United States Army Specialist Joseph Gibson of the 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, was on a mission to find and eliminate terrorists in Iraq in April 2008. Gibson and his fellow Rangers were being transported by helicopter. The chopper touched down at night and the soldiers disembarked, only to come under immediate enemy fire. One Ranger received a life-threatening wound in the firefight and Gibson helped navigate him over an uneven field filled with irrigation ditches to safety.

In business, timing is everything. On May 25, 2007, Speaker Nancy Pelosi bought at least $100,000.00 in the initial offering of a renewable energy stock. The name of this stock was "CLNE", standing for the Clean Energy Fuels Corporation. Some of you might remember the original name of this company. The original name of this company was "Pickens Fuel", so named after the company’s primary investor, T. Boone Pickens.

The reason I said "at least $100,000.00" (in the first paragraph) is that it is entirely possible that Speaker Pelosi bought over $3,000,000.00 in stock in this company. The listing of companies and individuals that bought stock during the initial offering (uncovered by such groups as "dontgo Movement.com") shows a large number of dummy corporations and Democrat-controlled trust funds. It is more than possible that Speaker Pelosi, and several key Democrat Leaders, now control CLNE.

So what, you might ask. Let’s go further along in time. On February 27, 2008, the US House of Representatives passed the Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008 (H.R. 5351). Speaker Pelosi used extreme pressure to make sure this bill passed the US House. Some representatives said that Speaker Pelosi did everything but "place a gun to their head" to make sure they voted correctly. 

But concerning the US Senate version (S. 3044), what occurred was interesting. The bill needed 60 votes under Senate rules to move forward but failed 58 to 41, with 8 Republicans joining 48 Democrats and 2 independents in support of it. Aides of Senator John McCain said he would have opposed the measure, but he was absent during the vote. (Note: Speaker Pelosi chastised Senator McCain for his absence.) 

If the Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008 had passed, the value of Speaker Pelosi’s stock could have been worth over $30,000,000.00. But more importantly, the Democrat Party would have controlled the development of renewable resources in the US. They would do so by determining who got grants and loans under the "rules" of this bill. However, you have to give Speaker Pelosi credit. As soon as it was evident that the "US Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008" was dead in the water, Speaker Pelosi and the California State Legislature hit the road with a "new battle plan".

The "new battle plan" is California's Proposition 10. (Proposition 10 is also known as the "California Alternative Fuels Initiative".) Proposition 10 would spend $5 billion in California bond money ($10 billion by the time the interest is paid, according to the LA Times) to promote natural gas as an cleaner alternative for automobile and truck fuel in California. Interestingly enough, in an LA Times editorial, Anthony Rubenstein was highly critical of Proposition 10, calling the proposition a "raid on California's general fund to support ‘Pickens’ self-serving national gas agenda."

"The initiative deceptively reads like it's supporting all alternative-fuel vehicles and renewable energy," Rubenstein wrote. "But a closer read finds a laundry list of cash grabs. … Much of the measure's billions could benefit Pickens' company to the exclusion of almost all other clean-vehicle fuels and technology."

And guess who T. Boone Pickens newest best friend is, at least since May 25, 2007?

But don’t worry. The Democrats have a new scheme for controlling US energy. On May 22, 2008, Representative Maxine Waters said the following during the "grilling" of oil executives during a US House panel meeting:

"And guess what this liberal would be all about. This liberal will be about socializing … uh, um. …" (The congresswoman paused to collect her thoughts.) "Would be about, basically, taking over, and the government running all of your companies. …"

And what party affiliation is Representative Waters? And what state does she represent? For those who don’t know, she is a Democrat representing the 35^th District of California. Strange isn’t it? Waters and Pelosi are both Democrats and both represent California.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=72225

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-rubenstein29-2008jul29,0,2980323.story

http://www.house.gov/pelosi/

http://www.house.gov/waters/

http://dontgomovement.com/

In April of 2008, the U.S. Geological Service (USGS) issued a report concerning the Bakken Field (also known as the Williston Basin). This revised report, which had not been updated since 1995, estimated the oil reserve in the Bakken Field. The drawing below indicates the area of this field:                 

The amount of oil in this field which is easily recoverable is estimated by this report to be anywhere between 3.0 billion barrels to as much as 4.3 billion barrels. Plus this oil is light, sweet crude!

But it gets better, various government agencies (including the Department of Energy) have estimated that the total amount of oil in this formation could be as high as 500 billion barrels. This includes oil in oil shale and oil not recoverable with today’s technology.

This number (i.e., 500 billion barrels) is larger than the entire Saudi Arabia fields. With the new techniques that the oil industry has developed over the last twenty years, it is anybody’s guess as to how much of this oil will become "recoverable" in the next twenty years.

But if the 4.0 billion barrels number is all that is correct, at a cost of $100.00 per barrel this represents a net worth to the US of $400,000,000,000.00. That is correct, 400 hundred billion dollars.

A slide show of this USGS Report can be found at the following address:

http://energy.usgs.gov/flash/Bakken_slideshow.swf

http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2008/3021/

Only a few days before, Gates’ American army had been reinforced by perhaps the best unit in the Continental army, the Rifle Corps under the command of Daniel Morgan. All of these soldiers were volunteers. Each soldier was armed with the technological equivalent (in today's terms) of a long-range "sniper rifle". The "Pennsylvania" rifles of the Rifle Corps had only two equals in the world: the German "Jaeger" rifle and the British "Ferguson" rifle. Unfortunately for Burgoyne, neither of these fine weapons were available to his army (although it is believed that several German units in Burgoyne’s army had a few of the "Jaeger" rifles).

On the morning of September 18, 1777, approximately 100 British regulars, loyalists, French Canadians, and a handful of Indians were digging for potatoes at the abandoned Sword Family farm, some 500 yards in the advance of the British main army.