Posted on 07/16/2008 5:18:53 PM PDT by Kaslin
Election: There's little doubt voters want more drilling if even congressional candidates are starting to trek to Alaska to urge more oil development. Seven are there now. That's a wake-up call to Congress.
"We've got a Democratic Congress doing absolutely nothing. Even the Republicans (before them) didn't do anything. So we are now paying $4 a gallon for gas. It's an emergency," Williams said.
The House, under Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has gone well beyond complacency and into obstruction. "We've got about a dozen bills ready for the floor of Congress, and they won't allow any of the legislation to move forward," Williams said. Democrats "are afraid of a Republican amendment on an energy bill, and won't allow it before the election."
That's why the seven candidates have taken their campaign to Alaska, the state that could easily overshadow any other as an energy producer. According to Marilyn Crockett, executive director of the Alaska Oil and Gas Association in Anchorage, Alaska's two big areas under production, the Cook Inlet/Kenai Peninsula and the North Slope, are begining to deplete.
"Other areas to develop are in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the National Petroleum Reserve, the Beaufort Sea and the Chukchi Sea," Crockett said. That is, if they can be opened to drilling.
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Finally! At least some in the GOP have taken the blinders off. Here’s hoping others will catch on and start campaigning on the obstruction by Democrats as the cause of high gas prices and there will be a GOP landslide.
Drill baby drill
send the envirowackos packing.
Yes, yes, yes! Go to Alaska! Especially John McCain. Why isn’t he there yet?
I’ve been to Deadhorse Alaska, by the way. On January 1st no less. The words cold and barren come to mind.
Why do states who want drilling have to bow to what Congress wants? Shouldn’t it be a state decision? I can never understand these things.
We can't cut our own trees for lumber because of the feds wanting to save the spotted owl. Now my county of 100,000 people gets $50,000,000 million a year to support us because they won't let us harvest and replant our timber. They call it our "safety net" we have been on the federal government dole for over 10 years waiting for the feds to let us cut our trees, but the enviormentalists say no.
This summer they stopped all salmon fishing for 700 miles of our coast, so our number two resource is now off limits, thanks to the feds and the enviormentalists. So now instead of timber and salmon being our number one and two natural resource, our number one export is our children, no jobs.
Your shortest day and night stats are deceiving.
The next day (and night) don’t exist until the next season. The answer really should be zero.
(And I’ve experienced -72°F windchill in Deadhorse)
Were you guys working on the oil fields near Deadhorse, or did you have some other business in that God-forsaken place?
I was doing engineering design of oil field facilities. Most of my work was on the Western Side at Alpine and Kuparuk but I did some BP work around Prudhoe Bay, Lisburne, and Endicott.
I only visited the Slope for a few days or a week at a time, my office was in Anchorage. I was in Alaska about 4 years.
bfl
The environazis are disgusting. When animals become more precious than humans and jobs, something is very, very wrong. Our government should realize that but they’re so liberal now that nothing surprises me. Don’t think it’s going to get any better either. Thanks for the explanation.
Did I have business in Deadhorse?
No, but I had a friend that did. I was stationed at Eielson AFB just outside of Fairbanks. I went to church in Fairbanks, where a friend of mine owned a trucking company that sent trucks up the haul road. He took me along for the ride a couple of times. It was memorable, to say the least.
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