Needed in Lincon. . . another newspaper! (Omaha, Lincoln: to buy, oil, activity)

[Gunluvver2]

I tried to post the following reply to a comment made by another poster on the Lincoln Journal Star online website at JournalStar.com
It was rejected as "invalid comment". No competition but it is needed****************************************

My rejected comment:
Tim,
What you call large multinational oil companies are not the BIG DOGS in the oil business. Exxon/Mobil, Conoco-Phillips, Chevron and other corporations have shareholders and it is possible for citizens in many countries to buy shares in those businesses.

The really HUGE PLAYERS in the oil business are the oil companies owned by governments. Countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait, Dubai, Iraq, Russia, Mexico, Venezuela, Canada, the United Kingdom and the Dutch. There are NO ROYALTIES paid on oil from those Government owned going into the pockets of citizens, unless it is going to corrupt politicians.

Royalties are paid on every barrel of oil taken from under United States land. A large part of those royalties are paid directly to land owners and if the oil is taken from Government land the royalty money goes into the U.S. Treasury or in some cases State Treasuries (Alaska for one).

Will we ever be able to produce 100% of the oil needed in the USA domestically? No. However we could keep a lot of that money here in the USA by producing more domestically. I heavily invested in Alternative Energy and have been for several years. So far I have taken a heckuva beating on those investments. Nobody wants to see alternative energy become a large part of our energy than I. However the same people that have been calling for a reduction in OIL have put stumbling blocks in the way of Wind, Nuclear, Ethanol and even Solar. I suspect their true agenda is the destruction of our economy.
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The above Comment to Neal’s Blog was rejected 07/14th
It is too bad that comments that the LJS Gods disagree with cannot be posted here. I don't think it is Neal doing the censoring but some wimp in the editorial department.

GL2

[Chris19]

It seems odd that the newspaper has rejected the comment. It was not a malicious comment and you had a valid point regarding oil. I may not agree with you 100%, your view should be expressed. You make a valid arguement and it challenges others to think in a different perspective. That is what we need in editorials, because not every one thinks the same and we need different viewpoints and aspects. Have you tried sending your editorial to Omaha World-Herald? Based on what I see, the Lincoln Journal Star's decision not to accept your comment is a wrong and closed-minded one.

[Gunluvver2]

Thanks for your reply Chris.
No I didn't send my comment to the Omaha World Herald. This comment was not sent as a Letter To The Editor but to an online Blog of JournalStar.com. The LJS publishes a political cartoon by Neal Obermeyer weekly and there is an online Blog for readers to comment on those cartoons. Usually these comments are posted without any review by staff. Certain words are forbidden and will cause a comment to be rejected. However in the comment I posted I did not find any words that would cause the rejection.

I am waiting for a reply I sent to the interactivity editor in regards to this rejection. I will follow up with here comments in here later.

GL2

[Dave1215]

Seemed to me to be a very reasonable tone and a very reasonable discusison.