent "transit" addition (Measure 'R') to the sales tax (that now totals one and one half percent) to build a "Subway to the Sea," Click Underlined Link:

      Los Angeles Lightest Rail

      General Motors Chevy Volt will be able to be recharged for 40 cents worth, Click Underlined Link: Of Electricity to Travel It's 40 Mile All-Electric Range
      http://www.flixya.com/post/stevelectric/1646526/Los_Angeles_Lightest_Rail/
  • OBAMA REALLY WANTS TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY. WE CAN'T DRILL, BUT ITS OK FOR OTHER COUNTRY'S TO DRILL. ASS BACKWARDS! OBAMA HAS TO BE STOPPED, THEIR MUST BE SOME LAW THAT CAN BE USED
    TO GET HIM THE HELL OUT. HE'S DESTROYING EVERYTHING THAT HAS BEEN BUILT FROM DAY ONE. MICHELLE OBAMA SAID ''SHE NEVER WAS SO PROUD BLAH ,BLAH ,BLAH. WELL I NEVER BEEN SOOOOOASHAMED OF ONE PRESIDENT IN MY LIFE? GOD BLESS US, AS HE KEEPS IT UP, WE ALL WILL BE ON THE STREETS. LOOK AT AFRICA, THEY CAME IN, THROW OUT THE WHITE FARMERS, TOOK OVER THE LAND & HOMES, NOW TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT 'AFRICA'' SCARES THE HELL OUT OF ME, AND SHOULD SCARE EVERY AMERICAN THAT THIS COULD & MOST WOULD COME TRUE. HISTROY REPEATS.
    SUSANM
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