Oil Spills Thru The Years

[red states rule]

While the oil spill in Guld is a huge problem, it does not compare to past oil spills, and the world did not end

Liberals and the enviro wackos never want things put in perspective





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[Insein]

With that said, they need to do something to get this under control. This is getting ridiculous.

[hortysir]

None during the Bush years??
:lol:

[SpidermanTUba]

While the oil spill in Guld is a huge problem, it does not compare to past oil spills, and the world did not end

Liberals and the enviro wackos never want things put in perspective





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So its the worse spill in U.S. waters in history and in the world for the past 18 years, and its right at my back door.

Thanks for putting it in perspective for us.

[gabosaurus]

The worst oil spill in the history of the U.S. is nothing worth talking about? Not to mention the cavalier attitude of BP toward the whole thing.
The U.S. government needs to restrict BP's drilling activities and remove all subsidies that it receives.

[Insein]

The worst oil spill in the history of the U.S. is nothing worth talking about? Not to mention the cavalier attitude of BP toward the whole thing.
The U.S. government needs to restrict BP's drilling activities and remove all subsidies that it receives.

I agree with that. Give it to another company who will drill responsibly. In reality I would prefer no government subsidies for any private sector endeavours but if we are going to do it, give it to a company that will not create this mess.

[red states rule]

The worst oil spill in the history of the U.S. is nothing worth talking about? Not to mention the cavalier attitude of BP toward the whole thing.
The U.S. government needs to restrict BP's drilling activities and remove all subsidies that it receives.

The US government HAS restricted BP's (and all oil companies) drilling activites Gabby. That is why they were drilling one mile down in the ocean

We know where the oil is - but the enviro wackos and Dems have said we can't go and get it




U.S. Policies Put Most U.S. Oil Off-Limits to Drilling
(by Pete Winn, CNSNews.com) - Huge basins of untapped oil can be found on federal lands throughout the United States, according to a new report from the federal government. But much of it cannot -- and may never be -- recovered, because it lies under national parks and national monuments, or it is subject to environmental laws and restrictions that make drilling prohibitive.

The report, which was produced at the request of Congress by the U.S. Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM), said there are 279 million acres under federal management where oil and gas could potentially could be extracted.

More than half of it is totally off-limits to drillers.

"The total onshore resource is 31 billion barrels," said BLM's lead scientist Richard Watson, who authored the report. "Of that, 19 billion barrels are currently inaccessible or 62 percent. A little over 2 billion barrels, or 8 percent, is accessible under what we call standard lease terms."

If you add in the 85.9 billion barrels of oil that lie offshore, as determined by the Interior Department's Minerals Management Service, there are 117 billion barrels of oil on lands owned or managed by the U.S. government.

But all expansion of offshore oil recovery is currently off-limits.

Adding in what's available on privately held land, the figure rises to 139 billion barrels of oil, according to the government - more than the known oil reserves of Iran, Iraq, Russia, Nigeria or Venezuela, respectively.

The biggest untapped land-based oil deposit in the United States lies within ANWR, the Artic National Wildlife Refuge, which is currently off-limits.

"We estimate there is something on the order of 7.7 billion barrels in that one area alone," Watson told

http://www.studentnewsdaily.com/daily-news-article/us-policies-put-most-us-oil-off-limits-to-drilling/

[gabosaurus]

It's not a matter of obtaining oil. It's a matter of doing it safely. BP has the worst safety record of all oil companies. They need to have their drilling rights suspended and taken over by other companies.