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“I find it shameful that we have not built a refinery since 1972.”

Thank a Democrat!!

In 1905,the Glenn Pool Oil discovery in Oklahoma went from discovery in a remote wilderness to full production in just 2 years. That means wells drilled,infrastructure built, storage tanks built,(they use to flow the oil into earthen pits before they got the tanks built btw), and pipelines spanning some 450 miles were completed by late 1907.

And remember folks...most of the area had no rail lines, so the equipment was brought to the area on MULES!!

When the figures were tallied in 1908, some 95 companies were operating in the field, 1196 wells were producing. Total production had topped 27 million barrels.

So when a democrat tells you that it will be 10 years to get the oil to market from offshore drilling....tell them the Glenn Pool story.

So when a democrat tells you that it will be 10 years to get the oil to market from offshore drilling....tell them the Glenn Pool story.

You can count on it! Very useful info - thanks for posting it.

Here's some related info:

Drilling in the Offshore

"... But here’s what truly floored me: Shell decided Brutus’s location in the gulf would be profitable for drilling in April 1999. The company then built the massive oil platform, transported it to the right location in the gulf, anchored the floating leviathan onto the seafloor 3,000 feet below, drilled 17,000 feet below that, and began producing oil in July 2001. It took only two years to get Brutus online..."

This was posted by FReeper angkor in another thread (posted here - I added the highlighting):

"It's less than 100 miles from the prospective ANWR drill site to Prudhoe Bay and the Alaska Pipeline. That's the amount of new pipeline that would need to be built.
The Aleyska Pipeline took 3 years for 700 miles (including across the Brooks Range, the Alaska Range, the Chugach, and hundreds of lakes, rivers and deep tundra). An ANWR "connector" to Prudhoe Bay is more or less a straight shot across open tundra with none of the complexities of Aleyska. It could probably be built in less than one year, thus providing almost instant access to ANWR output via the Valdez oil terminal.
The AK Pipeline is currently running at about 1/2 capacity, and figures I've seen indicate it can easily move another 500K barrels per day (some say more than that).

According Pelosi’s “argument” against drilling, why should we pass any new school or infrastructure bonds?

Why — “it will take YEARS to build the new classrooms. This is not a fix. No over-crowding will be addressed by this policy, next week or next month.

And, YaddaBlah...”