Posted on 05/02/2008 4:35:56 PM PDT by Libloather
Senate GOP uses ANWR to attack gas prices
STEVENS STUMPS: Oil exploration in Alaska gets senior senator fired up.
By ERIKA BOLSTAD
ebolstad@adn.com
Last Modified: May 2nd, 2008 10:13 AM
WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans, continuing a national GOP push to hammer Democrats on gas prices, unveiled a domestic oil exploration plan Thursday that includes a call for opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling.
The Senate Democrats who control the chamber summarily dismissed the idea -- and the others in the Republican proposal. Drilling in ANWR is also opposed by all three of the presidential candidates: Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.
But that didn't dampen the enthusiasm of Sen. Ted Stevens, who got almost as excited at Thursday's news conference as he did in 2005 when the Senate rejected his plan to drill in ANWR and he described it as "the saddest day in my life."
The Alaska Republican lashed out at Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., saying that the senator who represents stock exchanges should consider more regulation of commodities speculators who have driven up prices. Alaska can manage affairs in its own backyard, Stevens said.
**SNIP**
Said McConnell: "We think we should produce the American energy right here at home, to bring gas prices down."
(Excerpt) Read more at adn.com ...
Once pressure mounts, that mind can be changed.
Problem is that since the left has stopped all building of new refineries for the past 30 to 40 years (no new ones have been built) that it is required to import 55 million gallons of gasoline every day in the summer and around 25 million gallons every day in the winter. So even though we may think that it is American Gasoline the evidence points in the other direction.
So as long as we have the anti-humans in control of our building and drilling process (they will not allow us to drill for our own oil in our own country so I consider them traitors and supporters of the destruction of this great nation) we will be required to buy more and more gasoline from the Middle East and South America.
The elite of the Royal 100 Club in Washington are idiots and should have allowed drilling in Alaska and on all federal property and building of new refineries so that we will not be slaves to the oil cartel but they will not, and unless we the people take back our government and repeal the 17th Amendment and get some real Americans in the Royal 100 Club to do what the founding fathers said they should do we do not have much chance to survive. They are the ones responsible for the oil shortage and their henchmen are responsible for the futures market where the price is raised on a daily basis.
They keep saying new fuel will take over but what they do not say is that it will take 100 to 200 years to completely get rid of oil as the basic necessity of life on this earth. Without oil there will be NO food and no way to harvest it or transports it or can it or anything else.
Drill – Drill and keep our country safe from total destruction. Tell your member of the Royal 100 Club to stop and allow drilling and the building of new refineries.
About time.
I heard McCain say on Glenn Beck that he would no sooner want to see drilling in ANWR than he would in the Grand Canyon. Does this dolt understand that ANWR is a wasteland with no real redeeming value other than the oil located below the permafrost?? McCain is too ignorant to be President.
I wonder what liberal mantra McCain won’t holler.
I am not sure it would lower oil prices much. The worldwide supply is very tight, and this would add only a couple of million barrels a day at most.
Been there twice. Nothing but mosquitoes in the summer, and a bunch of snow in the winter. Once a year some reindeer come through and thats it. These people are suicidal idiots.
“opposed by all three presidential candidates”.
WE got 3 Democrats running for President this year. We are going to be a 3rd world country before my grandson is grown. Nobody is going to have a future here.
I don’t understand the need to NOT drill in a place where nobody lives, but it’s fine to drill within the city limits of a US city, especially if it’s located in Texas or Lousiana.
It happens all the time.
It’s about time!
President Bush sign emergency executive orders:
1. Waive restrictions to drilling in ANWR.
2. Order three permits for new refineries be issued within four weeks.
3. Eliminate all biofuel supplements.
4. Waive summer gas formulas, and order an investigation into the value of the seasonal formulas.
You’ve been thinking about this!
You have to wonder how many constituents of those RATS are standing at a gas pump right now complaining their butts off about the price of gas and yet are too clueless to understand that they're to blame for supporting these clymers.
Oh, and
5. Make the state gas taxes uniform, and make the states cough up the numbers and evidence for the highway work they claim the taxes fund.
Yes, but I’m turning blue holding my breath....
Windmills, solar, clean coal technology has been around for years. It's the control of the money from these industries that everyone wants.
P.S. Using a food crop for fuel, particularly corn, is an absurdity. It's failure is already obvious.
And stop making "cars" the big problem. I heat with gas and cook with electric. My bro has an oil tank.
Personally, I'd like to see a ban on plastics and utilizing our forests instead of promoting the burning of millions of acres via enviro-nuts.
McNut is a real sad nut case and he will be a pain in the a@@ in trying to convince him he is working for the American people, not his stupid ego. But what hope do we have.
Unfortunately, all three of them are. The United States is in quite a predicament. I'll vote for McCain, because he's the most viable conservative candidate. I know he's not that conservative, but compared to Hillary and Obama, he's a Bircher.
love your username btw.
Depends at what efficiency we drill at. We have more wells and derricks in PA than all of Saudi Arabia, yet the Saudis pump an incredibly large amount compared to PA.
In 1996 the North Slope oil fields produced about 1.5 million barrels of oil per day, or approximately 25 percent of the U.S. domestic production.
In 1997, between 1,000-1,500 recreational visitors actually spent time within the 19 million acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), a region the size of the State of South Carolina.
The Sierra Club conducts 6-10 activists group training trips every year to ANWR. These tours make up a major portion of the commercial visitors to the Coastal Plain. Costing $3,000 to $4,000 per person.
In 1980, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated the Coastal Plain could contain up to 17 billion barrels of oil and 34 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
After several years of surface geological investigations, aeromagnetic surveys, and two winter seismic surveys (in 1983-84 and 1984-85), the U.S. Department of Interior (DOI), in its April, 1987 report on the oil and gas potential of the Coastal Plain, estimated that there are billions of barrels of oil to be discovered in the area. DOI estimates that “in-place resources” range from 4.8 billion to 29.4 billion barrels of oil. Recoverable oil estimates ranges from 600 million barrels at the low end to 9.2 billion barrels at the high end. They also reported identifying 26 separate oil and gas prospects in the Coastal Plain that could each contain “super giant” fields (500 million barrels or more).
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Laborers, Sheet Metal Workers, Maritime Officers, Maritime Engineers, United Mine Workers, Building and Construction Trades, Operating Engineers and several other National unions support responsible ANWR development.
Unions recognize that limited development of the Coastal Plain will provide jobs to hard-working Americans, increase our energy independence, and that it can occur in an environmentally responsible manner.
American labor is ready to work.
First you must do your job: OPEN ANWR.
* Cease all ethanol production. It requires more energy to make than it yields and the unintended consequence is higher food costs. Corn production shifted from feed-corn to subsidized corn for ethanol. Just say "no" to ethanol!
* Immediately create only ONE "blend" of gasoline and cease regional blends which are stupid, costly, and meaningless. Even if this is the "cleanest" blend, just make it ONE and be done with it. Trucking custom blends around the country is wasteful.
* Drill for oil in Alaska, Gulf of Mexico, and other sites in the CONUS as a matter of national security.
* Construct state-of-the-art refineries and/or retrofit current and dormant ones and crank up production.
* Make all “carbon credit” scams unlawful.
* Construct SEVERAL, regional Pebble-Bed Reactors (or other similar designs) that are not considered "breeders", are rechargeable, and cleaner than any current nuclear generator design.
* Use the residual heat from the reactor above to process motor fuel from coal and/or shale. Even though Clinton "stole" some of the best coal reserves, we still have a lot to use.
* Have Iraq pay for its freedom, and maybe even pay us back for their freedom. We'll still need their oil.
* Bust up the cartels or at least be independent enough to make the cartels inconsequential.
* Convince local taxing bodies to lift or fix the sales tax on gasoline so that as gas prices go up, the local tax collectors don’t see a windfall revenue jump at the expense of the consumer.
Better late than never I suppose.
I don't think he can waive the restrictions on ANWR. That's something else to thank Jimmuh for.
http://www.npca.org/media_center/fact_sheets/anilca.html
I’ve been wondering when the retaliation against the Greens will start. If food and fuel become unobtainable, violence is going to erupt aimed at Greens and their enablers in government.
Why doesn’t Alaska use the Kelo Decision as precedent and seize ANWR by Eminent Domain?
But don't worry .... prices won't tumble cause we don't have anough conservatives with spines to push the issue. The enviro weenines with the moron IQ have wrapped up the democrats that have an equal IQ. The only thing Stevens has ever been upset with was his funding that was cancelled for his “bridge to nowhere.” Like many other RINO’s .. Stevens is taking up valuable air space.
“I am not sure it would lower oil prices much. The worldwide supply is very tight, and this would add only a couple of million barrels a day at most.”
With that attitude, why should any company bother to explore for more if it would only “add a few million barrels a day”.
Every drop counts ... remember that.
A couple million barrels a day from ANWR and couple million barrels or more from off shore drilling would all add up. At least it would be several million of barrels a day we would not have to import from the muzzies.
Inasmuch as they've already got the use of 25% of Earth's land surface for eating and pooping, the loss of a couple of acres at ANWR is meaningless.
Somebody go tell that bad boy that Rudolph is safe!
This country has over 50 million barbeques ~ the Greens should have listened to us.
It’s federal property. Alaska could probably seize it as an independent country, but then we’d have to conquer them and it’d be back to square one.
Sorry to inform you but drilling at ANWAR or anywhere else isn’t going to happen nor are new refineries. Even if they did it’s no guarantee it would reduce the price as long as oil companies are making record profits by doing next to nothing to earn them.
The supply, the demand and the profits are just right for them...So screw you if you don’t like it.
The Republican House and Senate seem more willing to drill for oil now that they’re the minority. Why, when they were the majority, did they act more like Dems rather than work to get more refineries built and begin new drilling? Too little too late with the gutless wonders. Both parties are good with dog and pony shows, spending our money and ruining our country. I expect idiocy from the Dems, but the Republicans have proven to be disappointing.
Thanks!
Thanks.
Sounds good to me.
1. Waive restrictions to drilling in ANWR.
2. Order three permits for new refineries be issued within four weeks.
3. Eliminate all biofuel supplements.
4. Waive summer gas formulas, and order an investigation into the value of the seasonal formulas.
Why aren't you running for President of the U.S.? If I ever know your name, I'll write it in. My liberal neighbor and I were joking about writing in Mickey Mouse for President. We're both disgusted with the nominees (and current leaders).
lol!
“WE got 3 Democrats running for President this year. “
No we don’t. We have a liberal a Socialist and a Marxist running.
Political parties no longer matter. They are just labels.
I heard John McLame on Glenn Beck tonight. Beck asked him about energy policy...ANWR and drilling our coast.
McInsane said he wasn’t for ANWR, but since he was a federalist, he wanted to give “states the option” to allow drilling off their coasts.
McQueeg is for allowing STATES to decide, except if that state is ALASKA.
see my post above, mccain is nuts.
I have a special category reserved for people like McCain.... there are some who don’t know anything and there are those like McCain who don’t even SUSPECT anything. I just cannot imagine John McCain as President.
Then we could have gold and copper mines, drill for oil and charge the US billions for the 'rental' on the military bases. Take the dollar at par and we would be ding pretty good.
Or not.....
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