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Why aren't we drilling for our own oil?
Asked Jun 5, 2008, 03:39 PM
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38 Answers Seriously? Is it really because Congress is so afraid of the environmental whaco's? I would like to ask any caring American, who thinks we should be obtaining our own oil, to please visit americansolutions.com/actioncenter and sign the petition that says: Drill here, drill now, pay less. This is not a liberal or conservative issue, it is an AMERICAN ISSUE! Why can't congress see that if we just drill for our own oil, we wouldn't have to be held hostage by the Middle East. We could tell them all to go pound sand, and it wouldn't matter if they destroyed each other, and the oil wells too! We wouldn't have to continue to fight wars, to try to protect our interests in their oil, at all. Don't they realize that by buying this oil, we are supporting the very terrorists that we are fighting over there now? It truly makes me feel ill when I think about it, how can we have allowed ourselves to be in this position, over some little brown spotted field mouse? More than once, 99% of all species on the earth have been destroyed, only for the earth to be re-populated, with about 13.6 MILLION species currently. I'm sure that the loss of even 100 species, will not tip the scales to the point of world wide extinction, or cause any real problems for us humans, or the food chain that may start with thAT damn little mouse. We need to get serious about this oil situation. We have sat by and watched our national security be almost completely dependent now on IF "THEY" WILL SELL US "THEIR" OIL AND HOW MUCH WILL WE HAVE TO PAY FOR IT! |
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| Yes Tom, Refining capabilities, or lack there of, play a huge role in it. But as we saw in the 70's, it is a fabricated role. Fabricated by Opec to fabricate more dollars. I agree completely with you Tom, after all, there is a huge addition of Escalades on the Chinese hiways that need to be fed. | ||||
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| I am not interested in making this a political discussion. I just would like to know if there are 30 million acres of off-shore leases available to oil companies, that have been available, and if so why no production from those areas. SEN. BIDEN: We're not trying to get Saudi to drill more, we're trying to get them to pump more of what they're drilling. They're not pumping what they could, number one. This is a gift, a gift to the oil companies by John McCain. They have now leased 41 million acres of offshore leases. They're only pumping in 10.2 million of those acres. Seventy-nine percent of all the offshore oil available off the coast of Florida, into the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic Coast, the Pacific Coast, lies within those acres that they now have. Why are they not pumping? Why are they not doing this? Why are they not pursuing what's estimated to be a total of 70--54 billion barrels of oil at their disposal right now if they pump? Why are these greedy fellows deciding they want to go beyond that? It's because they want to get it in before George Bush leaves the presidency. It's because they're not pumping the oil to keep the price up. They are not even drilling. So here you have 30 million leased acres they have right now that possesses 79 percent of all the offshore, and they're not drilling. And John says they need more? And it would take 10 years for it to come online. | ||||
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| Biden is being disengenuos . There has been a moratorium on new drilling off shore by Congressional and Executive order since 1981. Yeah there are some leases they are sitting on that they are banned from drilling on. As for the charge about the absence of drilling in Federal lands leased by oil companies.....In truth, these areas are under active exploration that may lead to drilling. Drilling, of course, is the last step in oil production. I would've thought that Biden would know that but evidently he thinks you drill first and explore later ? As for refineries ;In 1981, the US had 324 refineries. Today, there are just 132 oil refineries and all of them are maxed out giving each state it's desired blend of gasoline ,octane ,and ethanol mix. Even that isn't standardized. | ||||
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