Posted on 05/22/2008 12:13:35 PM PDT by saganite
Congressman Roscoe Bartlett says high oil prices have prompted him to drop his longtime opposition to oil and natural gas drilling in a national wildlife refuge in Alaska.
The Maryland Republican has co-sponsored a bill that would allow for oil and gas production on part of the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
Well, one RINO gets it.
That’s a nice start. But I’m more concerned about the Seante where such bills come to die. We’ve passed this several times in the House only to face a filibuster in the Senate.
Paging Sen. McCain.
IDK that Roscoe Bartlett was a true RINO; he is pretty conservative on most things, just off on this issue.
The Sand Kingdoms are staking money on pallets in warehouses. U.S. families are getting squeezed and stressed more so than in decades, and this guy FINALLY comes to terms with reality. Pardon me for not being more appreciative. No watch the Eco-terrorist go nuts and start redeploying all the hyper scare stories within their manifestos, er, with the MSM.
Sen Stevens and Sen Murkowski had a Bill to allow leasing in ANWR when the price reached 125. Seemed a long way off at the time, which was two weeks ago.
Well, whoop-de-doo!! Pin a rose on that guy. It just so happens, that most of the reasons why we have NO DRILLING or being built refining operations is due to a DNC controlled Congress and some totally nut case GOP members who allow the crackpot environmentalists to call the shots. We should be putting the blame where it belongs and no matter what they say, CORN and WIND power isn’t the answer!! There is NO SHORTAGE of oil.
Compare these costs (about 2,000 acres of land for the drilling rigs, plus access roads and pipelines — none of which will harm the Caribou) to the environmental costs of biofuels (millions of acres of good farmland diverted to growing fuel, water depletion, fertilizers, pesticides, etc.).
Oh great, well it only takes like 10 minutes to get it out of the ground and into your fuel tank, so it should have an immediate effect on those high prices. Sorry, way too late.
ATTENTION: Norm Coleman.....
See, it’s OK to change one’s mind when one discovers that one is WRONG!!!
As the election and $4/gal gas looms, the RINOs, who helped the Dems defeat ANWAR drilling all these years, are falling into line.
Now the voters ought to go after the Democrats in their districts, who are the main culprits. Let them know that if they and Pres. Clinton had let drilling commence 10 years ago, there would be an additional 1,000,000 barrels of oil available for the US every day. Their dancing to the enviro-nazis’ tune is costing every family approximately $3,500 in extra fuel costs this year...the Gaia-worshiper tax.
“Bartlett acknowledges that drilling would have an environmental cost,....”
Polar bears before people...
Why isn't President Bush pushing ANWR drilling in a national address from the Oval Office? This is the time to do it.
Swell, Roscoe. But what do we do for the next 8-10 years until such oil reaches the consumer? Jackass!
Whoa what is this 2 Rino’s seeing the light on the same day? Amazing. We really do live in weird times. /sarcasm
"Looms"? I paid $ 4.06 today for 93 octane at Cumberland Farms in MA. Regular (87 octane) was $ 3.86.
“Oh great, well it only takes like 10 minutes to get it out of the ground and into your fuel tank, so it should have an immediate effect on those high prices. Sorry, way too late.”
Actually, I disagree. We don’t currently have a supply problem. If we did, then your comment would be valid. (Remember the gas lines in the 70s? THAT was a supply problem.)
Right now the problem is speculators pushing the price up on *projected* supply problems. We could very easily SPOOK the speculators by aggressively pursuing domestic production. If we suddenly said “ANWR - OK; Gulf Coast - OK; Bakken formation - massive tax breaks for anyone who can develop that potential...” the price would drop very suddenly.
This is a bubble I think we can burst if we can just apply the right prick.
So... all you “pricks” in Congress who are holding back on domestic exploration and development - STOP.
There was an article several weeks ago that I thought about posting that said Alaska was going to allow drilling on state land adjacent to ANWR and with slant drilling technology would be able to extract oil from ANWR and they would not have to pay royalties to the Federal govt because of a law they cited in the article so the congressman’s new stance may have something to do with that. On the other hand, the new ruling on polar bears may allow the congressman to eat his cake and have it too since drilling may now be barred because of the bears. He would get to come out in support of something that can’t happen anyway. Just my cynical mind working here.
It is just sad that any American chooses foreigners ( especially ones who would see us all dead ) over fellow Americans when it comes to securing standard of living and security. Darn right traitorous in my book.
It won’t take that long actually. The day Congress approves drilling on American soil it will cause the cost per barrel to plummet from that day forth asnd those who specualted will be going to Congress looking for redress for their speculation losses.
I'm happy that Rep. Bartlett (my own rep) has finally seen the light on this issue. To be fair though, he is quite conservative with regards to other issues, especially illegal immigration, so I wouldn't go so far as to insult the man with the "RINO" label.
Not really and that’s a silly argument. The market alloocates the oil far better than some govt interference ever could. For instance, the oil from Prudhoe bay is mostly shipped to Asia because shipping costs make that more efficient. Be careful when you hear some politician spouting populist nonsense. It’s usually detrimental.
Ummmmm...no.
Drilling on American soil is permitted in lots of places.
And don't kid yourself that ANWR is Saudi Arabia.
So, ah, be a prick, huh?
OTOH, the money they're making is U.S. dollars, which just aren't worth a damn thing anymore.
Joke's on them!
Well, Roscoe, better late than never, but you’re waaaay too late, because the Dems will never allow it. So you safe to “change your mind” now that you know it ain’t gonna happen..............
One rich republican - paging one rich republican to photograph the ARTIC National Wildlife Refuge and show these PHOTOS in a TELEVISION AD ALL WEEKEND LONG 24/7 and say “OUR DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS REFUSE TO DRILL FOR OIL ON OUR OWN LAND”...Instead they drive up our prices and blame everyone else when they can TAKE ACTION...Call your SENATOR TODAY! (202)........
Probably a moron who also supported those one day "gas boycotts" to "stick it to the oil companies."
The economic ignorance of Americans is astounding.
My criteria for RINO is that the republican in question shows decided Dem, or stupid, qualities. In this case thinking that drilling in ANWR would hurt Caribou or make a difference in our reserve capacity is just stupid. Anyone in the US who thinks that drilling for more oil, in Alaska or offshore or anywhere that oil lies, is detrimental to the US is either a Dem or someone so stupid as to warrent the RINO label whether they are a politician of just an average voter. I hope I have cleared up what my interpretation of a RINO is. Your Senator qualifies to be a RINO in the stupid category.
It will definitely take some of the wind out of this storm...
I’m more interested in opening up exploration off the east and west coasts than Alaska.
Ask yourself: Does this make sense?
There's no point in incurring higher shipping costs than are necessary to get oil from wellhead to refinery.
On that basis, it is certainly conceivable that a significant amount of Alaskan oil might be shipped to Japan. But it would be well short of 80%, since most of the Alaskan oil would be shipped to refineries on the West Coast (a few of which were built for the express purpose of refining Alaskan oil).
Domestic oil production at other locations is always closer to stateside refineries than overseas refineries (though some might be shipped to Puerto Rico for refining, then shipped back to the U.S.).
Shortly after completion of the TAPline, I believe a majority of Alaskan oil was, in fact, shipped to Japan -- because there was a market for it there and the California refineries were awash with California oil.
No longer.
The caller was almost certainly misinformed -- probably because of reports in the seventies on Japan taking most of the Alaskan oil. Now, we consume far more and produce far less. Very little would be shipped elsewhere.
Greenies make me crazy. We have oil platforms off the Louisiana coast. Guess where the best fishing is - yep, by the oil rigs. And, the ones inland have never caused any trouble. In fact, the deer cross over the pipelines and hunters know this. Wild life is abundant. But the sheeple keep buying into the green agenda like it is their salvation or something. Loons - all of them!
Well, do we do it today or tomorrow???next year? next decade??? If we’d done it ten years ago (as we should’ve) we’d see results today...
Better today than not at all...
You are wise.
Better late than never
Maryland has no Republican senators.
Furthermore, Rep. Bartlett stands strong on other conservative issues, he's certainly no maverick, and since it always comes down to choosing between him and some commie as representative, he will get my vote.
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
That’s my point.
Imagine if POTUS declared that energy prices had reached the level of a national emergency and required immediate action that included:
1) Drilling everywhere
2) No more boutique gasoline blends
3) A crash construction project to build a number of nuclear power plants
4) A separate emergency construction project to build a number of coal to oil plants
5) Incentives and cutting red tape that would lead to construction of new refineries.
Don't you think that would immediately affect the price of oil?
Spot on comments. God save the United States from our own eco-freaks.
Other things that were "way to late" are now treated with reverence in the annals of mankind.....a couple come to mind:
The vaccine for polio - Jonas Salk (he was way way late)
The Surge - 3 years too late but the results are stunning
"Way to late" is another way to say "accept defeat".
Beginning with perks of Congress critters!
Make them all drive Priuses!!
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05/19/2008 5:21:51 AM PDT · by thackney · 72 replies · 1,308+ views Reuters ^ | May 16, 2008 | Yereth RosenANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - The Bush administration on Friday proposed keeping potentially oil-rich wetlands in Arctic Alaska off-limits to drilling because of their ecological sensitivity, a reversal of its earlier plan. The Bureau of Land Management proposed a 10-year leasing moratorium for 430,000 acres of wetlands north and east of vast Teshekpuk Lake in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. Environmentalists and local groups hailed the decision. "This plan provides a balanced approach to energy development and wildlife protection, and forms a solid basis for the Bureau of Land Management to proceed with an oil and gas lease sale later this year,"... |
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