WRONG!
Posted on 03/18/2011 10:09:57 AM PDT by jazusamo
Complete title: More Drilling in U.S. is ‘A Problem, Not A Solution’ to Creating Jobs, Says Democrat Member of House Labor Subcommittee
(CNSNews.com) -- Rep. Rob Andrews (D-N.J.) said that increasing oil drilling “off the coast” is “a problem, not a solution” to creating jobs in the United States. Andrews recommended that House Republicans bring legislation to the floor if they think more drilling will create jobs.
VIDEO 2:25 minutes
Appearing at a press conference with Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) on job creation, Rep. Andrews said, “I agree with my colleague and friend that drilling for oil off the coast is a problem, not a solution, but let’s get back to the main point here that if the Republicans really believe that was really a job-creating idea, why don’t they put it on the floor?”
Andrews, the ranking member of the House Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee, continued, “I mean, walking into this room and having a discussion about it is one thing, but we’re in the minority. We can’t get our ideas on the floor but they can. So if that’s such a great idea, they ought to do it. I wouldn’t vote for it because I think it’s a poor idea. But it says what they think of the idea if they don’t put it on the floor.”
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a member of the House Budget Committee, said there would be no “immediate” reduction of gas prices from more drilling.
“We need to be reducing our dependence on fossil fuels and, in general, specifically, we need to reduce our dependence on oil, foreign oil. But adding to our dependence on fossil fuels is not the answer,” she said.
“We need to be taking a long-term view,” she said. “It’s been proven over and over again that there would no immediate return on a reduction in gas prices or a significant expansion of our energy resources by beginning drilling for more oil right now -- and that to me is not the real responsible way to explore creating jobs.”
Wasserman added, “It’s just another example of how they [House Republicans] can have all the press conferences they want but they still have no legislation that would create jobs – not even that.”
According to the Congressional Research Service (CRS), the total proved reserves and technically recoverable amount of oil in the United States, as of 2009, was 164.6 billion barrels. The United States consumes about 6.8 billion barrels of oil each year (of which about 60 percent is imported).
As for natural gas in the United States, the CRS report, using data from the federal Energy Information Administration, shows there are 1,407.4 trillion cubic feet – America consumes 22.74 cubic feet of natural gas per year.
As for coal, the report shows that the United States has a technically recoverable amount of 261 billion short tons; the country consumes about 1 billion short tons per year.
Not counting technological advances in locating new deposits of fossil fuel and discounting any imports from other countries, the United States by itself, given current demand, has at least enough oil for 24 years, enough natural gas for 62 years, and enough coal for 261 years.
Those numbers do not include new deposits of fossil fuels that may be found in the future and as technology advances. Nor do the numbers include the estimated worldwide reserves from selected nations (Saudi Arabia, Canada, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and Venezuela), which total 1.3 trillion barrels of oil; 6.6. trillion cubic feet of natural gas; and 930 billion short tons of coal, according to the CRS report.
When those fuels are converted into one source of measurement, such as barrels of oil, says the CRS, then worldwide reserves from those six nations equal 5.7 trillion barrels of oil.
On a related note, potentially recoverable reserves of oil from shale – an expensive and currently cost-prohibitive operation – are estimated to be between 800 billion and 1.38 trillion barrels in the United States alone, according to the CRS report. These recoverable reserves – not counting imports -- could potentially meet current U.S. demand for oil for another 147 years.
Michael W. Chapman contributed to this report.
Right . . . the Rat energy plan has worked so well. . . . /sarc
The only way for D-idiots to maintain power is to expand the permanent underclass.
Thus they endeavor to kill jobs, kill industry, make the citizenery weak and helpless.
Those that are not under their yoke are going to put them in the dustbin of history.
Please don’t post anything about that shrew, biotch Wasserman-Schultz during lunch time. She is one of the most annoying, shrill, ugly yentas that I have ever seen.
WRONG!
North Dakota has about 3% unemployment right now.
North Dakota???!!!!
And just why is that?
Because they are drilling and producing. NO OTHER REASON!
These two idiots are truly amazing....they despise America and they have to be pounded into oblivion (politically speaking).
Makes me wonder how much Soros pays these guys.
“Rep. Rob Andrews (D-N.J.) said that increasing oil drilling “off the coast” is “a problem, not a solution” to creating jobs in the United States.”
Tell that to North Dakota, idiot.
Gee let me get this straight...if American companies drill for oil off the coast of America, using American workers and the oil goes to American refineries and is distributed to American consumers this is bad and costs American jobs. However, buying oil from foreign countries where it is drilled by foreign workers, transported in foreign ships and sold to US refineries at prices set by the OPEC cartel this is good and somehow adds jobs to the US economy. Is this the Twilight Zone or Bizzaro World?
I just called his office and told his staffer that I will support whomever is running against him in 2012.
This is why the Moonbats needs to be cleansed from office.
I just heard on Rush today that the US granted Petrobas the ability to drill and have an underwater storage container for oil and gas that THEY WILL NOT GRANT TO US COMPANIES.
This is utter madness.
Dopey Debbie strikes again. If we had started drilling 10 years ago we would be well into production and job creation. However, the job-killing machine known as the Democrat Party has been dragging out this tired, old argument that it would take years to get new drilling into production THAT IF WE HAD JUST DONE IT INSTEAD OF BEING BLOCKED BY THE DEMOCRATS IT WOULD ALREADY BE PRODUCING OIL!!
“Idiocracy” is coming true
How did we get people this stupid in charge?
Stupid people voting for the feel-good words.
Tou would thing there woul dbe a FEW democrats who could be made to understand that very soon we could have a population not worth leading. But every single one of them seems to be a flaming libtard.
The presumption of the the two Dims is that legislation is required to create jobs.
Yep, they just don’t come any dumber than that.
Those two idiots and their Rats controlled Congress the last two years, they should have legislated the country out of unemployment instead of throwing hundreds of billions at the problem that didn’t work.
We've also heard people speak of our "addiction" to oil, an assertion I find particularly offensive. I don't think that in the case of petroleum, "fossil" is applicable.
‘.......she said. “It’s been proven over and over again that there would no immediate return on a reduction in gas prices or a significant expansion of our energy resources by beginning drilling for more oil right now —...”
IIRC G.W.Bush once upon a time opened up serious discussion about drilling oil, and the prices dropped overnight.
Does anybody else remember that one?
Tell this to the people of North Dakota.
I remember though don’t remember how much it dropped, seems to me it was considerable?
“America consumes 22.74 cubic feet of natural gas per year.” Million? Billion? Trillion? I alone produced more than 22.74 cubic feet of natural gas after a recent visit to Taco Bell.
“....seems to me it was considerable?”
IIRC yes. Considerably. Enough to jog the memory this way means it was a pretty good drop I would think.
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