Report: 63% of All Oil in U.S. Waters Comes From Nature, 1% From Offshore Drilling

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[Sub-Driver]

Report: 63% of All Oil in U.S. Waters Comes From Nature, 1% From Offshore Drilling 07/14/2008 - 03:51:26 PM FOX News reports that 63 percent of all oil in U.S. waters comes from natural seepage, 32 percent comes from consumers (boaters, jetskiers, etc.) and only 1 percent comes from offshore drilling. They also note that the U.S. Coast Guard has documented a dramatic reduction in oil spills in the last 30 years as environmentally friendly drilling technology has advanced.

[Sub-Driver]

Check the video and chart.......

[tobyhill]

The first time I learned of Nature's Oil was in Daytona. I went in the water and when I got out there was a glob of tar like substance on my shorts. I asked the lifeguard what it was and he responded natural oil in the water.

[Wiseghy]

I seem to recall a large “spill” in CA waters recently was traced back to natural sources offshore. They were ready to pin it on foreign flagged oil ships in the area.

There is so much oil out there that the seafloor just burbs it up on its own, in huge quantities at times.

[mouse1]

FLOOD CONGRESS TUESDAY JULY 15th

Let them know enough is enough. Energy crisis is not a partisian issue, it’s an American issue.
We need to be more energy independent and stop funneling money to the terrorists.
Gov Palin is pleading to let Alaska do it’s part (yes even anwar)
Gov Palin has an 84% approval rating vs congress 9%

TELL YOUR FRIENDS FAMILY NEIGHBORS COWORKERS
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[The South Texan]

You see it all the time on beaches here in Texas.

[DoughtyOne]

Carpenteria is a little berg on the coast, about 15 miles south of Santa Barbara. Just to the south of it’s main beach, there is an asphalt presence oozing out of the side of a berm there.

It’s the most visible evidence of an asphalt presence that was tapped way back into the eary 1900s, as there became a need for regional and national highways.

Carpenteria’s asphalt was mined (dug up from the surface) and shipped all over the U.S.

The left ignores natural sites like this to demagogue the issue against oil wells off shore.

My thought is that indians frequenting wester beachers were cleaning oil off the bottom of their feet long before the white man reached the west coast of the United States.

[Sub-Driver]

We should sue mother nature........

[musicman]

[Uncle Miltie]

Pumping oil out of the sea floor ought to reduce the amount of oil leaks by Mother Earth.

Save the Seals! Pump Offshore Oil!

[Uncle Miltie]

Catheters for Mommy Earth!

[edzo4]

maybe we should speak to the hippie enviromental wackos so they can better understand...

like oil dude, is organic, its totally like mother earths compast, thats been composting for like a totally long time...

[curiosity]

I did a lot of sailing in the southern part of the Santa Monica bay when I was a kid and teenager. There are lots of natural oil leaks there. I sailed through many light, natural oil slicks in my day. That's also why we have tar on the beaches.

[patton]

Hillarious.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

Nice to have a confirmation of what I posted a couple days ago.

“I lived in Santa Barbara, oil would just bubble up out of cracks in the ocean floor. I would bet that natural releases of oil exceed that from oil spills, if you take into account all the oceans, not just local areas where man made influences may dominate.”

5 posted on Saturday July 12, 19:49:18 GMT-0700 2008 by Libertarianize the GOP
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2044645/posts?page=5#5

[musicman]

Thanks!

This one is one of my ALL-TIME favorites:

[patton]

LOLOLOL!

[Bernard Marx]

My thought is that indians frequenting wester beachers were cleaning oil off the bottom of their feet long before the white man reached the west coast of the United States.

The Chumash had a catchy name for the little tar pellets that wash up on the shore: Pismos. Pismo Beach near San Luis Obispo is named after natural tar pellets, not clams.

Last weekend we went to a beach near Silver Strand in Oxnard and most of our gang had tar-blackened feet before long. In the mist offshore only one lonely oil platform was visible. There's a huge amount of oil in that channel but the rich folks who live there and at oil-rich points north and south don't want their views "spoiled" by ugly old oil platforms. The Enviros just defeated a proposal to offload and process liquefied natural gas near Oxnard-Ventura with a scare campaign that would win a medal from Goebbels.

Rich NIMBY elitists are one of the biggest barriers to developing offshore oil. That number includes many RINOs like our Governator.

[doodad]

There is so much oil out there that the seafloor just burbs it up on its own, in huge quantities at times.

And on the land as well. I had never seen the seeps except small ones in KY until I went out west. Greasy Creek has nothing on some hillsides in CA.

[Para-Ord.45]

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[DoughtyOne]

NIMBY and the Politcally Correct will be the death of this nation.

You’re right on target IMO.

That was interesting about Pismo Beach. I hadn’t heard that before.

BTW, it’s too bad about the natural gas. Was that Oxnard decsion made recently, or in years past. It seems I remember another terrible decision they made up there about twenty years ago, but can’t remember the particulars.