The Problem.
July 12th, 2008 at 07:04pm Leo Pusateri
In a follow-up to a previous post, I submit for your approval a primer of how to ensure that we remain enslaved to third-world tinhorn dictators, jihadists and other whackos like Ahmadinejad and Chavez:
First, take a means of harvesting our own oil:
U.S. District Judge David Lawson of Detroit ruled Thursday the agency had acted “arbitrarily and capriciously” in 2005 by giving Savoy Energy LP of Traverse City a permit to drill an exploratory well near the Au Sable River’s south branch.
The proposed wellhead would be located in the Huron-Manistee National Forest about three-tenths of a mile from the Mason Tract, a 4,679-acre wilderness area prized by anglers and other outdoor recreationists.
Forest supervisor Leanne Marten said when approving Savoy’s application that the project wouldn’t significantly harm the environment and the company would be required to keep noise to a minimum.
Next, take two enviro-whacko groups whose true aim is to ensure that the United States ends up a third-rate power and a third-world conglomeration of collectives, reduced to living in squalor in thatched roofs, and for good measure bring along a willing accomplice whom they’ve shamed into acquiescing:
Two environmental groups, the Sierra Club and Anglers of the Au Sable, sued the government to halt the drilling. Joining the suit was Tim Mason, whose grandfather, auto executive George Mason, donated the original 1,200 acres to the state upon his death in 1954 and asked that it be maintained as wilderness.
Then, get an activist leftist puke of a judge who sees things the way they do:
But the judge ruled the Forest Service didn’t consider how degrading the area could harm tourism,
Next, find a spotted owl or a caribou. If there are no spotted owls or caribou in the area, find another obscure species of flora or fauna to prop up as a defenseless cute critter who will suffer a woeful existence and/or disappear from the face of the earth if development takes place. Never mind that it won’t be the case. In trying to accomplish such a noble cause as destroying the United States, one must never let the truth get in the way of crippling the U.S. economy. The end, after all, justifies the means
“[The judge]…said the agency did a “woefully inadequate” job of evaluating how the drilling might affect the Kirtland’s warbler, an endangered songbird that nests in the area.”
And that, my friends, is how to ensure that we become a third world, third-rate nation, courtesy of your local friendly environmentalist/socialist whacko.
Shakespeare’s Henry VI was incomplete in his assessment that what was needed in the world was first to “kill all the lawyers.” He would have been more prescient if he included the radical environmentalists in his calculations.
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15 Comments
1. Just AnotherTaxpayer | July 12th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
deleted. Extremely off topic.
2. Magnum Serpentine | July 12th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
I believe that the fact that the original land owner wanted the land to be off limits and left as a wilderness should be enough to keep the george administration from drilling on the land.
Or are we now not honoring the last will of people?
3. Leo Pusateri | July 12th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Magnum, your level of BDS is profound.
The “will of the people” has nothing to do with land that is the property of the people.
If I sold or even donated my house–once it’s out of my hands, it’s out of my hands.
Drilling for oil within our own borders so as to leave ourselves less dependent on foreign oil is *not* a “George administration” thing, it is a thing that will benefit ALL AMERICANS.
Think about that next time you try filling up your car.
4. js | July 12th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
who said it was the bush administration? the department of energy is regulated by congress….and face it…an oil rig doesnt destroy the environment…any more than tourists do….
and whats this about the original land owners intent…and how tree hugging lemmings interpet his intent to thier will…and ignore the fact that tourists are ok with thier litter and noise and the destruction of so much….oil rigs can get along better with wildlife…once ther are constructed you just let them run…no polution…every heard of a oil rig springing a leak and pumping half a million gallons of crude into the land…nope…not one time has the MSM put that on the front page…but lemmings think its more dangerous to wildlife than tourists….
what a joke….
reality is this…you pukes want them to drill for oil so you can use it but only if they dont drill for it in your back yard….it doesnt work that way…if you want oil….you best look in your own back yard…because throwing the litter in someone elses yard does nothing but make enemies….and thats exactly what you liberals and lemmings on the left have been doing to america….and now reality is sitting on your front door step….how about 10 bucks a gallon, eh? maybe that will get the point across you mooches
5. Danish Artist | July 12th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Obviously, Magnum Stupidity thought the last post for himself. He has taken the first brave step towards thinking for himself, rather than repeating the same BS.
I think we should all give him a round of applause. He still got it wrong, but he has taken that first step towards independence from the liberals.
The groups the liberals are beholden to are stopping at nothing to stop drilling. Apparently, they will not rest until every single gasoline burning car is off the road. Even though, we are far from a viable and economic alternative. There special interest demands on the politicians in their back pocket is harmful and the results is this economic downturn that the high price of oil is causing.
Liberals continue to complain but offer no solutions - only confrontation and road blocks.
6. What? | July 13th, 2008 at 12:40 am
Leo,
You are cartoonishly evil. Keep it up.
7. '08ama | July 13th, 2008 at 3:51 am
but, but, but.. I thought there was no magic wand ?!?!?!?!
8. Deejah Thoris | July 13th, 2008 at 4:00 am
Can someone tell me now these environmental groups are any different from groups that protest abortion clinics? Aren’t both working in the interest of protecting life in all its forms?
9. congressive | July 13th, 2008 at 4:21 am
Any oil drilled anywhere on American soil will be sold to the highest bidder, wherever that is in the world.
Unless you plan to nationalize “our” oil, “our” oil isn’t “ours” by any definition of the word. It’s Exxon’s, or Chevron’s, or Arco’s or whoever drills it. We get it only if we are the highest bidder, just like every drop we get from Canada or Saudi Arabia. Drilling “our” reserves to burn “our own oil” is gibberspeak.
Unless you are going all “Venezuelan” on Exxon’s hiney and nationalize them, it’s theirs, not ours, and they’re gonna sell ANWR oil to China. Here in California, the oil companies don’t even have to pay a royalty to the state.
10. Fredrick Schwartz | July 13th, 2008 at 7:18 am
9. congressive | July 13th, 2008 at 4:21 am
Exactly.
Harper’s magazine this month said drilling in ANWR would have reduced the price of gasoline by 4 cents. That and the McCain gas tax holiday would almost put the average price below $4 per gallon.
11. js | July 13th, 2008 at 9:07 am
thats lame
foreign nations taking action to affect the price of oil would have much less success if the percentage they represented on the open market were less than 10% of the largest economy that uses oil….
in other words….the have been selling gas in other countries for 4-5 times what americans have been paying for well over half of a century…they just figured out how to get to us….and remember…speculating the cost of oil in 3 months really doesnt affect the cost to get it out of the ground….foreign investment in speculation is the cause of this whole thing….
12. Fredrick Schwartz | July 13th, 2008 at 9:52 am
js | July 13th, 2008 at 9:07 am
I see you know nothing of economics, js. No matter where the oil comes from it is common pooled and priced on the MYMEX based upon supply and demand. Now there are speculators that will never take delivery of the crude in contracts they buy but the vast majority do and profit handsomely in refining spreads. The true “problem” is production but not just bringing another field online or drilling on federal lands that are open to Big Oil will solve this problem because unless someone can figure out how to extract 105 to 110 MM bbls per day China and India will continue to expand their use of this commodity; the UAE, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia will continue to use more gasoline as their “middle classes” emerge and Brazil and Russia will continue to expand their burgeoning gas extraction technology to benefit their workers and consumers as their economies move closer to EU levels.
Pick up the phone or send and e mail to nay oil company in the US and ask them that if they had drilled in ANWR or off shore if the global price of oil would drop. I think you would hear a chuckle because every oil man knows that geopolitical factors in oil producing regions affect the short term prices [3 days to 90 days] more than drilling can even in the long term [6 months to 3 years].
You can answer your own question by taking note of why oil prices remained so low throughout the 1990s when China’s consumption remianed well below 10% of global consumption and now it is over 15%.
13. TampaBayRayz-4-evah-don't-mess | July 13th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Shadow:
What exactly happened to the CRUDE FUTURES MARKETS in these discussions, indeed? Is not crude by contract for so many 1000s of barrels traded on different exchanges which historically handle crude of different weight, gravity and sulphur content.
The NYMEX, of course, specializes in Light Sweet. The ICE in Brent, etc.
You could drill in Obama’s backyard and whatever came out would be traded according to its weight, gravity and sulphur content somewhere in the world in some combination of open-outcry and online bidding-and-asking.
The crude out of Obama’s backyard would not necessarily cut the prices of gasoline in Illinois!
14. neil | July 13th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
What is the matter with you guys? Would it not be better to be less dependent on foreign oil? Are you just holding out because your guy is not president right now? We have new technology with oil drilling making a much smaller foot print than we used to. Its much cleaner and responsible these days. So please get over it. We really must try to use our own resources as much as possible.
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