We Need More Energy, Says Barry. Let’s Ban Drilling, Says Interior Nominee
For those who watched Barry’s speech (I’ll admit, I only caught a little bit, couldn’t take the lies and BS, and his um’s and ah’s mess up my speech patterns, which I kinda need for my job, but, I did see this part), memba this?
The fact is, our economy did not fall into decline overnight. Nor did all of our problems begin when the housing market collapsed or the stock market sank. We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than ever before….
He mentions energy 14 times during his missive (Nancy Pelosi, by contrast, blinked 923,000 times), wanting some pie in the sky “a windmill in every driveway and solar power in every pot if only we spend trillions while somehow reducing the deficit that is all Booooosh’s fault” type. Yet….
President-elect Barack Obama’s secretary of the interior nominee, Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Colo.), said he will consider restoring parts of an expired federal ban on offshore oil drilling, but told CNSNews.com that he has “no idea” how much of the drilling restrictions should be reimposed.
not to mention…
Back in September, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), told CNSNews.com that restoring the ban on new offshore oil drilling leases “will be a top priority for discussion” in the Congress in 2009.
So, as gas prices creep up, which means virtually all prices will creep up, Obama and the dems want to make sure we keep importing around 70% of the oil we need. Because hooking a unicorn up to a generator isn’t going to happen toot sweet, ya know.
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Posted by William Teach on February 25, 2009 9:36 am
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Folks…Listen. We could drill all over this nation and STILL NOT MEET OUR DEMAND. We have about 15% of the worlds reserves and we use about 51% of the oil production. That, even for the right side, should be clear as to why ‘drill baby drill’ was a stoopid GOP tactic. We simply will never be able to drill our way out of our addiction. Does that make any sense to you folks? Rather than cling to a 100 year old technology (oil) why not look to the alternatives available to us? We are too smart of a nation to cling to old ways.
There could be no better investment in America than to invest in America becoming energy independent! We need to utilize everything in out power to reduce our dependence on foreign oil including using our own natural resources. Create cheap clean energy, new badly needed green jobs, and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. The high cost of fuel this past year seriously damaged our economy and society. The cost of fuel effects every facet of consumer goods from production to shipping costs. After a brief reprieve gas is inching back up. OPEC will continue to cut production until they achieve their desired 80-100. per barrel. If all gasoline cars, trucks, and SUV’s instead had plug-in electric drive trains, the amount of electricity needed to replace gasoline is about equal to the estimated wind energy potential of the state of North Dakota. There is a really good new book out by Jeff Wilson called The Manhattan Project of 2009 Energy Independence Now. http://www.themanhattanprojectof2009.com No one single factor affects our economy more or trickles down further than the high cost of fuel. This past year the high cost of fuel did serious damage to our economy and society. We shouldn’t allow other countries to have that much control over our economy. We need to become a nation that is totally energy independent.
Franko
I you had listened up to the whole, as in all, ‘drill baby drill’ proposals you should have noticed several critical aspects. 1’st development of our own resources would reduce the billions of dollars sent to foreign countries that fund many of their anti-American policies and actions. Second having our own, internally controlled energy resources enhances our security by decreasing our dependence on foreign suppliers. Most of the drilling advocates readily admitted drilling now would not be a viable long term solution, but provide the necessary bridging energy sources while economically viable and sustainable alternative technologies are developed.
Solar and wind are not reliable enough to be primary energy sources. Sun light is available on 50% of the time over a year. Wind is not reliable from day to day, or even hour to hour. Then we have the problems of scalability and energy distribution. Current infrastructures are not adequate. New infrastructures will take years, if not decades, to design and construct; assuming these projects are not delayed by environmentalists opposed to the impacts(s) of the projects.
We have enough shale oil for seven hundred years. We don’t know how much oil we have because dems have refused to allow the US to properly survey potential oil fields etc, as that might lead rational people to declare Drill Here Drill Now, when the only things the democraps want to drill are the American People.
The problem is not that we have no viable means of supporting our energy needs; the problem is that “greenies” spend so much time moaning about what is “wrong” with any solutions offered by everyone else, they have no time left to help seek alternatives.
They want glory for making the world a better place but to do none of the work required to get there. Bark about fossil fuels and global warming, bark about nuclear power, even bark about methane produced by agricultural livestock.
Solar and wind are fine – supplements. They will NOT provide the answer. There is no single answer, in fact; there will need to be a combination of fossil fuels, nuclear, solar, wind, and EVEN METHANE.
Live with it. Deal with it. Move on with life. Change will not happen overnight and the sooner greenies sit down and close their mouths and HELP instead of STANDING IN THE WAY, the sooner we will get where we need to be.
Truth is that most “greenies” doesn’t want cheap oil – they see drilling in the US (cheap oil) as a threat to investment in renewable technologies, and will stop at nothing to ban it.
They don’t seem to notice that we ship _hundreds of billions_ of dollars overseas each year for imported energy. 2008 we spent 800 -B-illion importing oil. That’s the same size as the “stimulus” bill just passed. Do you think we can afford to do this very long before bankrupting the country? We _will_ be using oil for two more decades, why not keep that money closer to home?
We need to use our existing oil infrastructure – there is nothing else available right now (5-10 yrs) and at the same time continue development of alternative fuels.
Firstly we need to become serious about conservation. Fuel mileage standards must be raised – and a PR campaign must be launched to modify attitudes about high-mileage cars and trucks. The auto engineers know how to make efficient cars, we need convince the consumer that they want to buy them.
Secondly, we need to continue displacing oil with ethanol, allow MORE oil to be displaced with ethanol with incentives to build into new vehicles the flex-fuel capability. We need to do this now, because it fits within our existing framework of liquid-based transportation fuel. (Anti-ethanol arguments are mostly oil-funded smears and urban legends – ethanol is clean and can be made efficiently, doesn’t impact the price of food nearly as drastically as high oil prices, and 90%+ is not irrigated.)
That’s a workable 10-30 year energy band-aid, which will keep energy monies closer to home and allow us to develop viable batteries and electric cars that can become the dominate mode of transport.
Our future is electric cars – recharged with sun, wind, nuke, coal, hydro, wave, tide, fuel cells, fusion, cold fusion, and whatever ELSE can be developed and compete in a market.
The reason we can’t go all-electric sooner is because we have an antique electric grid in much of the country. Obama’s right on target here – the electric grid must be built to have the capacity for future electic-transport needs.