to foregn governments so they can make TRILLIONS more without regulation? or?Is the Presidents lifting of the off shore drilling ban in response to Americas selling of oil contracts?
President doesn't have the power to award any contracts and you know that. He would like to see the drilling ban lifted so that we can rely on our own production instead of OPEC. The bottom line is we need to cut consumption and then the price will drop.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Why does the Whitehouse subsidize Brazil's oil drilling and ban our own?
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Defau鈥?/a>Why does the Whitehouse subsidize Brazil's oil drilling and ban our own?
As far as subsidizing Brazil's oil drilling, this was a loan guarantee made by the US Import Export Bank
-The Import/Export Bank is a self-sustaining bank. NO taxpayer money is used in any of it's loans. It is self-sustaining because of the fees it collects. It receives no Congress appropriated funds.
-The Import/Export Bank ONLY makes loans and loan guarantees that finance the PURCHASE of American Goods. The money can ONLY be used by Petrobas for the purchase of American goods and services. The money is always paid back as it is a loan: they do not provide any grants.
-Ex-Im Bank does not make U.S. policy. Their charter prohibits them from turning down financing for either nonfinancial or noncommercial reasons, except in rare circumstances including failure to meet environmental standards.
-Since 1993 the Import/Export Bank has netted the US taxpayers $4.9 Billion in fees without costing the taxpayers a penny. This is in addition to all the jobs created.
-The Bank鈥檚 bipartisan Board unanimously approved the preliminary commitment to Petrobras on April 14, 2009, before any Obama appointees joined the Bank. In fact, the Bank鈥檚 Board consisted of three Republicans and two Democrats - all of whom were appointed by....
George W. Bush.
Interestingly enough, the idea that the Whitehouse is subsidizing Brazilian drilling started once again with....Ms. Sarah Palin! It is interesting to note that the National Review posted an article online completely debunking that the US is sending money overseas and exporting jobs. The National Review is a NOTED CONSERVATIVE publication.Why does the Whitehouse subsidize Brazil's oil drilling and ban our own?
The import/export bank is private.
Private investors can extend loans to foreign firms through the bank.
The white house, congress, and our tax dollars have nothing to do with it.
We have free trade with many countries so you can I can invest in this way.
Republicans and special interest have spread a lot of false information and smear stories regarding this to demonize democrats and anyone that fights for our environment.
The White House didn't give them anything, and it didn't come from taxpayer money.
It's not a ';subsidy.'; The LOAN is coming from the US Import Bank, which is not funded by taxpayer money.
The U.S. Export Import Bank's sole purpose is to lend money to foreign companies for the purchase of American goods and services.
Loan. With interest. We come out on top.
Fun fact: Brazil sends us 188,000 barrels of oil PER DAY.
First the Import Export Bank is funded 100% by the US taxpayer. It is part of our government. Why do we do it? Because te white house is a hypocrite. Do as I say and not as I do. We worry about the enviorment, but not anywhere else but here. It is truly a risky venture to lend money to a country that has a volatile economy. Did we forget about 25 years ago they defaulted on billions of dollars in loans? No, but we never learn
excuse the spelling , but the reason is the man who put the president in his positionn ( george sorose) is behind it, he is as America hater as you can get!
There is no ';ban'; on drilling. Just a requirement that the Oil Industry drill for oil on the millions of acres of land leased to them which they have not yet begun to drill on.
The Drill Responsibly in Leased Lands (DRILL) Act
On July 17, 2008, the House voted on the Drill Responsibly in Leased Lands (DRILL) Act, H.R. 6515, a bill to promote the responsible domestic production of oil and natural gas, particularly in 20 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. While 244 Members voted for the bill, it failed to get the two-thirds support necessary for passage.
';There are 68 million acres of federal land already leased by oil companies for energy production now but sitting idle. That鈥檚 75% of leased lands, sitting idle. Oil companies should drill what they have leased鈥攁nd lease lands already open for drilling first. But instead, President Bush and Congressional Republicans want to make this a fight about our beaches and our threatened wilderness areas, in an apparent attempt to help the oil companies lock up more public lands before he leaves office.';
Bush, Democrats bicker over soaring energy prices
By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent
President Bush on Saturday tried to pin the blame on Congress for soaring energy prices and said lawmakers need to lift long-standing restrictions on drilling for oil in pristine lands and offshore tracts believed to hold huge reserves of fuel.
';It's time for members of Congress to address the pain that high gas prices are causing our citizens,'; the president said. ';Every extra dollar that American families spend because of high gas prices is one less dollar they can use to put food on the table or send a child to college. The American people deserve better.';
With gasoline prices above $4 a gallon, Bush and his Republican allies think Americans are less reluctant to allow drilling offshore and in an Alaska wildlife refuge that environmentalists have fought successfully for decades to protect. Nearly half the people surveyed by the Pew Research Center in late June said they now consider energy exploration and drilling more important than conservation, compared with a little over a third who felt that way only five months ago. The sharpest shift in attitude came among political liberals.
Democrats say they are for drilling, but argue that oil companies aren't going after the oil where they already have leases. So why open new, protected areas? they ask. Democrats say there are 68 million acres of federal land and waters where oil and gas companies hold leases, but aren't producing oil.
';Americans are fed up every time they go to fill up and they're right to demand action. But instead of a serious response, President Bush and his allies simply repeat the same old line more drilling,'; Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said in the Democrats' radio address.
';Democrats support more drilling,'; he said. ';In fact, what the president hasn't told you is that the oil companies are already sitting on 68 million acres of federal lands with the potential to nearly double U.S. oil production. That is why in the coming days congressional Democrats will vote on 'Use It or Lose It' legislation requiring the big oil companies to develop these resources or lose their leases to someone else who will.';
';But we know that drilling by itself will not solve the problem of high gas prices,'; Van Hollen said. ';We cannot drill our way to energy independence.';
He cited Democrats' calls to tap the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve, because it is full and ';America's rainy day is now.'; And he said the country must focus on new energy policies that focus on alternatives to oil.
Bush said that Democrats are at fault and that ';Americans are increasingly frustrated with Congress' failure to take action.
';One of the factors driving up high gas prices is that many of our oil deposits here in the United States have been put off-limits for exploration and production. Past efforts to meet the demand for oil by expanding domestic resources have been repeatedly rejected by Democrats in Congress.';
Bush repeated his call for Congress to lift the restrictions, including a ban on offshore drilling. A succession of presidents from George H.W. Bush to Bill Clinton to the current president have sided against drilling in these waters as has Congress each year for 27 years, seeking to protect beaches and coastal states' tourism economies.
As far as subsidizing Brazil's oil drilling, this was a loan guarantee made by the US Import Export Bank
-The Import/Export Bank is a self-sustaining bank. NO taxpayer money is used in any of it's loans. It is self-sustaining because of the fees it collects. It receives no Congress appropriated funds.
-The Import/Export Bank ONLY makes loans and loan guarantees that finance the PURCHASE of American Goods. The money can ONLY be used by Petrobas for the purchase of American goods and services. The money is always paid back as it is a loan: they do not provide any grants.
-Ex-Im Bank does not make U.S. policy. Their charter prohibits them from turning down financing for either nonfinancial or noncommercial reasons, except in rare circumstances including failure to meet environmental standards.
-Since 1993 the Import/Export Bank has netted the US taxpayers $4.9 Billion in fees without costing the taxpayers a penny. This is in addition to all the jobs created.
-The Bank鈥檚 bipartisan Board unanimously approved the preliminary commitment to Petrobras on April 14, 2009, before any Obama appointees joined the Bank. In fact, the Bank鈥檚 Board consisted of three Republicans and two Democrats - all of whom were appointed by....
George W. Bush.
Interestingly enough, the idea that the Whitehouse is subsidizing Brazilian drilling started once again with....Ms. Sarah Palin! It is interesting to note that the National Review posted an article online completely debunking that the US is sending money overseas and exporting jobs. The National Review is a NOTED CONSERVATIVE publication.Why does the Whitehouse subsidize Brazil's oil drilling and ban our own?
The import/export bank is private.
Private investors can extend loans to foreign firms through the bank.
The white house, congress, and our tax dollars have nothing to do with it.
We have free trade with many countries so you can I can invest in this way.
Republicans and special interest have spread a lot of false information and smear stories regarding this to demonize democrats and anyone that fights for our environment.
The White House didn't give them anything, and it didn't come from taxpayer money.
It's not a ';subsidy.'; The LOAN is coming from the US Import Bank, which is not funded by taxpayer money.
The U.S. Export Import Bank's sole purpose is to lend money to foreign companies for the purchase of American goods and services.
Loan. With interest. We come out on top.
Fun fact: Brazil sends us 188,000 barrels of oil PER DAY.
First the Import Export Bank is funded 100% by the US taxpayer. It is part of our government. Why do we do it? Because te white house is a hypocrite. Do as I say and not as I do. We worry about the enviorment, but not anywhere else but here. It is truly a risky venture to lend money to a country that has a volatile economy. Did we forget about 25 years ago they defaulted on billions of dollars in loans? No, but we never learn
excuse the spelling , but the reason is the man who put the president in his positionn ( george sorose) is behind it, he is as America hater as you can get!
There is no ';ban'; on drilling. Just a requirement that the Oil Industry drill for oil on the millions of acres of land leased to them which they have not yet begun to drill on.
The Drill Responsibly in Leased Lands (DRILL) Act
On July 17, 2008, the House voted on the Drill Responsibly in Leased Lands (DRILL) Act, H.R. 6515, a bill to promote the responsible domestic production of oil and natural gas, particularly in 20 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. While 244 Members voted for the bill, it failed to get the two-thirds support necessary for passage.
';There are 68 million acres of federal land already leased by oil companies for energy production now but sitting idle. That鈥檚 75% of leased lands, sitting idle. Oil companies should drill what they have leased鈥攁nd lease lands already open for drilling first. But instead, President Bush and Congressional Republicans want to make this a fight about our beaches and our threatened wilderness areas, in an apparent attempt to help the oil companies lock up more public lands before he leaves office.';
Bush, Democrats bicker over soaring energy prices
By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent
President Bush on Saturday tried to pin the blame on Congress for soaring energy prices and said lawmakers need to lift long-standing restrictions on drilling for oil in pristine lands and offshore tracts believed to hold huge reserves of fuel.
';It's time for members of Congress to address the pain that high gas prices are causing our citizens,'; the president said. ';Every extra dollar that American families spend because of high gas prices is one less dollar they can use to put food on the table or send a child to college. The American people deserve better.';
With gasoline prices above $4 a gallon, Bush and his Republican allies think Americans are less reluctant to allow drilling offshore and in an Alaska wildlife refuge that environmentalists have fought successfully for decades to protect. Nearly half the people surveyed by the Pew Research Center in late June said they now consider energy exploration and drilling more important than conservation, compared with a little over a third who felt that way only five months ago. The sharpest shift in attitude came among political liberals.
Democrats say they are for drilling, but argue that oil companies aren't going after the oil where they already have leases. So why open new, protected areas? they ask. Democrats say there are 68 million acres of federal land and waters where oil and gas companies hold leases, but aren't producing oil.
';Americans are fed up every time they go to fill up and they're right to demand action. But instead of a serious response, President Bush and his allies simply repeat the same old line more drilling,'; Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said in the Democrats' radio address.
';Democrats support more drilling,'; he said. ';In fact, what the president hasn't told you is that the oil companies are already sitting on 68 million acres of federal lands with the potential to nearly double U.S. oil production. That is why in the coming days congressional Democrats will vote on 'Use It or Lose It' legislation requiring the big oil companies to develop these resources or lose their leases to someone else who will.';
';But we know that drilling by itself will not solve the problem of high gas prices,'; Van Hollen said. ';We cannot drill our way to energy independence.';
He cited Democrats' calls to tap the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve, because it is full and ';America's rainy day is now.'; And he said the country must focus on new energy policies that focus on alternatives to oil.
Bush said that Democrats are at fault and that ';Americans are increasingly frustrated with Congress' failure to take action.
';One of the factors driving up high gas prices is that many of our oil deposits here in the United States have been put off-limits for exploration and production. Past efforts to meet the demand for oil by expanding domestic resources have been repeatedly rejected by Democrats in Congress.';
Bush repeated his call for Congress to lift the restrictions, including a ban on offshore drilling. A succession of presidents from George H.W. Bush to Bill Clinton to the current president have sided against drilling in these waters as has Congress each year for 27 years, seeking to protect beaches and coastal states' tourism economies.
Are the Democrats refusing to open up Domestic Drilling of Oil, to keep the prices high ?
Then Blame it on Bush. HaHa, it won't work. I read today where Saudi Arabia is flooding the Market with Sweet Delicious Crude to get prices even lower and get McCain Elected. The Saudi's know that an Obama Regime will ignore an attack on Saudia Arabia by Iran, I love it - this is right out of James Bond and I am behind McCain all the way baby. No Obama Teeny Boppers for ME - My GIG is to find a real McCain HOTTIE. Also the Saudis are using their Oil Resources to Counter as an Offensive to all of the Illegal Millions in Campaign contribution to Obama from George Soros. George Soros is the Prick that destroyed Argentina's Economy.Are the Democrats refusing to open up Domestic Drilling of Oil, to keep the prices high ?
Pelosi is holding out on off-shore drilling in hopes Obama wins the election, then do an about face and allow drilling and then give all credit to Obama when prices drop
. It won't work for a couple of reasons..
1, Obama won't win the election.
2, We already know Pelosi is trying to do this. I mean, she is too dumb to even be crafty.
I'm tired of these liberal political 'games'.
and by the way, I don't care how many people say otherwise, but more oil available means lower prices by the mere fact futures will be lower by the forthcoming glut of oil. It's a fact of life.
McCain 08.Are the Democrats refusing to open up Domestic Drilling of Oil, to keep the prices high ?
Yes, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, in particular. I saw an interview of her and Mr. Stephanapolis and she thinks that it will not be a ';quick fix'; to the lowering the prices, also it will ruin, planet earth, so she is not letting them vote for domestic drilling of oil. She is such a knucklehead! She is disliked by many in Congress and the House, and now even the American people are starting to see her as an unfair ';witch.';
Unfortunately yes, but there is a positive outcome. By making the American people realize what is going on by raising prices at the pump, it forces us to make changes. The democrats are taking this to a level that is unconstitutional and will be the dagger that takes their campaign down just like the Pelosi congress at work right now or actually the democratic congress that is taking leave for a month while regular Americans are struggling to make ends meet.
Uhm, no, they just believe that where the oil companies already have leases and are approved to drill, they should drill first. If you'd place the blame squarely on the oil companies where it belongs, then we might get more oil out of them. Unfortunately, more oil won't solve the problem, but ya'll don't believe it. Well, tell them to drill and when it doesn't help what will you say then?
Well if we drill here at home the democrats won't have anything to b**** about in that respect. Can't have the republican party look good can we? Of course not, silly!! MCCAIN, because when you look at the name closely it screams ICAN make it better! Look at Obama closely...Oh Bomb Uh. I rest my case.
Didn't you hear .... Pelosi is ';saving the planet'; !!!
uuggghhhh!
BTW .... BLUE CHRISTY ..... Access to the Strategic Oil Reserve is determined by provisions written into the 1975 Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) ... specifically to cover us in the case of a severe supply interruption!
Wow, you're dumb. I read the question with an intention to answer you're question intellectually, but as I read on I decided you weren't worth it. You're gig is to find a real McCain hottie? Wow, what has the world come to?
Yeah, isn't it funny how the supply has gone up, but the prices continue to soar. It is complete and udder bull. It doesn't have anything to do with supply, and its gets more pathetic everyday.
Yea, Bush and his buddies are the only one benefiting from high oil prices. Think about it. The administration inflates prices just to pressure congress to allow drilling, so big oil can make MORE money.
Yes, that's one of the reasons. They also tried to raise the gas tax 10 cents per gallon recently. They want to force Americans to use less oil to save Pelosi's planet.
No, because when the price was low we weren't drilling domestically. It's not going to bring the price down significantly. The oil companies don't pump much oil from the active wells we have here. Our labor is too expensive. The oil companies and all the politicians they own see this as a magical opportunity to get rid of all those pesky environmental regulations that keep the quality of life in America high, because those laws stand in the way of corporate profits. Everybody wants more oil production here, but watch what happens when they can see the oil wells, and smell the refineries. Perhaps the next law the oil companies will shove down our throat is a new migrant worker program to man those oil wells. Why give a fellow American a job when you can pay some 3rd world worker $0.50 an hour to do it? Antthing to make the price of gas go down a few cents.
Yeah, isn't it interesting that the last time they increased supply the price of oil continued to go up. This has nothing to do with supply.
And if you want to base it on supply, then economists have already stated we only have 1-2% of the world oil supply (we use 25% of the world supply). Even if we could get that NOW, it would only reduce the cost, at most, a dime/gallon. Our supply isn't significant enough to make a difference.
The problem is speculation and the devalued US Dollar. But, ah well. Drink up the koolaide. But if you really care, find ONE economist that will say otherwise, they don't exist. Even Bush and McCain said this was a ';psychological'; boost that wouldn't help the price of gas.
UMMM didnt Obama agree to drill on an open 68 million acre site today? Heat from tree huggers has the democratic party stopping to think what would be best. Sorry, but I'm sick and tired of what the republican party and our president has done to this country in the last 8 yrs. Its time for change and a new perspective. Obama in '08.
Perhaps they do not want to drill more oil, because it is contributing to global warming.
I believe that Bush is hording the national oil reserves to keep profits high. And we could go back and forth about which political Politician is the most crocked . Romney is right up there with them and so is the Senator from Alaska . This older white military widow is not a teeny bopper and I will vote for Obama .I know the saudis have been holding hands with Bush for along time now . I can see why they may be worried -it has served their purpose for the USA to have a Republican president . It has made the Saudis rich.and made many Americans poor.isotretinoin
Pelosi is holding out on off-shore drilling in hopes Obama wins the election, then do an about face and allow drilling and then give all credit to Obama when prices drop
. It won't work for a couple of reasons..
1, Obama won't win the election.
2, We already know Pelosi is trying to do this. I mean, she is too dumb to even be crafty.
I'm tired of these liberal political 'games'.
and by the way, I don't care how many people say otherwise, but more oil available means lower prices by the mere fact futures will be lower by the forthcoming glut of oil. It's a fact of life.
McCain 08.Are the Democrats refusing to open up Domestic Drilling of Oil, to keep the prices high ?
Yes, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, in particular. I saw an interview of her and Mr. Stephanapolis and she thinks that it will not be a ';quick fix'; to the lowering the prices, also it will ruin, planet earth, so she is not letting them vote for domestic drilling of oil. She is such a knucklehead! She is disliked by many in Congress and the House, and now even the American people are starting to see her as an unfair ';witch.';
Unfortunately yes, but there is a positive outcome. By making the American people realize what is going on by raising prices at the pump, it forces us to make changes. The democrats are taking this to a level that is unconstitutional and will be the dagger that takes their campaign down just like the Pelosi congress at work right now or actually the democratic congress that is taking leave for a month while regular Americans are struggling to make ends meet.
Uhm, no, they just believe that where the oil companies already have leases and are approved to drill, they should drill first. If you'd place the blame squarely on the oil companies where it belongs, then we might get more oil out of them. Unfortunately, more oil won't solve the problem, but ya'll don't believe it. Well, tell them to drill and when it doesn't help what will you say then?
Well if we drill here at home the democrats won't have anything to b**** about in that respect. Can't have the republican party look good can we? Of course not, silly!! MCCAIN, because when you look at the name closely it screams ICAN make it better! Look at Obama closely...Oh Bomb Uh. I rest my case.
Didn't you hear .... Pelosi is ';saving the planet'; !!!
uuggghhhh!
BTW .... BLUE CHRISTY ..... Access to the Strategic Oil Reserve is determined by provisions written into the 1975 Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) ... specifically to cover us in the case of a severe supply interruption!
Wow, you're dumb. I read the question with an intention to answer you're question intellectually, but as I read on I decided you weren't worth it. You're gig is to find a real McCain hottie? Wow, what has the world come to?
Yeah, isn't it funny how the supply has gone up, but the prices continue to soar. It is complete and udder bull. It doesn't have anything to do with supply, and its gets more pathetic everyday.
Yea, Bush and his buddies are the only one benefiting from high oil prices. Think about it. The administration inflates prices just to pressure congress to allow drilling, so big oil can make MORE money.
Yes, that's one of the reasons. They also tried to raise the gas tax 10 cents per gallon recently. They want to force Americans to use less oil to save Pelosi's planet.
No, because when the price was low we weren't drilling domestically. It's not going to bring the price down significantly. The oil companies don't pump much oil from the active wells we have here. Our labor is too expensive. The oil companies and all the politicians they own see this as a magical opportunity to get rid of all those pesky environmental regulations that keep the quality of life in America high, because those laws stand in the way of corporate profits. Everybody wants more oil production here, but watch what happens when they can see the oil wells, and smell the refineries. Perhaps the next law the oil companies will shove down our throat is a new migrant worker program to man those oil wells. Why give a fellow American a job when you can pay some 3rd world worker $0.50 an hour to do it? Antthing to make the price of gas go down a few cents.
Yeah, isn't it interesting that the last time they increased supply the price of oil continued to go up. This has nothing to do with supply.
And if you want to base it on supply, then economists have already stated we only have 1-2% of the world oil supply (we use 25% of the world supply). Even if we could get that NOW, it would only reduce the cost, at most, a dime/gallon. Our supply isn't significant enough to make a difference.
The problem is speculation and the devalued US Dollar. But, ah well. Drink up the koolaide. But if you really care, find ONE economist that will say otherwise, they don't exist. Even Bush and McCain said this was a ';psychological'; boost that wouldn't help the price of gas.
UMMM didnt Obama agree to drill on an open 68 million acre site today? Heat from tree huggers has the democratic party stopping to think what would be best. Sorry, but I'm sick and tired of what the republican party and our president has done to this country in the last 8 yrs. Its time for change and a new perspective. Obama in '08.
Perhaps they do not want to drill more oil, because it is contributing to global warming.
I believe that Bush is hording the national oil reserves to keep profits high. And we could go back and forth about which political Politician is the most crocked . Romney is right up there with them and so is the Senator from Alaska . This older white military widow is not a teeny bopper and I will vote for Obama .I know the saudis have been holding hands with Bush for along time now . I can see why they may be worried -it has served their purpose for the USA to have a Republican president . It has made the Saudis rich.and made many Americans poor.
Oil drilling and Yellowstone?
Has their been any scientific study concerning the oil/gas drilling in Western Wyoming upseting the magma chamber under Yellowstone? Is it possible?Oil drilling and Yellowstone?
No matter who is in office, mining, oil, and gas development will stay out of National Parks. They are safe.
Not only would oil not be found near the magma chamber, but any drilling would not do much to change the state of affairs in the magma chamber. That would be like poping a gas truck with a sewing needle (except the truck is bigger and the needle is smaller). It's jsut not enough to do much.Oil drilling and Yellowstone?
Thank you for answering! Though the way this administration is going--I wouldn't be surprised to see oil rigs near or in Yellowstone (laws or not)! I live in Western Wyoming by the way---so it's pretty much a part of my everyday life. :-) Report Abuse
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I believe that all proposed oil drilling needs to have an environmental impact study done and submitted to the EPA before it can commence. I wasn't aware of any oil drilling in Yellowstone. Wouldn't the magma burn up all the subterranean petroleum deposits?
';Occasionally proposals are suggested for ways to safely relieve the buildup of dissolved gas in the Yellowstone magma chamber, usually involving drilling holes or using explosives to release small amounts of pressure in a controlled manner. However, none of these ideas is likely to have a noticeable impact. The magma beneath Yellowstone is not very mobile, so release of dissolved gases from any given point will not do much to the chamber as a whole, and in any event, the scale of the problem is far too large for current engineering capabilities to handle';
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone鈥?/a>
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They don't drill in the actual caldera of Yellowstone, nor near it from what I can see. I was just there two weeks ago. The drilling is almost 100 miles outside of Yellowstone, and from my understanding, the oil drilling does not go down deep enough to effect any magma. Magma is not near the surface in Yellowstone, the water gets heated far below the surface to create all of the thermal features.
I would think that the oil that is present there would not be deep enough to have any affect on the magma.
No matter who is in office, mining, oil, and gas development will stay out of National Parks. They are safe.
Not only would oil not be found near the magma chamber, but any drilling would not do much to change the state of affairs in the magma chamber. That would be like poping a gas truck with a sewing needle (except the truck is bigger and the needle is smaller). It's jsut not enough to do much.Oil drilling and Yellowstone?
Thank you for answering! Though the way this administration is going--I wouldn't be surprised to see oil rigs near or in Yellowstone (laws or not)! I live in Western Wyoming by the way---so it's pretty much a part of my everyday life. :-) Report Abuse
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I believe that all proposed oil drilling needs to have an environmental impact study done and submitted to the EPA before it can commence. I wasn't aware of any oil drilling in Yellowstone. Wouldn't the magma burn up all the subterranean petroleum deposits?
';Occasionally proposals are suggested for ways to safely relieve the buildup of dissolved gas in the Yellowstone magma chamber, usually involving drilling holes or using explosives to release small amounts of pressure in a controlled manner. However, none of these ideas is likely to have a noticeable impact. The magma beneath Yellowstone is not very mobile, so release of dissolved gases from any given point will not do much to the chamber as a whole, and in any event, the scale of the problem is far too large for current engineering capabilities to handle';
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone鈥?/a>
See also:
They don't drill in the actual caldera of Yellowstone, nor near it from what I can see. I was just there two weeks ago. The drilling is almost 100 miles outside of Yellowstone, and from my understanding, the oil drilling does not go down deep enough to effect any magma. Magma is not near the surface in Yellowstone, the water gets heated far below the surface to create all of the thermal features.
I would think that the oil that is present there would not be deep enough to have any affect on the magma.
Democratic congress and oil drilling?
They claim to be the ';Party of the poor and middle class';, YET, they don't want to take any intiative to lower gas prices.. They told America, we will only lower gas prices if we take it out of our reserve. AND THEY STILL HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING. So can they really claim they are the party of the ';Poor and middle class'; when they don't even understand what they are experiencing at the moment?Democratic congress and oil drilling?
Russia has gained control of the last pipe line to Europe that doesn`t go through their territory. Now they control all of them
China is drilling all over the world, even off Florida with Cuba. In fact the whole world is drilling including Mexico and Canada.
Russia just opened the largest oil field and turned sakhalin island into a giant gas station in 2005. Now they have money and power to use against us.
We are forced to buy oil from our enemies.
Our prices are going up for everything because everything is made with oil, from paint, to plastic, to your roads, to cell phones, to Madeline make up.
Diesel is 4.50 a gal for trucks that move our economy. Everything in stores gets there by trucks. So everything costs more.
Because everything cost more people lose their jobs.
But as Nancy Pelosi (D - CA) said,';I am trying to save the planet';, so I guess she means, screw you America, we won`t drill.Democratic congress and oil drilling?
Only the un educated and un informed fall for this crap from the Republicans. Those of us who check facts and read books do not.
Drilling is not the answer. It has never been the answer. Only foolish people think that way. Even if we did drill for more oil and found it, we can not refine the oil into gas, current capacity is at 92 percent. It takes 10 years to build a refinery and no one wants one in there backyard. The answer is conservation. When demand goes down the supply of gas is up and the price of gas goes down. Just like it did recently. Supply remained the same. Simple economics which Republicans don't understand, it's over there head. Bush was asked to release the reserves and he refused. This would not have lowered the price of gas. The Republicans who controlled Congress for seven years also did nothing to help the working class. When Republicans were in the majority they could have ended the ban on off shore drilling and Bush would have rubber stamped the legislation as he did all others.
When Republicans gave big oil big tax breaks exxon made $46 billion in profit as a result.
Only stupid Republicans blame Democrats for the high cost of gas when Republicans did nothing about it in 7 years..
The democratic Congress does not have a clue on what to do next. They huddle together like a gaggle of scared school kids, afraid to act, but more afraid to show individual courage and do what is right.
What is even scarier about this Congress, they wait for that idiot Pelosi who really can't get on the right page.
I have grave concerns about the democratic party. It is quaking in it's boots for fear of making the wrong decision.
They don't realize, we need them to make a decision, even if it's the wrong decision, at least they will show a little gumption if they did that !
Oil prices are coming down. We have learned to manage with less usage. No oil company has asked too drill anywhere else. Stock holders of everything but oil have figured out what we already knew. When oil is up the market is down. This issue is all about it being an election year. Period.
Guess i think of the Demo's as the party for welfare and Hollywood elitists.
Actions speak louder than words.
Russia has gained control of the last pipe line to Europe that doesn`t go through their territory. Now they control all of them
China is drilling all over the world, even off Florida with Cuba. In fact the whole world is drilling including Mexico and Canada.
Russia just opened the largest oil field and turned sakhalin island into a giant gas station in 2005. Now they have money and power to use against us.
We are forced to buy oil from our enemies.
Our prices are going up for everything because everything is made with oil, from paint, to plastic, to your roads, to cell phones, to Madeline make up.
Diesel is 4.50 a gal for trucks that move our economy. Everything in stores gets there by trucks. So everything costs more.
Because everything cost more people lose their jobs.
But as Nancy Pelosi (D - CA) said,';I am trying to save the planet';, so I guess she means, screw you America, we won`t drill.Democratic congress and oil drilling?
Only the un educated and un informed fall for this crap from the Republicans. Those of us who check facts and read books do not.
Drilling is not the answer. It has never been the answer. Only foolish people think that way. Even if we did drill for more oil and found it, we can not refine the oil into gas, current capacity is at 92 percent. It takes 10 years to build a refinery and no one wants one in there backyard. The answer is conservation. When demand goes down the supply of gas is up and the price of gas goes down. Just like it did recently. Supply remained the same. Simple economics which Republicans don't understand, it's over there head. Bush was asked to release the reserves and he refused. This would not have lowered the price of gas. The Republicans who controlled Congress for seven years also did nothing to help the working class. When Republicans were in the majority they could have ended the ban on off shore drilling and Bush would have rubber stamped the legislation as he did all others.
When Republicans gave big oil big tax breaks exxon made $46 billion in profit as a result.
Only stupid Republicans blame Democrats for the high cost of gas when Republicans did nothing about it in 7 years..
The democratic Congress does not have a clue on what to do next. They huddle together like a gaggle of scared school kids, afraid to act, but more afraid to show individual courage and do what is right.
What is even scarier about this Congress, they wait for that idiot Pelosi who really can't get on the right page.
I have grave concerns about the democratic party. It is quaking in it's boots for fear of making the wrong decision.
They don't realize, we need them to make a decision, even if it's the wrong decision, at least they will show a little gumption if they did that !
Oil prices are coming down. We have learned to manage with less usage. No oil company has asked too drill anywhere else. Stock holders of everything but oil have figured out what we already knew. When oil is up the market is down. This issue is all about it being an election year. Period.
Guess i think of the Demo's as the party for welfare and Hollywood elitists.
Actions speak louder than words.
Oil/Gov. guru says 8-14 years for oil after drilling starts. How did China do it in 1 month 60 miles from FL?
This was on Fox last week. Don't recall who said it but a guest said that it would take 8-14 years after the project starts to get any oil from off shore drilling. The Chinese did it in 1 month just 60 miles off the coast of Florida. How did they do it this quick, why so long for us, and why don't we just get the Chinese to drill it for us. Apparently, they are much more proficient at it than us.Oil/Gov. guru says 8-14 years for oil after drilling starts. How did China do it in 1 month 60 miles from FL?
8-14 years to get the eviromental impact statement approved.Oil/Gov. guru says 8-14 years for oil after drilling starts. How did China do it in 1 month 60 miles from FL?
It's not about whether we get the oil or not, though that would take a while (about a month as you said). The 8-14 year mark, which seems a bit high to me anyway, is based in how long it would take for that oil to hit the market and reduce prices.
Source of the statistic regarding Chinese, please.
China doesn't need to worry about suits from Democrat voters.
It's akin to an urban legend sweet pea.
China's demand for oil is higher and growing much faster than ours. When a market is as pressured as theirs, people are forced to take action.
What we need to do is pump the oil and sell it to them, keep the profits, and invest them into literature about how modern countries survive on less gas. Then we need to take this literature and beat the heads of people who complain about our low gas prices (because they are low, have you seen Europe's?) but also drive SUVs like maniacs on long suburban commutes. And we need to keep beating them until they either learn how to conserve and invest or else we just let their heads start bleeding.
I'm in favor of drilling but whoever said it would take 8 - 14 years is wrong it won't take nearly that long. Once the ban on drilling is lifted, speculators will cover and the price will come down quickly. China isn't drilling 60 miles off the coast of FL. Cuba has the drilling rights to an area close to FL and is negotiating with other countries to allow drilling, but it hasn't happened yet.
They're not covered in red tape.
Hey, Hey, HEY!! What are you doing? Don't you know not to let facts get in the way of politics?
http://www.startribune.com/local/2428198鈥?/a>
The Chi Coms ARE NOT DRILLING 60 miles off the coast of Florida
8-14 years to get the eviromental impact statement approved.Oil/Gov. guru says 8-14 years for oil after drilling starts. How did China do it in 1 month 60 miles from FL?
It's not about whether we get the oil or not, though that would take a while (about a month as you said). The 8-14 year mark, which seems a bit high to me anyway, is based in how long it would take for that oil to hit the market and reduce prices.
Source of the statistic regarding Chinese, please.
China doesn't need to worry about suits from Democrat voters.
It's akin to an urban legend sweet pea.
China's demand for oil is higher and growing much faster than ours. When a market is as pressured as theirs, people are forced to take action.
What we need to do is pump the oil and sell it to them, keep the profits, and invest them into literature about how modern countries survive on less gas. Then we need to take this literature and beat the heads of people who complain about our low gas prices (because they are low, have you seen Europe's?) but also drive SUVs like maniacs on long suburban commutes. And we need to keep beating them until they either learn how to conserve and invest or else we just let their heads start bleeding.
I'm in favor of drilling but whoever said it would take 8 - 14 years is wrong it won't take nearly that long. Once the ban on drilling is lifted, speculators will cover and the price will come down quickly. China isn't drilling 60 miles off the coast of FL. Cuba has the drilling rights to an area close to FL and is negotiating with other countries to allow drilling, but it hasn't happened yet.
They're not covered in red tape.
Hey, Hey, HEY!! What are you doing? Don't you know not to let facts get in the way of politics?
http://www.startribune.com/local/2428198鈥?/a>
The Chi Coms ARE NOT DRILLING 60 miles off the coast of Florida
Do you think Obama should or should not stop Utah drilling for oil and gas?
I don't know it is hard to say since I don't live in Utah. I am an environmentalist though and I don't think drilling is necessarily that bad if it is not cutting down trees or harming much life. How big could some gas and oil pipes be anyhow.
Source-http://www.sltrib.com/ci_10942117Do you think Obama should or should not stop Utah drilling for oil and gas?
Obama will be calling himself President of the United States, however, that does not allow him to dictate how each state decides a question such as drilling in that state. That is a states right issue. Neither the President nor Congress should be putting their nose in Utah's business.Do you think Obama should or should not stop Utah drilling for oil and gas?
Its easy to sit on the sidelines and say ';no to drilling in Utah';.I live in the Vernal and remember a time not so long ago, when this area was a collection of ghost towns. Now with the drilling, the Oil and gas industry has provided countless jobs,and economic prosperity this area has never seen.With the economy hitting rock bottom, does it make sense to stop drilling in Utah?There will always an environmental impact with any industry.Shouldnt we press on with this prosperity, or should we all sack it up and get on welfare?!
We do need to worry about our environment but we must also remember that drilling here means jobs here and money giving to other countries will never come back to the people of the USA .So Im for drilling if it bring jobs and money to our economy.And being from Texas and having wells on our land I can tell you we don't even know that there are drilling pumps on our land and one is only about 1/3 of a mile a way from our home.Plus which one of you are willing to ride a bike to work everyday or not see family members that we are used to seeing often if it gets bad enough that we get gas rations because of lack of gas or oil.
Not having our own oil, is one of the problems with the economy. We are not going to completely stop driving or flying, and now we are stuck sending all of our money to the Arabic countries for their oil. If we don麓t start drilling that alone will do great damage to our economy..
We also need to realize that the days of the big cars are over and we need to develop new ways of moving around.
But if we don麓t treat the economy, then it won麓t matter what we do as we will soon become a 3rd world country..
So I say drill, but be cautious and work to develop new types of cars..
i know it sounds like we should have a better solution to this problem but unless we find a major oil field within our border, and im taking MAJOR, we need to keep looking and the only way to do this is to DRILL. Unless you want to keep kissing middle eastern asses all your life and expect them to keep the prices affordable. Right now, at this moment in time, they practically own us. We get 80% of our oil from them and thats why they have 22nd century technology all across their country. How they obtained technology thats 100 years ahead of ours is still a mystery. But anyways, long story short, i want to say no.. but it has to be a yes.
Drill, because it provides jobs and will provide fuel in the event OPEC decides to cut us off. Until we have viable affordable alternatives we are going to have to continue to drive our old gas guzzling cars and trucks.
I am not willing to return to the old stone age for fear of some vague 'global disaster' warning from the far left lobby. Let the states that want to drill, drill. They will be winners for it in the long run.
well i hate to see destruction of wildlife especially in the beautiful state of Utah, but it's better than cutting down a forest 1000 times the size of an oil derrick to produce only a fraction the amount of fuel in corn based ethanol.
If it's not on federal land it's out of his jurisdiction. If it is on federal land, the government should get fair market value if they allow drilling.
I'm not familiar with the issue, but my guess is that the low price of crude will delay or eliminate the idea.
NO to drilling in Utah
Source-http://www.sltrib.com/ci_10942117Do you think Obama should or should not stop Utah drilling for oil and gas?
Obama will be calling himself President of the United States, however, that does not allow him to dictate how each state decides a question such as drilling in that state. That is a states right issue. Neither the President nor Congress should be putting their nose in Utah's business.Do you think Obama should or should not stop Utah drilling for oil and gas?
Its easy to sit on the sidelines and say ';no to drilling in Utah';.I live in the Vernal and remember a time not so long ago, when this area was a collection of ghost towns. Now with the drilling, the Oil and gas industry has provided countless jobs,and economic prosperity this area has never seen.With the economy hitting rock bottom, does it make sense to stop drilling in Utah?There will always an environmental impact with any industry.Shouldnt we press on with this prosperity, or should we all sack it up and get on welfare?!
We do need to worry about our environment but we must also remember that drilling here means jobs here and money giving to other countries will never come back to the people of the USA .So Im for drilling if it bring jobs and money to our economy.And being from Texas and having wells on our land I can tell you we don't even know that there are drilling pumps on our land and one is only about 1/3 of a mile a way from our home.Plus which one of you are willing to ride a bike to work everyday or not see family members that we are used to seeing often if it gets bad enough that we get gas rations because of lack of gas or oil.
Not having our own oil, is one of the problems with the economy. We are not going to completely stop driving or flying, and now we are stuck sending all of our money to the Arabic countries for their oil. If we don麓t start drilling that alone will do great damage to our economy..
We also need to realize that the days of the big cars are over and we need to develop new ways of moving around.
But if we don麓t treat the economy, then it won麓t matter what we do as we will soon become a 3rd world country..
So I say drill, but be cautious and work to develop new types of cars..
i know it sounds like we should have a better solution to this problem but unless we find a major oil field within our border, and im taking MAJOR, we need to keep looking and the only way to do this is to DRILL. Unless you want to keep kissing middle eastern asses all your life and expect them to keep the prices affordable. Right now, at this moment in time, they practically own us. We get 80% of our oil from them and thats why they have 22nd century technology all across their country. How they obtained technology thats 100 years ahead of ours is still a mystery. But anyways, long story short, i want to say no.. but it has to be a yes.
Drill, because it provides jobs and will provide fuel in the event OPEC decides to cut us off. Until we have viable affordable alternatives we are going to have to continue to drive our old gas guzzling cars and trucks.
I am not willing to return to the old stone age for fear of some vague 'global disaster' warning from the far left lobby. Let the states that want to drill, drill. They will be winners for it in the long run.
well i hate to see destruction of wildlife especially in the beautiful state of Utah, but it's better than cutting down a forest 1000 times the size of an oil derrick to produce only a fraction the amount of fuel in corn based ethanol.
If it's not on federal land it's out of his jurisdiction. If it is on federal land, the government should get fair market value if they allow drilling.
I'm not familiar with the issue, but my guess is that the low price of crude will delay or eliminate the idea.
NO to drilling in Utah
What are 3benifits and costs for drilling for oil in Antarctica?
science homework = /What are 3benifits and costs for drilling for oil in Antarctica?
there are no benefits,since the costs plus the damage done
to environment outweighs by far.What are 3benifits and costs for drilling for oil in Antarctica?
I think you can figure out what benefits come from drilling oil yourself, as for costs - there are many concerns. For instance, it's location and extreme conditions prove to be not only challenging but also costly. Also, think about the continent's wildlife. Construction and accidents, such as oil spills, can ruin the homes of many arctic animals (like the oil spill incident in Alaska in 1987 I believe).
there are no benefits,since the costs plus the damage done
to environment outweighs by far.What are 3benifits and costs for drilling for oil in Antarctica?
I think you can figure out what benefits come from drilling oil yourself, as for costs - there are many concerns. For instance, it's location and extreme conditions prove to be not only challenging but also costly. Also, think about the continent's wildlife. Construction and accidents, such as oil spills, can ruin the homes of many arctic animals (like the oil spill incident in Alaska in 1987 I believe).
12 billion ripped off your pockets, Why republicans want more tax cuts and drilling for oil companies?
Sounds like more liberal ';facts'; Got sources?12 billion ripped off your pockets, Why republicans want more tax cuts and drilling for oil companies?
You sir should really do some major research on the subject. The oil companies profits are inline with any other major corporation here in the States. You should also look into how much Corporations actually pay our Government in every and all taxes that they pay. You may then try to spew the askew news of the socialists.12 billion ripped off your pockets, Why republicans want more tax cuts and drilling for oil companies?
Because it's those tax cuts that expand the drilling programs that supply people with Jobs! Not to tough to get! You want otsave some money, stop spending $480 billion a year in foregin aide, and stop funding the Worls Food bank at $352 Billion a year!isotretinoin
You sir should really do some major research on the subject. The oil companies profits are inline with any other major corporation here in the States. You should also look into how much Corporations actually pay our Government in every and all taxes that they pay. You may then try to spew the askew news of the socialists.12 billion ripped off your pockets, Why republicans want more tax cuts and drilling for oil companies?
Because it's those tax cuts that expand the drilling programs that supply people with Jobs! Not to tough to get! You want otsave some money, stop spending $480 billion a year in foregin aide, and stop funding the Worls Food bank at $352 Billion a year!
Why wouldn't US oil drilling ease the price of fuel?
It is funny how the rest of the entire world is busy building power plants, refineries and drilling for oil and we are convincing ourselves that all we need is sunshine and hot air.Why wouldn't US oil drilling ease the price of fuel?
There is lots and lots of oil drilling going on in the US. The number of active rigs has increased, the number of wrokover rigs has increased, there has been over 10,000 new drilling permits issued in the last 5 years, there have been an increase of 300% in the number of drilling permits on federal land issued. That being said any and all oil drilled in the US does not only go to the US. Of the 4 major oil companies in the world (Shell, Mobil, BP, and Exxon), only 2 of these are US companies. Oil and oil futures are sold and traded on an international scale and therefore the price is set internationally. It has been stated by several economists that if you took all of the 10 billion barrels in ANWR and the 18 billion barrels along the US coastline and dumped that 28 billion barrels into the oil market all at once, it would lower the price of gas here in the US by a mere 6 cents per gallon.Why wouldn't US oil drilling ease the price of fuel?
Because the oil producers have to increase refinement in order to have an effect on the price of fuel at the pump, considering you can't put crude in your gas tank. The thing is, oil producers have decreased oil refinement. So if they aren't refining the oil they already have any faster, what good would more raw crude do? It's really NOT rocket science. Saudi drillers increased their production rates to no end, while Exxon-Mobile has decreased production of, and dismantled current refineries to hold back finished product supply with demand higher than ever considering for our part, it's summer in the US. The old supply and demand equation still holds true. There's your sign....
Yeah I know. There's actually more Shale oil here than Saudi Arabia, UAE, Iran, Iraq, and Kuwait- COMBINED yet some still think that we don't have that much. Oh, and that doesn't include ANWR, the coasts, The new deposit they found in ND or the Massive natural gas deposits. Natural Gas has REALLY gone up.
I often hear the 'it'll take several years to get it up and going' argument, ok whatever. At least it'll keep the prices from going higher. The anwr thing could started producing in 2006, and it would have really helped now.
Also, a lot of the time problem is imposed by the government. pelosi had a chance about a week ago to fix this problem, but she was so afraid of the earth firsters that she just didn't vote on it so she wouldn't make them or the amercan people mad.
We also have to start building more refineries. There are areas of the country that are just desolate- Western KS, N Dakota, Wyoming, Alaska... We could build quite a few of them and people would get used to them.
For the same reason that drilling for oil in my backyard wouldn't ease the price: there's not that much there.
If there was, the oil companies would have gone after it long ago, like they've done in Texas and Louisiana. The idea that there's tons of oil we aren't using is just a tacky election year gimmick.
We don't have the refinery capacity,storage facilities and it would take several years just to get the infrastructure built first.
The oil companies are enjoying huge profits and have no reason build them.
The environmentalists would oppose the construction and the environmental impact paper work would increase the time it takes because of all the site inspections and tests required would add extra costs to the construction and if that site failed,they would have to find another site and start all over.
Yes. OF COURSE.
But Democrats in Congress have Banned Drilling.
Why???? Because the Democrat Party get Millions of Dollars each Election, from Environmentalist Organizations, for getting Gas Prices Higher.
ALWAYS FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL.
It ALWAYS leads to the Democrat Party.
Cool!!!!
Because we are not getting 100 percent of our oil from foreign sources. In fact, most of our oil is coming from The U.S, and believe it or not, Canada. So even if we drill we have no guarantee to find enough oil to make us independent from other foreign oil resources--and that's why the price won't go down--
It would drop the price of oil if the futures markets were to see that the problem of lacking supply were being addressed. By preventing drilling the democrats hold the price high causing pain to Americans while pretending to be the solution.
For the same reason, you won't give me half of your best and most expensive jewelry-you think?
it would ease the price but libs dont wanna
We just need to do it and find out.
There is lots and lots of oil drilling going on in the US. The number of active rigs has increased, the number of wrokover rigs has increased, there has been over 10,000 new drilling permits issued in the last 5 years, there have been an increase of 300% in the number of drilling permits on federal land issued. That being said any and all oil drilled in the US does not only go to the US. Of the 4 major oil companies in the world (Shell, Mobil, BP, and Exxon), only 2 of these are US companies. Oil and oil futures are sold and traded on an international scale and therefore the price is set internationally. It has been stated by several economists that if you took all of the 10 billion barrels in ANWR and the 18 billion barrels along the US coastline and dumped that 28 billion barrels into the oil market all at once, it would lower the price of gas here in the US by a mere 6 cents per gallon.Why wouldn't US oil drilling ease the price of fuel?
Because the oil producers have to increase refinement in order to have an effect on the price of fuel at the pump, considering you can't put crude in your gas tank. The thing is, oil producers have decreased oil refinement. So if they aren't refining the oil they already have any faster, what good would more raw crude do? It's really NOT rocket science. Saudi drillers increased their production rates to no end, while Exxon-Mobile has decreased production of, and dismantled current refineries to hold back finished product supply with demand higher than ever considering for our part, it's summer in the US. The old supply and demand equation still holds true. There's your sign....
Yeah I know. There's actually more Shale oil here than Saudi Arabia, UAE, Iran, Iraq, and Kuwait- COMBINED yet some still think that we don't have that much. Oh, and that doesn't include ANWR, the coasts, The new deposit they found in ND or the Massive natural gas deposits. Natural Gas has REALLY gone up.
I often hear the 'it'll take several years to get it up and going' argument, ok whatever. At least it'll keep the prices from going higher. The anwr thing could started producing in 2006, and it would have really helped now.
Also, a lot of the time problem is imposed by the government. pelosi had a chance about a week ago to fix this problem, but she was so afraid of the earth firsters that she just didn't vote on it so she wouldn't make them or the amercan people mad.
We also have to start building more refineries. There are areas of the country that are just desolate- Western KS, N Dakota, Wyoming, Alaska... We could build quite a few of them and people would get used to them.
For the same reason that drilling for oil in my backyard wouldn't ease the price: there's not that much there.
If there was, the oil companies would have gone after it long ago, like they've done in Texas and Louisiana. The idea that there's tons of oil we aren't using is just a tacky election year gimmick.
We don't have the refinery capacity,storage facilities and it would take several years just to get the infrastructure built first.
The oil companies are enjoying huge profits and have no reason build them.
The environmentalists would oppose the construction and the environmental impact paper work would increase the time it takes because of all the site inspections and tests required would add extra costs to the construction and if that site failed,they would have to find another site and start all over.
Yes. OF COURSE.
But Democrats in Congress have Banned Drilling.
Why???? Because the Democrat Party get Millions of Dollars each Election, from Environmentalist Organizations, for getting Gas Prices Higher.
ALWAYS FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL.
It ALWAYS leads to the Democrat Party.
Cool!!!!
Because we are not getting 100 percent of our oil from foreign sources. In fact, most of our oil is coming from The U.S, and believe it or not, Canada. So even if we drill we have no guarantee to find enough oil to make us independent from other foreign oil resources--and that's why the price won't go down--
It would drop the price of oil if the futures markets were to see that the problem of lacking supply were being addressed. By preventing drilling the democrats hold the price high causing pain to Americans while pretending to be the solution.
For the same reason, you won't give me half of your best and most expensive jewelry-you think?
it would ease the price but libs dont wanna
We just need to do it and find out.
Will oil drilling lower gas prices?
I am doing research on oil drilling, but it's really hard to find a straight answer. Someone help!!!!Will oil drilling lower gas prices?
Economists say that more drilling in the US would have only a minor effect on oil prices (pennies). More drilling around the world might have more of an effect -- nobody knows because there are too many factors involved and nobody knows quite how much oil we can take out of the ground -- many major fields are tapped out and more to the point, governments have nationalized most oil drilling and they don't get as much out of the fields as private companies would.Will oil drilling lower gas prices?
As gas prices fall lower and lower there is no incentive for new oil wells to be drilled. The economy has tanked and therefore demand for oil and gas has tanked with it. This has caused prices to plummet during the past year. As long as prices stay low don't look for any new wells to be drilled.
depends on who does the drilling,but yes if there is more oil,then there is more supply which means lower prices. but you also need more refinery space to get gas supplies up. you need new oil companies to spring up and take lead if you want lower prices,plus you want more domestic oil,keeps money in our own country
The biggest problem is that even if we drill it has to be refined. The U.S. hasn't built many refineries in the last few years because of the tight resections. The ones we have built are in areas to susceptible to hurricanes. Building in Alaska can be a problem because of the extreme cold makes it a difficult process.
Not necessarily. What domestic drilling will do is put more oil on the market. The other end of the equation is whether demand increases, decreases, or stays the same.
Hopefully, we allow domestic drilling not to lower oil prices, but to move away from OPEC.
No high oil prices are not the result of supply and demand, they are the result of speculation and price gouging.
Funny how prices have come down but supply and demand have change little, it is because the gougers knew we were on to them.
good job edna..you are one of the few that actually pays attention !!!!
it's the speculators that regulate pricing...then comes supply and demand...but it's way down on the list. Drilling will do almost nothing to change oil prices....
gas car's have been out of date for over 50 year's. there was a car that was made in the 70's or 80's that ran on water Liquid Oxygen and hydrogen split from water. was the Fuel.
yes. Why? Because if no one drills, prices go up up up .
No.
Economists say that more drilling in the US would have only a minor effect on oil prices (pennies). More drilling around the world might have more of an effect -- nobody knows because there are too many factors involved and nobody knows quite how much oil we can take out of the ground -- many major fields are tapped out and more to the point, governments have nationalized most oil drilling and they don't get as much out of the fields as private companies would.Will oil drilling lower gas prices?
As gas prices fall lower and lower there is no incentive for new oil wells to be drilled. The economy has tanked and therefore demand for oil and gas has tanked with it. This has caused prices to plummet during the past year. As long as prices stay low don't look for any new wells to be drilled.
depends on who does the drilling,but yes if there is more oil,then there is more supply which means lower prices. but you also need more refinery space to get gas supplies up. you need new oil companies to spring up and take lead if you want lower prices,plus you want more domestic oil,keeps money in our own country
The biggest problem is that even if we drill it has to be refined. The U.S. hasn't built many refineries in the last few years because of the tight resections. The ones we have built are in areas to susceptible to hurricanes. Building in Alaska can be a problem because of the extreme cold makes it a difficult process.
Not necessarily. What domestic drilling will do is put more oil on the market. The other end of the equation is whether demand increases, decreases, or stays the same.
Hopefully, we allow domestic drilling not to lower oil prices, but to move away from OPEC.
No high oil prices are not the result of supply and demand, they are the result of speculation and price gouging.
Funny how prices have come down but supply and demand have change little, it is because the gougers knew we were on to them.
good job edna..you are one of the few that actually pays attention !!!!
it's the speculators that regulate pricing...then comes supply and demand...but it's way down on the list. Drilling will do almost nothing to change oil prices....
gas car's have been out of date for over 50 year's. there was a car that was made in the 70's or 80's that ran on water Liquid Oxygen and hydrogen split from water. was the Fuel.
yes. Why? Because if no one drills, prices go up up up .
No.
Bush & Cheney , 100,000 troops guarding the oil drilling in Iraq for their personal benefit.?
I am a republican who will be voting democratic as the president and vice president run everything to
build their own personal wealth. Bush and Cheney are a disgrace to the republican party, the us gov.
and should be impeached. jspBush %26amp; Cheney , 100,000 troops guarding the oil drilling in Iraq for their personal benefit.?
I seriously doubt that you are a Republican.But no matter,all Americans should vote for their choice to be POTUS.What does make me wonder ,however,is where did you get factual evidence of Bush and Cheney gaining personal wealth from the war?Can you provide the rest of us with this information?Or are you just another empty head,talking foolishly without regard to truth?Bush %26amp; Cheney , 100,000 troops guarding the oil drilling in Iraq for their personal benefit.?
where do you get your info from? micheal moore? No we do not gaurd the oil drilling because of some oil war. We are gaurding our economical assests. If you libs dont want us to be in the middle east let us become energery independant and drill in texas, in the gulf of mexico and alaska. yeah we should use other means for energy and become oil free, but we dont have the means for that yet that would have a smooth transition and not collapse the economy or the government, I do agree in alternate fuels but we still need fossil fuels, so you wont let us drill here so we must drill in the middle east, and the oil feilds are a prime target for islamic fascists so we must gaurd them. And it is not for the personal wealth, I think its 60 to 80% percent of the profit from oil goes to american citizens who have stocks in oil and what not. It is blind to just see a war, see some troops infron of an oil derek and think, oh no we are killing innocent terrorirsts in the name of oil. turn off your cnn news and stop watching micheal moore, and the world will come into focus for you.
What is really disgraceful is calling for impeachment based on opinion or dislike
I hate it when people come on here claiming to be a member of the democratic or republican party and then down their own party!! Then they say they switched parties! I really believe this is a really big lie that you were never a republican.
I agree 100%. We all know that the President's family has been in oil since his father served as President. While gas price have almost tripled, along with many other products, including food, Bush laughs all the way to the bank(while he listens to all of our conversations on his perv. phone)
First, if you're a Republican then I'm a Socialist Democrat. You're more like a left wing, Michael Moore radical. Second, Andy G took the words right out of my mouth.
You are a democrat!~!
Unfortunately there aren't enough honest republicans standing up and saying the same thing...........by writing their reps(congressional and senatorial) to demand their impeachment!
I WISH SOMEONE WOULD GIVE ME THE PROOF OF THIS.
VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY DID NOT WANT TO GO IN TO IRAQ. CONGRESS, THE UNITED NATIONS, HILLIARY CLINTON, MADELINE ALBRIGHT, PRES. CLINTON,NANCY PELOSI, JOE BIDEN, HARRY REID, HOWARD DEAN, SANDY BERGER, JAY ROCKEFELLER, JOHN EDWARDS, EVAN BAGH, ALL PUSHED TO GO INTO IRAQ.
http://www.jrwhipple.com/war/wmd.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_ceps8u9
THIS IS NOT PRESIDENT BUSHES WAR.
I WOULD APPRECIATE YOUR SOURCE....WE NEED THE TRUTH NOT SOME RHETORIC FROM THE MEDIA.
DO YOU AGREE AFTER SEEING THESE SITES?
I AGREE WITH VDIG.......
I try not to think in terms of ';party';. There is no real two party system - it's all an illusion to divide the people and keep us bickering. Both parties are under the control of the global elite.
You are not alone!!!
I agree 100%. Bush and Cheney will go down in history as completly failures. Like Nixon or Lyndon Johnson.
Please list a source that proves that Bush and Cheney are ';getting rich'; off of the oil companies.
You are NOT a republican. you are a liberal sheep herder
I think what they are doin is perfect. Screw the citizens get the money while you can. You all would do the same thing if you had the power and money is power.
build their own personal wealth. Bush and Cheney are a disgrace to the republican party, the us gov.
and should be impeached. jspBush %26amp; Cheney , 100,000 troops guarding the oil drilling in Iraq for their personal benefit.?
I seriously doubt that you are a Republican.But no matter,all Americans should vote for their choice to be POTUS.What does make me wonder ,however,is where did you get factual evidence of Bush and Cheney gaining personal wealth from the war?Can you provide the rest of us with this information?Or are you just another empty head,talking foolishly without regard to truth?Bush %26amp; Cheney , 100,000 troops guarding the oil drilling in Iraq for their personal benefit.?
where do you get your info from? micheal moore? No we do not gaurd the oil drilling because of some oil war. We are gaurding our economical assests. If you libs dont want us to be in the middle east let us become energery independant and drill in texas, in the gulf of mexico and alaska. yeah we should use other means for energy and become oil free, but we dont have the means for that yet that would have a smooth transition and not collapse the economy or the government, I do agree in alternate fuels but we still need fossil fuels, so you wont let us drill here so we must drill in the middle east, and the oil feilds are a prime target for islamic fascists so we must gaurd them. And it is not for the personal wealth, I think its 60 to 80% percent of the profit from oil goes to american citizens who have stocks in oil and what not. It is blind to just see a war, see some troops infron of an oil derek and think, oh no we are killing innocent terrorirsts in the name of oil. turn off your cnn news and stop watching micheal moore, and the world will come into focus for you.
What is really disgraceful is calling for impeachment based on opinion or dislike
I hate it when people come on here claiming to be a member of the democratic or republican party and then down their own party!! Then they say they switched parties! I really believe this is a really big lie that you were never a republican.
I agree 100%. We all know that the President's family has been in oil since his father served as President. While gas price have almost tripled, along with many other products, including food, Bush laughs all the way to the bank(while he listens to all of our conversations on his perv. phone)
First, if you're a Republican then I'm a Socialist Democrat. You're more like a left wing, Michael Moore radical. Second, Andy G took the words right out of my mouth.
You are a democrat!~!
Unfortunately there aren't enough honest republicans standing up and saying the same thing...........by writing their reps(congressional and senatorial) to demand their impeachment!
I WISH SOMEONE WOULD GIVE ME THE PROOF OF THIS.
VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY DID NOT WANT TO GO IN TO IRAQ. CONGRESS, THE UNITED NATIONS, HILLIARY CLINTON, MADELINE ALBRIGHT, PRES. CLINTON,NANCY PELOSI, JOE BIDEN, HARRY REID, HOWARD DEAN, SANDY BERGER, JAY ROCKEFELLER, JOHN EDWARDS, EVAN BAGH, ALL PUSHED TO GO INTO IRAQ.
http://www.jrwhipple.com/war/wmd.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_ceps8u9
THIS IS NOT PRESIDENT BUSHES WAR.
I WOULD APPRECIATE YOUR SOURCE....WE NEED THE TRUTH NOT SOME RHETORIC FROM THE MEDIA.
DO YOU AGREE AFTER SEEING THESE SITES?
I AGREE WITH VDIG.......
I try not to think in terms of ';party';. There is no real two party system - it's all an illusion to divide the people and keep us bickering. Both parties are under the control of the global elite.
You are not alone!!!
I agree 100%. Bush and Cheney will go down in history as completly failures. Like Nixon or Lyndon Johnson.
Please list a source that proves that Bush and Cheney are ';getting rich'; off of the oil companies.
You are NOT a republican. you are a liberal sheep herder
I think what they are doin is perfect. Screw the citizens get the money while you can. You all would do the same thing if you had the power and money is power.
Does anyone know both sides of the oil drilling in the gulf issue?
A large area in the Gulf has been set aside for future exploration. It is not protected by any environmental laws. The Gulf states have met and given leases to certain oil companies for drilling and exploration.
I'm fine with the drilling but hope it just helps to lower the price of hybrid and fuel efficient cars.Does anyone know both sides of the oil drilling in the gulf issue?
If the liberal Smurfs stopped driving all those old gas guzzeling hippie busses. There would be a oil surplus.
http://www.worth1000.com/entries/109500/鈥?/a>
Go big Red GoDoes anyone know both sides of the oil drilling in the gulf issue?
plenty of oil in the gulf but the lying left keeps making rule changes, so the oil feilds cannot be tapped!!!!
Yeah, the liberals are against it, like always. They'd rather keep depending on foreign oil. It's funny how they don't stop driving THEIR suv's.
I'm fine with the drilling but hope it just helps to lower the price of hybrid and fuel efficient cars.Does anyone know both sides of the oil drilling in the gulf issue?
If the liberal Smurfs stopped driving all those old gas guzzeling hippie busses. There would be a oil surplus.
http://www.worth1000.com/entries/109500/鈥?/a>
Go big Red GoDoes anyone know both sides of the oil drilling in the gulf issue?
plenty of oil in the gulf but the lying left keeps making rule changes, so the oil feilds cannot be tapped!!!!
Yeah, the liberals are against it, like always. They'd rather keep depending on foreign oil. It's funny how they don't stop driving THEIR suv's.
What is ur take on the folowing oil drilling video?
http://americassentinel.com/2008/07/10/e鈥?/a>What is ur take on the folowing oil drilling video?
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Democrats love Russia, which has gotten itself out of Debt and is now exporting Guess what Oil, it is the Oil and Gas Rich Siberia which has made Rusaia Strong again, so storng that it is back to its old trics.
And if we continue to send our money to the hostile world we will soon be taken over.
Drill Now and save our country.What is ur take on the folowing oil drilling video?
Thanks for the video reference. It states that congressional Democrats have been the obstructionists against America drilling for its own oil in places like ANWR, offshore, etc.
It's factually correct and the only real question in my mind is why the Dem's oppose drilling? I suspect it's because they truly like expensive gasoline because they've bought the leftist fiction of man-made global warming and see high gas prices as one way to get people to burn less fuel.
Nice Distortion on how long it will actually take to get oil out of Anwar, but besides that the Ecosystem there is very fragile and if you drill more and something should happen then the entire Ecosystem in Alaska might be ****** and that is bad.
It's funny to me that people like Al Gore fly around in a private jet spreading lies and misinformatoin about 'global warming' and berat the rest of us for using too much fuel.
What a bunch of morons...
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Democrats love Russia, which has gotten itself out of Debt and is now exporting Guess what Oil, it is the Oil and Gas Rich Siberia which has made Rusaia Strong again, so storng that it is back to its old trics.
And if we continue to send our money to the hostile world we will soon be taken over.
Drill Now and save our country.What is ur take on the folowing oil drilling video?
Thanks for the video reference. It states that congressional Democrats have been the obstructionists against America drilling for its own oil in places like ANWR, offshore, etc.
It's factually correct and the only real question in my mind is why the Dem's oppose drilling? I suspect it's because they truly like expensive gasoline because they've bought the leftist fiction of man-made global warming and see high gas prices as one way to get people to burn less fuel.
Nice Distortion on how long it will actually take to get oil out of Anwar, but besides that the Ecosystem there is very fragile and if you drill more and something should happen then the entire Ecosystem in Alaska might be ****** and that is bad.
It's funny to me that people like Al Gore fly around in a private jet spreading lies and misinformatoin about 'global warming' and berat the rest of us for using too much fuel.
What a bunch of morons...
Im looking for a company called Reed Oil Drilling or Manufacturing out of Houston Texas, any ideas?
I found a Reed Manufacturing, but they are not based in Houston. They're out of Pennsylvania.
Their Web site is as follows:
http://www.reedmfgco.com/
There is a Reed Hycalog, which is a division of Grant Prideco. Their Houston address is:
400 N. Sam Houston Pkwy. East, Suite #900
Houston, TX
Phone #: (281) 878-8000
Here's their Web site:
http://www.reedhycalog.com/
Hope this helps!Im looking for a company called Reed Oil Drilling or Manufacturing out of Houston Texas, any ideas?
Reed Manufacturing has a number of subsidiaries in the Houston area. Reed Instruments is on Haddington (just off the beltway service road between I-10 and Hammerly. There is a Reed Hycalog in a few places too.isotretinoin
Their Web site is as follows:
http://www.reedmfgco.com/
There is a Reed Hycalog, which is a division of Grant Prideco. Their Houston address is:
400 N. Sam Houston Pkwy. East, Suite #900
Houston, TX
Phone #: (281) 878-8000
Here's their Web site:
http://www.reedhycalog.com/
Hope this helps!Im looking for a company called Reed Oil Drilling or Manufacturing out of Houston Texas, any ideas?
Reed Manufacturing has a number of subsidiaries in the Houston area. Reed Instruments is on Haddington (just off the beltway service road between I-10 and Hammerly. There is a Reed Hycalog in a few places too.
Effects of drilling oil in iraq?
does anybody know any problems that have arisen from the extraction of oil in iraq? Oh and by the way i need a good website for the info as well!Effects of drilling oil in iraq?
Drilling is never good for the enviorment. The difference between Iraq and something like ANWAR is the diversity of plant and animals that are in the area and the relative threat of their extinction. Any enviormental group can give you the info you're looking for.Effects of drilling oil in iraq?
Oh, do you mean the effects of the cowboy politics. Going to another country and taking their land and killing their ppl. Then say they are the bad ppl. You do know that Dubya said that the war would pay for itself?
He thought that America could just do like they have done in the past misuse other races %26amp; cultures and become the super rich.
Of course, all the while neglecting the citizens of the USA. This mentality that they are going to welcome America is the fairy tale that they have for history in America.
Everyone else knows the treachery and the carrot %26amp; stick that the rich uses on the masses.
With the black ppl they would say they are hiding in the bushes. The Indians they would scalp you.
The effects: The indebtedness of America to other countries that was in contention of being a super world power. The honor that was lost. You did notice that NATO is not in Iraq. The divide it has caused between the citizens. Calling it a patriotic act and using that as a stick if you did not go along with the lies.
We all knew and were fighting trying to tell everyone that Cheney and Dubya, Rumsfeld, Rove, Addington were all of that NIXON CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION. That they really do not want the masses to have a middle income or as small as possible.
Drilling is never good for the enviorment. The difference between Iraq and something like ANWAR is the diversity of plant and animals that are in the area and the relative threat of their extinction. Any enviormental group can give you the info you're looking for.Effects of drilling oil in iraq?
Oh, do you mean the effects of the cowboy politics. Going to another country and taking their land and killing their ppl. Then say they are the bad ppl. You do know that Dubya said that the war would pay for itself?
He thought that America could just do like they have done in the past misuse other races %26amp; cultures and become the super rich.
Of course, all the while neglecting the citizens of the USA. This mentality that they are going to welcome America is the fairy tale that they have for history in America.
Everyone else knows the treachery and the carrot %26amp; stick that the rich uses on the masses.
With the black ppl they would say they are hiding in the bushes. The Indians they would scalp you.
The effects: The indebtedness of America to other countries that was in contention of being a super world power. The honor that was lost. You did notice that NATO is not in Iraq. The divide it has caused between the citizens. Calling it a patriotic act and using that as a stick if you did not go along with the lies.
We all knew and were fighting trying to tell everyone that Cheney and Dubya, Rumsfeld, Rove, Addington were all of that NIXON CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION. That they really do not want the masses to have a middle income or as small as possible.
Why arent enviromentalists complaining about China drilling into the same oil fields from Cuba?
the same oil fields that they wont let U.S. companys drill into from off shore Florida.
I think this says a lot about the far left politics of environmentalists. just like the deal that China recently settled with Iraq to develop the oil fields there.
check yahoo news for details.Why arent enviromentalists complaining about China drilling into the same oil fields from Cuba?
Your already answered your own question and I couldn't have put it better myself.
If the environmentalist (mostly left wingers) were so concerned they would have already concluded that if we didn't drill in the gulf the Chinese would and that's just what is soon going to happen. China doesn't give a rip if they destroy the ecology in that region as long as they're making money to fund their sorry brand of communism.
Have fun with the $4-5 gasoline prices which will soon be coming.
I guess our environmentalist don't think we can regulate our oil industry any better than the Chinese nor do they really care if the Gulf gets saturated with oil. If this isn't proof to people how shallow and phony these pig-milkers are then there's no hope for those who ignore the facts as it stares them in the face.Why arent enviromentalists complaining about China drilling into the same oil fields from Cuba?
Who cares?
I did an extensive search of news on the web and couldn't find a single reference to China drilling into any Cuban oil fields - what was the source of the report?
Why do you automatically think that environmentalists have far-left politics as a motivator? I own and run a very succesful business and I believe we should look after the planet too. I have environmental policies for the business because after all, no planet = no customers!
The Chinese deal in Iraq was already agreed in 2003 prior to the invasion and has just been finalised post sanctions lifting and invasion so it doesn't seem to have any relevance?
I have no idea, maybe it is hard to be politically correct?
You mean the little communist darlings of the left. they can do no wrong. i mean we moved all industry over there and pollute and then don't forget about human rights violations. They get a free pass. besides they are in Panama making the canals wider for their supertankers which will be dropping off the stuff they made for our industry over there at mexican ports that will transverse the 'superhiway'; which will take up 4,000 sq miles east of dallas. It will be 3 football fields wide.
Thanks goddness an administration sold them the technology for ballistic missiles, huh. Oh by the way they are not American, so it doesn't count, only if from here then it's ';katie bar the door';. Take care.
I think this says a lot about the far left politics of environmentalists. just like the deal that China recently settled with Iraq to develop the oil fields there.
check yahoo news for details.Why arent enviromentalists complaining about China drilling into the same oil fields from Cuba?
Your already answered your own question and I couldn't have put it better myself.
If the environmentalist (mostly left wingers) were so concerned they would have already concluded that if we didn't drill in the gulf the Chinese would and that's just what is soon going to happen. China doesn't give a rip if they destroy the ecology in that region as long as they're making money to fund their sorry brand of communism.
Have fun with the $4-5 gasoline prices which will soon be coming.
I guess our environmentalist don't think we can regulate our oil industry any better than the Chinese nor do they really care if the Gulf gets saturated with oil. If this isn't proof to people how shallow and phony these pig-milkers are then there's no hope for those who ignore the facts as it stares them in the face.Why arent enviromentalists complaining about China drilling into the same oil fields from Cuba?
Who cares?
I did an extensive search of news on the web and couldn't find a single reference to China drilling into any Cuban oil fields - what was the source of the report?
Why do you automatically think that environmentalists have far-left politics as a motivator? I own and run a very succesful business and I believe we should look after the planet too. I have environmental policies for the business because after all, no planet = no customers!
The Chinese deal in Iraq was already agreed in 2003 prior to the invasion and has just been finalised post sanctions lifting and invasion so it doesn't seem to have any relevance?
I have no idea, maybe it is hard to be politically correct?
You mean the little communist darlings of the left. they can do no wrong. i mean we moved all industry over there and pollute and then don't forget about human rights violations. They get a free pass. besides they are in Panama making the canals wider for their supertankers which will be dropping off the stuff they made for our industry over there at mexican ports that will transverse the 'superhiway'; which will take up 4,000 sq miles east of dallas. It will be 3 football fields wide.
Thanks goddness an administration sold them the technology for ballistic missiles, huh. Oh by the way they are not American, so it doesn't count, only if from here then it's ';katie bar the door';. Take care.
What are the cons to drilling for oil in America?
Limited capacity, we are already drilling the best spots. Many of the wells are in sensitive areas concernin coral reefs and tourism hot spots. Ecological damage in places such as Anwar from building infrstructure, roads, etc. At most we deliver an extra 1.5 million barrels a day which accounts for less than 2 percent of daily needs today. Oh yea, it will also take over 20 years for that oil to make it to market. By then we may already have geared ourselves off of oil.
Remember how I said it will take 20 years, well oil consumption only increases so that 1.5 million barrels will be even less adequate. Fossil fuels, namely oil, are no longer the abundant fuel that it once was.What are the cons to drilling for oil in America?
1) Distraction from the real issues in this election.
2) Deflection from what should be our real priority: weaning ourselves and our economy from a depleted natural resource. We have hit the point where we are using more barrels of oil than we are discovering reserves to replace them. Eventually the entire globe will run short and no one will have enough oil for their economy at any cost.
3) We are setting ourselves up for decades of warfare over control of the supply of oil. Yes, we can drill for oil everywhere. We can exploit the oil shale in Wyoming, We can even convert coal to some form of petroleum (more energy in than out). But, this decade or the next, the world will run critically short of oil and we will have to face it sooner or later.What are the cons to drilling for oil in America?
IMO, the biggest ';con'; is that it delays getting our energy house in order. It's just a psychological stop-gap to appease people who don't want to acknowledge they are going to have to change. I asked a similar question a while back and got a slew of different answers about how long it would take to actually get the new oil in circulation. However, there didn't seem to be any disagreement about the fact that it would be a minute amount compared to the rest of the world and so would have little impact on oil prices. (We have 3% of the world's oil, but use 25% of it, according to oilman T Boone Pickens.)
We need to start developing alternatives now, we need to drive more smartly now, we need to devote our energies to future resources, not old oil. The longer we are distracted by the myth of old oil, the deeper the hole we are digging for ourselves in terms of energy independence.
Common sense, can all cars, trucks, trains and planes be converted to the ';alternate'; fuel sources in the next 5 years? 10 years? Can everyone afford $10 a gallon a gas for that length of time? Why not get of the dependence of imported oil, drill where there is actually oil not in the spot given where we already know there isn't any and make the transition to alternate fuel sources in a reasonable manner. Heck, even Paris Hilton figured that one out.
McCain:
The news of drilling in America will lower oil prices immediately b/c of the supply and demand. Oil alone is not the answer. Drilling and working on alternative energy is the best approach.
Obama:
The news about alternate energy has no immediate effect on oil prices. Not drilling at the same time? Put your imagination to work here...
The three legit problems I've seen are that by drilling one damages the surrounding environment, that it would lower oil prices thereby encouraging its use and discouraging the R%26amp;D of alternatives, and that once we pump the oil out it's no longer there (if you believe oil will be more expensive in the future there's a strategic argument for keeping reserves in the ground until it's so expensive it would only be used for vital needs like farming).
The lag time between the start of drilling projects and when one can produce actually counters the last problem... since that lag time would always exist, it would be in our best interest to start now in anticipation of a greater need down the road. The ever- increasing price of oil (as far as I'm concerned) makes alternatives R%26amp;D attractive to investors even if we do manage 2.4 million barrels per day of production... that won't entirely counter the lost production from mature fields worldwide. Drilling domestically will mitigate the decreasing production of oil until we can switch to other fuel sources. This leaves the environmental argument, which good and decent people can differ on. Although, I will point out that by not drilling, you force the hand of oil companies to get their oil elsewhere, either via tar sands/ shale, or from other countries, and to do so more aggressively. Either option is far more taxing environmentally.
Connor, while 2.4 MBPD is relatively small compared with the ~86 MBPD we get worldwide, a small difference in supply makes a HUGE difference in the price, because oil is not elastic. This is doubly true given the difficulty in maintaining 86 MBPD, which it unfortunately appears to be a struggle to maintain. 2.4 MBPD will be a major help when the production goes online, and given our reliance on oil for our very lives (people drastically underestimate how much oil usage does for us today), it seems foolhardy to me to not at least start on drilling projects in anticipation of a greater energy crisis over the next 12 years.
Cons running the risk of oil spills. Not finding oil in the locations. Don't listen to people saying its a waste of money. The government doesn't pay to drill for oil, the companies do. The government just has a ban on the areas where people suspect oil is.
seth b.
1. global warming is not caused by drilling
2. if it were how would it make a diff. if its from here or the mid. east its as you say ';global warming'; it effects the whole globe not just where the oil came from
and no there are no cons
- Expensive
- Damages the environment
- There's not that much of it, so it won't do much to reduce prices
- Won't all necessarily go into American cars
- Perpetuates dependence on oil
Pretty much drilling and not finding anything but wasting the money looking.. even tho we no there Is oil out there... but hey gas is going down anyways right? it wasat like 4.30 mid sumer now i see it for around 3.65
As long as we can afford it, we should import oil from other countries and preserve ours here in America.
America Needs Foreign Oil
-more reliance on oil
-environmental impact from pollution and damage
-expensive
-environmentalist backlash
Cons make money whether they find oil or not. We can't successfully fight global warming while pumping up and burning ever more oil.
well pollutes is bad whether golbal warming is around or not
Uh...waste of money, not to mention risk of environmental disasters.
What George Bush was to the Yale team...cheerleader.
Remember how I said it will take 20 years, well oil consumption only increases so that 1.5 million barrels will be even less adequate. Fossil fuels, namely oil, are no longer the abundant fuel that it once was.What are the cons to drilling for oil in America?
1) Distraction from the real issues in this election.
2) Deflection from what should be our real priority: weaning ourselves and our economy from a depleted natural resource. We have hit the point where we are using more barrels of oil than we are discovering reserves to replace them. Eventually the entire globe will run short and no one will have enough oil for their economy at any cost.
3) We are setting ourselves up for decades of warfare over control of the supply of oil. Yes, we can drill for oil everywhere. We can exploit the oil shale in Wyoming, We can even convert coal to some form of petroleum (more energy in than out). But, this decade or the next, the world will run critically short of oil and we will have to face it sooner or later.What are the cons to drilling for oil in America?
IMO, the biggest ';con'; is that it delays getting our energy house in order. It's just a psychological stop-gap to appease people who don't want to acknowledge they are going to have to change. I asked a similar question a while back and got a slew of different answers about how long it would take to actually get the new oil in circulation. However, there didn't seem to be any disagreement about the fact that it would be a minute amount compared to the rest of the world and so would have little impact on oil prices. (We have 3% of the world's oil, but use 25% of it, according to oilman T Boone Pickens.)
We need to start developing alternatives now, we need to drive more smartly now, we need to devote our energies to future resources, not old oil. The longer we are distracted by the myth of old oil, the deeper the hole we are digging for ourselves in terms of energy independence.
Common sense, can all cars, trucks, trains and planes be converted to the ';alternate'; fuel sources in the next 5 years? 10 years? Can everyone afford $10 a gallon a gas for that length of time? Why not get of the dependence of imported oil, drill where there is actually oil not in the spot given where we already know there isn't any and make the transition to alternate fuel sources in a reasonable manner. Heck, even Paris Hilton figured that one out.
McCain:
The news of drilling in America will lower oil prices immediately b/c of the supply and demand. Oil alone is not the answer. Drilling and working on alternative energy is the best approach.
Obama:
The news about alternate energy has no immediate effect on oil prices. Not drilling at the same time? Put your imagination to work here...
The three legit problems I've seen are that by drilling one damages the surrounding environment, that it would lower oil prices thereby encouraging its use and discouraging the R%26amp;D of alternatives, and that once we pump the oil out it's no longer there (if you believe oil will be more expensive in the future there's a strategic argument for keeping reserves in the ground until it's so expensive it would only be used for vital needs like farming).
The lag time between the start of drilling projects and when one can produce actually counters the last problem... since that lag time would always exist, it would be in our best interest to start now in anticipation of a greater need down the road. The ever- increasing price of oil (as far as I'm concerned) makes alternatives R%26amp;D attractive to investors even if we do manage 2.4 million barrels per day of production... that won't entirely counter the lost production from mature fields worldwide. Drilling domestically will mitigate the decreasing production of oil until we can switch to other fuel sources. This leaves the environmental argument, which good and decent people can differ on. Although, I will point out that by not drilling, you force the hand of oil companies to get their oil elsewhere, either via tar sands/ shale, or from other countries, and to do so more aggressively. Either option is far more taxing environmentally.
Connor, while 2.4 MBPD is relatively small compared with the ~86 MBPD we get worldwide, a small difference in supply makes a HUGE difference in the price, because oil is not elastic. This is doubly true given the difficulty in maintaining 86 MBPD, which it unfortunately appears to be a struggle to maintain. 2.4 MBPD will be a major help when the production goes online, and given our reliance on oil for our very lives (people drastically underestimate how much oil usage does for us today), it seems foolhardy to me to not at least start on drilling projects in anticipation of a greater energy crisis over the next 12 years.
Cons running the risk of oil spills. Not finding oil in the locations. Don't listen to people saying its a waste of money. The government doesn't pay to drill for oil, the companies do. The government just has a ban on the areas where people suspect oil is.
seth b.
1. global warming is not caused by drilling
2. if it were how would it make a diff. if its from here or the mid. east its as you say ';global warming'; it effects the whole globe not just where the oil came from
and no there are no cons
- Expensive
- Damages the environment
- There's not that much of it, so it won't do much to reduce prices
- Won't all necessarily go into American cars
- Perpetuates dependence on oil
Pretty much drilling and not finding anything but wasting the money looking.. even tho we no there Is oil out there... but hey gas is going down anyways right? it wasat like 4.30 mid sumer now i see it for around 3.65
As long as we can afford it, we should import oil from other countries and preserve ours here in America.
America Needs Foreign Oil
-more reliance on oil
-environmental impact from pollution and damage
-expensive
-environmentalist backlash
Cons make money whether they find oil or not. We can't successfully fight global warming while pumping up and burning ever more oil.
well pollutes is bad whether golbal warming is around or not
Uh...waste of money, not to mention risk of environmental disasters.
What George Bush was to the Yale team...cheerleader.
What negative effects cause drilling in the ground for oil?
Lmao try not to listen to your friendly brainwashed tree hugging liberal ';Derek';. The risk now days has been reduced so drastically that there virtually isn't one. All of the crap you here about how drilling in Alaska is harmful to the enviroment is pure politics.
The only problem with oil in today's world is the cost. Unfornately for us, all the oil is stuck under countries that hate us. So we certainly do need to start finding alternatives (coal, coal, or use coal).What negative effects cause drilling in the ground for oil?
Oil is a horrible pollutant and we've already used half the world's supply. That means that half of the world's oil is in the air we breathe, the oceans we swim in, and the ground we stand on. Scary thought. Oil drilling must be stopped and alternate energy sources must be found. Oil causes wars, high gas prices, greed, and U.S. dependency on the Middle East. It also kills sea animals.What negative effects cause drilling in the ground for oil?
mud flow like what happen in Java recently
There are none anymore.
The technologies for drilling have improved dramatically.
In fact it improves life around most on land drilling sites.
The animals benefit more from us being there than not.
Eventually we'll hollow out the earth and we'll all collapse into a giant pit. :)
oil shortages.
The only problem with oil in today's world is the cost. Unfornately for us, all the oil is stuck under countries that hate us. So we certainly do need to start finding alternatives (coal, coal, or use coal).What negative effects cause drilling in the ground for oil?
Oil is a horrible pollutant and we've already used half the world's supply. That means that half of the world's oil is in the air we breathe, the oceans we swim in, and the ground we stand on. Scary thought. Oil drilling must be stopped and alternate energy sources must be found. Oil causes wars, high gas prices, greed, and U.S. dependency on the Middle East. It also kills sea animals.What negative effects cause drilling in the ground for oil?
mud flow like what happen in Java recently
There are none anymore.
The technologies for drilling have improved dramatically.
In fact it improves life around most on land drilling sites.
The animals benefit more from us being there than not.
Eventually we'll hollow out the earth and we'll all collapse into a giant pit. :)
oil shortages.
Could someone please tell me who financed the North Sea Oil drilling Thank you?
North sea oil exploration was financed by the oil companies and a consortium of banks and governments mainly us.uk.%26amp; norway the technical hardware was provided by the usaCould someone please tell me who financed the North Sea Oil drilling Thank you?
Uk government and the oil companies.Could someone please tell me who financed the North Sea Oil drilling Thank you?
The big oil companies like BP. They bought franchises to explore and exploit specific areas defined by the Government.
The Norwegian government did the same in their part of the North Sea.
The UK government sells off Blocks (permits for drilling and exploration in a specific area).
The people who buy these blocks, the operating companies, then get the opportunity to explore for oil by drilling into promising ';plays'; (geological/Geophysical models of the subsurface). If the Well hits an economic payzone then they can move in a production platform or FPSO to transport the oil to a refinery.
It's common for one operating company to prove a reservoir and then sell it on. Ultimately the Shareholders and the people who buy the oil pay for this entire process.isotretinoin
Uk government and the oil companies.Could someone please tell me who financed the North Sea Oil drilling Thank you?
The big oil companies like BP. They bought franchises to explore and exploit specific areas defined by the Government.
The Norwegian government did the same in their part of the North Sea.
The UK government sells off Blocks (permits for drilling and exploration in a specific area).
The people who buy these blocks, the operating companies, then get the opportunity to explore for oil by drilling into promising ';plays'; (geological/Geophysical models of the subsurface). If the Well hits an economic payzone then they can move in a production platform or FPSO to transport the oil to a refinery.
It's common for one operating company to prove a reservoir and then sell it on. Ultimately the Shareholders and the people who buy the oil pay for this entire process.
Who prevents America from drilling for oil, building refineries, and building more nuclear power plants?
Liberal wackos...and their stooges in the US congress.Who prevents America from drilling for oil, building refineries, and building more nuclear power plants?
Oil companies....they also prevent electric cars, higher gas mileage and anything else that could potentially dip into profits.
57% of federal land leases with oil reserves are open for unlimited drilling....no permits required, already been approved.
They dont want to mess with the supply factor because they have quite a good thing going right now.Who prevents America from drilling for oil, building refineries, and building more nuclear power plants?
No oneprevents them from drilling for more oil, in fact they have just discovered an oilfield in Utah that is bigger than the one in Alaska and is capeagle ofproducing over 100 billion barels of crude per day As far as creating more necular power plants that falls under the international stragitc arms limitations and can only be done after wating several years for permission.
With respect to drilling, it costs too much to get oil out of most existing American wells (although the cost of oil may change that). No one wants a refinery in his backyard, and it makes no sense to build them unless there is transportation nearby. As far as nuclear power, well, you are going to see more of it, as well as solar , hydroelectric and wind power.
Well, both political parties who have taken on special interest positions have. With all the legislation in past decades, it is very, very, very hard to near impossible to enen get paperwork submitted. Congress need to go back and revolk many of their policies to openup those opportunities. Energy companies basically have their hands tied. They are told that they can't drill for oil anywhere. With nuclear scares of Three Mile Island and the fear of nuclear explosions of the 1970's and 1980's. nuclear was taboo for the longest time. And a new refiniery is unnessary unless you have resources to draw from to have something to refine. Many energy companies have developed technologies that could help us right now. wind, solar, tidal, and other sources get bogged down because Congress has made it impossible to move forward.
Politically correct politicians and the low lives that vote for them are responsible for our economic mess and that problem is more than just oil. The politically correct tax and destroy policies of our government has sent millions of American jobs offshore causing economic hardship to smaller groups at a time so the effect was never felt en mass before now. Also politically correct/ environmentally correct politicians have prevented new industries from becoming a new job source for America's citizens.
An example is the state of Maine The fishing and forestry jobs have been regulated out of existence and 52% of all the Jobs in Maine are Government jobs
the process prevents it. I once heard it takes 8-10 years just to get the permits in order to build a refinery. Now add 2+ years construction another year at least for testing all while not making any money on that refinery.
We the people that elect politicians. This is not a partisan issue and it did not happen in just the last couple of years. The writing was on the wall decades ago,yet it was ignored because of arrogance,selfishness and greed.
we the people do.
the last time someone tried to build a nuclear power plant, oil refinery, or airport
All of the conservatives And liberals said the Exact same thing.. ';NOT in My Backyard !!!';
You have Federal, state and local regulations. When they're not outright banning those actions, they're making the regulations too expensive to accomodate.
Individual citizens that vote not in my back yard. No one wants any of those in their town, they want them to be built somewhere else, but eventually it has turned out to be nowhere else.
Who allows oil companies to continue to merge moving ever closer to a monopoly and destroying competition? Mainly republicans.
Al Gore and his supporter
Democract
Liberal
Court (they had the last to said whether is constituion or not even to even drill oil)
only those who are wise enough to keep
their surroundings clean and healthy
why do, of all people -- the wealthy,
think that they cannot afford to???
i do~!
environmentalist, democrats and the BIG OIL COMPANIES...
Mainly Democrats.
Environmentalists.
. the oil lobby for beginners, but the oil companies dont want to spend their own money
democrat voters
People with green teeth.
Oil companies....they also prevent electric cars, higher gas mileage and anything else that could potentially dip into profits.
57% of federal land leases with oil reserves are open for unlimited drilling....no permits required, already been approved.
They dont want to mess with the supply factor because they have quite a good thing going right now.Who prevents America from drilling for oil, building refineries, and building more nuclear power plants?
No oneprevents them from drilling for more oil, in fact they have just discovered an oilfield in Utah that is bigger than the one in Alaska and is capeagle ofproducing over 100 billion barels of crude per day As far as creating more necular power plants that falls under the international stragitc arms limitations and can only be done after wating several years for permission.
With respect to drilling, it costs too much to get oil out of most existing American wells (although the cost of oil may change that). No one wants a refinery in his backyard, and it makes no sense to build them unless there is transportation nearby. As far as nuclear power, well, you are going to see more of it, as well as solar , hydroelectric and wind power.
Well, both political parties who have taken on special interest positions have. With all the legislation in past decades, it is very, very, very hard to near impossible to enen get paperwork submitted. Congress need to go back and revolk many of their policies to openup those opportunities. Energy companies basically have their hands tied. They are told that they can't drill for oil anywhere. With nuclear scares of Three Mile Island and the fear of nuclear explosions of the 1970's and 1980's. nuclear was taboo for the longest time. And a new refiniery is unnessary unless you have resources to draw from to have something to refine. Many energy companies have developed technologies that could help us right now. wind, solar, tidal, and other sources get bogged down because Congress has made it impossible to move forward.
Politically correct politicians and the low lives that vote for them are responsible for our economic mess and that problem is more than just oil. The politically correct tax and destroy policies of our government has sent millions of American jobs offshore causing economic hardship to smaller groups at a time so the effect was never felt en mass before now. Also politically correct/ environmentally correct politicians have prevented new industries from becoming a new job source for America's citizens.
An example is the state of Maine The fishing and forestry jobs have been regulated out of existence and 52% of all the Jobs in Maine are Government jobs
the process prevents it. I once heard it takes 8-10 years just to get the permits in order to build a refinery. Now add 2+ years construction another year at least for testing all while not making any money on that refinery.
We the people that elect politicians. This is not a partisan issue and it did not happen in just the last couple of years. The writing was on the wall decades ago,yet it was ignored because of arrogance,selfishness and greed.
we the people do.
the last time someone tried to build a nuclear power plant, oil refinery, or airport
All of the conservatives And liberals said the Exact same thing.. ';NOT in My Backyard !!!';
You have Federal, state and local regulations. When they're not outright banning those actions, they're making the regulations too expensive to accomodate.
Individual citizens that vote not in my back yard. No one wants any of those in their town, they want them to be built somewhere else, but eventually it has turned out to be nowhere else.
Who allows oil companies to continue to merge moving ever closer to a monopoly and destroying competition? Mainly republicans.
Al Gore and his supporter
Democract
Liberal
Court (they had the last to said whether is constituion or not even to even drill oil)
only those who are wise enough to keep
their surroundings clean and healthy
why do, of all people -- the wealthy,
think that they cannot afford to???
i do~!
environmentalist, democrats and the BIG OIL COMPANIES...
Mainly Democrats.
Environmentalists.
. the oil lobby for beginners, but the oil companies dont want to spend their own money
democrat voters
People with green teeth.
If Democrats oppose drilling today because it will take 10 years for our new oil to hit the market?
Doesn't that mean their opposition to drilling 10 years ago was a mistake?If Democrats oppose drilling today because it will take 10 years for our new oil to hit the market?
How about pelosick's promise to lower gas prices. Instead they have went up over 70%. Yet another broken promise already. This was the platform they ran on, and they all jumped. Not one piece of legislation that I know of has done us any good. She promised, she failed. Again. We were promised better, shame on us for voting in the most ethical congress ever.
Another day, and another lie.
Oh and to the people who say-drill where the leases are-there aren't guarantees oil is there. UNLIKE off shore, UNLIKE ANWR, and so on.Dems are spinning wheels, and not doing jack to help.If Democrats oppose drilling today because it will take 10 years for our new oil to hit the market?
No, because 10 -20 years ago, both parties were opposed to off shore drilling on environmental reasons. George HW Bush signed the offshore drilling ban in 1990. Jeb Bush signed a ban in Florida. The federal ban has been renewed every year since it was passed including 6 years when Bush was president and both houses of congress were in Republican hands.
I think it means that they recognize now what they recognized then…that we can't drill our way out of this mess.
Do you realize that the 574 million acres of federal costal water that are off-limits are believed to hold almost 18 billion barrels of oil and 77 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, according to the Interior Department..
Sounds like a lot.
But consider that the US currently uses 7.6 billion barrels of oil a year, and 21 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
So for all the expense of exploring to identify exactly where the oil and gas are, then the expense of setting up the extraction facilities and pipelines, in 10 years, we'll get 2.5 years worth of oil, and 3.5 years of gas. And that's if we use it all and don't export any (which we currently do…you know that crude from Alaska is currently being shipped to China, right?).
Then it's dry, and gone forever. And we have hulking, rotting, derelict oil rigs spoiling the pristine and complex ecosystems beneath them.
Drilling is not the answer.
1. Opposing drilling has been bi-partisan stance the last 10 years up untill recently- the democrats cant be held accountable for that unless you hold accountable all republicans against it such as George HW Bush, Bush Jr., and McCain. Repubs have controlled congress for like the past couple decades and the white white house for all but 8- you can't pin it on the democrats when the repubs have been in control.
2. It's an election year tactic. Why wasn't George Bush calling for lifting the ban the every other year he's been in office? It's a simple way to make the average American think that the McCain and Bush can save you a buck,
3. Its not a miracle cure, the Oil will go to a world market, with ever increasing demand, the Oil will belong to the private sector and be sold to the highest bidder. We are not talking a US market here, it will sell globally, for the global price, which will be unlikely to decrease because the oil drilled will take a long time and be a relatively tiny amount compared to the worlds oil supply.
4. It's not the answer. Drilling for oil may only have a small possibility of forestalling a rise in price. But the price will continue to rise as the resource is finite…that is why we must stop trying to dig our way out and instead innovate!
I'm really not against drilling so much, except for it wont have a big an effect as people think it will, and it takes away focus on what our ultimate goal should be.
Where's your common sense, man? It's not DEMOCRATS whom are opposed to oil drilling. It's coastal states whom are opposed to it, environmentalists, and some Republicans that do as well.
Didn't you also know? Oil companies are sitting on 68 MILLION acres of leased land and they are doing *nothing* to bring down the price of gas.
Not to mention all the HANDOUTS they are expecting from the US government for not drilling all this time.
Of course, you knew this…right?
Democrats want to invest in alternate resources.. Japan is kicking our azz in reguards to that.. Maybe if we funded that 10 years ago, we'd be reaping the benefits now and selling our product to every other country.. Instead of buying from Japan.. Which seems better to you??
I heard that argument from some prominent Democrats the other day, and I was astounded. That's kind of like saying why should I go to college and get a degree when I could be spending those four years making money now. Do I still need a passport to go to Canada, or can I just walk in?
Correct. We should have been drilling all along.
How come they are not drilling on the 1,000,000 acres they already control?
This is not ';Liberals'; fault, this is their conscious decision NOT TO PRODUCE, like they are trying to hold supply down or something…..
Bush Wants to lift the ban but the Democrats messiah doesn’t want to do anything and not John McCain either.
If they had allowed drilling 30 years ago, we wouldn't be dependent on foreign oil. And yes, it was a mistake.
Again, Your boy Bush's dad signed into law the ban. Why won't Repukes get this?
'10 years' is more liberal BS; We put a man on the moon in 7 years.
yes it was
How about pelosick's promise to lower gas prices. Instead they have went up over 70%. Yet another broken promise already. This was the platform they ran on, and they all jumped. Not one piece of legislation that I know of has done us any good. She promised, she failed. Again. We were promised better, shame on us for voting in the most ethical congress ever.
Another day, and another lie.
Oh and to the people who say-drill where the leases are-there aren't guarantees oil is there. UNLIKE off shore, UNLIKE ANWR, and so on.Dems are spinning wheels, and not doing jack to help.If Democrats oppose drilling today because it will take 10 years for our new oil to hit the market?
No, because 10 -20 years ago, both parties were opposed to off shore drilling on environmental reasons. George HW Bush signed the offshore drilling ban in 1990. Jeb Bush signed a ban in Florida. The federal ban has been renewed every year since it was passed including 6 years when Bush was president and both houses of congress were in Republican hands.
I think it means that they recognize now what they recognized then…that we can't drill our way out of this mess.
Do you realize that the 574 million acres of federal costal water that are off-limits are believed to hold almost 18 billion barrels of oil and 77 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, according to the Interior Department..
Sounds like a lot.
But consider that the US currently uses 7.6 billion barrels of oil a year, and 21 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
So for all the expense of exploring to identify exactly where the oil and gas are, then the expense of setting up the extraction facilities and pipelines, in 10 years, we'll get 2.5 years worth of oil, and 3.5 years of gas. And that's if we use it all and don't export any (which we currently do…you know that crude from Alaska is currently being shipped to China, right?).
Then it's dry, and gone forever. And we have hulking, rotting, derelict oil rigs spoiling the pristine and complex ecosystems beneath them.
Drilling is not the answer.
1. Opposing drilling has been bi-partisan stance the last 10 years up untill recently- the democrats cant be held accountable for that unless you hold accountable all republicans against it such as George HW Bush, Bush Jr., and McCain. Repubs have controlled congress for like the past couple decades and the white white house for all but 8- you can't pin it on the democrats when the repubs have been in control.
2. It's an election year tactic. Why wasn't George Bush calling for lifting the ban the every other year he's been in office? It's a simple way to make the average American think that the McCain and Bush can save you a buck,
3. Its not a miracle cure, the Oil will go to a world market, with ever increasing demand, the Oil will belong to the private sector and be sold to the highest bidder. We are not talking a US market here, it will sell globally, for the global price, which will be unlikely to decrease because the oil drilled will take a long time and be a relatively tiny amount compared to the worlds oil supply.
4. It's not the answer. Drilling for oil may only have a small possibility of forestalling a rise in price. But the price will continue to rise as the resource is finite…that is why we must stop trying to dig our way out and instead innovate!
I'm really not against drilling so much, except for it wont have a big an effect as people think it will, and it takes away focus on what our ultimate goal should be.
Where's your common sense, man? It's not DEMOCRATS whom are opposed to oil drilling. It's coastal states whom are opposed to it, environmentalists, and some Republicans that do as well.
Didn't you also know? Oil companies are sitting on 68 MILLION acres of leased land and they are doing *nothing* to bring down the price of gas.
Not to mention all the HANDOUTS they are expecting from the US government for not drilling all this time.
Of course, you knew this…right?
Democrats want to invest in alternate resources.. Japan is kicking our azz in reguards to that.. Maybe if we funded that 10 years ago, we'd be reaping the benefits now and selling our product to every other country.. Instead of buying from Japan.. Which seems better to you??
I heard that argument from some prominent Democrats the other day, and I was astounded. That's kind of like saying why should I go to college and get a degree when I could be spending those four years making money now. Do I still need a passport to go to Canada, or can I just walk in?
Correct. We should have been drilling all along.
How come they are not drilling on the 1,000,000 acres they already control?
This is not ';Liberals'; fault, this is their conscious decision NOT TO PRODUCE, like they are trying to hold supply down or something…..
Bush Wants to lift the ban but the Democrats messiah doesn’t want to do anything and not John McCain either.
If they had allowed drilling 30 years ago, we wouldn't be dependent on foreign oil. And yes, it was a mistake.
Again, Your boy Bush's dad signed into law the ban. Why won't Repukes get this?
'10 years' is more liberal BS; We put a man on the moon in 7 years.
yes it was
Who and when was the OIL DRILLING RIG INVENTED?
I believe the rig used by Drake was nothing more than a cable tool rig that was commonly used drilling water wells. So I don't think he invented the oil well drilling rig.
The modern rotary rig was base on a 1845 development. See the site below for a full story.Who and when was the OIL DRILLING RIG INVENTED?
In the spring of 1859, Colonel Edwin L. Drake hired a blacksmith named William A. Smith to construct a derrick and the necessary equipment to drill for oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania. The early equipment was the same used for salt water drilling, or salt borers.
On Saturday afternoon, on August 17, 1859, at sixty-nine feet, the drillers struck oil. Drake himself constructed the steam engine to power the drilling bit.Who and when was the OIL DRILLING RIG INVENTED?
Yeah, FENX has the correct history. But the 'nice little touches' (weight on hook / bit, mud flow, power wrenches, blow-out preventers, etc.) were developed over the years as drilling became more sophisticated, deeper, and dangerous.
Doug
The modern rotary rig was base on a 1845 development. See the site below for a full story.Who and when was the OIL DRILLING RIG INVENTED?
In the spring of 1859, Colonel Edwin L. Drake hired a blacksmith named William A. Smith to construct a derrick and the necessary equipment to drill for oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania. The early equipment was the same used for salt water drilling, or salt borers.
On Saturday afternoon, on August 17, 1859, at sixty-nine feet, the drillers struck oil. Drake himself constructed the steam engine to power the drilling bit.Who and when was the OIL DRILLING RIG INVENTED?
Yeah, FENX has the correct history. But the 'nice little touches' (weight on hook / bit, mud flow, power wrenches, blow-out preventers, etc.) were developed over the years as drilling became more sophisticated, deeper, and dangerous.
Doug
80's Christmas movie about North Pole and Oil drilling?
There is an 80's movie about the north pole and the dad is going to drill for oil in that area. The family is taken away by santas helper on some weird machine. They actually visit santa and his village.
Help me find the name80's Christmas movie about North Pole and Oil drilling?
The Night They Saved Christmas80's Christmas movie about North Pole and Oil drilling?
This sounds like a movie Congress needs to watch.
Help me find the name80's Christmas movie about North Pole and Oil drilling?
The Night They Saved Christmas80's Christmas movie about North Pole and Oil drilling?
This sounds like a movie Congress needs to watch.
What is the simple process of drilling oil in edmonton for a grade 4 student Whatis the population of edmonton
My 9 year old daughter is doing an assignment on Edmonton. It involves the oil industry, places to visit with pictures, the population and the weather in Edmonton. I can't find the overall simple process of drilling oil that she can understand. Also, any other information on the oil industry in Edmonton would be really helpful. Also, what is the correct population of Edmonton, I found different numbers on different sites. Thank you in advance.What is the simple process of drilling oil in edmonton for a grade 4 student Whatis the population of edmonton
I was born and raised in Edmonton so I will try to help with most of your questions. I also worked for the Workers' Compensation Board for several years with workers and employers in the oil and gas industry. First of all, the population of greater Edmonton is about one million people. There are many places to visit, among them, West Edmonton Mall which is world famous. I think you can get information on both the city and the mall by trying websites like WestEdmontonMall.com and the CityofEdmonton.com (the net will give you other choices if these do not come up for you).
The next question you had was about oil and its production with respect to the City of Edmonton. First of all, there is no actual oil in the city itself. But the city does process oil and gas found in other sites close to Edmonton and from all over the province of Alberta. The easiest way to tell a younger child about the process is to say that first of all, there are workers who use certain ways to find where oil is located. Then a service rig (a large truck with drilling equipment on it) and workers are sent to the site to drill a long hole into the ground where the oil is. Then a standard drilling rig and its workers haul their rig to the site where they set it up. They will stay there for as long as oil is pumping.
I have seen an actual rig in operation which was located about 150 kilometers (90 or so miles) from Edmonton. It was on a day when there was a thunderstorm and it was pouring rain. But the workers on the rig didn't stop for the rain or anything else. The whole area was full of mud and clay which was soaking wet and so were the workers. It takes at least five and usually seven or eight workers to operate a rig. There is a foreman or 'tool push' who is in charge and a person who is called a 'driller' along with many other workers who all assist with the process.
These kinds of rigs are set up all over the province and some of them work year round. Sometimes, the weather and road conditions do not permit them to work for several weeks (this period is called a breakup - when the ground is not stable enough after winter for the huge trucks and equipment to get down the roads to a rig site).
Once oil and/or gas is found, it is transported to processing locations such as Edmonton. Gasoline and oil are stored in huge tanks. Much of the oil is sent through very long pipelines to other places as far away as the United States and the rest of Canada.
As for the weather in Edmonton is not as bad as some people think. In the winter, it can get down to minus 30 degrees Celsius which is still pretty cold in Fahrenheit degrees but those cold days do not usually last for more than a few in a row. There is always snow in winter but we don't know when that will happen - sometimes it will snow in October and keep snowing from time to time until it melts and then spring starts in late March or April. This past winter was different though. It snowed just a little bit before the end of 2005 and then did not snow again at all until late February but already the snow is beginning to melt, so it was a short winter.
In the summer, temperatures are fairly hot and the weather is usually dry. Around 20-26 degrees Celsius or 68-80 degrees Fahrenheit is pretty normal. We do get pretty good thunderstorms usually coming from the West where the Rocky Mountains are. They can produce a lot of rain and loud thunder but don't last too long. Then, the next day, it is usually sunny and hot again.
I hope I have answered some of your questions especially for your daughter. The process of getting oil and gas is quite complicated but I have listed the very basics that a young person should understand.What is the simple process of drilling oil in edmonton for a grade 4 student Whatis the population of edmonton
I agree with the guy up top. Oil is not produced in edmonton it is only a refinery city. Most of the oil it recieves is from Fort Mcmurray alberta. All they do in edmonton is touch it up and refine it. Edmonton city itself has 840 000, metro edmonton has 101,000 people. I live here and involved in the Oil industry.
I was born and raised in Edmonton so I will try to help with most of your questions. I also worked for the Workers' Compensation Board for several years with workers and employers in the oil and gas industry. First of all, the population of greater Edmonton is about one million people. There are many places to visit, among them, West Edmonton Mall which is world famous. I think you can get information on both the city and the mall by trying websites like WestEdmontonMall.com and the CityofEdmonton.com (the net will give you other choices if these do not come up for you).
The next question you had was about oil and its production with respect to the City of Edmonton. First of all, there is no actual oil in the city itself. But the city does process oil and gas found in other sites close to Edmonton and from all over the province of Alberta. The easiest way to tell a younger child about the process is to say that first of all, there are workers who use certain ways to find where oil is located. Then a service rig (a large truck with drilling equipment on it) and workers are sent to the site to drill a long hole into the ground where the oil is. Then a standard drilling rig and its workers haul their rig to the site where they set it up. They will stay there for as long as oil is pumping.
I have seen an actual rig in operation which was located about 150 kilometers (90 or so miles) from Edmonton. It was on a day when there was a thunderstorm and it was pouring rain. But the workers on the rig didn't stop for the rain or anything else. The whole area was full of mud and clay which was soaking wet and so were the workers. It takes at least five and usually seven or eight workers to operate a rig. There is a foreman or 'tool push' who is in charge and a person who is called a 'driller' along with many other workers who all assist with the process.
These kinds of rigs are set up all over the province and some of them work year round. Sometimes, the weather and road conditions do not permit them to work for several weeks (this period is called a breakup - when the ground is not stable enough after winter for the huge trucks and equipment to get down the roads to a rig site).
Once oil and/or gas is found, it is transported to processing locations such as Edmonton. Gasoline and oil are stored in huge tanks. Much of the oil is sent through very long pipelines to other places as far away as the United States and the rest of Canada.
As for the weather in Edmonton is not as bad as some people think. In the winter, it can get down to minus 30 degrees Celsius which is still pretty cold in Fahrenheit degrees but those cold days do not usually last for more than a few in a row. There is always snow in winter but we don't know when that will happen - sometimes it will snow in October and keep snowing from time to time until it melts and then spring starts in late March or April. This past winter was different though. It snowed just a little bit before the end of 2005 and then did not snow again at all until late February but already the snow is beginning to melt, so it was a short winter.
In the summer, temperatures are fairly hot and the weather is usually dry. Around 20-26 degrees Celsius or 68-80 degrees Fahrenheit is pretty normal. We do get pretty good thunderstorms usually coming from the West where the Rocky Mountains are. They can produce a lot of rain and loud thunder but don't last too long. Then, the next day, it is usually sunny and hot again.
I hope I have answered some of your questions especially for your daughter. The process of getting oil and gas is quite complicated but I have listed the very basics that a young person should understand.What is the simple process of drilling oil in edmonton for a grade 4 student Whatis the population of edmonton
I agree with the guy up top. Oil is not produced in edmonton it is only a refinery city. Most of the oil it recieves is from Fort Mcmurray alberta. All they do in edmonton is touch it up and refine it. Edmonton city itself has 840 000, metro edmonton has 101,000 people. I live here and involved in the Oil industry.
Would calling for offshore drilling for oil restore congress' reputation?
Congress currently has a 9% approval rating. I am part of the 91% that is fed up with congress. If they changed their tune on tapping American resources would you flip to the other side?Would calling for offshore drilling for oil restore congress' reputation?
The current congress was elected to do something about rising gas prices. Since taking office for the currect congressional term, gas prices have double over the past two years.
Congress has done nothing. They have not made it easier to produce a single drop of oil or generate a single kW of electrical power.
What has been current congress' solution? Tax the people that are selling the oil to us. Which would make gasoiline even more expensive, since ';Big Oil'; will just pass the cost on to the consumer.
9% approval. No wonder, they have no freakin policy to help anything. Just screwing us and trying to blame it on Bush who has a hire approval number.Would calling for offshore drilling for oil restore congress' reputation?
Well--first, so what if Congress has a 9% approval rating? People don't vote for ';Congress';--they vote for individual Congresspersons and Senators. Do you know the voting record of YOUR Congressional Representative? Do you know who is running for that seat in Congress? What their record and positions are? Same questions re your senators?
That's what counts in November. Not whining about ';Congress.';
As for offshore drilling--the answer is no. The oil companies already have hundreds of thousands of acres of oil leases they aren't drilling on and can. Why should the public simply give them billions of dollars in more leases when they obviously can't--or won't --use what they've already got? Other than the fact that the cons are suing the oil prices ans an excuse to come around whining for another government handout?
We've been doing off-shore drilling for years, then capping and abandoning the wells. Why?
Well, if you listen to the rumors, Saudi Arabia is supposed to be out of oil in the next ten to fifteen years. So the idea seems to be, drill the wells, cap them and wait. Wait for the Middle East to start running out of oil and then become the next oil power in the world.
But trust me when I say, even if the oil that is being produced now in the Arctic area wasn't being shipped off and sold overseas, we would still be royally screwed on prices. Hedge fund investments have also been forcing up the price of a barrel of oil. I've been told by people who work in finance, those hedge funders are going to get a rude surprise in a year or two.
But even if the price of a barrel of oil comes down, are we really going to see any drastic reduction at the pump? Of course not.
Nope, interestingly enough both Congress and the President (who are politically opposed) are both in the crapper when it comes to approval ratings. People are fed up with BOTH dems and repubs. It's time for a change, problem it's a 2 party system (or rather sometimes, a 1 party system that pretends it's a 2 party system).
Start thinking about a 3rd party canditate, who knows, maybe the dopes in Washington will start paying attention when one of them gets voted in and they won't have their job forever. TERM LIMITS PEOPLE!
T
No, they are beyond any hope of reconciliation.
But I do find amazing the amount of ignorance among answerers about the effects of drilling here and now would have on the price of oil. A prime example of the dumbing down of America through the liberal agenda in our schools today. No common sense, no knowledge of the aspects of science and applied technology in the oil industry or the workings of the free market on oil prices.
No - If they do cave on the ';Off Shore Drilling'; it will look like they were pressure in doing it. Dem's have painted themselves in a cornor on drilling and anything they do will not improve their rating. There is a lot of in-fighting within the party (Dem's) right now on drilling and it will be interesting who will emerge when the dusty settles. Dem's are fiddling while the US burns.
No, increased oil drilling won't increase the oil supply for another 8 to 10 years, at which point we should be using other alternative forms of energy anyway. If they do pass it, it would be for political purposes only and that would do little for their approval rating.
maybe..one thing, i'm not sure of..
WHO VOTED NO..and WHO VOTED YES. obviously republican voted for YES, for they want to protect USA, the democrat said NO, but did all of them? this is why democrat sinner freedom party, need a kick in the butt..to the moon. and be equal to USA vies..we the people 80% believe in GOD..so, fight for GOD's WILL
which says..gay do as you desire, but NO LAWS of favor of sinfulness, and abortion..GOOD BYE, we are short on taxpayer, we are short of soldiers, we are short on invention, political leadership..ect..yet OBAMA does have new vision..so McCain, park on the beach and DREAM..for USA...what do you want for USA?
yeah..we got the money sucking situtation of the war that coming to a close in IRAQ that good, but now Afghanstan and IRAN, we got an ISSUE.. TIME To pray for hurricane forces..to drain them, their money, weaken them, ruin crops, spoil water, no electricity..MAJOR ERARTHQUAKE, in every area of IRAN, to disabled them.and cause them..to STOP and LOVE their Family their neighbor, and humble themselves..to the world..we need help..we'll disabled the NUKE machine, ect
what ODD is..just last year, they said..they stop making NUKE..and harrassing BUSH..the media...NOW we see this..was BUSH right all these years???
certianly he WAS..the Media work for IRAN, by their words bashing our war with Jihad, hater of christian and jews.
anyway, IRAN coming DOWN..and our creator..we ask of YOU..to stop them.
Until there is a change back to a majority R congress, don't count on it actually happening. But lets just say they (the D's) actually do so.....it would be a big positive move, but really a day late and a dollar short.
We wouldn't see the effects from drilling for quite a few years, it won't solve the $4 a gallon gas right now. It's still going to be expensive to drill for oil as it becomes harder to get to it...we need an alternative
Dems are stalling in an effort to be able to claim Obama did it if elected and willl stall further if McCain is elected blaming McCain while punishing the US citizens that opposed their socialist wills.
Yeap they are that evil.
No. Especially since it won't accomplish anything. And then for the next 40 years when you go to the beach but can't go in the water you'll know why.
we are already drilling offshore in the gulf of Mexico.....
No. Since drilling won't change anything.
No, if they do that I'm going to dislike them even more.
noisotretinoin
The current congress was elected to do something about rising gas prices. Since taking office for the currect congressional term, gas prices have double over the past two years.
Congress has done nothing. They have not made it easier to produce a single drop of oil or generate a single kW of electrical power.
What has been current congress' solution? Tax the people that are selling the oil to us. Which would make gasoiline even more expensive, since ';Big Oil'; will just pass the cost on to the consumer.
9% approval. No wonder, they have no freakin policy to help anything. Just screwing us and trying to blame it on Bush who has a hire approval number.Would calling for offshore drilling for oil restore congress' reputation?
Well--first, so what if Congress has a 9% approval rating? People don't vote for ';Congress';--they vote for individual Congresspersons and Senators. Do you know the voting record of YOUR Congressional Representative? Do you know who is running for that seat in Congress? What their record and positions are? Same questions re your senators?
That's what counts in November. Not whining about ';Congress.';
As for offshore drilling--the answer is no. The oil companies already have hundreds of thousands of acres of oil leases they aren't drilling on and can. Why should the public simply give them billions of dollars in more leases when they obviously can't--or won't --use what they've already got? Other than the fact that the cons are suing the oil prices ans an excuse to come around whining for another government handout?
We've been doing off-shore drilling for years, then capping and abandoning the wells. Why?
Well, if you listen to the rumors, Saudi Arabia is supposed to be out of oil in the next ten to fifteen years. So the idea seems to be, drill the wells, cap them and wait. Wait for the Middle East to start running out of oil and then become the next oil power in the world.
But trust me when I say, even if the oil that is being produced now in the Arctic area wasn't being shipped off and sold overseas, we would still be royally screwed on prices. Hedge fund investments have also been forcing up the price of a barrel of oil. I've been told by people who work in finance, those hedge funders are going to get a rude surprise in a year or two.
But even if the price of a barrel of oil comes down, are we really going to see any drastic reduction at the pump? Of course not.
Nope, interestingly enough both Congress and the President (who are politically opposed) are both in the crapper when it comes to approval ratings. People are fed up with BOTH dems and repubs. It's time for a change, problem it's a 2 party system (or rather sometimes, a 1 party system that pretends it's a 2 party system).
Start thinking about a 3rd party canditate, who knows, maybe the dopes in Washington will start paying attention when one of them gets voted in and they won't have their job forever. TERM LIMITS PEOPLE!
T
No, they are beyond any hope of reconciliation.
But I do find amazing the amount of ignorance among answerers about the effects of drilling here and now would have on the price of oil. A prime example of the dumbing down of America through the liberal agenda in our schools today. No common sense, no knowledge of the aspects of science and applied technology in the oil industry or the workings of the free market on oil prices.
No - If they do cave on the ';Off Shore Drilling'; it will look like they were pressure in doing it. Dem's have painted themselves in a cornor on drilling and anything they do will not improve their rating. There is a lot of in-fighting within the party (Dem's) right now on drilling and it will be interesting who will emerge when the dusty settles. Dem's are fiddling while the US burns.
No, increased oil drilling won't increase the oil supply for another 8 to 10 years, at which point we should be using other alternative forms of energy anyway. If they do pass it, it would be for political purposes only and that would do little for their approval rating.
maybe..one thing, i'm not sure of..
WHO VOTED NO..and WHO VOTED YES. obviously republican voted for YES, for they want to protect USA, the democrat said NO, but did all of them? this is why democrat sinner freedom party, need a kick in the butt..to the moon. and be equal to USA vies..we the people 80% believe in GOD..so, fight for GOD's WILL
which says..gay do as you desire, but NO LAWS of favor of sinfulness, and abortion..GOOD BYE, we are short on taxpayer, we are short of soldiers, we are short on invention, political leadership..ect..yet OBAMA does have new vision..so McCain, park on the beach and DREAM..for USA...what do you want for USA?
yeah..we got the money sucking situtation of the war that coming to a close in IRAQ that good, but now Afghanstan and IRAN, we got an ISSUE.. TIME To pray for hurricane forces..to drain them, their money, weaken them, ruin crops, spoil water, no electricity..MAJOR ERARTHQUAKE, in every area of IRAN, to disabled them.and cause them..to STOP and LOVE their Family their neighbor, and humble themselves..to the world..we need help..we'll disabled the NUKE machine, ect
what ODD is..just last year, they said..they stop making NUKE..and harrassing BUSH..the media...NOW we see this..was BUSH right all these years???
certianly he WAS..the Media work for IRAN, by their words bashing our war with Jihad, hater of christian and jews.
anyway, IRAN coming DOWN..and our creator..we ask of YOU..to stop them.
Until there is a change back to a majority R congress, don't count on it actually happening. But lets just say they (the D's) actually do so.....it would be a big positive move, but really a day late and a dollar short.
We wouldn't see the effects from drilling for quite a few years, it won't solve the $4 a gallon gas right now. It's still going to be expensive to drill for oil as it becomes harder to get to it...we need an alternative
Dems are stalling in an effort to be able to claim Obama did it if elected and willl stall further if McCain is elected blaming McCain while punishing the US citizens that opposed their socialist wills.
Yeap they are that evil.
No. Especially since it won't accomplish anything. And then for the next 40 years when you go to the beach but can't go in the water you'll know why.
we are already drilling offshore in the gulf of Mexico.....
No. Since drilling won't change anything.
No, if they do that I'm going to dislike them even more.
no
If Obama allows oil drilling, does that get your vote?
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Sen. Barack Obama suggested he could accept an expansion of offshore oil drilling today if it is in a broader package of energy measures that would free the logjam on energy bills in Congress.
';My interest is in making sure we've got the kind of comprehensive energy policy that can bring down gas prices,'; Obama said in an interview with The Palm Beach Post.
';If, in order to get that passed, we have to compromise in terms of a careful, well thought-out drilling strategy that was carefully circumscribed to avoid significant environmental damage -- I don't want to be so rigid that we can't get something done.';
Will this get him more support, or will he just be accused of flip-flopping?If Obama allows oil drilling, does that get your vote?
Republicans will just find something else that is irrelevant to complain about....
So long as he's a Democrat, they'll try to paint him as a ';Socialist'; and a ';Liberal loon';.If Obama allows oil drilling, does that get your vote?
Accused of flip flopping in the short term. For sure.
He never should have opposed it. His line of thinking, and the democrats line of thinking, is that offshore drilling won't fix the larger problem. And it won't. So as a politicized solution they opposed it.
But it does make sense as a stop-gap measure. Just that to trumpet it as a ';solution'; is false, and that's the climate we're in. No gray, just black and white.
He should be for it, everyone should be for it, where its safe. But the mistake would be to think of it as the ';answer'; to america's energy problem. Its like viewing the next cocaine score as the solution to your drug addiction.
No. I would not vote for him if he supports off shore drilling.
Charley Crist The Florida Govenor was opposed to off shore drilling when he was running for governor in 2006 now that it is what the majority of Republicans want he is for it. He is a flip flopper.
Obama is engaging in compromises to get other stuff he wants. There is no Flip-flopping here. He is still opposed to offshore drilling and in a bill that does nothing else he would vote against.
I would like to see Obama take control of all the oil that America owns on public lands and nationalize it to pay for all the debt that Bush and his stupid wars have created.
No, he won't get my vote. I don't like panderers. The Republicans have had this Country by the throat for eight years, I want someone who will stand up to them. Obviously Obama is not up for the job.
Oh he is flip flopping . he has seen that the American people want off shore drilling . now he is thinking wowwwwwwwww i could come around just a tad bit here and get more people to vote for me .
Oh yeah he gets my vote.........for the biggest loser the Democrats have EVER had running for the Presidency. Poor liberals, they can't seem to get it right.
He will just be accused of flip-flopping. The people who hate Obama aren't going to vote for him no matter what he does. He's not a neocon, so they hate him, end of story.
The more he flips the less he can be depended on for ANYTHING, including his shiny new positions.
no sorry obama could denounce his friends associations wife, he can stand on his head and he can let jesse cut em off i still wont vote for him
No. I'd be more interested in if he'll lose the liberals' votes who have been passionately lecturing us against drilling this week. lol
Only a moron would vote for Obama......I'm waiting to see what he changes his mind about next......Tomorrow will be something else...what an indecisive idiot....he doesn't even know what he believes in
No. Obama is a socialist and racist who hates American freedom.
Its all talk just to get votes...he has NO intention of allowing drilling...he lies...
Why would anyone base their vote off of one things: Oil?
Oil is the last thing on my mind.
NO. It means obama will change his mind for votes... What will he change his mind for for $$$$$$.
Nope.
He should have stuck to his background. At least then, he'd be believable.
NO
I was waiting for his flip flop.
Obama double talk just exposes him for the fraud that he is.
No Obama!
Like a fish on the dock, so typical.
His name is ';Flipper'; Flipper...this guy will say anything to get elected...wake up folks!!!!
Nope.
Liberals... say it with me
FLIP FLOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NO.
What would he be like when he no longer needs my vote?????
No it wouldn't but it would make me less frightened if he gets elected, and I probably wouldn't need to leave the country. Is it possible that Obama may be seeing reason? I have to admit if this is true I am impressed. Yes he would be flip flopping, but if he flops to the side of reason then it doesn't bother me.
Also, I very much agree with that first quote. We do need a comprehensive, well thought out energy strategy. I believe that offshore drilling should be a big part of that, but we need to have a plan to conserve and find other alternatives.
Do you have a link to that story? I'd like to read it if so.
hell no.
if he was funding research into renewable energy sources.. then yes
and this just proves that he's in the pocket of a major oil corporation, so they will influence all his decisions, and if they don't like it, they can blackmail him, because they probably fund his election campaign.
anyone who are in the pocket of anyone like that certainly doesn't get my vote.
it's been like that with the republicans too.
for example, in the first Bush junior administration...
the secretary of energy- Spencer Abraham
he was paid $700,000 a year from DaimlerChrysler because he is opposed to all research into renewable energy.
Tommy Thompson- Secretary of Health and Human services
when he was trying to get in for governor, Philip Morris (the cigarette company) contributed $72,000 to his election campaign.
Dick Cheney- Acting President/Vice President
acted against federal funding for abortion, even in cases of rape and incest, he acted against the release of nelson mandela.
He was a CEO of Halliburton Industries, an oil company that had dealings with repressive countries (at the time, now apparently Iraq is 'liberal') like Iraq and Burma.
POLITICIANS ARE CORRUPT.
Hells no! We dont need any more drilling we need solutions that are not biodiesel or ethanol fuel, because these make farmers produce crops for alternative fuel instead of food which is one reason why prices are high to sky high on staple crops, depending on where you live. The less food that is produced the more people that will go hungry and the higher food prices will rise. If scientist can come up with a damn drug for a man with erectile disfunction, then I KNOW they can come up with some solutions to this damn energy crisis!
Has either one of them Obama or McCain said anything about alternative energy? With a good solid plan? We need some solid plans for a lot of American issues from both of these guys. Not just some vague ideas about what they are going to do. We need a president that will take some action and make some changes. I honestly dont think either of those two will do that. I think these choices for democrats and repulibans suck terribly. I wish there was a third party candidate with some good plans for action who really wants to turn this country around. I know thats not happening though.
It doesn't change my vote. But it does show he's willing to work across the aisle to get legislation that will actually help our country.
';My interest is in making sure we've got the kind of comprehensive energy policy that can bring down gas prices,'; Obama said in an interview with The Palm Beach Post.
';If, in order to get that passed, we have to compromise in terms of a careful, well thought-out drilling strategy that was carefully circumscribed to avoid significant environmental damage -- I don't want to be so rigid that we can't get something done.';
Will this get him more support, or will he just be accused of flip-flopping?If Obama allows oil drilling, does that get your vote?
Republicans will just find something else that is irrelevant to complain about....
So long as he's a Democrat, they'll try to paint him as a ';Socialist'; and a ';Liberal loon';.If Obama allows oil drilling, does that get your vote?
Accused of flip flopping in the short term. For sure.
He never should have opposed it. His line of thinking, and the democrats line of thinking, is that offshore drilling won't fix the larger problem. And it won't. So as a politicized solution they opposed it.
But it does make sense as a stop-gap measure. Just that to trumpet it as a ';solution'; is false, and that's the climate we're in. No gray, just black and white.
He should be for it, everyone should be for it, where its safe. But the mistake would be to think of it as the ';answer'; to america's energy problem. Its like viewing the next cocaine score as the solution to your drug addiction.
No. I would not vote for him if he supports off shore drilling.
Charley Crist The Florida Govenor was opposed to off shore drilling when he was running for governor in 2006 now that it is what the majority of Republicans want he is for it. He is a flip flopper.
Obama is engaging in compromises to get other stuff he wants. There is no Flip-flopping here. He is still opposed to offshore drilling and in a bill that does nothing else he would vote against.
I would like to see Obama take control of all the oil that America owns on public lands and nationalize it to pay for all the debt that Bush and his stupid wars have created.
No, he won't get my vote. I don't like panderers. The Republicans have had this Country by the throat for eight years, I want someone who will stand up to them. Obviously Obama is not up for the job.
Oh he is flip flopping . he has seen that the American people want off shore drilling . now he is thinking wowwwwwwwww i could come around just a tad bit here and get more people to vote for me .
Oh yeah he gets my vote.........for the biggest loser the Democrats have EVER had running for the Presidency. Poor liberals, they can't seem to get it right.
He will just be accused of flip-flopping. The people who hate Obama aren't going to vote for him no matter what he does. He's not a neocon, so they hate him, end of story.
The more he flips the less he can be depended on for ANYTHING, including his shiny new positions.
no sorry obama could denounce his friends associations wife, he can stand on his head and he can let jesse cut em off i still wont vote for him
No. I'd be more interested in if he'll lose the liberals' votes who have been passionately lecturing us against drilling this week. lol
Only a moron would vote for Obama......I'm waiting to see what he changes his mind about next......Tomorrow will be something else...what an indecisive idiot....he doesn't even know what he believes in
No. Obama is a socialist and racist who hates American freedom.
Its all talk just to get votes...he has NO intention of allowing drilling...he lies...
Why would anyone base their vote off of one things: Oil?
Oil is the last thing on my mind.
NO. It means obama will change his mind for votes... What will he change his mind for for $$$$$$.
Nope.
He should have stuck to his background. At least then, he'd be believable.
NO
I was waiting for his flip flop.
Obama double talk just exposes him for the fraud that he is.
No Obama!
Like a fish on the dock, so typical.
His name is ';Flipper'; Flipper...this guy will say anything to get elected...wake up folks!!!!
Nope.
Liberals... say it with me
FLIP FLOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NO.
What would he be like when he no longer needs my vote?????
No it wouldn't but it would make me less frightened if he gets elected, and I probably wouldn't need to leave the country. Is it possible that Obama may be seeing reason? I have to admit if this is true I am impressed. Yes he would be flip flopping, but if he flops to the side of reason then it doesn't bother me.
Also, I very much agree with that first quote. We do need a comprehensive, well thought out energy strategy. I believe that offshore drilling should be a big part of that, but we need to have a plan to conserve and find other alternatives.
Do you have a link to that story? I'd like to read it if so.
hell no.
if he was funding research into renewable energy sources.. then yes
and this just proves that he's in the pocket of a major oil corporation, so they will influence all his decisions, and if they don't like it, they can blackmail him, because they probably fund his election campaign.
anyone who are in the pocket of anyone like that certainly doesn't get my vote.
it's been like that with the republicans too.
for example, in the first Bush junior administration...
the secretary of energy- Spencer Abraham
he was paid $700,000 a year from DaimlerChrysler because he is opposed to all research into renewable energy.
Tommy Thompson- Secretary of Health and Human services
when he was trying to get in for governor, Philip Morris (the cigarette company) contributed $72,000 to his election campaign.
Dick Cheney- Acting President/Vice President
acted against federal funding for abortion, even in cases of rape and incest, he acted against the release of nelson mandela.
He was a CEO of Halliburton Industries, an oil company that had dealings with repressive countries (at the time, now apparently Iraq is 'liberal') like Iraq and Burma.
POLITICIANS ARE CORRUPT.
Hells no! We dont need any more drilling we need solutions that are not biodiesel or ethanol fuel, because these make farmers produce crops for alternative fuel instead of food which is one reason why prices are high to sky high on staple crops, depending on where you live. The less food that is produced the more people that will go hungry and the higher food prices will rise. If scientist can come up with a damn drug for a man with erectile disfunction, then I KNOW they can come up with some solutions to this damn energy crisis!
Has either one of them Obama or McCain said anything about alternative energy? With a good solid plan? We need some solid plans for a lot of American issues from both of these guys. Not just some vague ideas about what they are going to do. We need a president that will take some action and make some changes. I honestly dont think either of those two will do that. I think these choices for democrats and repulibans suck terribly. I wish there was a third party candidate with some good plans for action who really wants to turn this country around. I know thats not happening though.
It doesn't change my vote. But it does show he's willing to work across the aisle to get legislation that will actually help our country.
Why .are the obama democrats against nuclear power plants .and drilling for oil in america?
it seems they do not want to use the god given resources that are plenty full in our countryWhy .are the obama democrats against nuclear power plants .and drilling for oil in america?
His supporters have followed a very simplistic argument of something being either all bad or all good, without thinking through that every action affects us all in multiple ways that can be construed as both beneficial and harmful.
For political expediency he's planted the ';bad'; flags in issues which his opponents supported, so it's easier for him to continue that than have a honest discussion. By the cap-and-trade tax that will be levied on US industries and not on those in China or the developing world, he kills off jobs in the US and shutters industries which can be better regulated in the US. The coal that would have fired a US powerplant with tight regulations will be shipped to China to be burnt with no regulations and the goods manufactured shipped back to the US.Why .are the obama democrats against nuclear power plants .and drilling for oil in america?
They have caught the new hip liberal green bug ,oil to them is dirty nuke danger coal oh my god ,it's in for awhile, but it will not solve our energy problems.All the green stuff sounds good but has a way to go to be widely used.Most green programs can not stand on there own and need Goverment money.Till Obama and Pelosi and a few green congress and Senate members go we are stuck.
Please allow every country to use nuclear power plant for its development for peaceful purposes such as electricity or power development etc.
In fact many of them are not, just as not all Republicans support those initiatives.
His supporters have followed a very simplistic argument of something being either all bad or all good, without thinking through that every action affects us all in multiple ways that can be construed as both beneficial and harmful.
For political expediency he's planted the ';bad'; flags in issues which his opponents supported, so it's easier for him to continue that than have a honest discussion. By the cap-and-trade tax that will be levied on US industries and not on those in China or the developing world, he kills off jobs in the US and shutters industries which can be better regulated in the US. The coal that would have fired a US powerplant with tight regulations will be shipped to China to be burnt with no regulations and the goods manufactured shipped back to the US.Why .are the obama democrats against nuclear power plants .and drilling for oil in america?
They have caught the new hip liberal green bug ,oil to them is dirty nuke danger coal oh my god ,it's in for awhile, but it will not solve our energy problems.All the green stuff sounds good but has a way to go to be widely used.Most green programs can not stand on there own and need Goverment money.Till Obama and Pelosi and a few green congress and Senate members go we are stuck.
Please allow every country to use nuclear power plant for its development for peaceful purposes such as electricity or power development etc.
In fact many of them are not, just as not all Republicans support those initiatives.
Why does'nt President Bush order domestic drilling for oil?
instead of bickering,beating the bush,accusing democrats,and law makers,why does'nt President Bush execute his power and demand domestic oil drilling immediately in the interest of Americans,instead we are paying OPEC big bucks and losing the war effort.or should we the people demand domestic oil drilling? or is it no longer we the people? but big buckaroo oil cartels?Why does'nt President Bush order domestic drilling for oil?
crabby_blindguy3 answered the question, ditto for me.
I would add this: why hasn't Bush, or his neocon buddies, led the charge on conservation?
If we are attacked we ask for soldiers.
If the river is rising we ask for folks to place sandbags.
We are using too much oil and what does the president ask of us........silence.Why does'nt President Bush order domestic drilling for oil?
Who is he going to demand it of?
He has no right to order the oil companies to use their equipment to drill, and Congress has no power to take over a private industry either. Neither he, nor the United States owns any drilling equipment, and when your president takes power over a private industry, its called nationalization, which we don't approve of in this country.
Now, possibly, its time to reconsider this idea of having our country drill for our oil, but that's not going to go over with our capitalist ideal.
Despite all you hears about 'our' oil, from 'our' country. We don't have any means of drilling for oil, only the oil companies lease federal lands and they buy the lease, and they can drill or not drill as they want. Even then, they don't have to sell the oil to us, let alone sell it to us cheaper than world prices.
Business is in business to make a profit, they would be cheating their shareholders if they didn't make as much profit as they could.
Republicans such as Schwartzenegger, Jeb Bush and Crist have asked that offshore oil drilling not take place in their states, Florida, California, and Alaska.
There have been no applications for a new refinery in thirty years. So for thirty years no treehugger has even had to vote.
Everyone has to obey rules, the idea that oil companies should get a pass to pollute just because its oil is nonsense.
So who was it that stopped domestic drilling in the first place? Wasn't it the smarter President George Bush?
'Congress imposed the drilling moratorium in 1981 and has extended it each year since, by prohibiting the Interior Department from spending money on offshore oil or gas leases in virtually all coastal waters outside the western Gulf of Mexico and in some areas off Alaska.
President George H.W. Bush issued a parallel executive drilling ban in 1990, which was extended by President Clinton and then by the current president until 2012.'
Read in on fox!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,3682鈥?/a>
Well, first of all, contrary to what the neocons think, Bush is not a king--he does not have the authority to order anything.
Its hilarious, really. The cons run around for years yapping about ';government interference in the free market.
Now--they have to put a few extra buck s into buying gas for the SUVs they should have had better sense than to buy in the first place--and they're whining for the government to';do something.';
BTW--Why arne't the oil companies drilling on the leases they already have? Until you cons can come up with an answer to that one, no one is going to do anything but laugh at your begging for offshore drilling.
We should establish a comprehensive American energy policy, cut our reliance on foreign oil in half, develop alternative forms of energy, increase production of synthetic fuels from coal, insulate 90 percent of American homes, put solar panels on millions of American homes, cut petroleum use significantly, and establish a strategic petroleum reserve of six months. These are the things President Jimmy Carter proposed to Congress in 1977, but were undermined by the next president, Ronald Reagan. If it wasn't for Reagan, we wouldn't be in this mess today.
';We will feel mounting pressure to plunder the environment. We will have a crash program to build more nuclear plants, strip-mine and burn more coal, and drill more offshore wells than we will need if we begin to conserve now. Inflation will soar, production will go down, people will lose their jobs. Intense competition will build up among nations and among the different regions within our own country.'; - President Jimmy Carter, televised speech, April 18th, 1977
P.S. To answer the guy above. Carter did not ban nuclear power, but actually pushed it, especially nuclear safety. Subsequent to Carter's administration, dozens of new nuclear power plants were built.
Also, Congress did not ban domestic drilling for oil under Carter. It banned domestic *offshore* drilling for oil off most US coastlines. Incidentally, lifting the ban on offshore drilling and ANWR would result in a 6 cent per gallon decrease in the price of gas -- in 17 years.
As for the statement that Congress banned ';electrical generating plants.'; Well, that's just wrong.
Thumbs down, hmm? Prove me wrong.
Two reasons:
1) There is already lots and lots of drilling going on all around the US right now. Active rigs are up 38%, work over rigs are up almost 50%. Several midwestern states (Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota) are having a record setting year in oil production. We're just not drilling in the two areas the oil companies have wanted to get their hands on for 30 years. Namely ANWR and east and west coasts.
2) The oil industry is not a nationalized, government run industry. Bush does not control them (more likely the other way around).
I don't know either. Bush did say he was the Decider. He also said that he was going to do whatever he wanted too.
I guess ordering more domestic oil production must've slipped his melon while he was otherwise preoccupied with bringing about some 'fantasy democracies' in Iraq and Afghanistan...
But it's waaay too late to start shifting blame to a party that was a snubbed minority for the last 12 years.
If he could do it, legally, he would have done so. Mr. Bush is bound by the same laws that drillers are bound by. The problem rests squarely with Democrats in Congress who, for 30 years, have stopped all new drilling and the building of oil refineries.
It may be a popular thing to do: bash the President for anything and everything. I think it shows lack of class.
Mostly because if he ';executive orders'; oil drilling, it will put an end to the republicans' best campaign issue. Lets wreck more of the environment than we already are.
The oil companies are not drilling on the leases they have, they are not bidding on the lands available for lease. The oil refineries are running at 85% capacity, down from their typical 100%.
Oil is not a free market any more than the diamond market is. The oil companies are manipulating the supply of GASOLINE, not crude oil.
Under Carter, Congress banned domestic drilling for oil, banned new nuclear power plants and banned construction of electrical generating plants. To drill for oil Congress has to lift the ban. Since we can't produce oil, the price of gas has skyrocketed, along with the price of food. You voted for the dems and look what they gave you. I suppose that being a dem yourself you'll still go along and continue to vote them in. Right? Try and get real.
It's not the President but Congress that has the power to approve a resolution demanding drilling anywhere in the U.S. But we have always had a do-nothing Congress-- more so in an election year. Congress is out of touch with the people because most of them are fat cats who ride limousines and don't have to worry about the high cost of filling their gas tanks.
Another angle to this issue is the lack of innovation from the U.S. auto industry. We can send probes to Saturn but Detroit's engineers are asleep; they have not produced any improvements on energy efficient engines for autos in 50 years. It's not impossible to build an engine with biofuels and have it run 100 miles per gallon. That's a real solution that would solve our energy crisis faster than any drilling resolution. And once again, American automobiles would be the best export to the rest of the world.... we would be solving the planet's energy crisis. I've heard that there is a 300 million bonus for any engineer that can produce innovation in engines. That's the best way to go.
Hey Crabby, it's OK, we know you don't understand, so don't feel like a total idiot. ITS THE LIBERALS that are crying about the prices, while they raise the gas tax in the Democrat States like mine, Maryland! Why don't they drill in the land leased to the oil companies????
BECAUSE THERE ISN'T ANY OIL THERE???Dahhhh%26gt; If the Libs would stop voting against building new refineries, gas would be cheaper. Quit complaining and vote the libs out. We have enough Oil in America and surrounding shores to last us until the year 3000, or until we can find the technology to use something else less expensive. I live in the greatest and richest Country in the world, if I want to drive a Mack truck to work, I have the freedom to do that, without a bunch of pussyy asss Liberal Hypocrates getting their feathers ruffled. It's none of your business what I drive. I have two Sons in the military giving their all for me to have the freedom to drive what I want. If there weren't any ';NEOCONS'; Our military would only have about a handful of people in it. Just a couple of Gays trying to prove a point. Republicans are the ones fighting for your freedom. The military is only about 10% Democrats.
Bush cannot demand that they drill domestically, congress has to first vote on the issue and if its passed, then the president can sign the bill and start drilling. Getting it passed through congress is the tough part because people are divided over whether they want to save the environment or save a buck.
One minute people are calling Bush a dictator and they want him stopped and the next minute they want him to become a dictator. Bush isn't in D.C. all by him self there are all those people that we elected to represent us and they have done nothing but play politics at our expense. If you want things to change forget Bush he will be gone in a few months, go after the people who can bring about change but we have one problem most of them are bought and paid for by the lobbyist and their only interest right now is the up coming election. Having said that I know that nothing will change because most people will not face the fact that the people we elected have failed us and need to go.
Ask every Nazi environmental group and ultra Lib. There you will find your answer. President Bush cannot wave an Executive Order under someones nose ordering more domestic drilling. Our 9% approval rating Congress has to undo all the damage. But as long as Reid and Pelosi are around that is not going to happen.
Congress has to do this. To all of the people opposing the drilling, consider this:
When Clinton was president, the legislation to open up ANWAR was shot down. Remember that it takes 10 years to get oil pumping out of it? Would have been nice to have right about now.
Better sooner than later.
Because we get most of our oil from Alberta, Canada...and can get all we want anyway. If he wanted them to pump the already DRILLED and CAPPED wells; all he has to do is tax it as inventory....which is what it is. It will come flying out of the ground then.
Besides nothing would happen for years. All available off-shore rigs are in use and the ships that service them are overbooked in advance. The shipyards in Korea and China are already booked so heavily that they upped the price of a single rig by $100,000,000 (they cost close to $1/2 billion now.) So you were saying?
The wells capped in AK can go online whenever they want since the pipeline is operating at 1/2 capacity or close to it (I'd have to check up on that) Many are leased by BP. They are on Federal land though.
Lets get the party system out of the equation. Environmentalists have learned to work the legal system such that all attempts to do anything are slowed down to a crawl. No new refineries, nuke plants, drilling. Our energy policy has been non-existent. Perhaps that will change. Perhaps not.
Because thats congresses job, and sadly congress is being controlled by a bunch of liberals such as Barack Obama.
They are the ones blocking the drilling. Havent you been watching the news?
Please READ this website:
http://www.americasnewspaper.com/ME2/dir鈥?/a>
number one: it would be an estimated ten years before we reaped any benefits.
number two: we'd still have to pay for the oil to be refined.
in the end it would cost more for us to drill our own oil. foreign oil is cheap, that is why we depend on it.
Let's tell Bush and Congress we want oil drilling.
http://www.americansolutions.com
Bush is one of the biggest oil caretells that exist. He says he wants off shore drilling, but just like every lie he's told. he really doesn't. That would interfere with the profits he makes.
Because congress voted against it! The president can't just do what he wants. It's the people that ';we the people'; voted into office that didn't vote to allow for more drilling!
I guess he could issue an exec order - I wish he would, just to give the anti-oil Dems a kick in the backside.
An EO does not make up law, it just invokes existing law.
Love Jack
because anyoen with inteligence knows we can't dril our way into a high US dollar value, which is the real problem.
Bush is just trying to PR it to blame democrats.
It's an issue for congress not the president. An executive order won't do the trick.
Ask Congress and the Environmentalist groups who are Paid Lobbyists.
because soy loving, tree hugging ******* wont stop complaining about it.
Retardation? idk
Moose, what would you ask for if your were attacked or if your rivers rose?!?
because congress can over ride him.
crabby_blindguy3 answered the question, ditto for me.
I would add this: why hasn't Bush, or his neocon buddies, led the charge on conservation?
If we are attacked we ask for soldiers.
If the river is rising we ask for folks to place sandbags.
We are using too much oil and what does the president ask of us........silence.Why does'nt President Bush order domestic drilling for oil?
Who is he going to demand it of?
He has no right to order the oil companies to use their equipment to drill, and Congress has no power to take over a private industry either. Neither he, nor the United States owns any drilling equipment, and when your president takes power over a private industry, its called nationalization, which we don't approve of in this country.
Now, possibly, its time to reconsider this idea of having our country drill for our oil, but that's not going to go over with our capitalist ideal.
Despite all you hears about 'our' oil, from 'our' country. We don't have any means of drilling for oil, only the oil companies lease federal lands and they buy the lease, and they can drill or not drill as they want. Even then, they don't have to sell the oil to us, let alone sell it to us cheaper than world prices.
Business is in business to make a profit, they would be cheating their shareholders if they didn't make as much profit as they could.
Republicans such as Schwartzenegger, Jeb Bush and Crist have asked that offshore oil drilling not take place in their states, Florida, California, and Alaska.
There have been no applications for a new refinery in thirty years. So for thirty years no treehugger has even had to vote.
Everyone has to obey rules, the idea that oil companies should get a pass to pollute just because its oil is nonsense.
So who was it that stopped domestic drilling in the first place? Wasn't it the smarter President George Bush?
'Congress imposed the drilling moratorium in 1981 and has extended it each year since, by prohibiting the Interior Department from spending money on offshore oil or gas leases in virtually all coastal waters outside the western Gulf of Mexico and in some areas off Alaska.
President George H.W. Bush issued a parallel executive drilling ban in 1990, which was extended by President Clinton and then by the current president until 2012.'
Read in on fox!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,3682鈥?/a>
Well, first of all, contrary to what the neocons think, Bush is not a king--he does not have the authority to order anything.
Its hilarious, really. The cons run around for years yapping about ';government interference in the free market.
Now--they have to put a few extra buck s into buying gas for the SUVs they should have had better sense than to buy in the first place--and they're whining for the government to';do something.';
BTW--Why arne't the oil companies drilling on the leases they already have? Until you cons can come up with an answer to that one, no one is going to do anything but laugh at your begging for offshore drilling.
We should establish a comprehensive American energy policy, cut our reliance on foreign oil in half, develop alternative forms of energy, increase production of synthetic fuels from coal, insulate 90 percent of American homes, put solar panels on millions of American homes, cut petroleum use significantly, and establish a strategic petroleum reserve of six months. These are the things President Jimmy Carter proposed to Congress in 1977, but were undermined by the next president, Ronald Reagan. If it wasn't for Reagan, we wouldn't be in this mess today.
';We will feel mounting pressure to plunder the environment. We will have a crash program to build more nuclear plants, strip-mine and burn more coal, and drill more offshore wells than we will need if we begin to conserve now. Inflation will soar, production will go down, people will lose their jobs. Intense competition will build up among nations and among the different regions within our own country.'; - President Jimmy Carter, televised speech, April 18th, 1977
P.S. To answer the guy above. Carter did not ban nuclear power, but actually pushed it, especially nuclear safety. Subsequent to Carter's administration, dozens of new nuclear power plants were built.
Also, Congress did not ban domestic drilling for oil under Carter. It banned domestic *offshore* drilling for oil off most US coastlines. Incidentally, lifting the ban on offshore drilling and ANWR would result in a 6 cent per gallon decrease in the price of gas -- in 17 years.
As for the statement that Congress banned ';electrical generating plants.'; Well, that's just wrong.
Thumbs down, hmm? Prove me wrong.
Two reasons:
1) There is already lots and lots of drilling going on all around the US right now. Active rigs are up 38%, work over rigs are up almost 50%. Several midwestern states (Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota) are having a record setting year in oil production. We're just not drilling in the two areas the oil companies have wanted to get their hands on for 30 years. Namely ANWR and east and west coasts.
2) The oil industry is not a nationalized, government run industry. Bush does not control them (more likely the other way around).
I don't know either. Bush did say he was the Decider. He also said that he was going to do whatever he wanted too.
I guess ordering more domestic oil production must've slipped his melon while he was otherwise preoccupied with bringing about some 'fantasy democracies' in Iraq and Afghanistan...
But it's waaay too late to start shifting blame to a party that was a snubbed minority for the last 12 years.
If he could do it, legally, he would have done so. Mr. Bush is bound by the same laws that drillers are bound by. The problem rests squarely with Democrats in Congress who, for 30 years, have stopped all new drilling and the building of oil refineries.
It may be a popular thing to do: bash the President for anything and everything. I think it shows lack of class.
Mostly because if he ';executive orders'; oil drilling, it will put an end to the republicans' best campaign issue. Lets wreck more of the environment than we already are.
The oil companies are not drilling on the leases they have, they are not bidding on the lands available for lease. The oil refineries are running at 85% capacity, down from their typical 100%.
Oil is not a free market any more than the diamond market is. The oil companies are manipulating the supply of GASOLINE, not crude oil.
Under Carter, Congress banned domestic drilling for oil, banned new nuclear power plants and banned construction of electrical generating plants. To drill for oil Congress has to lift the ban. Since we can't produce oil, the price of gas has skyrocketed, along with the price of food. You voted for the dems and look what they gave you. I suppose that being a dem yourself you'll still go along and continue to vote them in. Right? Try and get real.
It's not the President but Congress that has the power to approve a resolution demanding drilling anywhere in the U.S. But we have always had a do-nothing Congress-- more so in an election year. Congress is out of touch with the people because most of them are fat cats who ride limousines and don't have to worry about the high cost of filling their gas tanks.
Another angle to this issue is the lack of innovation from the U.S. auto industry. We can send probes to Saturn but Detroit's engineers are asleep; they have not produced any improvements on energy efficient engines for autos in 50 years. It's not impossible to build an engine with biofuels and have it run 100 miles per gallon. That's a real solution that would solve our energy crisis faster than any drilling resolution. And once again, American automobiles would be the best export to the rest of the world.... we would be solving the planet's energy crisis. I've heard that there is a 300 million bonus for any engineer that can produce innovation in engines. That's the best way to go.
Hey Crabby, it's OK, we know you don't understand, so don't feel like a total idiot. ITS THE LIBERALS that are crying about the prices, while they raise the gas tax in the Democrat States like mine, Maryland! Why don't they drill in the land leased to the oil companies????
BECAUSE THERE ISN'T ANY OIL THERE???Dahhhh%26gt; If the Libs would stop voting against building new refineries, gas would be cheaper. Quit complaining and vote the libs out. We have enough Oil in America and surrounding shores to last us until the year 3000, or until we can find the technology to use something else less expensive. I live in the greatest and richest Country in the world, if I want to drive a Mack truck to work, I have the freedom to do that, without a bunch of pussyy asss Liberal Hypocrates getting their feathers ruffled. It's none of your business what I drive. I have two Sons in the military giving their all for me to have the freedom to drive what I want. If there weren't any ';NEOCONS'; Our military would only have about a handful of people in it. Just a couple of Gays trying to prove a point. Republicans are the ones fighting for your freedom. The military is only about 10% Democrats.
Bush cannot demand that they drill domestically, congress has to first vote on the issue and if its passed, then the president can sign the bill and start drilling. Getting it passed through congress is the tough part because people are divided over whether they want to save the environment or save a buck.
One minute people are calling Bush a dictator and they want him stopped and the next minute they want him to become a dictator. Bush isn't in D.C. all by him self there are all those people that we elected to represent us and they have done nothing but play politics at our expense. If you want things to change forget Bush he will be gone in a few months, go after the people who can bring about change but we have one problem most of them are bought and paid for by the lobbyist and their only interest right now is the up coming election. Having said that I know that nothing will change because most people will not face the fact that the people we elected have failed us and need to go.
Ask every Nazi environmental group and ultra Lib. There you will find your answer. President Bush cannot wave an Executive Order under someones nose ordering more domestic drilling. Our 9% approval rating Congress has to undo all the damage. But as long as Reid and Pelosi are around that is not going to happen.
Congress has to do this. To all of the people opposing the drilling, consider this:
When Clinton was president, the legislation to open up ANWAR was shot down. Remember that it takes 10 years to get oil pumping out of it? Would have been nice to have right about now.
Better sooner than later.
Because we get most of our oil from Alberta, Canada...and can get all we want anyway. If he wanted them to pump the already DRILLED and CAPPED wells; all he has to do is tax it as inventory....which is what it is. It will come flying out of the ground then.
Besides nothing would happen for years. All available off-shore rigs are in use and the ships that service them are overbooked in advance. The shipyards in Korea and China are already booked so heavily that they upped the price of a single rig by $100,000,000 (they cost close to $1/2 billion now.) So you were saying?
The wells capped in AK can go online whenever they want since the pipeline is operating at 1/2 capacity or close to it (I'd have to check up on that) Many are leased by BP. They are on Federal land though.
Lets get the party system out of the equation. Environmentalists have learned to work the legal system such that all attempts to do anything are slowed down to a crawl. No new refineries, nuke plants, drilling. Our energy policy has been non-existent. Perhaps that will change. Perhaps not.
Because thats congresses job, and sadly congress is being controlled by a bunch of liberals such as Barack Obama.
They are the ones blocking the drilling. Havent you been watching the news?
Please READ this website:
http://www.americasnewspaper.com/ME2/dir鈥?/a>
number one: it would be an estimated ten years before we reaped any benefits.
number two: we'd still have to pay for the oil to be refined.
in the end it would cost more for us to drill our own oil. foreign oil is cheap, that is why we depend on it.
Let's tell Bush and Congress we want oil drilling.
http://www.americansolutions.com
Bush is one of the biggest oil caretells that exist. He says he wants off shore drilling, but just like every lie he's told. he really doesn't. That would interfere with the profits he makes.
Because congress voted against it! The president can't just do what he wants. It's the people that ';we the people'; voted into office that didn't vote to allow for more drilling!
I guess he could issue an exec order - I wish he would, just to give the anti-oil Dems a kick in the backside.
An EO does not make up law, it just invokes existing law.
Love Jack
because anyoen with inteligence knows we can't dril our way into a high US dollar value, which is the real problem.
Bush is just trying to PR it to blame democrats.
It's an issue for congress not the president. An executive order won't do the trick.
Ask Congress and the Environmentalist groups who are Paid Lobbyists.
because soy loving, tree hugging ******* wont stop complaining about it.
Retardation? idk
Moose, what would you ask for if your were attacked or if your rivers rose?!?
because congress can over ride him.
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