Well, sorry to break the news but hardly anybody likes you anyway, your party is in the tank, and you stabbed all of us who supported you through the hard times right in the back, so the situation ain’t likely to get better.

Just do it. Be the 9-11 George Bush for the next 6 months. It’s all or nothing time.

According to a FOX News poll in PDF format (via Hot Air), plenty of Americans feel that oil drilling should be allowed on the US shores…

- Onshore, 72% of oil and 84% of natural gas resources are either fully accessible under standard lease stipulations designed to protect lands
and wildlife, or will be accessible pending the completion of land-use
planning or environmental reviews.

- Between 1999 and 2007, drilling permits for oil and gas development on public lands increased more than 361%.

- Since 2004, the Bureau of Land Management has issued 28,776 permits to drill on public land; in that same time, only 18,954 wells were actually
drilled.

- Oil and gas companies have stockpiled nearly 10,000 extra permits to drill that they are not using to increase domestic production.

- Onshore, of the 47.5 million acres of federal lands leased by oil and gas companies, only about 13 million acres are actually producing oil
and gas.

- Offshore, only 10.5 million of the 44 million leased acres are currently producing oil or gas.

- Combined, oil and gas companies hold leases to nearly 68 million acres of federal land that are not producing oil and gas.

- The 68 million acres of leased, inactive federal land could produce an additional 4.8 million barrels of oil and 44.7 billion cubic feet of natural
gas each day.

- That would nearly double total U.S. oil production, and increase natural gas production by 75%.

- 4.8 million barrels of oil equals more than six times the estimated peak production from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

- Development of and production from the 68 million acres currently under lease but not in production would cut US imports of oil by one-third.

1 Bambi/Caribou (happily prancing and screwing on a [O so Holy St. Pristine!] barren wilderness) = X Eco-sacrifices (how many Americans/allies persons killed and maimed protecting vital mideast oil sources/supply lines since the underused Alaskan pipeline was completed).

I need accurate numbers of each factor.

Thank you.

James Greenidge
Queens NY
(not adverse to Caribou steaks)

GWB must show leadership and recind that executive order, and the dems must get over their green obsession since even they don’t practice it.

RIGHT ON!!!!!

Did you read that the tracts in question are the Gull Island Leases ADL 34626 and ADL 34629 that people like you say are an urban myth and do not exist.

Apparently you didn’t read the report from 1993, at which time BP Exploration was preparing to drill producing wells in the area adjacent to 34626 and 34629. According to the court proceeding, the seismic data did not indicate that the reservoir pool being exploited by BP encroached into the tracts leased by ARCO and Exxon – which are the two tracts you are talking about. Of the two exploratory wells drilled on those two tracts (as of 1993), neither yielded commercial quantities of oil. In other words, the fact of the leases is not an “urban myth”. The claim that they contain vast quantities of oil that is being withheld by evil oil corporations is. Your credibility is completely shot when you a.) don’t read the reports in question and b) quote a bunch of left-wing nutcases as a source (FTCR).

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