On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:32:58 GMT, Berkeley Bolshevik
Post by Berkeley BolshevikPost by Kevin CunninghamOn Jun 22, 10:19 am, "SURRENDER = CHANGE"
How fast can you drill an oil well in the ocean? Right now it takes
at least 5 years. Guess again junior.
Typical Democrat. Thinks in the short term not in the long term. It's
always doom and gloom for you hacks.
Jimmy Carter gave Oil Companies a windfall tax and Bill Clinton
vetoed ANWR. Since the early 1980s, Congress has banned oil drilling
on most of the outer continental shelf, including regions of the Gulf
of Mexico close to Florida and regions off California, because of the
damage that oil spills could wreak on the environment and beaches that
serve as the engine for tourist-driven economies. And last year,
Congress added to a spending bill a ban on the leasing of federal
lands for oil-shale exploration -- a ban that Congress can just as
easily lift. Domestic oil production has decreased significantly since
1970's.
Actually, it's declined steadily since the peak year of 1970.
Something happened in 1969. Do you know what it was?
It's kinda funny. You're trying to blame Carter, babbling about the
toothless windfall profits tax (which didn't stop the oil companies
from getting $40 billion last quarter), but you had six years
(2001-2007) in which you could have done as you damn well pleased, and
mostly did. Why didn't you open up the Florida coasts for
exploration?
Post by Berkeley Bolshevik* Increase access to the outer continental shelf, which has been
off-limits since 1981. With the advent of technology that can make
drilling less risky to the environment, Bush says, the moratorium is
"outdated and counterproductive." If Congress lifts the moratorium, he
says, he will lift an executive prohibition.
He tried that before, with a Republican Congress. Do you remember
why?
Post by Berkeley Bolshevik* Encourage the extraction of oil from shale in the West -- which
holds as much potential for oil, 18 billion barrels, as the offshore
drilling proposal. This amounts to nearly three decades of oil imports
from Saudi Arabia, the White House says.
You might want to take a look at the Athabaska project in the province
of Alberta before you jump on board with that one. When it comes to
toxic waste on the landscape, Alberta is turning into Canada's answer
to the Ukraine.
Post by Berkeley Bolshevik* Permit drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which
President Clinton vetoed and Democratic leaders oppose. This could
offer 10 billion barrels of oil, equal to two decades of Saudi
imports, according to the White House.
Even if there was a payoff for Americans from ANWR (because of it's
location, it would be sent to Japan to be refined--do you really think
these oil companies are American or something?--and wouldn't benefit
us at all.
Post by Berkeley Bolshevik* Expand oil refineries in the U.S., where a refinery has not been
built for three decades. Bush proposes regulatory reforms that could
remove barriers to refinery construction -- namely public opposition.
He proposes that any appeal of a federal permit for refinery expansion
must be filed in federal court within 60 days.
Regulation had nothing to do with it. Refineries aren't running at
capacity NOW. They never have.
Post by Berkeley BolshevikIf the announcement that United States will drill for their own
resources, it will give speculators a different look at the oil
market.
Where's Nancy Pelosi's "commonsense" plan?
If worse comes to worse, China can always sell us the oil they drill
off the coast of Florida.
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