Beam me to Planet Gore !
The very first sentence shows this guy has no clue. How can demand for a finite resource be ever-growing? He might as well write, "Americans have realized that it is necessary to break the laws of physics." Just cause you want reality to change doesn't mean it will. Saying let's drill the last reserves is like saying "one more hit man, just one more hit is all I need".
If I were Chevron, I’d move to a friendlier “environment”..............
SAVE THE PLANET. Neuter a greenie weenie.
Bkmrk for later.
Drilling ANWR and the entire shoreline of the USA still wouldn't get more gasoline and Diesel fuel out of our refineries.
while Brown and the activists pretty much can say whatever they want without legal accountability.
Brown and the local government eventually may side with Chevron rather than the greens, but only because the company has deep pockets and is open to being shaken down.
Chevron essentially must purchase 450,000 tons of "carbon credits" annually from the city of Richmond or the state. As the street value of carbon credits is about $10 per ton, Chevron is being "green-mailed" to the tune of perhaps $4.5 million per year to upgrade its refinery — amounting to perhaps a 1 percent annual "tax" on the gains in gross revenue produced by the upgrade. And the local government officials are not the least embarrassed about this extortion.
We may produce all the oil we need, but if we can’t refine it, then it won’t do much for reducing gasoline supply problems. So while working to expand domestic drilling, we’ll simultaneously need to expand domestic refining capacity.
It will be quite the Pyrrhic victory to finally produce oil from ANWR and then not be able to do anything with it.
the world is going to have to learn to play hardball with these green lunatics. One possibility: threaten to shoot and/or poison everything non-human which moves in ANWR if drilling there is not allowed.
Plans are moving ahead for the construction of the county’s first new oil refinery in 30 years to be built near Elk Point, SD. While the county’s voters approved a rezoning and the state is proceeding with the approval process, the Sierra Club and other outside environmental groups are vowing to stop this project too.
My advice to ConocoPhillips in IL and Chevron in CA - close down your facilities, and explain why you’re doing so.
BTTT
http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2008/06/04/news/top/4e608d46402d5adb8625745e00110beb.txt
ELK POINT, S.D. -- Flashing a smile, Joyce Bortscheller briefly hugged Hyperion Energy Center executive Preston Phillips as she greeted him in the backyard of her home here.
Bortscheller, president of the Elk Point City Council, had invited about 250 supporters to an outdoor barbecue Tuesday to await the returns for arguably the most important election in Union County's history. The big crowd didn't leave disappointed.
As midnight approached, they popped the champagne corks, celebrating a hard-fought victory that keeps alive the county's chances of landing the nation's first all-new oil refinery in 32 years.
By a solid 58 percent to 42 percent margin, county voters approved Hyperion's request to rezone 3,292 acres of farm land for a new classification, Energy Center Planned Development.
"What happened tonight, we were not supposed to be able to do," Phillips told a cheering audience. "Development projects like this are supposed to be outright rejected by residents and neighbors. But this project is a testament to our balancing the needs for growth and for protecting the environment."
At stake was billions of dollars in capital investment and thousands of high-paying jobs. From the beginning, Hyperion executives said they would abandon its Union County site, just north of Elk Point, if a majority of voters failed to give their blessing to the rezoning.
While conceding defeat, opponents vowed to keep fighting the controversial project on every imaginable front, pressing on with a lawsuit it filed against the county over the zoning procedures and opposing Hyperion as it applies for a bevy of state and federal permits.
"We have strategies in place to slow or delay all the permit processes," Ed Cable, chairman of the anti-Hyperion group Save Union County, said after the vote.