Charlie Brown Wrote an Op-Ed
explaining why we can not drill in any new areas under any
circumstances. This is where Charlie Brown is 100% in Alignment with
Nancy Pelosi – (see also Gay Marriage and Immigration)
The Op-Ed is linked here
Charlie writes:
Unfortunately,
nearly 80 percent of the land that is leased by oil companies for
drilling in the U.S. is not being used. The Bush Energy Department has
said even if the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) turned up
massive amounts of crude, the net affect on U.S. gas prices would be
$.01 at the pump.
Blogger’s Note – Charlie offers no proof as to how ANWR
would have negligible impact and also parrots the Pelosi line about
existing leases. Charlie ignores that that existing land that is leased
has been determined to be dry of recoverable oil resources.
As
for offshore drilling, the world’s existing drill ships are already
booked solid for the next five years. And there is a well documented
shortage of the skilled workers needed for drilling.
Blogger’s
Note: Charlie says – see, I told you we can’t do it. There is obviously
no accounting for being able to make new equipment or training of new
workers which could happen simultaneously with the opening of new
areas. This is a Red Herring argument.
The hard truth is that we use 25 percent of the world’s produced oil but hold only 3 percent of the world’s reserves.
Blogger’s
Note: Brown shows his real agenda – America is evil because it is the
World Leading economy and we need to get out of our cars and start
walking because we are using too much energy. The America Can’t
argument from a different angle…
McClintock, on the
other hand, is wide open in his solutions. He is not restrained by
having to keep the Sierra Club happy the way Charlie Brown is.
McClintock offers a simple, uncomplicated solution to our energy problems. Read the full op-ed here
Get Government out of the way:
Hydrogen
is the most abundant element in the universe — we have an entire ocean
filled with the stuff — but it takes vast amounts of electricity to
separate it. In order to produce cheap hydrogen, we must first generate
cheap electricity. And once again, Pelosi’s Congress stands in our way.
The
cheapest ways that we have to generate electricity are hydroelectric,
at 1.5 cents per kilowatt-hour; nuclear at 1.7 cents and coal at 1.9
cents. (By comparison, solar power costs 28 cents per kilowatt-hour;
natural gas, 11 cents and wind, 4.6 cents.) And yet the least expensive
technologies are those the government forbids us from developing, while
the most expensive are those the government subsidizes with higher
taxes.
Government is not the solution to our energy crisis —
government has been the cause of that crisis. And, suing Saudi Arabia
to increase oil production while keeping America’s oil off-limits is
simply a farce.
Earlier in his Op-Ed, McClintock Writes:
According
to the Bureau of Land Management, there are 38 billion barrels of oil
under American soil (19 billion barrels onshore and another 19 billion
offshore) that Congress forbids developing. But that’s just the
beginning of known American oil reserves. The Rand Institute reports
that the Green River shale formation (covering portions of Colorado,
Utah and Wyoming) holds a proven recoverable reserve of roughly 800
billion barrels of oil, three times the petroleum reserves in Saudi
Arabia. And yet Congress forbids touching this as well.
Put
together, there is enough American oil under American land to provide
for American needs for the next century at current rates of
consumption. And this doesn’t include additional fields that are yet to
be discovered. By opening its offshore waters to oil exploration,
Brazil recently increased its known reserves by 40 percent with a
single new discovery in January. But in America, it’s illegal even to
look for oil on 97 percent of our off-shore land and 93 percent of our
on-shore land.