LNG and Left Coast liberal hypocrisy

ModernConservative.com ^ | 9/11/08 | McCainiac

[ikeonic]

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) made headlines this week by decrying the export of LNG from Alaska to Japan and complaining about the high price of natural gas.

Oh, the hypocrisy.

Wyden and other Left Coast liberals such as Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and my governor, Ted Kulongowski (D-OR), have done everything they can to stonewall LNG terminals proposed for the West Coast, including three proposed terminals right here in Oregon. There are currently no LNG terminals on the U.S. West Coast, the nearest terminal is across the border from San Diego in Baja California. The Baja terminal just opened two weeks ago. I repeat... just opened.

A drive down the Oregon Coast finds vocal opposition to LNG terminals in the form of yard signs. NIMBYism run amok and typical liberal false outrage and overreaction in the name of "environmental and economic concerns"... not to mention climate alarmism run amok.

Oregon imports 99.72% of its natural gas from other states and Canada, primarily from Alberta. Oregon and Washington are energy welfare states, producing virtually no oil or natural gas of their own. According to the federal Energy Information Administration, Oregon residents use more than 3 times as much natural gas as they did in 1967. No doubt, many of those NIMBY, climate alarmist liberals use natural gas to heat their homes while protesting the construction of LNG terminals that could supply more gas. Just as they bash Big Oil and decry the high price of gas while motoring along using the very resource they condemn as an "evil fossil fuel".

According to the state of Alaska:

"Alaska’s exports of LNG from the Kenai Peninsula facility were $161 million for 2006. The LNG loading facility in Nikiski and the regasification facility in Negishi, Japan pioneered LNG marine transport in 1969. Alaska LNG export to Japan has been continuous since then. The current LNG contract is for five years — 2004 through the first quarter of 2009."

We could use that Alaskan natural gas, but the liberals who run this state are fighting the LNG terminals tooth and nail... and then they have the nerve to complain when Alaska sends the LNG to Japan because West Coast liberals won't build LNG terminals.

Kudos to Alaska for producing American made energy. Don't blame them if Oregon refuses to build a LNG terminal to use Alaska's surplus gas.

[ikeonic]

Makes you wonder... is Wyden just using LNG as a political ploy to attack Sarah Palin? It's so hypocritical to whine about Alaskan LNG going to Japan (which has been going on since 1969) when there's not one LNG terminal on the West Coast and liberals like Wyden stonewall any attempt to build LNG terminals.

[Maine Mariner]

We have the same problem in Maine. Opposition to LNG terminals and the good paying jobs they great. Most of the opposition-from Democrats and Greens.

[crazyhorse691]

The last thing these religion of pseudo-science adherents want to see is the cost of fossil fuels come down and the supply go up...their dreams of sustainable energy requires the sacrifice of our standard of living to the equivalent of the Pleistocene native American's(who lived in perfect harmony with nature).

[CarmichaelPatriot]

We should send them some LNG. Just let a tanker sit in the harbor with a big sign on it saying “You could be paying less for energy, if you could just unload this tanker!”

[o_zarkman44]

“We should send them some LNG. Just let a tanker sit in the harbor with a big sign on it saying “You could be paying less for energy, if you could just unload this tanker!””

That is the post of the day!!!

I say we start hammering those states, telling them if they want energy, they have to contribute energy as well. America is tired of carrying their whining asses.

[rlferny]

Yeah this state is a mess. Same thing with logging. They shut down all the logging and now most of the southern logging communities are going broke.

We need to use our resources and create good jobs here.

The environmentalist Marxist crap has to stop.

I think this is one of the major issue of our time. Our enemies are destroying us economically and the voting public is helping them.

[ikeonic]

We should send them some LNG. Just let a tanker sit in the harbor with a big sign on it saying “You could be paying less for energy, if you could just unload this tanker!”

BRILLIANT!

I would love to see a tanker full of LNG steaming up the Columbia River with that sign.

"Dear Senator Wyden, Here's the LNG you demanded. Now explain to Oregon voters why you won't let us unload it in your state. Signed, Big Oil and Big Natural Gas"

[rogator]

Existing pipelines are capable of providing for Oregon’s natural gas needs well into the foreseeable future.
What many Oregonians, including conservative Oregonians, are objecting to is the fact that these LNG offload facilities come complete with high-pressure 3’ pipelines leading straight to California.
Let the Californians build their own LNG import facilities in California where the gas is going to be used.
DON’T CALIFORNICATE OREGON!

[ASOC]

The amout of gas exported is trivial compared to our oil exports to the USA

the tanker comes every other onth to pick up aload for JApan.

LOcals are opposed to the export as the local gas field owner (Scots?) wants to raise the cost of gas 22% - this on top of price hikes of 45% over the last two years.

[GATOR NAVY]

It’s more like once a week. My folks live in Ninilchik on the bluff and we see them going up the inlet from their house.