Romney's Energy plan to drill off Florida and in Arctic Wildlife Reserve: Practical or Not?
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2012/08/29 18:29:01
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Is this a practical idea? Will not any drilling off Florida will be fiercely opposed by the tourism lobby and many residents? The environmental battle against drilling in the Arctic Wildlife Reserve will be intense.
"One can be legitimately sceptical about the prospects for delivering all of these objectives within 7 years. Congressional approval will be needed for the transfer of powers to the states and Mr Romney is not likely to have a united Congress."
"The one set of voters the plan won’t win over are those of the environmentalists. A document which promises to reduce existing controls on everything from offshore drilling to new nuclear developments, will if anything, harden the dividing lines and bring out the environmentalists despite their disappointment with the Obama administration. But perhaps the calculation is that they are not going to vote Republican anyway and that there are more votes to be won in states which benefit from these ideas." - the FT
"One can be legitimately sceptical about the prospects for delivering all of these objectives within 7 years. Congressional approval will be needed for the transfer of powers to the states and Mr Romney is not likely to have a united Congress."
"The one set of voters the plan won’t win over are those of the environmentalists. A document which promises to reduce existing controls on everything from offshore drilling to new nuclear developments, will if anything, harden the dividing lines and bring out the environmentalists despite their disappointment with the Obama administration. But perhaps the calculation is that they are not going to vote Republican anyway and that there are more votes to be won in states which benefit from these ideas." - the FT
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Lindy... 2012/08/29 18:34:30The plan is impractible because...
+5We need to move away from fossil fuels! They are polluting are waters and lands. The only reason we haven't done it already is because the big oil & energy companys run America! They can't allow Americans to have free wind and solar power running things or they'll lose trillions. They could care less about the environment OR the people.
http://www.sodahead.com/unite...
As for whether we should drill, leave it up to the state of Alaska, and continue looking for other sources.
1. It will not reduce oil prices in the US.
2. See #1
The only thing it would do, is shift billions in profit from large oil companies over there, to large oil companies over there.
Meh...
http://www.npr.org/news/graph...
1. Canada (18.2%)
2. Mexico (11.4%)
3. Saudi Arabia (11.0%)
4. Venezuela (10.1%)
5. Nigeria (8.4%)
6. Angola
7. Iraq
8. Algeria
9. United Kingdom
10. Brazil
I think Saudi Arabia is despicable, just as you do, but the far larger problem is oil consumption itself. IMO, of course.
It seems Venezuela is having issues in refining oil, not pumping and shipping it. This explosion will probably hurt Venezuela more than any of their oil exports.
I just think that until we develope alternate energy, we need to quit financing those who would overthrow us.