Marketwatch: Cowboy Hat Is the Story
By John Batchelor on April 18, 2009 at 11:45 AM in Obama Administration, Obama's Cabinet, Off-Shore Drilling
Noticeably detached Interior Secretary Ken Salazar in a cowboy hat facing a San Francisco chamber of California-based greens is the story, not the debate. The Obama administration has already lost the argument for additional off-shore drilling. Diane Feinstein issued her judgment. Negative. It wasn’t a struggle. Stacy Delo looks to be enjoying the visual circus. The good news is that the worldwide slack demand will keep oil prices low for another year. After that, hyper inflation is a built-in risk, and longer term, drill, baby, drill. For now, the cowboy hat is the story. Does a Stetson mean on an Obama Cabinet member the same that a Stetson meant on a Bush Cabinet member? And what is that?
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You don’t know much about Ken Salazar if you say that. His family has been farming and ranching in the San Luis Valley in Colorado for at least 6 generations. They were here when this was still a Spanish Territory.
You can say that about Bush being a drugstore cowboy and it is true, but Ken Salazar has been wearing a cowboy hat all his life. So has his brother. I don’t agree with either of them on a lot of issues, but they are the real deal when they put on that hat. John Salazar still has a potato farm and Ken has a working ranch. John is standing strong against the Army to protect the property rights of landowners in Pinon Canyon and he is doing his damndest to keep Denver from stealing our irrigation water, which is the lifeblood of this part of the state. Ken Salazar kept any legislation moving water out of the valley off the table when he was Senator. And for that I thank him.
Bennet and Udall don’t give two shits about farmers and racnhers of anyone outside of Denver. Udall talked tough (and wore his hat)about how he would protect us when he was running for Senator. But he is all hat and no cattle (for real). There only thing protecting both the property rights and the irrigating farmers right now is John Salazar on the Appropriations Committee.
Ken Salazar voted with Bush on every single piece of important legislation. I’m disappointed he isn’t my senator anymore. I was looking for to campaigning against him. We had his sign in our yard, donated to his campaign and were so happy to finally be represented by a Democrat only to find out he had no guts. He even voted for military act to allow torture. Yes, he cares about Colorado water and he did fight the expansion of Fort Carson. He couldn’t have been elected otherwise since the farmers in the valley are effected by those issues. But people who live in other parts of the state were very unhappy with him.
But, whether you like him or not, Ken Salazar has been a cowboy all his life and he has earned the right to wear that hat. The whole all hat and no cattle comment doesn’t fly. He has cattle.
I was unhappy with him,too over the military commissions act and many other issues (like judges). Let’s be honest though, a whole lot of Democrats caved on those issues, again and again. Look at our new President and his incredible bendy backbone.
Salazar MAY NOT HAVE BEEN DEMOCRAT ENOUGH FOR A LOT OF US, BUT HE BEAT THE HELL OUT OF PETE COORS. He was the only Democrat in the state at the time who had enough popularity to beat Coors money. Are you saying you would support Pete Corrs (anti-union, anti-women, etc) over Ken Salazar?
I am a rural Coloradan and I want a Senator (from this mostly rural state) who cares about rural issues. First and foremost, I care about what is best for my own state and they are elected first and foremost to represent Colorado.
I don’t see Udall standing up for rural voters. I supported him. I donated. I put his signs up in my yard. He promised us he would fight against Army expansion. Now he wants to think it over. He promised to prevent out of basin transfers. He isn’t so sure now.
Ken Salazar will most likely support more drilling than many Democrats like. But, my son is a laid off oil driller, and I would really like to see him get some work. Since our Governor is out promoting gas drilling every day, maybe my son will be back to work soon.
Being from Colorado Ken Salazar is nothing new to us. He’s a little man in a big hat, the hat is empty! believe me.
It is completely irrational to disallow drilling
at least on a temporary basis. There are thousands of
us who work in the oil and gas industry who are now
unemployed and you never hear about us. EOG layed off
over 4000, Chesapeake layed off several thousand
and the list goes on. All you hear about are the layoffs of the auto companies. As an independent contractor I cannot even collect unemployment.The bias against the oil and gas industry is not justified.
Most people have no idea the expenses involved just to get to the point of being able to drill a well. Those
same expenses will apply to wind energy as well. I
hope Salazar’s hat means he is friendly to the O & G
industry!
For 30 years of being in the oil business, my family has just shaken their heads and said WTF to the leftie moonbats who don’t want us drilling our OWN oil. They would rather perpetuate the largest wealth transfer to other countries in our history. Pathetic. I have my own feelings about why the Fraud has his screwed up energy “policy” (if you can call it that, thanks Carter II). And I also think that we will see rising oil prices again, which we could easily have stopped years and years ago, had we built more refineries here and drilled our own. The ban on US drilling is one of the biggest WTFs of the loony left I have ever seen.
My son is laid off from Bronco. He would really lke to see a little more drilling. He is looking into going offshore in Brazil. He might have to. Unemployment doesn’t come anywhere near what he was making a few months ago.
Salazar is from Colorado. We have a lot of O&G interests, and his liklihood of supporting more drilling was the main thing Democrats objected about his nomination to the interior post. Right now Gov Ritter is running all over the state promoting more gas drilling. So, I dont’t think anyone needs to bitch about Salazar.
L said:
“The bias against the oil and gas industry is not justified.”
No, it’s completely deranged. But it’s become easy sport to hate anything that smacks of oil or gas and pretend that “dream green and it will come” makes sense.
Temporary drilling would give us a bridge to get where we need to go, reduce our reliance on foreign suppliers and provide additional jobs.
So, of course, it must be bad, bad.
As far as Salazar’s hat? He needs to find one that fits!
I’m all for clean, efficient, energy sources. But until the technology is mass produced and affordable what do they expect people to do? Go without?
You wanna see an uprising? Try cutting people off without a viable alternative energy.
If the technology exists – develop it. If not tell us how to survive without an alternate energy source.
Screaming “Green” ain’t cutting it.
we have the oil.we need to use it..
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