Posted on 06/06/2008 10:45:46 PM PDT by TheDon
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97 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.
So Schumer, according to Schumer, is complicit in taking $10 away from every American who buys 20 gallons of gasoline. "Democracy," said H.L. Mencken, "is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard."
Also disqualified from complaining are all voters who sent to Washington senators and representatives who have voted to keep ANWR's oil in the ground and who voted to put 85 percent of America's offshore territory off-limits to drilling. The U.S. Minerals Management Service says that restricted area contains perhaps 86 billion barrels of oil and 420 trillion cubic feet of natural gas -- 10 times as much oil and 20 times as much natural gas as Americans use in a year.
Drilling is underway 60 miles off Florida. The drilling is being done by China, in cooperation with Cuba, which is drilling closer to South Florida than U.S. companies are.
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(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
$56 to fill up a Camry today..
*sigh*
We’re getting it good and hard, alright..
Next time, I want a big kiss first.
If you like $4/gal, Thank Congress
Pray for W and Our Troops
This is the liberal way: Demand sacrifice from others while generously offering to allow them to feel good about it.
I'm sure that will work this time.
Got my eye on the rat, Sununu, here in NH over the cap and trade abomination.
So by my quick calculations:
86 billion barrels + 10.4 billion = 96.4 billion
Americans use roughly 20 million barrels / day
That’s a little over 13 years worth of oil that’s just sitting there waiting to be tapped.
They failed to mention the over ONE TRILLION barrels trapped in oil shale deposits in the Rockies. Or the HUGE deposits under the Dakotas which is supposed to be the 5th largest deposit on earth.
There is only one thing more plentiful on earth than oil-water.
And stupidity is more plentiful than both in CONgress.
Time to get to DC and start hanging them one at a time.
You got that right.
$41.00 to fill up 1/2 a tank today in the AM was $4.39 tonight it is $4.41
Are there really estimated to be over a trillion barrels in the rockies? Where’d you find that out? I’m not questioning you, I’m just curious and if that’s true it’s absolutely outrageous that Congress won’t act.
EIA.GOV and I found a breakdoun from Heritage Foundation:
How large is this resource? In the Piceance Basin, an area of 1,100 square miles, the oil shale is over 1 million barrels per acre, or roughly 750 billion barrels of recoverable oil. If you extend outward to Wyoming and to Utah, it is 1.3 trillion. This is why you hear shale next to trillions, not billions or millions, of barrels.
Senate panel retains oil-shale moratorium
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/may/15/panel-defeats-attempt-end-oil-shale-moratorium/
DOE Oil Shale Fact Sheet:
http://www.fossil.energy.gov/programs/reserves/npr/Oil_Shale_Resource_Fact_Sheet.pdf
Half a tank for my Silverado dually is about $80 at $4.16 a gal reg.
Thanks. This is really insane...
Last Thursday, near Nashville, I filled up my 2005 Dodge Ram 1500 PU tank. The price then was $3.79 per gallon. The total was $116.69. I had to run the debit card three times as the pump has an automatic cut-off at $50.
I saw an EMS truck driver filling his ambulance (diesel). I asked him how much it held ......45 Gallons....he said it was
at least twice a day he filled up......each time at over $200 a pop......
For a very long time, Americans haven’t complained about the price of a gallon of gas.
They haven’t complained about the price of a gallon of milk, or a pound of salt, or of a $600 pair of shoes.
They complained about the price of an I-Pod, but that’s about it.
I hope Will's piece here finally gets somebody's attention in Washington since I think the general public is really tired of hearing about caribou, polar bears, whales, and "pristine wilderness" as excuses for not drilling.
Will is partially doing what needs to be done to correct this: Naming names. Schumer is one key culprit in this, but there are many more on both sides of the aisle that need to be brought into the spotlight for their complicity in blocking recovery of our domestic resources. These folks need to be called out now! It's an election year. I'd love to see George Will and all the other major columnists run simultaneous columns that name every congresscritter who chooses to defy the American public on this issue. Do that and watch the roaches scatter!
The problem stems from the fact that Socialists in congress have already nationalized the US energy sector thru laws ans regulations. Mises.org has a wonderful paper on the topic and if you search here on FR using keyword ‘nazi’ the title is National Socialism, congress used the German model.
I’m driving 50 to 55 mph in my pickup. I stay off the freeway when I can. The gas mileage indicator in the truck gives me an average of 25 to 29 miles the the gallon when driving 50 mph. Doesn’t bother me to take an extra 10 minutes to reach my destination.
Wikipedia. Oil shale deposits. The USA has the worlds largest deposits. Enough for at the least one hundred years of energy.
And they are all off limits.
All the petroleun known or suspected on the planet would fill a six mile cube. That’s it, not as impressive as trillions of something.
When you drive into Colorado from Utah along highway 40, you stop at the first Colorado visitors rest station along the way. They will give you a free sample of the rock that you can hold a match to and light. Then you can look over the map of Colorado and Utah to see where all this rock formation extends, and see a miniature oil extraction setup, basically put steam down the holes and collect the oil at the bottom. The deposit is huge. Even in the book Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand had an episode of extracting oil from the oil shale there.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/may/15/panel-defeats-attempt-end-oil-shale-moratorium/
May 15th of this year, Congress reaffirmed the moratorium on extracting oil from the Colorado oil shale. It needs more environmental study.
Prove it!
It’s a simple conversion of units. How many trillion barrels do you have or think you have?
Don’t forget $3 bank teller fees.
ouch and I am complaining. Since we pay for the gas in the cars of the people in Washington with our tax dollars I wonder if they notice. 7 big SUV’s today to take Hillary to her shin-dig and they tell us not to use gas hogs.
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