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Posted on 08/01/2008 6:24:27 PM PDT by NickFlooding
Western oil shale becomes issue in La. Senate race By MELINDA DESLATTE
A supply of oil sealed in rock out West is becoming a flash-point in Louisiana's U.S. Senate race, in a bid to gain the attention of drivers feeling the pinch of gasoline prices.
Republican candidate John Kennedy said unlocking the energy source from oil shale - as much as 800 billion barrels of oil locked in underground rock in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah - could shrink the nation's dependence on foreign oil and could help ease prices at the pump.
Kennedy, the state treasurer, said his Democratic opponent, U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, has helped block the oil shale development. Kennedy's campaign is highlighting the energy issue, hoping to undercut Landrieu's image - and campaign pitch - as a senator who has crossed party lines to push for more oil and gas drilling and exploration.
Earlier this year, Landrieu cast the deciding vote in committee against lifting a moratorium on commercial oil shale leases, a vote she said she made at the request of U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo.
Secure for heavy whining from the Democrats.
Elections have consequences, or so it is often said. Let’s hope that by November hundreds of races all over the country are referendums on drilling here, now, and paying less.
Today I heard that Landreiu is part of the “10” (includes Lindsey Graham) that are pushing for off shore drilling against the ‘Rats.
What’s up with that?
"The wells have Already been drilled, it's merely a matter of turning back on the faucets to supply America's needs for 200 years.
All of our energy problems were solved in the '70s with the huge discovery and drilling of oil under Gull Island, Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.
There is more pure grade oil there than in all of Saudi Arabia. Gull Island contains as much oil and natural gas as Americans could use in 200 years."
Oddly though, immediately after this massive discovery, the federal government ordered the rigs to be capped and oil production shut down.
If this is true, then all the talk and demand of "drill here drill now" isn't what we should be demanding. We should be demanding that all existing wells be put back into production, and work started on aditional pipelines to carry the oil and gas that we are already capable of producing.
"Everything you hear on the evening news and out of Washington is garbage," said Jim Lawler, an oil production manager with ARCO. "Eight wells have already been drilled in the areas environmentalists are claiming we must not go in. We have already been in and out. There was no damage done. All we need to do is start production."
You can disregard that article because the writer doesn’t know what a rig is or dose. I work in the oil patch and it is a frequent peeve of mine to hear ignorant people spouting about “the rigs”.
Rigs can not be capped, wells can be. Drilling rigs drill wells, pickup and move to the next site.
FR’s might be interested in the Bakken oil survey I’m running in my website http://www.theusmat.com/ and pass it around. It brings up a salient point about this very valuable energy supply that should be considered
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