So, burning more and more fossil fuels into the atmosphere and causing pollution is good for health care and the lungs in particular? To say nothing of just burning up the hydrocarbons that our very civilization needs to continue to survive. Items such as plastics, lubricating oils, machining cooling and cutting oils, medicines, fertilizers, and on and on. Do you think that future generations might just not want to thank us for using such commodities up, especially as they might not be able to breath the polluted air, or drink the polluted water, or even live on the polluted lands? And none of the things I mention have anything to do with Rapid Global Climate Change at all.!
Heck, would it not be better even if Rapid Global Climate Change did not exist as you say it does not, to do everything we can to stop burning such up into our atmosphere regardless? I fully realize that we will not be able to change these things over night, or possibly even very quickly at all. But, would it not at least be a good thing to try to give it a start anyway?
You work as what…? A roughneck? One reason we don’t have more of a glut of oil is much of the remaining fields that would be easy to extract from have been placed off limits by the government. In the Gulf of Mexico rigs have been forced into deeper waters by government obstruction.On land the gas boom has been almost entirely on private property. The Obama administration has been the least resource extraction friendly one in many decades.And, it isn’t just oil and gas. It’s everything. In Arizona where I live the administration has held up every mining permit any company has requested. It won’t even allow reopening of existing mines that could be productive because of a rise in prices of the mined element(s).Yet, it will permit solar arrays that are depleting scarce ground water and displacing protected and endangered species like the Desert Tortise or Gila Monster because in the administation’s technically illiterate eyes solar is “good.”
Maybe the reason that close-to-shore drilling is not allowed has to do with the fact that beach-front communities don’t want to risk billions in tourist dollars when (not if) the beach goes total black.
Not every regulatory decision is designed specifically and solely to see how many jobs can be killed. This knowledge may come as a surprise to some.
Genome and Haley’s discussion: Shell oil drilled “test” wells on my grandmother’s private land and hit oil, then capped the wells off, and have not come back to tap into the field they clearly found with the well on her, and adjoining property. That occurred in 1953!!! Government land is in NO WAY “locked up” from development, and what companies pay in royalties, if they pay at all, is peanuts. There’s still oil waiting out there on the private in large part because they WOULD have to pay the owners of the mineral estate royalties. Which, Santa Fe international, now merged with Burlington Northern, are much more OIL COMPANIES today than railroads. It’s all that FREE mineral estate they got to develop rail lines, and it’s FREE because they made more than their development “costs” back selling of the surface estate decades ago!
And it’s not by any means just Polar bear numbers going down due AGW and climate change, as well as habitat destruction that ALSO plays a large role in changing the climate! It’s the complex physical world, not just CO2 that Man has so radically altered, on a HUGE scale!
frodo1008 over 10 years ago
So, burning more and more fossil fuels into the atmosphere and causing pollution is good for health care and the lungs in particular? To say nothing of just burning up the hydrocarbons that our very civilization needs to continue to survive. Items such as plastics, lubricating oils, machining cooling and cutting oils, medicines, fertilizers, and on and on. Do you think that future generations might just not want to thank us for using such commodities up, especially as they might not be able to breath the polluted air, or drink the polluted water, or even live on the polluted lands? And none of the things I mention have anything to do with Rapid Global Climate Change at all.!
Heck, would it not be better even if Rapid Global Climate Change did not exist as you say it does not, to do everything we can to stop burning such up into our atmosphere regardless? I fully realize that we will not be able to change these things over night, or possibly even very quickly at all. But, would it not at least be a good thing to try to give it a start anyway?
Enoki over 10 years ago
You work as what…? A roughneck? One reason we don’t have more of a glut of oil is much of the remaining fields that would be easy to extract from have been placed off limits by the government. In the Gulf of Mexico rigs have been forced into deeper waters by government obstruction.On land the gas boom has been almost entirely on private property. The Obama administration has been the least resource extraction friendly one in many decades.And, it isn’t just oil and gas. It’s everything. In Arizona where I live the administration has held up every mining permit any company has requested. It won’t even allow reopening of existing mines that could be productive because of a rise in prices of the mined element(s).Yet, it will permit solar arrays that are depleting scarce ground water and displacing protected and endangered species like the Desert Tortise or Gila Monster because in the administation’s technically illiterate eyes solar is “good.”
I Play One On TV over 10 years ago
Maybe the reason that close-to-shore drilling is not allowed has to do with the fact that beach-front communities don’t want to risk billions in tourist dollars when (not if) the beach goes total black.
Not every regulatory decision is designed specifically and solely to see how many jobs can be killed. This knowledge may come as a surprise to some.
Motivemagus over 10 years ago
Well done. Well, harley? Got it right, now?
Motivemagus over 10 years ago
“Cow!”
Dtroutma over 10 years ago
Genome and Haley’s discussion: Shell oil drilled “test” wells on my grandmother’s private land and hit oil, then capped the wells off, and have not come back to tap into the field they clearly found with the well on her, and adjoining property. That occurred in 1953!!! Government land is in NO WAY “locked up” from development, and what companies pay in royalties, if they pay at all, is peanuts. There’s still oil waiting out there on the private in large part because they WOULD have to pay the owners of the mineral estate royalties. Which, Santa Fe international, now merged with Burlington Northern, are much more OIL COMPANIES today than railroads. It’s all that FREE mineral estate they got to develop rail lines, and it’s FREE because they made more than their development “costs” back selling of the surface estate decades ago!
And it’s not by any means just Polar bear numbers going down due AGW and climate change, as well as habitat destruction that ALSO plays a large role in changing the climate! It’s the complex physical world, not just CO2 that Man has so radically altered, on a HUGE scale!