Comments on: Why We Didn’t Drill Our Own Oil—A Timeline http://jscafenette.com/2008/07/26/why-we-didnt-drill-our-own-oil-a-timeline/ Pull up a chair and sit a spell... Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:16:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: ~J~ http://jscafenette.com/2008/07/26/why-we-didnt-drill-our-own-oil-a-timeline/comment-page-1/#comment-9992 ~J~ Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:07:45 +0000 http://jscafenette.com/?p=3974#comment-9992 I'm not looking for quick relief, David, just relief in the foreseeable future. If we had been allowed to drill in these places 10-15 years ago we wouldn't be at the mercy of an unstable part of the world. Schwartzenegger is hardly a typical Republican and Jeb Bush did it due to the population in the area of drilling---a political move. Gov. Crist has agreed to do offshore drilling in Florida but the Congress, run by Democrats, will not allow it. The statistics don't lie and they show us it has been primarily democrats who have been opposed to drilling anywhere we are not drilling now. I’m not looking for quick relief, David, just relief in the foreseeable future. If we had been allowed to drill in these places 10-15 years ago we wouldn’t be at the mercy of an unstable part of the world.

Schwartzenegger is hardly a typical Republican and Jeb Bush did it due to the population in the area of drilling—a political move. Gov. Crist has agreed to do offshore drilling in Florida but the Congress, run by Democrats, will not allow it.

The statistics don’t lie and they show us it has been primarily democrats who have been opposed to drilling anywhere we are not drilling now.

]]> By: David M http://jscafenette.com/2008/07/26/why-we-didnt-drill-our-own-oil-a-timeline/comment-page-1/#comment-9991 David M Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:34:02 +0000 http://jscafenette.com/?p=3974#comment-9991 While it is convenient to blame the Democrats, I think a lot of opposition is also geographical. Gov. Schwarzenegger reinterated his opposition to off-shore drilling in May of '08. Governor Jeb Bush was opposed to it early in his administration, but began to waiver in '06--depending on the restrictions. "The devil is in the details" of where and how the off-shore occurs for Florida. This is the typical attitude I see in almost every zoning and land use case I handle. Everyone wants schools and hospitals, but don't want to live next to them. A lot of the coastal states have the "NIMBY" attitude on this topic. On the Alaska drilling, if we started drilling tomorrow, the Energy Information Administration of the BLM says oil would not start flowing until 2025. CNNmoney.com had a good article on this on May 30, 2008. I didn't save the article, but I'm positive that was the date because of my birthday. Sixty percent of the federal land available for drilling is legally off-limits. However, I also recall the article said he would not reduce gasoline prices if we had instant production off-shore because the prices are set by the international market. That baffles me. I assume it's just an issue I don't understand. I think "petrol" is over $10.00 per gallon in the U.K. and they have a lot of oil from the North Sea. Therefore, no one should expect any quick relief from what we consider to be high prices from immediate off-shore drilling. Of course our prices are very low compared to most of Europe. While it is convenient to blame the Democrats, I think a lot of opposition is also geographical. Gov. Schwarzenegger reinterated his opposition to off-shore drilling in May of ‘08. Governor Jeb Bush was opposed to it early in his administration, but began to waiver in ‘06–depending on the restrictions. “The devil is in the details” of where and how the off-shore occurs for Florida. This is the typical attitude I see in almost every zoning and land use case I handle. Everyone wants schools and hospitals, but don’t want to live next to them. A lot of the coastal states have the “NIMBY” attitude on this topic. On the Alaska drilling, if we started drilling tomorrow, the Energy Information Administration of the BLM says oil would not start flowing until 2025. CNNmoney.com had a good article on this on May 30, 2008. I didn’t save the article, but I’m positive that was the date because of my birthday. Sixty percent of the federal land available for drilling is legally off-limits. However, I also recall the article said he would not reduce gasoline prices if we had instant production off-shore because the prices are set by the international market. That baffles me. I assume it’s just an issue I don’t understand. I think “petrol” is over $10.00 per gallon in the U.K. and they have a lot of oil from the North Sea. Therefore, no one should expect any quick relief from what we consider to be high prices from immediate off-shore drilling. Of course our prices are very low compared to most of Europe.

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