"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of
the last priest." - Denis Diderot
Drilling Vs. Producing: BIG Difference
Okay.
Let me give you a story. 1981 secretary of interior proposed opening almost
the entire Outer Continental Shelf to drilling. The environmentalists,
surprise, surprise back in 1981 went crazy. California congressional
delegation slipped in a provision into a bill the same year that placed a
moratorium on drilling off of the California shores. Congress enacted
separate moratoriums for Cal Florida, California, New Jersey, North
Carolina. None of these bans covered what is called the Destin Dome. Destin
Dome is a formation in the Gulf of Mexico. It's about 25 miles off of
Pensacola, Florida. Experts say it has enough natural gas to supply a
million homes for 30 years, this one place.
Well, under Reagan, 1981, Chevron leased this dome. It's federal land. They
have the lease for the dome, 1981. They drilled three wells to explore, one
in 1987, one in '89 and one in '95. They found an estimated 2.6 trillion
cubic feet of natural gas. So story ends. We're pumping the gas, right? No,
no. The lease only gave Chevron the right to drill, not to produce the gas.
They could drill. They just can't take it out. The lease that they had on
the Destin Dome, they could find it but they had to go back and get federal
approval to actually take it out. In 1996 Chevron submitted a developed plan
to the state and interior department. They proposed drilling 21 different
wells. They said as few as 12 but maybe as much as 21. Florida officials
took their time dragging their feet deciding whether or not to grant
Florida's -- grant Chevron's request. Eventually two years went by and they
were denied. Chevron appealed the decision to the department of congress.
Congress sat on the appeal. Eventually in 2000 -- remember this started in
1981. In 2000 the commerce department, doing nothing on the appeal, Chevron
said, okay, what are you guys doing to us. They sued the federal government
in order to compel it to act. While the lawsuit was pending, Bush met with
his brother Jeb, who was the Florida governor if you remember right. They
agreed to have the federal government buy back the leases for $115 million
and place a moratorium on the drilling in this dome until 2011. Now, why did
that happen?
There are over 140 actual leased tracks right now that these oil companies
have that they cannot drill in. They have the leases. They can drill in some
of them but they can't produce. In others they can look but they can't
drill. So when people come out and say, these oil companies already have
these giant tracts of land, ask yourself and ask them, do they have the
right to drill and produce on those lands. By the way, what did Chevron do?
It took the refund from the government, it took the $115 million. Instead of
the 2.6 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, enough, for 30 years of natural
gas, they took the $115 million refund and they invested it in a project in
Angola where they're currently producing liquefied natural gas that has to
be shipped from Angola to us.
The Audacity Of Democrats
The
Democratic Party has devolved into a club for the illegitimately
aggrieved, the self-absorbed, the self-hating and the perpetually
pissed-off. It is a sanctuary where solipsistic malcontents and their
disjointed causes find refuge and support. It has long ceased being an
earnest gathering of broad minds where man's timeless problems are
examined against the backdrop of the Constitution and solutions to them
proposed based on the actual realities of the human condition. It is now
the political province of the intellectually deceased, where frightened,
lock-step ideologues and other small men and women concoct and promote
divisive, destructive, weird and cowardly policies developed within a
not-so-quaint, quasi-Marxist stricture of gender, class and race.
Finally, The Long Awaited "Energy Plan"
Form The Democrats
Remember in '06' when Nancy Pelosi
promised us that if we voted the democrats into congress, they had a
"common sense plan to bring down prices at
the pump"? Well, after a long wait and much
anticipation, Harry Reid reveals his solution on what to do about the
energy crisis. Here is a chart that shows the price of gas since the
Democrats took control
Click
on the player below to hear Uncle Harry, and Glenn Beck's analysis.
Top 10 reasons to blame Democrats for soaring
gasoline prices
10)
ANWR If Bill Clinton had signed into law
the Republican Congress's 1995 bill to allow drilling of ANWR instead of
vetoing it, ANWR
could be producing a million barrels of (non-Opec) oil a day
9)
Coastal Drilling A financial incentive?
With the Chinese now slant drilling for oil just 50 miles off the
Florida coast,
wouldn't that have been a good thing?
8)
Insistence on alternative fuels One of the
first acts of the new Democrat-controlled congress in 2007 was an energy
bill that "calls for
a huge increase in the use of ethanol as a motor fuel and requires new
appliance efficiency standards." By focusing on alternative fuels such as
ethanol, and not more drilling, Democrats have added to the
cost of food,
worsening starvation problems around the word and increasing inflationary
pressures in the U.S., including prices at the pump.
"We learned the hard way that oil and
water do not mix on our coast," Pelosi told a key committee in 1996 as she
made her case for keeping the ban in place before a Congress then controlled
by Republicans.
Now, with gas prices soaring, those
drilling restrictions are facing their most severe test in years as calls
intensify to more aggressively pursue domestic oil. Yet despite increasing
pressure from President George W. Bush, a full-bore assault by congressional
Republicans and some anxiety among her own rank-and-file Democrats, Pelosi
is not budging.
Instead of a gas-tax holiday, Congress
considers gas-tax hike
John
McCain couldn’t convince Congress to adopt his gas-tax holiday, but Congress
does plan on making some changes to the rate. Unfortunately, the change
will
go in the opposite direction,
if Democrats get their wish. With Americans driving less, the highway fund
faces even more severe shortfalls than expected from lost gas-tax revenue —
and so the Democrats plan to hike it up by ten cents a gallon.
A Video Montage Of 30 years Of Weasel Politicians
Telling Us How Much We Need Energy Independence
Pelosi: I Want to Bring Back 'Fairness
Doctrine'
At a breakfast hosted by the Christian
Science Monitor yesterday, I asked Pelosi if Pence failed to get the
required signatures on a discharge petition to get his anti-Fairness
Doctrine bill out of committee, would she permit the Pence measure to get a
floor vote this year.
"No," the Speaker replied, without
hesitation. She added that "the interest in my caucus is the reverse"
"So I don't see it [the Pence bill]
coming to the floor," Pelosi said. "Do you personally support revival of the
‘Fairness Doctrine?'" I asked.
These Idiots Can't Even Run A
Restaurant, And You Want Them To Run Our Healthcare System? HELLO!
Year after year, decade upon decade,
the U.S. Senate's network of restaurants has lost staggering amounts of
money -- more than $18 million since 1993, according to one report, and an
estimated $2 million this year alone, according to another.
All told, they bring in more than $10
million a year in food sales but have turned a profit in just seven of
their 44 years in business, according to the GAO.
The embarrassment of the Senate food
service struggling like some neighborhood pizza joint has quietly sparked
change previously unthinkable for Democrats. Last week, in a late-night
voice vote, the Senate agreed to privatize the
operation of its food service. The House is expected to agree -- its food
service operation has been in private hands and making a
profit since the 1980s.
In a masterful bit of understatement,
Feinstein blamed "noticeably subpar" food and service.
(Which is what we will get with universal healthcare) Foot traffic bears
that out. Come lunchtime, many Senate staffers trudge across the Capitol and
down into the basement cafeteria on the House side. On Wednesdays, the lines
can be 30 or 40 people long. House staffers almost never cross the Capitol
to eat in the Senate cafeterias.
Schumer does know that if you increase
the supply of something, the price of it probably will fall. That is why he
and 96 other senators recently voted to increase the supply of oil on the
market by stopping the flow of oil into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve,
which protects against major physical interruptions. Seventy-one of the 97
senators who voted to stop filling the reserve also oppose drilling in the
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
One million barrels is what might
today be flowing from ANWR if in 1995 President Bill Clinton had not vetoed
legislation to permit drilling there. One million barrels produce 27 million
gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel. Seventy-two of today's senators --
including Schumer, of course, and 38 other Democrats, including Barack
Obama, and 33 Republicans, including John McCain -- have voted to keep
ANWR's estimated 10.4 billion barrels of oil off the market.
PELOSI:
"Some of the success of the surge is at the goodwill of the Iranians."
The goodwill of the Iranians? The goodwill of the
Iranians. You mean the ones that have been killing our troops and making
weapons and sneaking them across the border and blowing our troops up, that
goodwill? You mean the goodwill from the people who have just yet again made
another threat against Israel and said it was about time it vanished?
Politicians
are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign
against them.
One hundred senators, 435
congressmen, one president and nine Supreme Court justices - 545 human
beings out of the 300 million - are directly, legally, morally and
individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this
country.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that
what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con
regardless of party.
FULL ARTICLE HERE
Opposing
Socialism
Okay.
Let me give you a story. 1981 secretary of interior proposed opening almost
the entire Outer Continental Shelf to drilling. The environmentalists,
surprise, surprise back in 1981 went crazy. California congressional
delegation slipped in a provision into a bill the same year that placed a
moratorium on drilling off of the California shores. Congress enacted
separate moratoriums for Cal Florida, California, New Jersey, North
Carolina. None of these bans covered what is called the Destin Dome. Destin
Dome is a formation in the Gulf of Mexico. It's about 25 miles off of
Pensacola, Florida. Experts say it has enough natural gas to supply a
million homes for 30 years, this one place. 
The
Democratic Party has devolved into a club for the illegitimately
aggrieved, the self-absorbed, the self-hating and the perpetually
pissed-off. It is a sanctuary where solipsistic malcontents and their
disjointed causes find refuge and support. It has long ceased being an
earnest gathering of broad minds where man's timeless problems are
examined against the backdrop of the Constitution and solutions to them
proposed based on the actual realities of the human condition. It is now
the political province of the intellectually deceased, where frightened,
lock-step ideologues and other small men and women concoct and promote
divisive, destructive, weird and cowardly policies developed within a
not-so-quaint, quasi-Marxist stricture of gender, class and race.
10)
ANWR If Bill Clinton had signed into law
the Republican Congress's 1995 bill to allow drilling of ANWR instead of
John
McCain couldn’t convince Congress to adopt his gas-tax holiday, but Congress
does plan on making some changes to the rate. Unfortunately, the change
will 
PELOSI:
"Some of the success of the surge is at the goodwill of the Iranians."
