Guest “MAVA (Made America Venezuela Already)” by David Middleton
How Many US GOM Jobs Could Go Under Biden?
by Andreas Exarheas|Rigzone Staff|Tuesday, February 09, 2021If U.S. President Joe Biden’s pause on new oil and natural gas leases in offshore waters becomes permanent, the effect on the U.S. Gulf of Mexico workforce would be considerable.
That’s what’s shown by the National Ocean Industries Association’s (NOIA) latest projections, which were prepared by Energy & Industrial Advisory Partners. According to these figures, which assume that no new lease sales would be held from 2022, Gulf of Mexico offshore oil and natural gas supported employment would decline by almost 200,000 jobs over the next two decades, compared to a base case figure.
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First to Take the Hit
Under a no new leasing regime, the first industry segments to take a hit are the geological and geophysical industry and drilling companies, Milito said.
“There are fewer reasons to explore and fewer lease blocks to drill,” he told Rigzone.
“As leases mature and production declines, other industry segments will quickly follow suit with massive reductions in investment and employment, until there is not much left in any industry segment,” he added.
“Without any new projects on the horizon, spending on capital expenditures, risers, subsea hardware, production platforms, umbilicals and more dissipates,” Milito continued.
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Rigzone
For the full range of damage the current occupant of the White House might inflict on the US offshore oil & gas industry and national security, see the full report prepared for NOIA:
The Economic Impacts of the Gulf of Mexico Oil and Natural Gas Industry
“A three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs”
Look, John’s last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs.
Joe Biden, 2008
“Thousands of people who won’t be getting green jobs”
When asked when and where laid-off fossil fuel industry workers can get their new climate-friendly jobs, Biden spokesperson Jen “Circle Back” Psaki replied that the Harris-Biden Dominion would have a plan, to make a plan, to create millions of shovel-ready green jobs…
President Biden revoked the permit for the 1,700-mile pipeline on his first day in office, ending a project that was expected to employ more than 11,000 Americans this year. Doocy asked Psaki to comment on when the workers who lost job opportunities due to Biden’s executive order could expect to receive a “green job” as a replacement.
“When is it that the Biden administration is going to let the thousands of fossil fuel industry workers, whether its pipeline workers or construction workers who are either out of work or will soon be out of work because of Biden’s EO, when it is and where it is that they can go for their green jobs?” Doocy said.
Doocy referenced Biden’s pledge to create “high-paying union jobs” through investments in green energy infrastructure projects. In response, Psaki called on Doocy to present more evidence to back up his question.
“Well, I’d certainly welcome you to present your data of all the thousands and thousands of people who won’t be getting green jobs,” Psaki said. “Maybe next time you’re here you can present that.”
“But you said that they would be getting green jobs, so I’m just asking when that happens?” Doocy said.
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“As the president has indicated when he gave his primetime address to talk about the American Rescue Plan, he talked about his plans to also put forward a jobs plan in the weeks or months following,” Psaki said. “He has every plan to do exactly that.”
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“He has every plan… to put forward a jobs plan in the weeks or months following”… I literally could not make this sort of schist up if I was trying.
“Now that’s funny right there”
The funniest thing about all of this, is that Biden’s malfeasance won’t have any effect on the demand for oil & gas or the weather… At least Biden can use dementia as an excuse…
Obama: Is there a separate, uhm, executive order, Greg, with respect to how we’re going to dispose of the detainees?
White House Counsel Greg Craig (later indicted by Robert Mueller): We’ll have a process.
Obama: We’ll be setting up a process.
Gitmo is still open for business.
Even funnier than the funniest thing…
“We can’t just drill our way to lower gas prices”
Obama, 2012
Sorry, Barry… Not only did we drill our way to lower gas prices (Frac’ on dude!)… our government has already started to incompetence its way to higher gas prices… West Texas Intermediate (WTI) is currently $21/bbl higher than it was on Election Day 2020.
The green union jobs in Detroit will be saved in stimulus plan #8 after the scheme implodes……for the union children.
Nor’easters would be disastrous to a Green America. Most of the country cannot survive and flourish with intermittent electricity.
Published Feb 8, 2021 at CFACT https://www.cfact.org/2021/02/08/noreasters-would-be-disastrous-to-a-green-america/
Summary: Most of the nation needs more than intermittent electricity from wind and solar, they need continuous and uninterruptible electricity from natural gas, nuclear, and coal to support the health and economy in their state to survive extreme weather conditions year-round. California, with its temperate climate conditions year-round, can survive dysfunctional energy policies that have resulted in the least reliable electrical power systems in the nation.
New York alone will employ far more than the 11,000 pipeline workers with their all green “Scavenge Deadwood, Cardboard, and Dry Leaves for Home Heating“ program for the unemployed. /sarc
The truly sad thing is increasing our dependence on foreign energy: Venezuela, Iran, Middle East, perhaps even China. The money we spend on energy will no longer stay in the US to be invested, to pay wages, or to create jobs
He does not care about the country as a whole, only selected states. That pattern is already standing out with the bailout of “his” state governments with $350 B in stimulus and his executive order constituencies.
Anyone else notice that whenever Progressives talk about “green jobs”, they are always for someone else to do? Of all the green activists who show up at my front porch to pitch their agenda and/or to get me to sign some petition, when I ask what they are studying for or do for a living, it’s always some non-demanding field. It’s never “work construction” or anything that involves the creation of a physical good or service.
The Democrats have fully become the Marie Antoinette party: The answer to every question will be “learn to code” or “install solar panels”.
The displaced American workers can join the Venezuelans on the roads of stateless nomads. As Maduro said, you can find free housing in those vacated homes and condos after the exodus.
As depressed as I am about all this illegitimate nonsense, I now maybe see a silver lining in this dark cloud. Five simple ‘silver lining’ points despite all the pain Biden is and will cause.
First, Biden has already grossly over-reached, and people (Trumpka) are already reacting negatively to that.
Second, the Dems went TDS crazy with the second shampeachment, and that is going to land them in very negative light in history and in 2022.
Third, it has flushed out all the Rinos. For example Liz Cheney and Ben Sasse have been censured.
Fourth, as the steal evidence comes to light (example, what are the Maricopa supervisors hiding by refusing to honor the Arizona Senate subpoena?), states will tighten election laws. This is happening in Georgia. The PA legislator suit is at the SC, and is not mooted by the PA certification for Biden since is fundamentally procedural and a ruling applies to all future elections.
Finally, the ill advised lawsuits by Dominion and Smartmatic will expose the subtle part of the steal. The Atlanta and Detroit videos expose the old fashioned brute force part. The fractional votes (needed for Maine and now Alaska ranked preference voting enabled in any other state (think Antrim County Michigan) is only subtle until exposed. We have two years to fix the election process, take back the House in 2022, and then the White House in 2024. Taking back the Senate in 2022 is a steep climb structurally.
Oil and gas production in America mostly happens in red states. It’s revenge time on the red necks in the red states.
Did the American People vote for this climate cult insanity? Was it even a fair vote?
There are pending court proceedings Dominion v Rudy Guiliani and Sidney Powell. Voting machine vote flipping, which was being closely monitored by the Space Force digital surveillance arm of security services will be revealed in discovery. As the defence has the right to produce evidence to defend themselves, the prosecution will be sunk by the weight of evidence Trump and the Patriots gathered. The election itself was a gigantic sting operation.
It is now not just conspiracy to commit election fraud, it is now demonstrable election fraud. The false president has been making Executive Orders and attempting to pass them off as law-dictatorial power abuse.
February 19 is when the first of the fake Executive Orders theoretically comes in to effect. This should be the signal for the Military to make their move. The Constitution has been violated. It is the sworn duty of the Military to uphold the Constitution.
Will media report what is easily the story of the century? If not, why not? Why would the media NOT report the story of the century? They would know only full well that the People would be very keen to know about it.
Personally, I think it will be time for mass letterboxing by the Patriots if mainstream media refuse to report the earth shattering news. It will be time for this manual approach if social media censors people sharing the news in their feed. It will be well and truly time for the manual approach if Google etc censors out the news story of the century. It will make the where -were-you stories like JFK assassination, 9/11, Princess Di stories look like fluff stories of cats being rescued from a tree.If the biggest news of your lifetime is simply not reported or dismissed as a nothing burger, we should hang our heads in shame if we continue to listen to anything they say ever again.
Yep,
I noticed that in New Mexico that the price of a gallon of gas jumped 30 cents overnight and that was at the cheaper outlets. Good going creepy Joe! There is sure to be a future backlash as citizens wake up!
Anyone who believes that Biden has anything to do with what is taking place has been fast asleep for the past year. There is always someone within arms reach of him so he doesn’t ruin the carefully orchestrated plan. The US government is almost entirely being conducted “behind the curtain” and Toto (media) isn’t even getting a look in.
Davie boy, if you are worried about losing your job in the oil business, there’s plenty of opportunity for you in using your experience in oil to oil the bearings on a wind turbine. Are you afraid of heights?
Good posting, David. This green attack is similar to what gold mining/exploration companies went through under Carter. The idea in Nevada was to not road maintance in isolated rural areas then declare the area to “roadless” then conduct studies to determine if the area was a “Wilderness” candidate. It took many years to reverse that nonsense.
By the way, did you notice my comment for the Geologist Discover Plate Tectonics posting of yours? The pull by slab going down a subduction zone versus the push from a Spreading center? The answer is the large obduction terrains, they are sea floor plates PUSHED onto continents (instead of going down subduction zones). I grew up on the Klamath Obduction terrain, located in NW Kalifornia and adjacent SW Oregon and it was oceanic crust with preserved ultramafic intrusions, which supported the only nickel and chrome mining in the USA;
Green Jobs.
Does that mean reducing us to harvesting and eating grass?
(Who needs cows? Get rid of the middle man!)
Okay, so should I hold off another two months to buy some Exxon (XOM) shares, or just go ahead and splurge now, while it’s cheap, but not yet cheapest? Just askin’, because I like to keep informed.
OH, that reminds me: All this eco-friendly stuff: does that mean that when the ordeal – er, plan – yeah, that’s it: plan! – starts to kick in to replace reliable gas heat and gas cooking with unreliable electric stuff, THEY ARE GOING TO PAY FOR IT? See, I just installed a new, fuel-efficient furnace and air conditioner the first week in November and for these bozos are indicating I won’t be allowed to go on using that, so how do I cook and heat my home when the outside temperature is SO chill, that even the birds don’t want to swoop in for the food at my feeding station.
Civilization was fun while it lasted…..
“..When asked when and where laid-off fossil fuel industry workers can get their new climate-friendly jobs, Biden spokesperson Jen “Circle Back” Psaki replied that the Harris-Biden Dominion would have a plan, to make a plan, to create millions of shovel-ready green jobs…”
Pray tell me Ms. Psaki, does the Biden admin have a plan to undercut Chinese labor costs so solar panels can be mass produced in the U.S.?
Pray tell me Ms. Psaki, does the Biden Admin have a plan for manufacturing solar panels and the steel for wind turbines without coking coal and without the cement base for installing turbines? Without emitting CO2?
Pray tell me Ms. Psaki, does the Biden Admin have a plan for the massive increase in other raw material mining in the U.S. (besides coal) if wind turbines and solar panels are to be made here in the U.S.? Do you have a plan to get the mining plan past the environmentalists?
Pray tell me Ms. Psaki, does the Biden Admin have a plan to avoid having to increase fossil fuel imports as domestic production declines from the leasing ban?
Pray tell me Ms. Psaki, does the Biden Admin have a plan for the environmentally friendly disposal of solar panels when they reach their expiration date? For the environmentally friendly disposal of wind turbines blades? (I’ve seen pictures where they are buried in landfills). Do you and your boss know that solar panel production leaves toxic waste behind? Do you and your boss know how much land area would be needed to replace a large number of fossil fuel plants with solar panel and wind turbine farms?
Pray tell me Ms. Psaki, does the Biden Admin have a plan to build more current generation nuclear plants to replace/eliminate fossil fuel power plants and lower CO2 emissions? Do you and your boss know how f—ing costly and time-consuming it is to build them these days?!!!
Pray tell me Ms. Psaki, do you know that EV car batteries do not like cold weather? Do you and your boss know how f—ing cold it is here in the Upper Midwest right now?!!!! Do you have a game plan for a massive EV recharging infrastructure for long trips away from home?
Pray tell me Ms. Psaki, do you and your boss know that the UAH satellite temperature record has been trending down for something like 5 years now since the El Nino peak in 2016? Do you and your boss know that the CO2-induced CAGW theory is a bunch of B.S.? Do any of you really care?
Pray tell me Ms. Psaki, do you know if you and your boss have an I.Q. much larger than your shoe size?
The only jobs govt creates is when it expands its own bureaucracy. Now, about that shovel…..
David,
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB)is the largest Office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States.
Among its functions is to examine agency programs policies and procedures to ensure they comply with the President’s policies.
As climate change is the pre-eminent policy of this Administration,and much is promised for employment, can OMB be asked to identify-
(a) Those ‘Green Jobs’ occasioned throughout the term of the Administration on at least a quarterly basis given the extravagant promises of the President.
( b) Those traditional jobs foregone in the same time frame?
I am mindful of the Madrid University study on this topic.
Is there any mechanism by which the OMB can be compelled to reveal such information?
Would it already be in train for this Administration,anyway,on a periodic basis even allowing for the usual rubbery figures for “green jobs” versus traditional jobs?
Higher oil price. WooHoo! My family owns oil producing lands in North Dakota. Now, if the demand would just increase……….
“The funniest thing about all of this, is that Biden’s malfeasance won’t have any effect on the demand for oil & gas or the weather”. So sadly true. Neither will chopping off the pipeline.
But, as I’ve been saying for months, this isn’t due any of Biden’s thinking. He’s a figurehead, frontman. C’mon, folks, he’s just a puppet, a Mortimer Snerd dummy. He just spouts out what he’s been coached to say by his very left “handlers”.
Did anyone really believe that a guy who hasn’t created a single job in his life would magically do it when he became President?
Dementia Joe earns another Billy Madison to his vast collection of Gaffe awards everytime he tries to speak without reading a script.
If you ask the question: “who benefits” from the Commander-in-thief’s policy… and skip over the political and lobbying class… you can make an exhaustive list of countries that either wish the US ill or simply don’t wish it to prosper.
Figure I’ll die, before there’s a truly bang-up investigative series done that explores exactly where the environmental lobby’s funding has come from over the last 60 or so years.
Looking on the bright side… raise energy costs enough and put enough people out of work and regime change is probably on the horizon.
Remember the Peanut farmer and his third career.
It’s not the US government’s job to create jobs. It’s job is to create an environment where private companies flourish, thereby creating jobs, and a robust economy.
Like Obama, Harris… er… Biden is going to pick winners and losers. Which means we’ll all be losers.
The US was the last bastion of freedom in the world, which has temporarily been lost with Biden’s election.
We’re now in the final stages of the modern iteration of moral, ethical and empirical relativism/statist tyranny which started with the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in the 1830’s, who greatly influenced Karl Marx’s philosophy of communism, Hitler’s Nazism/Mussolini Facism, and later morphed into the philosophies of Democratic Socialism/Neo-Marxism/Wokeism..
One would think that with all the historical evidence that tyranny is an awful philosophy that doesn’t work, we’d have long abandoned these failed philosophies, but, alas…
We’re now in the throes of the slow death rattle of the Renaissance, and it won’t stop until there is a Modern Renaissance to undo all the damage these failed philosophies have inflicted on the world over the last 200 years..
it’ll be interesting to see how this all plays out…
The end of all this insanity can’t come soon enough!