OIly promises
Bensblurb #535 April 1, 2010
Oily promises:
Virginia is gonna get rich off of...OIL! But hold the applause. We might see some of it off Virginia’s coast someday...say, when I’ll be long gone and after gasoline soars in price.
Why the delay? Environmental lawyers will tie up any actual drilling for years, fer sure. The deal Obama announced, to pave the way to get his energy tax bill passed this year, is mostly a smoke screen.
“So what does his plan [for offshore oil drilling] really do? First of all, it kicks the can down the road on the issue of leasing off the coast of Virginia, from 2011 to 2012..The sale was scheduled for 2011; now it’s 2012. As for the ‘new areas’ off the Atlantic Coast from Maryland to Georgia, the new plan doesn’t call for leasing in those areas, but instead...study...But the biggest threat to U.S. energy security is what the president did in Alaska, and by extension, to America. He cancelled five existing lease sales that were to be held in 2011 and 2012.”--Daniel Kish, Institute for Energy Research.
The Washington Times chimes in...
“...Russia is making a bold strategic leap to begin drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. While the United States attempts to shift gears to alternative fuels to battle the purported evils of carbon emissions, Russia will erect oil derricks off the Cuban coast...A Pew Research Center poll from February showed 63 percent support for offshore drilling for oil and natural gas. Americans understand the fundamental points...If we don't drill it out, we have to buy it from other countries..The Obama administration, however, views energy policy through green eyeshades. Every aspect of its approach to energy is subordinated to radical environmental concerns. This unprecedented lack of balance is placing offshore oil resources off-limits...But we have not yet reached the green utopia, we won't get there anytime soon, and America needs more oil now...”
Meanwhile, we simply must stop global warming...But it’s not.
Here’s friend Dennis Avery’s latest:
Energy Secretary Stephen Chu recently spoke on global warming to the scientists at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory—and told them we don’t understand it. “We don’t understand the downward trend that occurred in 1900 or in 1940. We don’t fully understand the plateau that’s happened in the last decade,” he concluded.
[He] is bravely soldiering forth to spend umpteen-trillion dollars of the public’s money to forestall a global warming he doesn’t understand? That’s impressive honesty, especially as the vote on Obama’s proposed hefty energy taxes is coming before the Senate and he will have to support it...At Oak Ridge, Dr. Chu was referring to the thermometer record, which tells us global temperatures rose sharply from 1860-1880, and then declined again until about 1915. The temperatures zoomed upward again from 1915 to 1940, only to decline moderately from 1940–1975. Recently, after another sharp temperature gain from 1976–1998, the earth has apparently has entered another of the moderate declines Dr. Chu can’t explain.
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--Ben Blankenship
Oily promises:
Virginia is gonna get rich off of...OIL! But hold the applause. We might see some of it off Virginia’s coast someday...say, when I’ll be long gone and after gasoline soars in price.
Why the delay? Environmental lawyers will tie up any actual drilling for years, fer sure. The deal Obama announced, to pave the way to get his energy tax bill passed this year, is mostly a smoke screen.
“So what does his plan [for offshore oil drilling] really do? First of all, it kicks the can down the road on the issue of leasing off the coast of Virginia, from 2011 to 2012..The sale was scheduled for 2011; now it’s 2012. As for the ‘new areas’ off the Atlantic Coast from Maryland to Georgia, the new plan doesn’t call for leasing in those areas, but instead...study...But the biggest threat to U.S. energy security is what the president did in Alaska, and by extension, to America. He cancelled five existing lease sales that were to be held in 2011 and 2012.”--Daniel Kish, Institute for Energy Research.
The Washington Times chimes in...
“...Russia is making a bold strategic leap to begin drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. While the United States attempts to shift gears to alternative fuels to battle the purported evils of carbon emissions, Russia will erect oil derricks off the Cuban coast...A Pew Research Center poll from February showed 63 percent support for offshore drilling for oil and natural gas. Americans understand the fundamental points...If we don't drill it out, we have to buy it from other countries..The Obama administration, however, views energy policy through green eyeshades. Every aspect of its approach to energy is subordinated to radical environmental concerns. This unprecedented lack of balance is placing offshore oil resources off-limits...But we have not yet reached the green utopia, we won't get there anytime soon, and America needs more oil now...”
Meanwhile, we simply must stop global warming...But it’s not.
Here’s friend Dennis Avery’s latest:
Energy Secretary Stephen Chu recently spoke on global warming to the scientists at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory—and told them we don’t understand it. “We don’t understand the downward trend that occurred in 1900 or in 1940. We don’t fully understand the plateau that’s happened in the last decade,” he concluded.
[He] is bravely soldiering forth to spend umpteen-trillion dollars of the public’s money to forestall a global warming he doesn’t understand? That’s impressive honesty, especially as the vote on Obama’s proposed hefty energy taxes is coming before the Senate and he will have to support it...At Oak Ridge, Dr. Chu was referring to the thermometer record, which tells us global temperatures rose sharply from 1860-1880, and then declined again until about 1915. The temperatures zoomed upward again from 1915 to 1940, only to decline moderately from 1940–1975. Recently, after another sharp temperature gain from 1976–1998, the earth has apparently has entered another of the moderate declines Dr. Chu can’t explain.
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--Ben Blankenship
posted by Ben Blankenship at
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