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Cory Gardner is my Representative. I wish I could feel he represents my interests and concerns, but my sense when I contact him is that while his office may listen politely, what I say does not weigh at all in his voting decisions. Cory Gardner has an agenda that excludes those who need responsible representation. This was made even more clear to me when he voted in favor of the “Ryan Budget” and what it would have done to the uninsured, the elderly, and the unemployed
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Thanks to Congressman Cory Gardner Shell Oil has now gotten conditional permission to drill for oil off the coast of Alaska in a very environmental sensitive zone. This is a complex and complicated story so sit down and brief yourself cause it is going to have impacts on Colorado and its water supplies needed both for agriculture and drinking.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-shell-arctic-20110805,0,6564052.story
Just two days after the passage of HR 2021 – The Jobs and Energy Permitting Act of 2011), on June 23, 2011, submitted by Republican Congressman Cory Gardner (Co-4th), Shell Oil says it wants to get busy, get permits and drill offshore in Alaska. This bill has proved Gardner has proved he is just another energy industry selected, voter elected corporate puppet who works for them while tromping all over future and health of average working men and women of both his district and the United States of America.
Congressman Gardner's claim that his bill (HR 2021), would allow an extra 1 million barrels of oil a day to be pumped from Alaska and create as many as 50,000 new jobs over 50 years is B.S. on the level of Bush‘s assertion that Iraq had WMD. On October 26, 2010 the U.S. Geological Survey lowered it’s 2002 estimates of 10.6 billion barrels of oil reserves in Alaska’s NPRA and adjacent state waters down to just 896 million a reduction of nearly 90% (1).
(1). USGS Oil and Gas Resource Estimates Updated for the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA). http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=2622
Gardnering Lies and Damn Lies:
Gardner ignores that the price of a barrel of oil is determined on the International Commodity Exchanges. Ignored by the Congressman is the reality that the per barrel production price for a barrel of this oil will be much higher than it is from any middle east county. That means that commodity markets will have to pay more if the profit margins for its production are going to stay at the Shell Oil MBA goal. That translates into higher costs at the pump. This man is played on the masses ignorance to rally support for the bill.
http://www.greeleytribune.com/article/20110622/OPINION/706229977&parentprofile=search
For those questioning why a 1st term Congressman from Colorado would submit a piece of legislation that permits fast track permitting of oil drilling off the coast of Alaska eight months after the USGS reduced its estimates of oil on and off shore in that state from ten billion barrels down to 896 million a reduction of nearly 90% , simply follow the money. The real strategy behind this bill is part of a larger plan by the oil industry to castrate the EPA, loosen pollution rules and regulations which will increase profits and avoid law suits from leaks, explosions, injuries and deaths.
The oil and natural gas industry has found their new puppet. In his 2010 campaign for Congress received $172.324 bucks from the Oil and Gas industry. Those campaign contributions included:
$16,550 from Anadarko Petroleum that along with Kerr-McGee Corporations and their affiliates agreed to paid $16.375 million plus interest to the United States for violating the False Claims Act by knowingly underpaying royalties owned on natural gas produced from federal and American Indian leases.
$10,000 from Koch Industries, whose recently released corporate documents revealed that the company is participating in the unregulated derivatives markets as a financial player, buying and selling speculative products that are increasingly contributing to the skyrocketing price of oil. Unregulated derivatives are the same kind of financial products Hedge Funds, Commercial, and Investment banks created, loaded up with sub prime mortgages and sold as Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CM0’s), and Credit Default Swaps (CDS’s), to public pension funds and private investors. Cory Gardner, candidate for Congress, took campaign contributions from cretins, like the Koch brothers who are engaged in these crooked business practices.
$6,000 from Halliburton that in march of 2007 moved its U.S. Corporate H.Q. from Huston to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-N.H., called the company's move "corporate greed at its worst." He added, "This is an insult to the U.S. soldiers and taxpayers who paid the tab for their no-bid contracts and endured their overcharges for all these years. At the same time they'll be avoiding U.S. taxes, I'm sure they won't stop insisting on taking their profits in cold hard U.S. cash."
In his most recent fundraising filings with the FEC, the corporate selected, voter elected Congressman Cory Gardner had to disclose the following facts. That oil and natural gas corporations are flocking to him like stink on poop!
http://www.greeleytribune.com/article/20110723/NEWS/707239941&parentprofile=search