Posted on 07/20/2011 2:36:39 PM PDT by Fudd Fan
my heart ?
Playing baseball. At your age. And all.
Nite all!
Helloooooo!!
I’m with Sessions, where’s the public debate?
Most transparent president my hair butt.
it was a joke....read it again
see ya Doc........
Hi, Jenky, girl.
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Ten oil rigs have left the Gulf of Mexico since the Obama Administration imposed a moratorium on deepwater oil and gas drilling in May 2010, according to documentation obtained from Sen. David Vitter’s (R-La.) office.
The ten rigs named in the document are: Marinas, Discover Americas, Ocean Endeavor, Ocean Confidence, Stena Forth, Clyde Boudreaux, Ensco 8503, Deep Ocean Clarion, Discover Spirit, and Amirante. The rigs have left the Gulf for locations in Egypt, Congo, French Guiana, Liberia, Nigeria and Brazil.
Meanwhile, Sen. David Vitter has called out top Obama administration officials for issuing what he views as conflicting and misleading statements on the correct number offshore drilling permits. A U.S. Justice Department motion filed in March stated there are 270 shallow water permit applications pending and 52 deepwater permit applications pending.
But in testimony before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee this past March, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said the Interior Department had received only 47 shallow water permit applications over the previous nine months and that only seven deepwater permit applications were pending. Michael Bromwich, director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement, told Vitter personally that only six deepwater permits were pending, and he publicly stated that deepwater permits would be limited because “only a handful of completed applications have been received.”
Over the past three months, deepwater permits are down 71 percent from their historical monthly average of 5.8 permits per month, Robert Bluey, a blogger and journalist with the Heritage Foundation, has reported on The Scribe. Shallow-water permitting have also fallen in past few weeks by 34 percent from the historical monthly average of 7.1 permits, Bluey reported.
The question is whether the 10 rigs already lost is the extent of the damage. And that’s a question for which there are few good answers. There is little indication the administration is going to back off on the policies which have kneecapped the Gulf oil industry; in fact, they’re doubling down – and publicly.
This doesn’t just affect Louisiana. It affects the national economy – and profoundly.
“This highlights the problem we have with losing domestic energy production as a result of the drilling moratorium and the slow permitting,” David Kreutzer, a research fellow in Energy Economics and Climate Change at the Heritage Foundation, said. “We must also keep in mind that the impacts are not instantaneous, the rigs may be idle for a while, but once they move it’s going to be difficult to move them back once they are drilling in say Nigeria or Brazil. The oil companies must have confidence they can move forward with their drilling plans and to know these plans won’t be revoked. Only certainty will bring them back.”
Right now the only thing which appears certain is that we’re going to have to have a new president if we don’t want to be exporting jobs and capital elsewhere as we import oil we could be finding right here off our shores.
hey, how’s it hangin’?
transparent only in that half of him is white IF THAT IS EVEN THE TRUTH
just for the record....there is a Methodist missionary group in Africa that says they can prove OBummer was born in Kenya
Hi!
Are they like Gibb’s rules?
the Odessa Permian basin found new oil 2 weeks ago...........a bunch
I don’t really care anymore because all we would get is President Stand Up Chuck.
how’s the garden?
what is Gibb’s rule # nine ?????
lower every day.
weak.
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