http://www.globalwarming.org/2012/01/31/did-cubas-plan-to-drill-near-florida-prompt-presidents-pivot-on-offshore/ Climate Change News & Analysis Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:44:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.globalwarming.org/2012/01/31/did-cubas-plan-to-drill-near-florida-prompt-presidents-pivot-on-offshore/comment-page-1/#comment-67968 Daniel Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:54:42 +0000 http://www.globalwarming.org/?p=12759#comment-67968 President Obama's reference to "opening 75% of potential oil and gas reserves" is a chimera. This is precisely how Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar described his new plan for the next 5 years of offshore leasing which effectively leaves in place the ocs moratorium that was lifted in 2008. Here's the trick....the reason he can say they're opening 75% of the resources is because the only place the government has any information about resources is in the Central and Western Gulf of Mexico where drilling has taken place for over 60 years. 85% of the OCS in the lower 48 and huge amounts of Alaska have never been looked at for decades. If you can't look, you can't find. And they won't let us look. Like most everything else regarding energy and the Obama Administration, think Van Jones. It ain't about energy; it's about power. President Obama’s reference to “opening 75% of potential oil and gas reserves” is a chimera. This is precisely how Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar described his new plan for the next 5 years of offshore leasing which effectively leaves in place the ocs moratorium that was lifted in 2008.
Here’s the trick….the reason he can say they’re opening 75% of the resources is because the only place the government has any information about resources is in the Central and Western Gulf of Mexico where drilling has taken place for over 60 years. 85% of the OCS in the lower 48 and huge amounts of Alaska have never been looked at for decades. If you can’t look, you can’t find. And they won’t let us look.
Like most everything else regarding energy and the Obama Administration, think Van Jones. It ain’t about energy; it’s about power.

]]> http://www.globalwarming.org/2012/01/31/did-cubas-plan-to-drill-near-florida-prompt-presidents-pivot-on-offshore/comment-page-1/#comment-67924 Robert of Ottawa Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:03:11 +0000 http://www.globalwarming.org/?p=12759#comment-67924 The POTUS just mouthed words provided by the TOTUS at the SOTU; nothing will happen unless he gets desperate in this election year. The POTUS just mouthed words provided by the TOTUS at the SOTU; nothing will happen unless he gets desperate in this election year.

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