Posted on 02/10/2009 11:18:41 AM PST by Sleeping Freeper
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration on Tuesday overturned another Bush-era energy policy, announcing it was setting aside a draft plan to allow drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
"To establish an orderly process that allows us to make wise decisions based on sound information, we need to set aside" the plan "and create our own timeline," Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced in a statement.
Environmentalists and some tourism-dependent coastal states oppose the drilling, citing the potential for spills and urging an emphasis on renewable energy instead. Energy companies counter that drilling has become safer over the years and that royalties from any finds would be in the billions of dollars.
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I just cant take this anymore, how can our government keep doing things that will inevitably kill the USA?! The majority of our party elected officials are apparently playing for the other team. What can we do when votes and phone calls don’t work anymore?
How about Alaska? Do states counts?
I understand what you are saying. In a free market, goods go to the highest bidder or the bidder that garnishes the largest profits for the producer.
If restrictions were removed and the cost to drill, refine, ship and sell petroleum were left to free market demand here in the US, then American companies would be able to sell oil to America for the largest profit and lowest price because of lower delivery and refining costs. Shipping and import/export costs are a factor.
The highest bidder would still be subject to the market prices. But a large infusion of supply into the market with lower costs of doing business would indeed lower the price and enable American "Big Oil" to make "obscene" profits by doing business mainly with American businesses and consumers. Higher supply spurred by American "exploitation" of our protected ice fields and ocean would add a significant boost to the world supply and tip the balance of OPEC's influence. The Middle East might actually have to start competing for customers instead of sharing them.
I expect monopolies would flourish as the "fat cats" got rich while improving the standards of living for all Americans. Then we would have to go back and enact reform to help the little guy compete.
This fantasy assumes that environuts and anti-capitolists did not exist or were relegated to irrelevance.
Ken Salazar is a God Dam Communist !! His judgment on this issue is just that Anything to hurt America he is in favor of otherwise this bastard would be whole heartily encouraging American Oil production.
Is a ‘state’ a ‘nation’?
And Alaska has to import refined gasoline, heating oil, kerosene.
Just yesterday this fake Shaman traveled to Elkhart, where the economy is dominated by manufacturers of motor homes, to seek support.
Today, he has his people put the kibash on a plan to drill for more oil, to increase supply.
This clown says anything that sounds good at the moment, to that particular audience.
All true. But would that end our largest supplier of crude oil, CANADA, from selling us oil?
Nope.
We’re on the same page as to what should be done.
If so, Texas counts, too.
The longer we wait,the further into the future the productive date!”
This is the same group that whined thru the campaigns that it will take 10 years to actually see oil flow—
so they are putting us further and further back behind the 8 ball.
Gas here in N Nevada is already over $2 a gallon, and has risen steadily since Jan 20==coronation day for the empty suit with no birth certificate.
Even beer has a “Born On Date”.
Obama just stuck a knife in the back every unemployed worker in Elkhart and flipped them the finger on their way to the ground.
are you this clueless or a lefty ?
the reason WHY oil prices dropped under Bush over the summer was the fact Pres Bush made these leases available for exploration !!!
2006 Energy Balance for Norway
http://www.iea.org/Textbase/stats/balancetable.asp?COUNTRY_CODE=NO
2006 Energy Balance for Denmark
http://www.iea.org/Textbase/stats/balancetable.asp?COUNTRY_CODE=DK
2006 Energy Balance for Saudi Arabia
http://www.iea.org/Textbase/stats/balancetable.asp?COUNTRY_CODE=SA
2006 Energy Balance for Russian Federation
http://www.iea.org/Textbase/stats/balancetable.asp?COUNTRY_CODE=RU
Alaska has six refineries. It produces more than it consumes.
I know.
Thanks idiot voters who voted Democrat or third party or stayed home.
OK, so we can all car pool during the Revolution.
They must not have listened closely though.
What I'd like to know, and I'm sure the Secret Service would be interested in knowing there's a question on this, is why would anyone on the President's staff arrange for him to visit that particular town at this particular time.
The things the Democrats have campaigned against for the last 8 years are all located in that area and were, until recently, the industrial base.
The Democrats don't like the FEMA trailers, nor customized SUVs, nor Hummers, nor large Executor type travel buses, nor.... well, you get the idea. Whatever these guys make, from educated Catholics to giant motor vehicles, the Democrats are against it.
It's a wonder they didn't have some of the local Democrat party people trying to rush the stage and get him.
This may be true but there is no reason for us to tie our economic hands behind our back in the name of the environment. Obama's edict weakens our country and helps us remain dependent on our enemies. This man is a disaster for this country.
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