A very interesting post from www.consumerenergyalliance.org about keeping gas prices down. This follows this post about Muslims in the Israeli parliament and this previous article about the recent news about offshore drilling to encourage American energy independence This is a key issue to prevent money from going to hostile countries such as Iran and Venezuela. For more posts like this click here.
America will still rely on oil and natural gas to produce nearly 65% of our domestic energy over the next 20 years. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has determined that energy production in the Arctic Refuge will not threaten endangered polar bears. Any negative effects have already been mitigated through extensive preventative measures. By signing the petition below, we will tell Washington that we support public land use and keeping gas prices low!
Dear Sir:
I am writing to urge you to develop a balance, fair Comprehensive Conservation Plan (CCP) that considers the potential economic consequences that designating additional wilderness lands could have on preserving the indigenous population's way of life, in creating thousands of new jobs, and the ability to bolster economic security. I believe that the 58 million acres of federal lands that are currently designated as wilderness more than adequately preserves Alaska's unique place for future generations.
Native populations rely not only on wildlife for sustenance, but also on local oil and gas production for revenues. Since the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971, responsible energy production has provided natives with revenues that are vital to providing public services such as education and health care. Maintaining these vital streams of revenue is important to protect.
I understand and appreciate your intent to undertake all possible measures to protect Alaska's wilderness. Conservation is critical to preserving our treasured ecosystems, and I applaud the extensive measures local populations and industries have taken to ensure the integrity of the Alaskan wilderness. However, restricting land that has been used responsibly by native populations for centuries endangers their way of life and sets a dangerous precedent.
I hope you will take these considerations in mind when developing the next Comprehensive Conservation Plan and in future conservation plans. Restricting access to natural resources can cause serious repercussions for local populations who rely heavily on their land.
Sincerely,
View more information about this issue.
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Time is running out for drilling
A very interesting post from YourEnergyOpinion.com. about drilling offshore!
Whether or not we drill for more American oil and gas before at least 2015 could be decided in 20 days.
And Al Gore and his environmental allies are working hard behind the scenes to make sure that we don't drill. So we need to work even harder. The U.S. Department of Interior decides when and where we drill, and they decide based on public feedback. This means that if they hear from more people that are opposed to drilling than are for it, then no new drilling will happen until at least 2015. And they're only accepting comments until September 21.Those of us who want to drill now must rule the day.The environmental groups are already collecting hundreds of thousands of signatures and we need to surpass them to win the public comment period.
The way for you to help right now is to submit your comment at YourEnergyOpinion.com.
Everything is pre-written for you, so all you have to do is enter your information and hit "Submit Letter."This is about creating more American jobs by developing more American energy. This is about making sure that our energy needs are never held hostage to foreign countries that don't like us.Please submit your comments right now at YourEnergyOpinion.com and ask your friends to do the same.Thanks so much for your time and participation.
Sincerely, Dan Varroney
Senior Vice-President & COOAmerican S
olutions for Winning the Future
Whether or not we drill for more American oil and gas before at least 2015 could be decided in 20 days.
And Al Gore and his environmental allies are working hard behind the scenes to make sure that we don't drill. So we need to work even harder. The U.S. Department of Interior decides when and where we drill, and they decide based on public feedback. This means that if they hear from more people that are opposed to drilling than are for it, then no new drilling will happen until at least 2015. And they're only accepting comments until September 21.Those of us who want to drill now must rule the day.The environmental groups are already collecting hundreds of thousands of signatures and we need to surpass them to win the public comment period.
The way for you to help right now is to submit your comment at YourEnergyOpinion.com.
Everything is pre-written for you, so all you have to do is enter your information and hit "Submit Letter."This is about creating more American jobs by developing more American energy. This is about making sure that our energy needs are never held hostage to foreign countries that don't like us.Please submit your comments right now at YourEnergyOpinion.com and ask your friends to do the same.Thanks so much for your time and participation.
Sincerely, Dan Varroney
Senior Vice-President & COOAmerican S
olutions for Winning the Future
Friday, April 3, 2009
Drill Here Drill Now Meetings!
A Big hat tip to www.americansolutions.com
Attend A Public Hearing on Drill Here, Drill Now
Remember Drill Here, Drill Now?
Last summer, the collective voice of 1.5 million Americans forced both the administration and Congress to reverse long-held, overlapping federal bans on offshore drilling.
Unfortunately, due to bureaucratic delay, massive amounts of American energy are still under lock-and-key. Last month, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that a years-long process of identifying energy-rich areas offshore to lease for development would be delayed an additional six months. The secretary plans to use this time to conduct a series of four field hearings on the plan, hoping the public reinforces his view that the status quo be preserved, and no new energy be brought online anytime soon.
Make no mistake: the deck is stacked and the game is fixed. Just look at the four locations they have selected (and those they left out) for these hearings: Atlantic City, New Orleans, Anchorage, and San Francisco. The one thing they haven’t accounted for, though, is that supporters of American energy exploration might show up to these events and demand their voices be heard. And make no mistake, we will be heard.
If you live near one of the four events, we hope you can to attend and participate in this hearing. Here are two fact sheets that you can print off and bring with you: The Basics and Myth vs. Fact. The stakes couldn’t be higher, and your full participation couldn’t be more urgently needed. Here are the four locations along with the itinerary for each public hearing:
Dates/Venues
Monday, April 6 -- Atlantic City, NJAtlantic City Convention CenterOne Convention BoulevardAtlantic City, NJ
Wednesday, April 8 -- New Orleans, LATulane University, McAlister AuditoriumMcAlister Drive between Freret and Willow Streets6823 St. Charles AvenueNew Orleans, LA
Tuesday, April 14 -- Anchorage, AKDena'ina Civic & Convention Center600 W. Seventh AveAnchorage, AK
Thursday, April 16 -- San Francisco, CAMission Bay Conference Center on the campus of Univ. of California, San FranciscoRobertson Auditorium1675 Owens StreetSan Francisco, CA
Itinerary (same for all four events)
8:30am: Secretary Salazar meets with elected officials
9:00am: Secretary Salazar introduces proposed five-year energy plan
10:00am: Questions are submitted by audience
1:00pm – 4:00pm: The public is given a chance to offer comments
6:00pm – 8:00pm: The public comment process continues Posted by Dan Kotman
Attend A Public Hearing on Drill Here, Drill Now
Remember Drill Here, Drill Now?
Last summer, the collective voice of 1.5 million Americans forced both the administration and Congress to reverse long-held, overlapping federal bans on offshore drilling.
Unfortunately, due to bureaucratic delay, massive amounts of American energy are still under lock-and-key. Last month, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that a years-long process of identifying energy-rich areas offshore to lease for development would be delayed an additional six months. The secretary plans to use this time to conduct a series of four field hearings on the plan, hoping the public reinforces his view that the status quo be preserved, and no new energy be brought online anytime soon.
Make no mistake: the deck is stacked and the game is fixed. Just look at the four locations they have selected (and those they left out) for these hearings: Atlantic City, New Orleans, Anchorage, and San Francisco. The one thing they haven’t accounted for, though, is that supporters of American energy exploration might show up to these events and demand their voices be heard. And make no mistake, we will be heard.
If you live near one of the four events, we hope you can to attend and participate in this hearing. Here are two fact sheets that you can print off and bring with you: The Basics and Myth vs. Fact. The stakes couldn’t be higher, and your full participation couldn’t be more urgently needed. Here are the four locations along with the itinerary for each public hearing:
Dates/Venues
Monday, April 6 -- Atlantic City, NJAtlantic City Convention CenterOne Convention BoulevardAtlantic City, NJ
Wednesday, April 8 -- New Orleans, LATulane University, McAlister AuditoriumMcAlister Drive between Freret and Willow Streets6823 St. Charles AvenueNew Orleans, LA
Tuesday, April 14 -- Anchorage, AKDena'ina Civic & Convention Center600 W. Seventh AveAnchorage, AK
Thursday, April 16 -- San Francisco, CAMission Bay Conference Center on the campus of Univ. of California, San FranciscoRobertson Auditorium1675 Owens StreetSan Francisco, CA
Itinerary (same for all four events)
8:30am: Secretary Salazar meets with elected officials
9:00am: Secretary Salazar introduces proposed five-year energy plan
10:00am: Questions are submitted by audience
1:00pm – 4:00pm: The public is given a chance to offer comments
6:00pm – 8:00pm: The public comment process continues Posted by Dan Kotman
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Oil Prices - The Ship Turns
I wanted to send this article which shows how the rising price of oil is causing people to adjust their behavior and possibly make the prices come down with a market adjustment. It's an article about economics which is a topic that some people find interesting and others not so much, but it is worth a read. I hope you find it interesting and if you know anyone with budget problems, do remember that our church publishes a great book which I referenced after the article.
The Ship Turns
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Energy: Call it the paranoid theory of petroleum. Somehow, dark forces behind the scenes keep us from doing anything about soaring oil prices. In fact, something is being done to bring down oil prices. And you're doing it.
IBD Series: Breaking The Back Of High Oil
For some, rising oil prices prove that oil companies and petrotyrants around the world must be in cahoots to create energy shortages. By that theory, we can do nothing about it. Eventually, government will have to step in.But in fact, even as our own dithering Congress refuses to help ease the energy crunch, things are already changing — thanks to you, the consumer, and you, the producer. That's right: It's the private sector that's doing it.One of the glories of a capitalist system is that price signals are allowed to work. When the price for a good rises, that means it's in scarce supply. When the price falls, it's relatively abundant. This signals to users and producers they must change their behavior.For users, higher prices mean finding ways to do with less. For producers, they mean finding ways to produce more. The confluence of these two forces usually results in lower prices. This is what's happening now with oil.It's true that the booming economies of China and India are sucking up ever more energy. But guess what? As the price of crude has soared from $30 a barrel to $50, then to $70 and past $100, we've all changed our behavior.For oil companies, it has meant drilling for more oil. According to data from a variety of sources, world oil output has jumped by 11%, or 8.5 million barrels a day, since 2002, to 83 million barrels a day.Contrary to the predictions of petro-paranoids, private oil companies are producing flat out — even though government entities such as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and the U.S. Congress work to keep prices high.Fueled by the high prices, new sources of oil are being discovered. They include the 33-billion-barrel bonanza recently found off Brazil's coast and other huge finds in the Caribbean and Asia. The U.S. itself has 656 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 112 billion barrels of oil on federal lands alone — there for the taking if only Congress would allow it.But even without it, we're going gangbusters. As the American Petroleum Institute recently noted, "an estimated 4,577 (U.S.) oil wells were completed in the first quarter of 2008, up 12%" from last year and the highest rate since 1986. U.S. oil companies are going back to tapped-out wells and pumping oil that wasn't economically recoverable at $25 a barrel but is at $100.That's the supply side. What about demand? U.S. fuel demand in the first three months of 2008 was down 1.4% from a year earlier — the third straight quarterly year-over-year decline in a row.Gasoline consumption has risen about 1.5% a year since 2000. But Energy Department data showed demand in the first quarter edging down for the first time in more than two decades.In short, the tide has turned.The New York Times notes that U.S. car buyers have suddenly gone ga-ga over small cars. One in five purchases is now a compact or subcompact, while SUV sales are off 28%. "It's easily the most dramatic segment shift I have witnessed in the market in my 31 years here," said George Pipas, Ford Motor's chief sales analyst.So, even as Congress twiddles its thumbs, the private sector is doing its thing — adjusting to the market to make things better. The bad news is, there's no guarantee that oil prices won't go up more. The good news, as recent trends show, is that it won't last.
http://www.gnmagazine.org/booklets/MF/
The Ship Turns
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Energy: Call it the paranoid theory of petroleum. Somehow, dark forces behind the scenes keep us from doing anything about soaring oil prices. In fact, something is being done to bring down oil prices. And you're doing it.
IBD Series: Breaking The Back Of High Oil
For some, rising oil prices prove that oil companies and petrotyrants around the world must be in cahoots to create energy shortages. By that theory, we can do nothing about it. Eventually, government will have to step in.But in fact, even as our own dithering Congress refuses to help ease the energy crunch, things are already changing — thanks to you, the consumer, and you, the producer. That's right: It's the private sector that's doing it.One of the glories of a capitalist system is that price signals are allowed to work. When the price for a good rises, that means it's in scarce supply. When the price falls, it's relatively abundant. This signals to users and producers they must change their behavior.For users, higher prices mean finding ways to do with less. For producers, they mean finding ways to produce more. The confluence of these two forces usually results in lower prices. This is what's happening now with oil.It's true that the booming economies of China and India are sucking up ever more energy. But guess what? As the price of crude has soared from $30 a barrel to $50, then to $70 and past $100, we've all changed our behavior.For oil companies, it has meant drilling for more oil. According to data from a variety of sources, world oil output has jumped by 11%, or 8.5 million barrels a day, since 2002, to 83 million barrels a day.Contrary to the predictions of petro-paranoids, private oil companies are producing flat out — even though government entities such as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and the U.S. Congress work to keep prices high.Fueled by the high prices, new sources of oil are being discovered. They include the 33-billion-barrel bonanza recently found off Brazil's coast and other huge finds in the Caribbean and Asia. The U.S. itself has 656 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 112 billion barrels of oil on federal lands alone — there for the taking if only Congress would allow it.But even without it, we're going gangbusters. As the American Petroleum Institute recently noted, "an estimated 4,577 (U.S.) oil wells were completed in the first quarter of 2008, up 12%" from last year and the highest rate since 1986. U.S. oil companies are going back to tapped-out wells and pumping oil that wasn't economically recoverable at $25 a barrel but is at $100.That's the supply side. What about demand? U.S. fuel demand in the first three months of 2008 was down 1.4% from a year earlier — the third straight quarterly year-over-year decline in a row.Gasoline consumption has risen about 1.5% a year since 2000. But Energy Department data showed demand in the first quarter edging down for the first time in more than two decades.In short, the tide has turned.The New York Times notes that U.S. car buyers have suddenly gone ga-ga over small cars. One in five purchases is now a compact or subcompact, while SUV sales are off 28%. "It's easily the most dramatic segment shift I have witnessed in the market in my 31 years here," said George Pipas, Ford Motor's chief sales analyst.So, even as Congress twiddles its thumbs, the private sector is doing its thing — adjusting to the market to make things better. The bad news is, there's no guarantee that oil prices won't go up more. The good news, as recent trends show, is that it won't last.
http://www.gnmagazine.org/booklets/MF/
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