The benefits would be short term and limited in scope. While yes someone does have a right to do with their stuff what they will within the law the govt absolutely has a constitional authority to regulate exports something our libtardtarian globalist friends like to overlook when they make their pseudoconstitutional rants.

However, the Big Cheese will soon put a stop to their learning process – “WE can’t have cheap energy for Americans, can we? That’s contrary to Obama’s agenda.

I don’t know. I am personally not in favor of us selling our energy to other countries. Energy is a natural resource that we should use for our needs, and that which is not used for our needs should be left untapped and handed to our children.

astonerii on December 6, 2012 at 8:35 PM

Better idea:
Let’s sell the energy to other countries and use the economic benefits to improve the quality of life here in the US. This increase in the quality of life (as well as in real GDP per capita) will enable more research into new forms of energy (and ways to better utilize old ones.) Your children will then have MORE energy than they would if you just left in the ground.

It’s the same concept as putting your money in an investment account rather than hiding it under your bed.

Besides, the choice belongs with those who own the rights to the land. Not with the government and not with people who don’t have any stake whatsoever in the matter.

About sixty seconds ago, XOM sent me an email:

Rosneft and ExxonMobil Sign Agreement for Western Siberia Tight Oil Pilot Project

Filthy Russian Capitalists!

The Africans sure know how to handle resource allocation and management. They have..drum roll…government control and subsidies!

How about a comment on how it is working?

” In the aftermath of the nation-wide protests, many stakeholders have blamed the secrecy and corruption in the management of the subsidy process by government officials and regulators, calling for a review of the entire subsidy regime….. One of such views was from the leader of the Save Nigeria Group (SNG), Mr. Tunde Bakare, who note that, “The subsidy probe is a golden opportunity to clean the Augean stable, which the nation’s oil and gas industry has become.” According to him, “the monumental corruption in Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, stinks to high heavens.” Source: AllAfrica.com, June, 2012 http://allafrica.com/stories/201206240613.html

“Poor governance and rampant corruption in Kenya have had a negative impact on efforts to attract investment, and widespread poverty, rapid population growth, rising unemployment rates and strained welfare services have long posed problems. ”

How did they attack the problems?

Positive developments in relation to corruption and investments:

“Political interference in the private sector has been reduced via structural reforms, including privatisation and deregulation, while regulatory procedures have been streamlined and simplified, resulting in Kenya being named as one of the world’s top ten reformers by the World Bank & IFC in 2009.”

Source: TRUSTLAW Dec. 6, 2012 GOOD GOVERNANCE

robblefarian on December 6, 2012 at 8:19 PM

I would love to write up my story in detail, I have reduced women i met in bars to tears. Well, OK, I was the one crying..but anyway…

Big, bad energy companies and their investors don’t deserve good returns and even Bill O’Reilly dumped his holdings on ethical grounds!

Why exporting oil or gas may take the task of “creating” jobs away from where it belongs..in Washington!

As do people that feel a desperate need to be a$$hats – quit being one.

Midas on December 6, 2012 at 10:11 PM

it is LIQUIDFIED NATURAL GAS. it don’t come out of the ground that way fool

As do people that feel a desperate need to be a$$hats – quit being one.

Midas on December 6, 2012 at 10:11 PM

because telling stupid peeps that they don’t produce LNG hurts their proggtard “feelings”?

How sad that we will owe everything to the Chinese and need to destroy our environment to meet our financial obligation.

But you see to save the environment we had to destroy the environment.

gad public education suxs

newrouter on December 6, 2012 at 9:07 PM

As do people that feel a desperate need to be a$$hats – quit being one.

Even better while refusing to tap our own natural resources, we can turn our food into fuel inefficiently further driving the price of that higher too.

Why stop there? Let’s grow rice in the deserts of California with subsidized expensive water that is too scarce rather than importing rice from countries that grow it cheaper while sending them our cheap fuel lowering the price of food and fuel everywhere (the way normal trade does).

And while we are at it, lets make sure the “other guy” doesnt benefit from our really cheap coal exports because then they can make sneakers for less which causes the “loss” of good paying sneaker making jobs here. (Even though we would pay more for sneakers and lose coal jobs and port jobs in the process.)

And even worse, I think North Dakota is still paying too much for natural gas because exporting it to Oklahoma and the rest of the US is causing prices to Dakotans to rise and that’s “unfair” and the rest of America should pay more because its not their gas.

Of course, its not the politician’s gas either, but that shouldnt get in the way of their telling you to whom you can sell what resources. By the way, the market for many white collar skills is global too, and it would say insurance companies and american consumers money if we are allowed to import actuarial skills from India bur werent allowed ronexport our statistical geniuses skills over sees. Cuz our statistical geniuses are a national resource too even though the nation dosnt own them (not completely, we do own about 45% of your output … and not yet – give the socialists time)

Aarrgghh … The possibilities for destroying wealth while subsidizing inefficient methods, blocking free trade, and muddle headed idiocy on economics and so on are boundless.

Remind me why if I own a resource or skill or land I need some DC knucklehead’s permission to sell it to anyone I want for as much as they are willing to pay me? Why should they force me to do it their way when net-net the country is worse off always when they intervene?

Stupidity rules.

My mother owns the mineral rights to a property with a LNG well on it.

no she owns natural gas which is piped to a terminal where it is liquified -200 degrees f(estimate). gad public education suxs

listens2glenn on December 6, 2012 at 8:44 PM

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I know a lot of people believe this. But I still think they are whiling tea-pots.

Axe on December 6, 2012 at 8:52 PM

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Time will tell. Meanwhile, the vigilant keep watch.

KOOLAID2 on December 6, 2012 at 8:08 PM

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Nothing short of complete failure is good enough for this nation.

Corporal Tunnel on December 6, 2012 at 8:09 PM

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The U.S. is the biggest obstacle to the WCPA. Eliminating us as a self-capable sovreign nation is the only thing that going to satisfy them.

The people calling the shots on this are not insane.

They are completely cognitive saboteurs.

listens2glenn on December 6, 2012 at 8:44 PM

I know a lot of people believe this. But I still think they are whiling tea-pots.

Across all these [various levels of export] scenarios, the U.S. was projected to gain net economic benefits from allowing LNG exports. Moreover, for every one of the market scenarios examined, net economic benefits increased as the level of LNG exports increased. [emphasis added]

“Across all these eating scenarios, the human was projected to gain weight from eating additional Whoppers. Moreover, for every one of the dining scenarios examined, net weight increased as the number of Whoppers increased.”

“Investment” in this study: $50M.

American bureaucracy. Taking science to a new level.

Liberals are a threat to freedom and prosperity. They’re insane.

Charlemagne on December 6, 2012 at 8:34 PM

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The people calling the shots on this are not insane.

They are completely cognitive saboteurs.