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can only afford three chins…
John Hinderaker, the Minnesota Assrocket, wants to act as a mediator between the oil companies and the America-hating West Coast elitists.
In an effort to find common ground he turns to our buddies at the Institute for Energy Research who are only looking out for, well, someone’s best interests:
But there are areas where, if Congress acts to remove existing bans on drilling, oil could be flowing in a matter of months, not years. Foremost on this list is oil off the coast of California. We asked Dan Kish, Senior Vice President, Policy, at the Institute for Energy Research to comment. This is what he told us:
For oil, California is the quickest relief. Existing platforms there would allow access to some of the leases companies paid $1.1 billion for in 1981, but have been precluded from developing for 26 years. California is the nation’s largest consumer of gasoline, so it could go directly to their extensive refinery network, also. The estimates are that 10 billion barrels exist off the coast of California, and tankers full of imported oil and Alaska North Slope oil go through those protected waters every day.
Santa Barbara is also home to one of the largest oil seep trends ever observed, and in one small area 100 bbls per day seep to the surface, except around an existing producing platform that releases the pressure causing the seeps. 100% of the oil on the beaches in Santa Barbara county, and 50% of the oil on the beaches of LA County are caused by Santa Barbara’s seeps. The local group Stop Oil Seeps advocates drilling there to improve the environment.
How very thoughtful of them. By all means, take my environment. Please. And should things , as they say, gang aft agley, we’ll know where to turn for representation.
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DISCLAIMER: I grew up in the oil patch in Oklahoma and my father worked for a major oil company for his entire career.
NEVER believe anything the oil industry or their spokes critters about anything. They lie like Republicans (which they are).
The quickest way to increase oil flowing to California refineries is to re-direct the tankers carrying Alaskan oil to Japan.
If America needs this oil, can’t we have a national oil company?
They can be for profit wing of the government… After all, it is *ours*, right?
uh, Mr Oil Man? I think your face is, umm, like, melting ? were you one of the evil dudes who opened the Ark? you shoulda looked away.
Around 1988 I took a week’s vacation at Club Med Eleuthera, in the Bahamas. On the path back from the beach were wooden stands holding foil-wrapped moist towelettes, like Wash’n Dri. I was told that these were to deal with the black smudges I would find on my skin after swimming in that beautiful clear blue ocean. They warned me that these towelettes were highly and dangerously flammable, so I had to be careful. That’s because the solvents necessary to remove the smudges were very volatile, as the smudges were droplets of crude oil.
I don’t know if there was offshore drilling in the Bahamas then, though there is today. I was told the oil most likely came from minor leaks on oil tankers, and it might have drifted hundreds, even thousands of miles before reaching those wonderful and seemingly pristine beaches. Even so, there were enough droplets in the waters of the Bahamas that everyone got smudged.
Which means that when crude oil gets into the ocean, it doesn’t go away. It may get broken up into smaller and smaller globs, but there is nothing to absorb or digest it. It doesn’t go away.
Hindrocket should put that into his pipe and smoke it. Better yet, one of those towelettes.
Which means that when crude oil gets into the ocean, it doesn’t go away. It may get broken up into smaller and smaller globs, but there is nothing to absorb or digest it. It doesn’t go away.
Hindrocket should put that into his pipe and smoke it. Better yet, one of those towelettes.
he lives in MN, what does he care about the ocean and beaches?
I’ll make Hindrocket a deal. The oil companies can start drilling off the shore of California the day a nuclear waste depository opens in the Twin Cities.
Didn’t that lawsuit against Exxon for the Valdez Alaskan spill get settled so that taxpayers took it on the chin? Republicans – priviaizing the profits for their clients while sticking us with the bill, otherwise known as socializing the risks. I say let them drill, but only if the Republican Party agrees to be held liable for any spills.
Things are so bad that some CEO’s can only afford three chins…
Bahahaha…I needed that laugh today.
I grew up in Florida near the Atlantic, and those smudges appeared quite often. Indeed, they’re from freighters. Easy to get off with mineral spirits, though.
One already did, it’s where the Twins play. snark
I’m here all week…
John Hinderaker, the Minnesota Assrocket, wants to act as a mediator between the oil companies and the America-hating West Coast elitists.
If he’s legal to shoot, I think the directors of various oil companies and I could find common ground. Beats the heck out of those caged quail!
He does know about the history of oil drilling in Santa Barbara, right? He’s not completely stupid?
So, does that Exxon guy keep Princess Leia in a metal bikini chained up in his lair?
Hmm, I heard a caller on Talk of the Nation who had lived in the Santa Barbara area for several decades and he said that the amount of oil globs has increased dramatically on the past 10 years. So much for that “reduce the pressure = less seepage” argument, unless of course it really has decreased and the cause is actually a huge increase in leakage from rigs, tankers, etc. Just one more example of their so-called science not actually matching reality.
As I’ve said before, this drill here now stuff is all being carefully presented to make the average salt of the earth type think that if we drill it here, we get to keep it and it will be sold to us at far under-market cost. I just positive that the oil overlords will be that generous with us, aren’t you? I mean, I simply know it in my soul!