Posted on 09/02/2009 12:19:20 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
Al Gore
This is oil we couldn’t find or get 20 years ago. Technology has changed that. Wonder what we’ll find 20 years from?
And where is Congress forbidding us to drill? Let’s see, it rhymes with ‘Gulf of Bexico’
250 miles SE from Houston. Too bad we can’t drill off our own shores thanks to the sellout president.
Ping!
Mexico is still trying to “find” a “missing” island, which would extend their 200 mile economic zone farther into the Gulf.
We should be doing the same thing ;)
Hey, isn’t Cuba an island?
Just sayin’.
I ask again.....are we going to buy our own oil from BP? Why aren’t we drilling for that oil? Or are our people in Washington just plain stupid?
Yes, oil is being depleted when we big finds are under 4100 feet of water and at a depth of 35,000 feet.
The cost of E&P on this project will be very expensive.
Ping.
Washington is mostly stupid. The rest is evil.
Could you please cite any Gulf of Mexico offshore drilling restrictions that have been been put in place since 1.20.09?
Good. Texas knows what to do with the oil God gave us. We pump it and sell it. That’s why Texas isn’t broke like CA is.
“Wonder what we’ll find 20 years from?”
The few billion barrels in reasonably shallow water in Southern California just as soon as the environmentalists can be reduced to fertalizer!
Oo..Ooo.Oo.oo.OOO..Ooo -(persona Horshack.. Welcome back Cotter era)..
Oil is the fuel of the engine of capitalism and freedom.
Now, do we need to explain further why they oppose the use of oil?
Bush Seeks Offshore Drilling in Former Off-Limits Areas
Six of the sites -- those located off California, in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and along the Atlantic seaboard -- had previously been off limits to development under a quarter-century-old federal moratorium that congressional Democrats allowed to expire last fall amid intense voter anger over high gasoline prices.
Obama Administration Halts Bush Expansion of Offshore Drilling
WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has rejected a Bush administration plan to open vast waters off the Pacific and Atlantic coasts to oil and gas drilling, promising "a new way forward" in offshore energy development including new wind projects.
Actually, this one should be good to go. The restrictions are in the eastern Gulf, not the western.
Ding!Ding!Ding! We have a winner!
No - seriously, it isn't about stupid (though it sure looks that way). I have come to the conclusion that the power that be in DC WANT the US to collapse. They WANT the US to fail. They want us to revert to the stone ages. The old Soviet statement that they would not defeat us by military, but from the inside is now proving prophetic.
See, that’s the silly thing about this “peak oil” BS, and even the claim that “oil will run out some day”.
No, it won’t “run out”. It will just become more expensive. As it gets more expensive, it becomes
economically viable to find more of it in harder
to find areas.
When it gets more expensive than an “alternative”,
our economy will switch to that alternative.
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