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.
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I’d be HAPPY to see his state go! Us SOutherners have wanted secession to catch on for better than 150 years! :-D
I don't think I'd extend this phrase out to the point of violent conflict unless the liberal is 100% certain the populace is unarmed and unwilling to resist by other means. Liberals have never felt squeamish at life taking, look at the abortion stats, but they've not got the guts to risk a real civil war. Even unilaterally disarmed, the sheepdogs might remember the advice of famed guerilla fighter, Geronimo: Who once spoke of 100 throats being cut in the night by a running brave armed with a knife....IIRC. I don't think that's an exact quote but it's the gist.
How did we end up with these mental midgets like Inslee?
“Inslee forgot that Washington (and Oregon too) is a red state with a strip of blue along the I-5 corridor. We have them surrounded.”
Just cut off thier food, fresh water, and electricity. They’ll be feeding on EACH OTHER within 48 hours...
Problem solved in about a week. Remember New Orleans???
Bring it on tree hugger scum , back to the stone age with you commies
Bring it, Congressman Azzhat Traitor.
Most of us are now convinced that Civil War is inevitable; might as well get it over with before conditions worsen even further.
Jay, you ignorant twit! You are the one who needs to secede! You should be spending your precious time hunting for geoducks. Call it a family reunion!
NOW GET THE HELL OUTTA MY STATE!
Drill Baby, Drill!
OIL AND GAS SEEPAGE FROM OCEAN FLOOR REDUCED BY OIL PRODUCTION November 18, 1999 (Santa Barbara, Calif.) Next time you step on a glob of tar on a beach in Santa Barbara County, you can thank the oil companies that it isn’t a bigger glob. The same is true around the world, on other beaches where off-shore oil drilling occurs, say scientists, although Santa Barbara’s oil seeps are thought to be among the leakiest. Natural seepage of hydrocarbons from the ocean floor in the northern Santa Barbara Channel has been significantly reduced by oil production, according to two recently published peer-reviewed articles, one in November’s Geology Magazine, the other in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans. The Santa Barbara Channel provides an excellent natural laboratory, as it is among the areas with the highest levels of seepage in the world, said co-author Bruce P. Luyendyk, professor and chair of the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The studies were not funded by oil companies, but rather by the University of California Energy Institute and the U.S. Minerals Management Service, states Luyendyk, responding to the fact that the results favor off-shore oil production and are opposed by some environmentalists. “We’ve done a good piece of science,” said Luyendyk. “We’ve developed a good understanding of a natural process. It’s all public data; it’s all straightforward. If I thought the study was compromised I wouldn’t be involved in it.” Most of the seepage is methane, a potent greenhouse gas which escapes into the atmosphere, said Luyendyk. About 10 percent of the seepage is composed of “higher hydrocarbons,” or reactive organic gases which interact with tailpipe emissions and sunlight, creating air pollution. The researchers state that the production rate of these naturally-occurring reactive organic gases is equal to twice the emission rate from all the on-road vehicle traffic in Santa Barbara County in 1990. According to the articles, studies of the area around Platform Holly showed a 50 percent decrease in natural seepage over 22 years. The researchers show that as the oil was pumped out the reservoir, pressure that drives the seepage dropped. “If the decrease in natural seepage found near Platform Holly is representative of the effect of oil production on seepage worldwide, then this has the potential to significantly alter global oil and gas seepage in the future,” state the researchers in the article “The World’s Most Spectacular Marine Hydrocarbon Seeps: Quantification of Emissions “ in the Sept. 14 issue of the Journal of Geological Research - Oceans. They continue, “For example if the 50 percent reduction in natural seepage rate that occurred around Platform Holly also occurred due to future oil production from the oil field beneath the La Goleta seep, this would result in a reduction in nonmethane hydrocarbon emission rates equivalent to removing half of the on-road vehicle traffic from Santa Barbara County. In addition, a 50 percent reduction in seepage from the La Goleta seep would remove about 25 barrels of oil per day from the sea surface, which in turn would result in a 15 percent reduction in the amount of tar found on Santa Barbara beaches.” They conclude by saying that the rate of increase of global methane atmospheric concentrations has been declining for the past 20 years, and that a “worldwide decrease in natural hydrocarbon seepage related to onshore and offshore oil production may be causing a global reduction in natural methane emission rates.”
She's a Freeper now: ask her yourself:)
Wow, Quix...what a POWERFUL post. Thanks.
Ed
I meant that to go to a different thread sent to me...sorry!
Ed
Good idea! Comrades Kennedy, Pelosi, Reid, Boxer, Feinstein, Frank, Kerry, Schumer, Clinton, Dodd, Dean, Obama, Biden, Nelson, Rockefeller, ... and so on. Add Comrades Collins (S-ME), Snowe (S-ME) etc.
Those of us who are Reagan Republicans currently have taxation without representation.
Dear Sir:
Bring it.
Love,
Texas
apples & oranges...ya don't have to have “worked on an oil rig” to know that ME oil is cheaper to drill... we all KNOW it is cheaper to drill in the ME than in America...my point was it is cheaper to transport within America than from ME...
and of course, that $600 Billion that we are spending annually on foreign oil would certainly be better served staying in America, not to mention the jobs that we so desperately need.
And finally, I know my fellow Marines would be happy when we don't have to go to the ME to keep the flow of oil that we presently need coming.
Good day.
The Persian Gulf Countries only produce a percentage of the world's oil. All of OPEC together produces about 40~45%.
Being cheaper to produce (having greater profit at the same price) does nothing to prevent others from producing and selling oil. It does allow the price to fall further if the supply/demand curves shift that way. But as long as ConocoPhillips or BP can make money selling American Oil, it doesn't matter that Aramco can make more. They don't have enough production capability to shut out everyone else.
Oil is sold at market price. As long as the price stays above the cost of operations/exploration plus a profit, oil will continue to be produced in places like the Gulf of Mexico.
Opening up the rest of our waters would not take us to zero imports, but it would reduce the amount of dollars we send to places like OPEC.
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