I’m blatantly stealing Jay’s post title because it’s one of the big reasons I think we need someone like Roy Brown in office. I’ve frankly had enough of the “Drill-Nothing Democrats” who bitch and moan when gas prices are low, secretly celebrate when they are high and bend over backwards to block every single attempt to develop domestic oil that is proposed. Jay says:
Drilling in Montana or Alaska or wherever won’t make much of a dent on the world’s oil prices, and it won’t make any difference at the gas pump. The economic situation is fairly simple. The growth of world demand for oil is outpacing the growth of supply. Eventually, supply will decrease.
And Jay’s right. No single drill is going to make a difference. It shouldn’t be Montana or Alaska. It should be Montana and Alaska - as just a smalll part of a national effort to develop the tremendous resources we have in Texas, Alaska, Montana, North Dakota off-shore and elsewhere. That strategy will increase the supply while the research and development into efficient alternatives and eventually non-fossil alternatives continues. The fact is, drilling and alternatives are not zero-sum and it’s absolutely idiotic that Democrats continue to prevent the exploitation of our own resources.
I’m a bit worked up, since I just filled my gas tank again. This is a problem the Democrats have been making for years, and for this Montana voter, Roy Browns ties to the energy industry are a plus on his CV, not a minus. It’s time to get the tree-huggers the hell out of Helena and Washington.
Cody’s demand: drill, drill, drill!
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Listen Cody, Jay’s says in the same post that supply is outstripping demand but more supply won’t help. His solution is to divine some new technology while we cripple the world economy and starve millions of people. In other words, he’s and economic moron.
Drill and dig, oil shale is the answer.
Stole this from the evil Fox News:
WASHINGTON — A House subcommittee on Wednesday rejected a Republican-led effort to open up more U.S. coastal waters to oil exploration.
Rep. John Peterson, R-Pa., spearheaded the effort. His proposal would open up U.S. waters between 50 and 200 miles off shore for drilling. The first 50 miles off shore would be left alone.
But the plan failed Wednesday on a 9-6, party-line vote in a House appropriations subcommittee, which was considering the proposal as part of an Interior Department spending package.
With record oil prices and gas prices projected to hover around the $4 mark for the rest of the summer, Republicans have ratcheted up their efforts to open up oil exploration along U.S. coastline. But the long-sought change has so far been unsuccessful.
Most offshore oil production and exploration has been banned since a federal law passed in 1981.
“We are kidding ourselves if we think we can drill our way out of these problems,” House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-Wis., said during the bill mark-up session.
86 billions barrels won’t make a dent either?
According to Peterson’s office, the U.S. Minerals Management Service estimates that 86 billion barrels of oil and 420 trillion cubic feet of natural gas can be found along the U.S. outer continental shelf, the area affected by the ban.
Sorry for the rants, I just filled up my Ford F250.
Maybe you shouldn’t drive a Ford F250 then.
“Cody’s demand: drill, drill, drill!”
Yeah, what’s not to like? I have relatives in Richland County and they’re sure not complaining.
You know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
I made that up.
Meanwhile, the planet is heating up due to human activities centered around fossil fuels … oh wait - ExxonMobil has convinced you that’s not true, and lordy knows they don’t have a reason to lie to you …
I come here to get my fix of short-sightedness - people who have the answer to everything who can’t seem to see beyond the end of their collective nose. It’s interesting.
Mark, if you were a robot, the logic-bomb of your ideals would cause you to short-circuit and explode. As a human being, of course, you are perfectly capable of actually thinking that you are an enlightened philosopher.
I enjoy reading your comments - although less lately since you’ve basically been dismissed as a wing-nut by even the most wing-nutty of the left. I can’t really use you as an example in open threads anymore.
China is now drilling not far off the coast of Florida, which the US is unwilling to do. They’ll suck away our oil there, leaving us with nothing but “good feelings” about having “protected” the coastline from …. something. Meanwhile, China and Cuba are getting a good chuckle, and lots of oil and revenue, at our expense. One would think that American lefties would be more sympathetic to drilling when the world’s socialist countries are the ones are jumping at the chance to do it. They have the people’s best interests at heart, right?
An interesting number, in the first quarter of 2008, ND generated $300.9 million in oil production taxes, $160 million more than projected last year for the time period.
With the influx of revenue, it allows the state the flexibility to fund education programs and yes offer incentives for renewable energy production.
I think there is plenty of oil in the ground to last hundreds more years. We absolutely can drill out way out of this problem. We need to start tapping into ANWR, the Gulf, the western oil shale fields and anywhere else there is oil. As soon as we start that process, even though it may take 10 years to see results, the futures prices will start to go down.
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