ENERGY INDEPENDENCE
Common sense, individual freedoms, faith in free markets and limited government will make America prosperous.” -Dr. Gerry Dembrowski
Are you like most American’s asking “why do we pay so much for gasoline (Riyadh Saudi Arabia $0.91, Kuwait City Kuwait $0.78, Cairo Egypt $0.65, Lagos Nigeria $0.38, Caracas Venezuela $0.12, click here, 2004 Iraq .5 cents click here).
Last year the U.S. spent over $300 billion importing oil and well over $107 billion went to OPEC. For 2010 figures click here.
If your asking, “why is it when members of OPEC need their countries defended (Kuwait and Saudi Arabia) our military pays top dollar for fuel, or when they need a new mansion or toy the American people pay outrageous gasoline and heating oil prices?”
Are you wondering what our U.S. House of Representatives are doing to help mitigate America's dependence on imported oil?
Here’s your answer!
Rep. Ed Markey, chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, in January 2008 introduced a bill that would require the Interior Department to delay the sale of oil drilling rights in the Chukchi Sea. CNSNews.com Monday, January 21, 2008
According to Randall Luthi, director of the Minerals Management Service, “the Chukchi Sea Planning Area could hold 15 billion barrels of oil and 76 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.” CNSNews.com Monday, January 21, 2008
Democrats oppose extracting 10 billion barrels of oil from ANWR because it won't affect prices, but want to tap our strategic reserve of 700 million because it will. Investors.com May 26, 2008
Before the House Committee on Global Warming, Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., said he didn't understand why President Bush wasn't releasing oil from the nation's reserves stored in underground salt domes in Texas and Louisiana. Investors.com May 26, 2008
Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman tried to explain that the stockpile “is meant to deal with... the physical interruption of the flow of oil to this country.” Investors.com May 26, 2008
He continued with, “we need more reserves — from the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to shale oil in the Rockies to the outer continental shelf. “Instead, we have the likes of Rep. Markey, who last year (2007) introduced H.R. 39, legislation that would make the 1.2-million-acre coastal plain of ANWR a permanently protected wilderness. Investors.com May 26, 2008
This would “translates to about 27 million gallons of gasoline and diesel every day, would be about a 20% increase of oil... and likely mean lower gas prices.” Investors.com May 26, 2008
John Hofmeister, president of Shell Oil Co. said, the “outer continental shelf holds an estimated 115 billion barrels of oil and 635 trillion feet of natural gas. If allowed to develop these resources in Alaska, the shelf and elsewhere, U.S. reserves would increase by a factor of five, and we'd jump from 11th to fourth in the world in the size of our proven reserves.” He also told his Senate inquisitors: “This persistent denial of access is costing American consumers right out of their pocketbooks.” Investors.com May 26, 2008
Are you asking, “why aren’t we developing America’s oil reserves”!
Here’s your answer!
Rep. Markey, in 2007 introduced legislation that made the 1.2-million-acre coastal plain of ANWR a permanently protected wilderness. CNSNews.com Monday, January 21, 2008
This “would be about a 20% increase in oil.” It also “translates to about 27 million gallons of gasoline and diesel every day.” CNSNews.com Monday, January 21, 2008
Myron Ebell, director of energy and global warming policy at the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute, told Cybercast News Service, “I think that Rep. Markey’s bill is a short-sighted attempt to block domestic energy production by using unsubstantiated claims about the polar bear.” CNSNews.com Monday, January 21, 2008
He also said, “Rep. Markey and too many other members of Congress are willing to use any tools available to stop oil production in this country. Then they complain about high gasoline prices and importing oil from countries they don't like.” CNSNews.com Monday, January 21, 2008
Rep. Markey, chairman of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, is now pushing legislation to stop the sale of oil drilling rights in the Chukchi Sea. He says this important source of human energy "may be" needed as critical habitat for the polar bears' “survival.” World Net Daily February 08, 2008
Dale Hall, director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, added that “a review of various factors led to a determination that these activities do not threaten polar bears throughout all or a significant portion of its range.” CNSNews.com Monday, January 21, 2008
”Total population is about 22,000 and stable.” Dr. Mitchell Taylor, a biologist with the government of Nunavut, in Canada's Northwest Territory. He also said, “Polar bears are not going extinct and do not even appear to be affected.” He continued to say, “13 separate polar bear populations in Canada, 11 are stable or increasing in number.” World Net Daily February 08, 2008
Members of congress have spent more time placing moratoria on offshore and federal land drilling that would lift U.S. crude oil production by as much as 2 million barrels per day by 2030, offsetting nearly a fifth of the nation's imports.
While members of congress are preventing America from developing its natural resources, they weren’t creating any incentives for viable renewable resources. Instead of congress preventing natural resource development, congress should have given an incremental time frame for a transition from fossil fuels to renewable resources. Both sources should have been developed with the forethought to move from fossil to renewable as the technology became available. Instead members of congress stopped America’s energy development and created America’s dependency on foreign oil!
Alternative fuel sources will eventually replace oil and natural gas in the future. The problem is technology must first catch-up with the ambitions of “going green.” Right now renewable fuel sources are very expensive and do not match oil and natural gas for affordability, versatility, portability, energy efficiency or ease of use.
We are a nation of innovation. When Americans put their hearts and minds to a task, we will accomplish that which we set out to accomplish.
We need only peer into history when on September 12, 1962 on the campus of Rice University when John F. Kennedy committed the United States to go to the moon. He said, “Our leadership in science and industry. Our hopes of peace and security. Our obligation to ourselves, as well as others all require us to make this effort. To solve these mysteries. To solve them for the good of all mankind.” On July 20, 1969 the Apollo II spacecraft landed on the moon. The same spirit is alive and well today for energy independance and leading the world in the development of renewable energy resources.
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