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Posted on 03/23/2009 12:03:27 PM PDT by kellynla
The ban on offshore oil drilling that expired last September will be restored by “any means necessary,” Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.), who serves on both the House Committee on Natural Resources and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, told CNSNews.com on Friday.
Inslee, who participated in a conference entitled "Planning for a Secure Energy Future” sponsored by the Washington Post, also recommended a ban on future drilling in the arctic, where he says there is a “gold rush” for oil uncovered by melting ice caps.
But Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.), who serves on the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming and also attended the conference, told CNSNews.com that offshore oil drilling should provide an integral part of American energy and recommended the Interior Department begin distributing offshore oil drilling leases.
Back in June, President George W. Bush lifted an 18-year-old executive order banning new offshore drilling that had been put in place by his father, President George H.W. Bush, and extended by President Bill Clinton.
At the end of September 2008, Congress – then in the midst of crafting a $700-billion financial bailout and facing nationwide pressure to lower gas prices and remove the ban – allowed a 26-year-old moratorium of offshore oil drilling that had been annually attached to the Interior Department funding bill, to expire.
Since then, the Bureau of Land Management has allowed bidding on leases for oil exploration. But some Democratic members of congress have indicated they would like to see the ban restored.
The moratorium on offshore oil drilling “will be reinstated,” Inslee told CNSNews.com, but he did not specify whether he meant the executive branch moratorium or the one from the Interior Department.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
The California State Lands Commission has rejected an agreement by industry and environmental groups that would have allowed environmentally friendly oil production off the coast of Santa Barbara.
According to the commission, the economic and environmental benefits of the agreement are outweighed by the presumption of possible future harm if the agreement should inspire additional offshore oil production.
Fearing Future Cooperation
Natural oil seeps off the shore of Santa Barbara are responsible for substantial pollution of regional waters, and area environmental groups are eager to mitigate the problem. Oil companies want to take advantage of the seeps, which they see as an abundant oil resource, and thereby help clean up the environment.
The State Lands Commission voted 2-1 in late January to forbid oil production offshore from Santa Barbara.
Heaven forbid we have some real assets with which to back our dollar with eh?
/silly me.
Is that cool or what?
These people for banning almost all drilling and pumping by the USA are nuts.
The Chinese and others will drill in the Arctic.
They will drill 45 miles off the coast of Flordia.
All they're going to accomplish is keeping us dependant on foreign energy.
Oh yea, that's their plan!
Civil War and we blow their sorry asses out of the water.
does anyone think any military worth a shite will side with the party that hates them?
i think not...
and we have the guns and the will
which is why they want them.
molon labe baby!
Well you lumped a lot of things together but let's focus on oil. Just opening up offshore drilling would not result in zero oil imports. Why? Because it is cheaper to import oil pulled up out of the mideast sand than to drill for it in miles of deep ocean which is an expensive operation. Having said it would certainly help us toward energy independence but more importantly we would be better positioned to ramp up in case we encountered an embargo.
P.S.
Now that I have had time to think about it, I must realize and admit that with space exploration we as private citizens have benefited from many discoveries which have made our lives easier...I think.
I am more concerned and hope it has helped our military.
Notice I am backtracking.
But are we getting our bucks worth with that space station circling over my head?
Another NIMBY-in-disguise platitude by the west coast libtards. IIRC, its like old Kronkite not wanting windmills obstructing his view on Martha’s Vineyard...a-hole liberal.
Bump Charlie Reese post 19
Mr. Inslee, the people of Louisiana would like to secede as well. They are sick and tired of producing fossil fuels for the rest of the nation. Tired of seeing their coast erode into the Gulf from thousands of canals that crisscross the marsh like a sliced up pizza. Tired of a federal government that takes 40 years to build levees they promised would be finished in 10 years and then the ones they do build are not to spec and fail well below the design capacity.
Oregon and Washington produce little to no oil and natural gas of their own. They are energy welfare queens.
So go ahead and secede, tree huggers. I dare you. See how far you get burning bark dust, french fry oil and relying on the sun and wind for energy in the cloudy Northwest.
I vote for an immediate fossil fuel blockade of the Pacific Northwest. No natural gas, no petroleum products of any kind. No coal.
Let them drink coffee.
Thank You Rep. Walden.
The only sane Congress-Critter in Oregon.
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I didn't say that...did I...
“Because it is cheaper to import oil pulled up out of the mideast sand than to drill for it in miles of deep ocean which is an expensive operation.”
I'll defer to “thackney” since this is his expertise but I “think” oil companies pay the market price for oil but it certainly is cheaper to transport oil off our coasts & on shore to American refineries than shipping it from the middle east. And finally, that $600 Billion annually sure looks better being spent on domestic oil than foreign oil now doesn't it...
Oregon fights LNG terminals http://www.modernconservative.com/metablog_single.php?p=2386
It's a Left Coast tradition. Hate fossil fuels while you drive up and down I-5 in your German SUV that gets 15 mpg. Sipping a latte made with coffee beans from some Third World banana republic. They don't call 'em latte liberals for nothing.
Thank you.
When is this civil war actually coming? It’s seriously not coming fast enough for me.
P.S.
I hope someone reprints it tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after.
As I explained before, I would do it, but I am poor at posting.
My best regards.
And Madame Lefarge; she just keeps knitting—her time will come...
I have a gut feeling that turning the economy around is not the game plan in Washington DC.
Not in a ethical Capitalist sense.
Too bad for you Jay most of your collegues are not brain dead trust fund babies living off grampa's money. They know dang well reimposing the ban would cost them the Congress and their job.
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