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Originally Posted by Boater
While our dependence on middle east oil threatens to cripple our economy and create a bleak future for our children here is the Democrat's plan:
1. Drill our own vast oil resources in ANWR? NO
2. Drill our own vast additional resources in the Gulf of Mexico? NO
3. Drill our own vast additional resources on the west coast? NO
4. Use our vast resources of oil shale in our western states? NO
5. Build more refineries? NO
6. Build more hydroelectric plants? NO
7. Build nuclear plants? NO
8. Build windmill farms off the coast? NO
How do you develop an energy policy based on "NO"?
You see, we MUST get the oil from our enemies. Any and all attempts to develop our own resources until alternative energy can be developed are unacceptable to Democrats and they will block them as they did this week.
Everything the Democrats (and many RINO's) in Congress do is anti-energy.
It's only a matter of time until the price and lack of supply and refining capacity makes it impossible for many of us to get to the lake or afford to take our boats out. |
The Energy Information Administration, which is the Energy Department's independent analytical arm, estimated that if Congress had cleared Bush's ANWR drilling plan the oil would have been available to refiners in 2011, but only at a small volume of 40,000 barrels a day -- a drop in the bucket compared with the 20.6 million barrels the U.S. consumes daily.
At peak production, ANWR could have potentially added 780,000 barrels a day to U.S. crude oil output by 2020, according to the EIA.
"Even if oil was flowing, it would be too small amount to reduce the price" of crude or gasoline, said Daniel Weiss, energy expert at the Center for American Progress, a think tank in Washington.
"President Bush's claim ignores the primary causes behind record high oil prices: a cheap dollar, high demand from China and India, and speculators driving the price up. Drilling and sullying the Arctic would not address any of these causes of high oil prices,