[Red Badger]

Rest In Peace, old friend, your work is finished.....

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[Red Badger]

Legislation KnOcK!.......

[Piquaboy]

This will be fought tooth and nail by the Rats and their envio-buddies.

[pnh102]

Maybe this would have helped back in 2001 to 2007 when you know, the GOP could actually pass such legislation. Why even bother introducing it now when you know it has no chance of passing?

[Squawk 8888]

I like the idea of opening up domestic production but the coal mandate is a bad idea. The biofuels fiasco should be a lesson in that regard- coal-derived fuels will be produced if and when they become profitable.

[SoFloFreeper]

With the Democrat Congress, this'll go over like a fart in an elevator.

[OpusatFR]

This is a great move!

I hope one day we will be able to develop our resources, but we know the dems will vote it down right now.

And come election, they will be stuck with their vote against America.

[Sgt_Schultze]

...and lift the one-year moratorium on developing oil shale in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah.

This is such and important part of being energy independent. The area about which Domeneci is referring is called the Green River Formation and is estimated to have "..from 1.2 to 1.8 trillion barrels. Not all resources in place are recoverable; however, even a moderate estimate of 800 billion barrels of recoverable oil from oil shale in the Green River Formation is three times greater than the proven oil reserves of Saudi Arabia. Present U.S. demand for petroleum products is about 20 million barrels per day. If oil shale could be used to meet a quarter of that demand, the estimated 800 billion barrels of recoverable oil from the Green River Formation would last for more than 400 years.

[A. Morgan]

BUMP!

[ripley]

the nasty republicans are at it again. they want to soil our earth by drilling for oil. they want to further greed, dirtiness, foul air, foul interaction between people and crass materialism.

they should be ashamed of themselves.

/sarcasm off/

[elpadre]

Rather than moan about the Dems expected reaction to the bill, why not all on FR get behind it and pressure Congress as we did with the no-amnesty campaign. Can we do it again???

[avacado]

" The mean-case estimate is that there are 10.4 billion technically recoverable barrels of oil in ANWR,..."

Multiply that by 4 or 5 and that is how much recoverable oil is actually there. The 10 billion figure was from seismic surveys in the 1980s. Seismic technology has advanced much since then and the estimates back then were based of poor technology and processing algorithms.

I work with a geophysicist who worked on the ANWR seismic survey back in the 1980s and he claims 4 to 5 times the amount of recoverable oil than what they first estimated.

If nothing else, let's get a good seismic survey done on the ANWR today.

[andy58-in-nh]

The bill is a great idea, but sadly it will never make it out of committee, much less to a floor vote. Harry Reid will not allow the Republicans to make a campaign issue of energy independence, since the Democrats want to own that issue for themselves. Of course, their solution would be taxes, control, regulation, and Federal spending on "green" technologies regardless of their viability. The Republicans, for their part, aren't willing to risk their Senate seats over it at a time they need to explain $3.50/gallon gas to a skeptical public informed by a hostile news media.

[Brilliant]

This is just more Congressional idiocy. This is the same idiocy that got us into the problem with escalating food prices, ie. the government subsidizing alternative energy. If they are now going to subsidize gasified coal, that is just going to drive up the cost of coal, and the cost of your electric bill, not to mention the cost of everything else that uses coal. On top of that, it will cause a faster depletion of our coal reserves, and make the energy crisis worse. Let the market decide where we get our energy—not politicians and bureaucrats who have no clue.

[kellynla]

BTTT

[RightWhale]

Didn’t see nuclear power in this. It has everything else, why not that? Why also the funding: should cost nothing.

[NoLibZone]

It should be a Presidential Executive order.

[NoLibZone]

Chavez will pour a lot of money into the DNC to get this stopped.

[headstamp 2]

“and lift the one-year moratorium on developing oil shale in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah.”

We can't even develop shale oil with the stupid moratorium. We are absolutely suicidal with our energy policy in this country.

[SERKIT]

My Energy Manifesto:

* 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 "boutique" 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.

* Lift the restrictions in order to drill for oil in Alaska, Gulf of Mexico, and other sites in the CONUS as a matter of national security.

* Encourage the petro industry to construct state-of-the-art refineries and/or retrofit current and dormant ones and crank up production for our newly-found oil in the CONUS.

* Make all “carbon credit” scams unlawful. Discrediting Algore should have been a slam-dunk a long time ago. Stop electing Reps who buy into the Global Warming Hoax.

* Construct SEVERAL, regional Pebble-Bed Reactors (or other similar modern designs) that are not considered "breeders", are rechargeable, and cleaner than any current nuclear generator design.

* Use the residual heat from the reactors 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.

* Become independent enough to make the cartels (i.e. OPEC) inconsequential.

* Convince local taxing bodies to lift or cap 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. The Federal government could compel the states (and locals) to cap the fuel taxes.