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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So why do you claim they have to import?
They have refinery capacity of about 137 million barrels per year and consume about 60 million barrels per year of refined products. Even with an extremely low operating capacity margin they produce that amount easily. Which is why they are a net exporter.
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/state/state_energy_profiles.cfm?sid=AK
Ken Salazar is a XXX XXX Communist !!
He is in good company!
They could at least defend Bambam,they helped elect this socialist president.
I don't think Russia got the word. Shortly after the Korean War, the nation that was known as the USSR run by Stalin was considered a non-oil producing state. Stalin got a peek at a report that there was viable refilling oil deposits located deeper than any previously known deposits. He began an aggressive ultra deep oil drilling program. Today, Russia is regularly tied for 1st and 2nd as the top oil producer in the world.
Just a few years ago, a new field was discovered in the Gulf of Mexico by Shell Oil (IIRC) and it's proven to have increased our reserves by over 75% but the enviro whackos won't let us drill it like it should be drilled. There is even a part of that field that is near the Florida town of Gulf Breeze and it is sitting in a bubble very near the ocean floor. There have been estimates that if it were tapped, viable oil supplies could be reaching our refineries within 18 months!
DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW!
We can in fact drill our way out of this problem. But there are too many competing globalist, socialist,elitist agendas that would be shattered if we got to complete energy independence and so it will never be allowed.
How about less dependent on energy from sources that are otherwise bent on our destruction .. will that work for you?
NAH...with UhBama gas prices will rise...fast..IMHO
They look for the very worst they can find in someone and if there’s an issue on which they do not agree, bam, throw them out. It’s called “throwing the baby out with the bathwater”.
Maybe you meant to say $3/gallon. Two dollars is only about 15¢ from where we are today and was going to happen no matter what, with summer around the corner.
‘So why do you claim they have to import?’
Because I didn’t know they had six refineries.
Duh. My error.
Exactly!
Of course. That we get more oil from Canada than anywhere else isn’t well known.
I take all data from Russia with a huge grain of salt.
Canada is our biggest single country crude oil supplier.
But most of our imported oil comes from OPEC.
U.S. Crude Oil Imports by Country of Origin
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/pet_move_impcus_a2_nus_epc0_im0_mbblpd_m.htm
I misread your previous comment "I know". I thought you were responding to the Alaska, not the other countries. My mistake; I should have paid attention to the footer of the post.
I would also like to add Canada on that list. 2006 Energy Balance for Canada
http://www.iea.org/Textbase/stats/balancetable.asp?COUNTRY_CODE=CA
No problem.
Yes but, not so fast... If they decided it's time to bring about a real, conservative revolution and get off our long, slow, certain ride to socialism, I wouldn't call them "idiots." Let the Socialist Dems think they have a mandate to turn up the heat; then, let's see if this half-dead frog finally jumps out of the pot.
Enjoy your $5/gal gas from the gummit. Time to blame the evil Oil Companies and limit their pay.
In case anyone thought he was serious about jobs.
Pray for America, Our Troops and obama’s Guidance
Geez why don’t they just shoot us in the head already and quit this piecemeal hand here foot there nonsense.
DO IT! DO IT NOW!! /ahhnold to predator
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