When you hear a dim talking about offshore drilling, just remember, since he's a dim he more than likely knows jacks*it about drilling.
Posted on 06/21/2008 1:35:10 PM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan
With oil prices climbing, U.S. President George W. Bush asked Congress to end a ban on offshore oil and gas drilling on the east and west coasts. Matthew Trevisan looks at crude extraction on the high seas
1 Who owns what
Staking a claim on the sea has come a long way since Pope Alexander VI drew a line in the Atlantic Ocean in 1494 and effectively divided the New World between Spain and Portugal. Five hundred years later, in 1994, under a new United Nations convention, coastal countries were awarded the right to exploit and develop all resources up to 322 kilometres off their shores. If countries' offshore boundaries overlap, the Law of the Sea stipulates that they share any resource revenue.
Last month, Transocean Inc. announced that their jackup GSF Rig 127 set a world record, drilling 12,289 metres in the Al-Shaheen field near Qatar.
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When you hear a dim talking about offshore drilling, just remember, since he's a dim he more than likely knows jacks*it about drilling.
And, in actuality, that may prove to be the most useful aspect of this issue.
So far, liberal arguments against expanding domestic production have been, well, incoherent.
It's been illuminating how weak and irrelevant their arguments are. On the surface, they defy common sense. And, the more they object, the more they reveal their utter ignorance and lack of qualifications to manage the affairs of the nation.
The rats would have us believe that nothing has changed since Exxon Valdes. Of course nothing could be further from the truth. Just look at Katrina. No oil was spilled! The wells were simply switched off! But the DNC does not want that little secret to get out.
Time for a the song “Drill Ye Tarriers Drill” to make a comeback. A good song for energy independence. Originally, it referred to drilling passes through the mountains for railroads.
Don’t forget the 6th point: new jobs.
Offshore drilling jobs are high-paying blue-collar jobs, and new drilling will create tens of thousands of them overnight, no matter what said drilling does to the price of gasoline.
Not to mention all the jobs created by the companies that supply the industry.
When the IDIOTS on the left say ‘we can’t drill our way out of this mess’ just remember:
“The National Petroleum Council estimates that 5 billion barrels lie off Florida’s coast alone, while the Energy Information Administration suggests the number is closer to 16 billion barrels. Other estimates go as high as 21 billion barrels.”
“rigs in Florida could produce up to 2 million barrels per day”
And that doesn’t include ANWR in Alaska.
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Here’s the LEFT’S argument:
“Offshore drilling is dirty, dangerous and it doesn’t deliver,” said Adam Rivera, citizen outreach director for Environment Florida. “Just the routine toxic pollution from offshore drilling poses a huge threat to our beaches and our coastal-based economy.”
I guess it’s okay for the rest of the country to produce the ‘dirty, dangerous’ oil these IDIOTS use everyday!
“Rivera said risking damage to Florida’s beaches — which generate an estimated $50 billion in tourism annually — is just too costly.”
How about I take my vacation in Alabama where they do allow drilling? Their beaches are some of the most beautiful in the country!
Adam Rivera quotes:
“only if Congress acts boldly to reduce the pollution that fuels global warming”
“the United States must reduce its total global warming emissions by at least 15 percent by 2020 and by at least 80 percent by 2050 in order to prevent the worst effects of global warming”
“we already have the energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies we need to get started”
Adam Rivera
Adam Rivera is an Environment Florida field organizer and works primarily on federal issues that impact Florida’s natural environment. Adam has organized campaigns to protect Florida’s coast from offshore drilling, improve automobile fuel economy standards and stop commercial overfishing.
A native Floridian, Adam grew up in Ft. Lauderdale and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
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Who are we going to believe? People who actually WORK in the industry or these fools who don’t know much of anything, except political activism.
http://www.environmentflorida.org/about-us/staff.
How they are funded:
The US Public Interest Research Group (also known as PIRG) is a political lobby group non-profit organization in the United States and Canada, composed of self-governing affiliates at the state and province level.
The first PIRG was a public interest law firm started by Ralph Nader in Washington, D.C.
State PIRGs are funded through three sources: door and street canvass revenues, tele-marketing revenues, and grant funding.
The telemarketing centers operate on behalf of all of the state PIRG and Environment groups.
the individual state PIRGs apply for and receive grants from a variety of different non-profit foundations, along with receiving disbursals of funding from grants received federally.
leading roles in other progressive organizations and other progressive leaders, including U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (IL), Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope, Dr. Woody Holton (Associate Professor of American history at the University of Richmond), and Randy Hayes of the Rainforest Action Network.
Some State PIRGs are independent state-based lobby groups, but the vast majority belong to a federal network known as U.S. PIRG. The state PIRGs have also been responsible for creating a number of other public interest non-profits including, but not limited to, Green Corps, the Toxics Action Center, Environmental Action, the National Environmental Law Center, Earth Tones, and the State Environment Groups. These groups remain affiliated with varying degrees of closeness.
Summary:
It’s hard to get oil from the ocean, so we shouldn’t even try.
So, in other words, from people paying them to get away from their door, people paying them to stop chewing their ears off on the phone, and Soros.
Texas leads the nation in the number of jobs it creates. A lot of this is due to the fact we DRILL here in Texas. People and the state benefit immensely.
Note: I live in Houston and our house prices haven’t stopped going up over the years.
Love it here.
There is a migratation pattern, Blue State to Red State, that exists. It has everything to do with economic growth. Of the top ten states for economic growth, EIGHT are Red States.
Already, Blue States (Cali, Wash.) have commited to NOT drilling. If Red State’s drill they would reap the reward and increase their population and increase their influence. The Red States have more growth already, can the Democrats afford yet more Red State growth?
BTW, I live in NY, the only thing we drill down on in the taxpayer.
Those of us in the fishing industry who know anything about weather patterns and currents know that for an oil spill to even get to the west coast of FLa. without the aid of prevailing currents which don't send anything to FLa. from the West you have to have a wind driven situation.
Prevailing winds are from the ESE(East Southeast) in Fla. not the West.
Rivera is an idiot and he knows it.
If there was an oil spill it could not get here and he dam well knows it.
The only possible case, which would be a one in a zillion shot, would be for a huge spill exactly at a time when we have west winds for longer than several days which simply just does not happen in Fla.
Besides that there have been "zero" major oil spills in the past 15 years.
These demonrats have an agenda and its Socialism and we better face it soon.
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