Run the Bastards Out
Posted by Captain Aaron Sheffield | Filed under Guest Authors, Idiot Legislation
Run them right the hell out of town on a rail, stripped naked, and tarred and feathered.
Now I know that Ted and Hazel like to keep a clean house here, so I apologize if I intrude on anyone’s delicate nature. Ya’ll can just go somewhere else for a bit. For the rest of you that have the stomach for it, continue on past the fold.
Ok, just us now.
Your House and mine today shot down yet again a plan to open up the Outer Continental Shelf for petroleum exploration. In fact, the proposal never even made the hell out of committee. I will give you here some of the dumbassery:
“We are kidding ourselves if we think we can drill our way out of these problems,” House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-Wis., said during the bill mark-up session.
Sierra Club lands program director Athan Manuel told a House committee Wednesday that drilling has been unsuccessful in driving costs down.
“The disappointing part about some of the energy policies being promoted (is) that it calls for more drilling when drilling really is the problem. And all we’ve got to show for pretty aggressive (domestic) drilling for the last 35 years is, again, $4 for a gallon of gas,” Manuel said, adding “since the first Arab oil shock in the 1970s, the U.S. has produced almost 90 billion barrels of oil since then, so we’ve tried drilling our way out of the problem and it just hasn’t worked.”
Environment Florida spokeswoman Holly Binns told the Media General news group that offshore drilling has no immediate impact on prices.
“It would take anywhere from seven to 10 years to bring those resources to shore — to have any measurable impact on supply,” Binns said, advocating renewable energy sources.
Well, just to be fair, (like these fuckers deserve it) I guess it will take seven to ten years to drill, then maybe they have a point. But they would be wrong. It doesn’t take seven to ten years to drill a hole in the bottom of the Gulf.
The Flatrock No. 4 (“C” location) infill development well, which commenced drilling on April 9, 2008, is located between the Flatrock No. 1 discovery and the Flatrock No. 2 wells. The No. 4 well has been drilled to 15,315 feet and log-while-drilling tools have indicated hydrocarbon bearing sands in the proven hydrocarbon column in the Rob-L section approximating 135 net feet over a total approximate 246 foot gross interval. The well will be deepened to a proposed total depth of 18,500 feet to evaluate additional targets in the Rob-L and Operc sections.
By my calculations, that means that from drilling to oil was TWO GODDAMNED MONTHS! And That was an American company operating off the coast of Louisiana, you know where Hurricane Katrina caused all the oil platforms to spill a billion barrels of oil all over the Gulf of Mexico. (THAT DIDN’T HAPPEN EITHER, YOU SLACKWIT BASTARDS.)
But you say, sure, in ten feet of water you could do that; but what about out in in deep Gulf waters? That surely would take ten years, easy. Again, you cock-gargling thundercunts, you are wrong. China started drilling Cuban waters in 2006, and now not only pumping oil out of Cuban reserves, fifty fucking miles off of Florida, but are by-damn slant drilling into the oil reserves on OUR SIDE. So not only are the policies of the august body costing Americans daily in higher prices for every single thing in our oil based economy, but their pussified policies are now allowing uncontested theft of our own assets.
And don’t you shitting dare to talk to me about the ‘environmental danger’ of ocean drilling when the TRANSPORT of foreign oil to our shores is the ONLY significant source of oil spills greater than a thousand barrels since the Valdez incident. (More oil bubbles up from the bottom the sea, Jed Clampett style, than has been spilled from any other single source.) But sixty percent, SIXTY PERCENT, of all oil spills come from transporting it, not drilling it. Transporting by ship that is.
We have enough coal to make coal gasification economically feasible. We have enough goal that we could gasify enough to last us for literally hundreds of years. Some say we could get upwards of a trillions barrels of oil just from the Rocky Mountain shale deposits and the tar sands. But even with those two things going full bore, we would still need the light sweet crude from the tits of mother nature for other things besides gasoline for your car. We need that oil for industry, for AvGas, for plastics, etc. Even if we got two hundred reactors up and running so we could all drive around in little electric deathtraps, we would STILL NEED THE GODDAMNED OIL.
So like I said, when it comes time to vote (if we get another chance that means anything) run the bastards out of town on a rail. They ain’t doing OUR work anymore.
Tags: 2008 election, electric cars, take back your government, where is the outrage?
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June 13th, 2008
You would think so, but you would be wrong.
http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-cheney-oil-drilling,0,1671056.story
June 13th, 2008
Mr. Anon… I have seen the identical article (an AP piece) on a dozen different blogs. But have seen not one word written by anybody else (original reporting that is.) Since no one else has come forward yet with that same story, I and the Captain shall reserve judgment on the veracity of said article. However, you bring up a good point…the NYT did a piece on China DRILLING in May of 2006, as well as CNN and even the Washington Times. Please tell us, which reporting we are supposed to believe when our press has decided that the truth is whatever they decide it is on any given day.