Pelosi, Reid and Obama's 68 Million Acre Joke!

PDOP ^ | 07/16/2008 | Jarid Brown

[Jabrown]

...Senator Reid and House Speaker Pelosi have both stated that they will not allow drilling legislation to proceed, although they are both aware that the legislation now has enough support to pass both houses. Senator Reid yesterday acknowledged that only 80% of the Senatorial Democratic Caucus opposed lifting the moratorium. If that were the case, then that would mean that the legislation would have close to the 60 votes needed to prevent a filibuster.

The argument of Reid, Pelosi, Obama and several other congressional leaders has shifted in the past few weeks from an attitude that we cannot drill to an attitude that ...

[laotzu]

If we use the very same extrapolation, we can estimate that the 9.4 billion acres of the currently non-producing moon orbiting our earth could produce an additional 654 million barrels each day. That would supply America’s total annual demand in less than 12 days (but the pipeline construction would be a bear).

[mainerforglobalwarming]

IF McCain and the gop would jump on this issue, the election would be over. Oil fell yesterday by 6 dollars based on Bush’s lifting of the ban. If congress actually lifted the ban, speculation would plumet and the price of crude would drop, perhaps another 10 or 15 dollars.

[mouse1]

DRILL OR GET OFF THE HILL!!

Have you contacted congress today?

Pelosi AmericanVoices@mail.house.gov

[Conspiracy Guy]

I can’t be bothered with this because I am trying to extract blood from a turnip right now. When I get through with that I have to spin some hay into gold.

[Redleg Duke]

I submitted an email to Pelosi at this email address yesterday and got an eventual bounce-back indicating an inability to deliver. Either they are blocking emails or they are overwhelmed.

[Boonie]

They don’t want to hear from the “masses”...The dirty, unwashed “masses”....They know what’s best for all us “little people”....Most of Congress (both parties) want to pat us on the head and tell us to be quiet and let the “smart people” do “what’s best” for us...

[DustyMoment]

Either they are blocking emails or they are overwhelmed.

It's probably a combination of BOTH!!!

But, Pelosi won't allow facts or the opinions of her employers (us!) to get in the way of a great opportunity to granstand and obstruct in order to keep her agenda alive.

Shades of tiny tommy daschle!

[Jabrown]

The Email Form at Politically Drunks site will automatically send emails to dozens of congressional leaders including all three of pelosi’s email addresses. We are adding more direct email addresses we obtained yesterday. Since launching the initiative yesterday our software has generated over 13,000 emails to capitol hill. Spread the word.

[mouse1]

Sent email to Pelosi and it went fine.
I assume they were flooded yesterday.
Try again

AmericanVoices@mail.house.gov

[autumnraine]

Since most Democrats are realizing their own constituents are getting upset at the lack of vote, when will they get Pelosi and Reid out of there for blocking it coming to a vote in the first place?

[Jabrown]

They won’t, it’s unfortunate but Hillary Clinton supporters seem to be the only Democrats who see the sham that Pelosi, Reid, and Obama are. If Obama changes his position, he will screw himself with the radical left he is part of, but it will force Pelosi and Reid to call a vote. That is not likely to happen. The fact is that a vast majority of the moderate democrats are more than willing to keep their mouths shut and walk the party line that if only focused on one issue: Power!

Unfortunately, it may take $5 or $6 a gallon gas before these morons realize that their jobs are in jeopardy and before the public decides to actually stand up for itself.

[dubie]

I tried sending to AmericanVoices@mail.house.gov and my got a delay msg from my server... usually the delay msg is followed by an undeliverable msg. I will try to send from another account and see how it goes...

[sweetiepiezer]

I just call my Senators office and they type up what I say and then they say they will give it to the Senator.
This works also.

[InterceptPoint]

What we need is some hard data on what is really going on in the petroleum business so I’ll help out with a statistic that the petroleum industry uses called “Rig Count”. That is just the number of oil and natural gas drilling rigs that are active at any one time. A company named Baker-Hughes keeps track of the rigs and you can find the rig count data at the Baker-Hughes website.

Here is the link: Rig Count at Baker-Hughes

If you check the link you will see that the current rig count is 1922, up 1 from last week and up by 131 from a year ago.

Baker-Hughes also provides historical data on the same web page. One of the entries is an Excel spreadsheet summarizing the rig count from 1990 to 2008 by the week. Take a look at the chart below which summarizes the data. It shows the average number of rigs operating in the Continental U.S. for the years 1990 to 2007.

What you see here is that the number of rigs drilling in the Continental United States was pretty much in the 700 to 1000 range for most of the period from 1990-2003 and then began increasing. Now this could be because petroleum prices started to rise or it could be that we had George Bush as president and he managed to cut some of the red tape. In all likelihood it is a combination of those two factors.

In any case, the chart puts a lie to Dems point that the oil industry is sitting on their hands. They currently have more operational rigs than at any time in the last 18 years. In fact you have to go back 23 years to 1985 to see higher rig count than we have today.

So I conclude that the Dems are intentionally lying about the current effort by the oil companies to explore for oil on those 68,000 acres that they keep talking about all the time.

What would be nice is if we had data on the likelihood of finding oil on those acres. I'm sure that some of it is not worth exploring at all but some hard statistics would help.

[FlashBack]

Mine went through...and then probably in one ear and out the other!

[gimme1ibertee]

This is the missive I dropped in the email slot to those “in charge”:

To the lads and ladies on the Hill that collect the paychecks we provide for you:

You have an ABSOLUTE DUTY to step up and DO THE RIGHT THING for we the people and STOP this CHILDISH behavior.....
You are playing a DANGEROUS GAME with our soverignty.
ALLOW DRILLING offshore and in ANWR so we can become energy-independent.
This SOCIALIST SLANT is BEYOND THE PALE.
KNOCK IT OFF and do the job you have been paid BY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO DO!!!!
TO THE GOP SIDE OF THE AISLE....
GROW A SET,WOULD YOU????
Sincerely,

[Polyxene]

Love it!! Love your tagline, too!

[InterceptPoint]

Bump for a worthy topic.

[Logical me]

Unfortunately, it may take $5 or $6 a gallon gas before these morons realize that their jobs are in jeopardy and before the public decides to actually stand up for itself.

You are right. But by then the America we once knew will no longer exist and a return to the depression era will be on us. Much crying by the mass of lame cult followers, but here we would be.