Posted on 05/19/2008 5:21:51 AM PDT by thackney
Try reading the entire article. The pertinent information is buried in the middle.
Amazingly the my way or da highway types will manage to find fault with this: if we can’t drill it all, we hate Bush and prefer nothing.
Most of the posts seem like Hamas gunmen....they are running into the street and pulling the trigger without taking aim
Just get used to $5.00 gallon gas. That’s the way it will be until our federal government gets their heads out of their @sses. In other words, never.
Thank you. I will research it further.
However, I do not see how any amount of research is going to lead me to the conclusion that REDUCING the amount of land (and therefore obtainable oil) in our National Petroleum Reserve is, in the long run, going to benefit us (the citizens of the U.S.) as regards developing domestic oil production and increasing the supply-side of the equation.
It WILL reduce the available supply, which will make the product more dear, which will lead to higher prices, which will benefit the oil companies; but I do not see it benefitting the average consumer.
They are wet for a few months of the year. Then they become icy.
Combine that with the fact the yearly precipitation is so low, they could be considered a desert, except for all the ponds of water during the summer.
I think the best source of data for North America petroleum production is:
http://www.eia.doe.gov
US Crude Oil Production
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/pet_crd_crpdn_adc_mbbl_m.htm
So, they are not really wet-lands; they are more ICE-lands?
What is it they say?
“There’s a place for all of God’s creature: Right next to the mashed potatoes.”
I assume this includes the majestic caribou.
The climate is such that polygon-patterned tundra wetlands are formed during the summer, see post #23.
The flat land, polygon ridges, and melting ice/snow create many, many ponds that hold water. Permafrost areas typically do not drain well.
http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&hl=en&ll=70.386153,-152.833557&spn=0.418581,1.856689&t=h&z=9
SAVE THE MOSQUITOES!!!!!!
Beware of the ROOTERS headline...never, ever trust a Lieberal!
Sure, there are lots of them. But their VIEW has been ruined.
LOL!
The bureaucracies have been run run by left leaning Democrats for many years. The presidential appointed leaders are in many cases window dressing. They get their reports and advise from the so-called professionals (bureaucrats). It has been a problem in WDC for many years and if the appointed leader exercises some leadership contrary to the will of old time employees of the department they will begin leaking negative info about him/her and finding a way to neutralize that leaders influence.
The Bureau of Land Management has long been such a case.
“Why despite a decade of ever increasing world demand for Oil do we produce less now then we did in 2000?”
You have to look back at the late 90’s, when oil was 8.50 a barrel. Drilling came to a standstill, low production wells were shut in. Natural gas was going for chump change. Hundreds of thousands of people were put out of work, millions were effected. 39 oil producing states were heavily effected.
This is not something that’s going to heal itself over night, or over a decade. The moratorium on offshore drilling, needs to be lifted immediately and all options need to be explored, especially Natural gas. the one commodity we don’t import.
Dirty little secret too many Americans keep falling for this same Enviro Socialists propaganda myth about "Big Oil" that we have been hearing since the 1970s.
It is the trust fund babies with their "environmental groups" and their fat campaign donations and relentless influence buying who are buying this "do nothing then bitch about it" Energy Policy.
Funny how no one ever remembers that 95% of the votes for the filibuster that repeatedly killed the "Big Oil" Bush's Production 1st Energy plan came from Democrats.
No instead we keep hearing this big lie about "Politicians and the Oil Industry".
"Big Oil" would love to drill more, the reason we don't drill is because our Green Lobby has bought so much political influence that all Democrats, and a chunk of the GOP, are now wholly owned subsidiaries of the Sierra Club.
That is why, despite record demand for Oil on the International Market, the USA is producing even less Oil now then it did in 2000!
They are much tastier that way.
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