News / Brèves Back to previous selection / Retour à la sélection précédente Reverse Warren Buffett Led Breakdown of U.S. Energy, Transport and Ag Infrastructure! 20 April 2014 The killer shortage of U.S. food and energy supplies brought about by drought, fracking, and Warren Buffett’s financial manipulation of vital transportation infrastructure, must be reversed by decisive action by lawmakers: Impeach Obama. Stop fracking. And use Federal powers to ensure that vital supplies have access to transportation and to push through the development of the fusion power-driven North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWAPA XXI). The energy flux density of our national economy must rise with technological advances, not sink into Hell with insane "green" policies. Lyndon LaRouche stated emphatically this weekend: "We demand that they stop the fracking! Stop it now, or else! Anybody who does not support stopping the fracking, under these conditions, should therefore be impeached, immediately! Anybody who blocks it should be impeached immediately. Because this is a threat to every person in the United States!" The "Great Fracking Oil & Gas Boom" is sucking up water in dry states; using up railroad capacity to haul oil; using up pipeline capacity to convey gas products, especially propane, for export, while domestic users go short and pay to the hilt. The 2013 harvest of wheat, beans, and other farm products is overflowing storage capacity in the Upper Midwest, for lack of rail shipment to move the produce outward. This process is destroying communities and farming throughout the Central States; it now constitutes a national food supply crisis. Fracking must stop immediately. Emergency measures must be taken to move in fertilizer, propane and other farm inputs, and move out crops. If President Obama refuses, or stall, impeach him. Stop fracking or else. Foremost among the culpable figures is Warren Buffett, whose Burlington Northern Santa Fe RR (BNSF RR), part of his Berkshire Hathaway empire, is the leading hauler of crude out of the Bakken shale oil field in the Dakotas, and a leading hauler of inputs to fracking (sand, etc). Buffett also is a gas pipeline mogul, after buying up strategic stretches of pipeline routes during recent years of the Dick Cheney energy deregulation revolution. Buffett, like his fellow Wall Street sharks, is making a killing off the Obama energy goal, to make the U.S. into the new "Saudi Arabia" of the world, thanks to the shale boom. The extreme situation is so bad, that even two Federal government entities were recently forced to make unprecedented, rearguard interventions. On April 15, the Commerce Department’s Surface Transportation Board (STB) issued an order to Buffett’s BNSF and the Canadian Pacific RR—they serve the upper Plains States and Bakken oil fields—"to report their plans to ensure delivery of fertilizer shipments for Spring planting of U.S. crops, and, beginning April 25, 2014, to provide weekly status reports for six weeks regarding fertilizer delivery over their respective networks." The STB directive stated: "Given the immediate need for fertilizer to meet rapidly approaching planting deadlines, and the potential long-lasting and widespread effects of missing those deadlines, the Board" is taking this decision. On February 7, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued its first-ever directive to one of the gas pipeline cartel firms (Enterprise Products Partners LP), to reverse its flow-to-the-ports shipments of gas and propane, and instead make shipments south-to-north, to bring in emergency gas supplies to the north Central States. This came about amidst the crisis this Winter, when propane users, including farms, households, schools, and institutions, were slammed by scarcity and skyrocketing prices. Over the last 18 months, the Obama administration lifted restrictions against exports of certain Natural Gas Liquids (NGLs). Given that the world "market" price was much higher than the domestic, the London/Wall Street cartels shipped it abroad. Exports of propane and propylene have increased 5.5 times in the past two years. Exports in the last year alone, tripled. In 2013, over 20% of all U.S. propane was exported, way up from 5% in 2008. Act Against Fracking, Buffett, Or Be Impeached The lawmakers standing by this situation as observers, must now act, or be impeached. Stop the fracking. Remove Warren Buffett from corporate office and power. Take the steps to do this; use Federal injunctions where necessary. Corporate interest has to be subordinated to national interest, to the General Welfare. It is a Constitutional issue. No more cowardly complaints or reassurances from the sidelines. The national interest is the principle here. For example, Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.), can’t have it both ways, backing the fracking boom, but saying he backs farmers and eaters. On April 14, Hoeven announced that he met with the BNSF Chairman Matt Rose, and was assured that the railroad "will dedicate additional resources and crews to get fertilizer to North Dakota producers faster." Warren Buffett, BNSF owner, is the man who caused the crisis to begin with. He is an enemy of the people. The fracker-backers are all now on the line, from Democrat Mary Landrieu (Louisiana), who calls fracking the "New Gas Revolution," and wants her state to lead the LNG exports, to Republican Lisa Murkowski (Alaska). The United States cannot withstand any further destruction of its vital infrastructure and its physical economy. It must stop now.