Contact your Congress critters to let them know that you are tired of high gas prices.
Bump your favorite freeper, this is valuable information for any and all of our arsenals.
bttt!
Hey, given how closely tied the energy ordeal is to global warming and environmentalism, how about giving this a bump too?
:-)
It sounds to me like there could be an ocean of oil beneath the surface, that would explain the pressure differences that they are describing.
But the NATURAL oil seeps are NATURAL. They are supposed to be there because they are NATURAL. So when the oil companies do something that reduces NATURAL seeps, that’s bad. really really bad.
Thanks alot big oil! You’re ruining the planet’s NATURAL oil seeps! Trillions and trillions of micro-organisms will probably go extinct without their NATURAL oil seeps.
Yep. Gotta drill and pump that oil to stop that Globull warming
The thing is, this is just plain old fashioned common sense. Something the envirowhackos and their lib enablers are sorely lacking.
More oil flows into the oceans of the world via natural seeps than exists tanker capacity to transport.
Everything in Santa Barbara runs, at least, a decade off the mark!
BTTT
Saving the environment one barrel at a time.
This is amazing coming from that tabernacle of uber-Green religion, UCSB! Santa Barbara is where Al Gore goes to worship. I hope and pray Luyendyk still has a job.
I've posted much the same thing here several times since I live near the Channel Islands and have observed the oil slicks and tarring of the beaches for many years. Several times when landing at Santa Barbara Airport I've seen oil slicks in the Channel extending for many miles each way. It only seems logical that relieving both oil and gas pressure by drilling would lessen natural seepage. But I'm amazed at the amount of methane seeping out!
You've found a very important document and I've saved both the link and a hard copy. I hope many others do the same and use the info effectively.
Wonder how long before these scientists are fired??
Pray for W and Our Troops
I didn’t read the article but when I was growing up (before the oil platforms at the Channel Islands, Seal Beach, and the oil island at Long Beach you couldn’t go to any beach in So. California withiutgetting covered with tar.
It used yo be so bad that the beach at Golita was totally unusable and the Spanish used to beach their ships there to tar the bottoms.
Clear into the late 60s there was an oil slick all the way to Mexico from natural seepage of thousands of barrels a day.
The oil wells have relieved the gas pressure so that there is only a small amount being pushedoit now.
Contact your Congress critters to let them know that you are tired of high gas prices.
Natural seepage is why you have the La Brea Tar Pits in downtown Las Angeles...oil is lighter than water and sand, after all...so it naturally rises to the surface when it finds a fissure.
Oil drilling/production relieves that natural pressure. It’s an *environmental* case for new oil drilling.
But let us not stick inconvenient facts into the Erdgeist religious atmosphere of the MSM.
Not for nothing but this is a DUH story.
Offshore oil drilling — cleaner than Mother Nature
Seattle Post Intelligencer | July 24, 2008 | Deroy Murdock
Posted on 07/25/2008 11:06:20 AM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051277/posts
Offshore oil drilling is cleaner than Mother Nature
Ventura County Star | July 26, 2008 | Deroy Murdock
Posted on 07/26/2008 9:20:47 AM PDT by Bobkk47
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051728/posts