Comments on: 500,000 Gallons Of Oil Spilled Due To Ike

AP Study: Hurricane Destroyed Oil Platforms, Tossed Storage Tanks And Punctured Pipelines In Gulf

[pughenry3]

Although these gas lines are an immediate result of the recent hurricane Ike that hit Galveston and the Gulf coast, they are indicative of the tenuous nature of our refinery capacity and existing supplies of petroleum.

Our refineries have been stretched to their limits for decades. Do you think, oil companies are going to invest in the future in new refineries in the United States given the tepid Democratic Party leadership support of the oil industry and their insistence on mandates for alternative energy sources.

Oil companies would have to be crazy to invest even a nickel in new refineries or even do basic repairs to existing refineries. It is also a shame that the gas lines and empty gas stations are mainly in the Southeast which will become Redstates for McCain/Palin next month.

It would be more poetic justice that the blue states of the northeast should suffer from the gas shortages caused by their Democratic leadership.

The Northeast has been lockstep in their opposition to offshore oil drilling, nuclear power, clean coal, and even wind energy in the Massachusetts Bay area.

[pughenry3]

Independent voters and many voters who might otherwise vote for a Democratic candidate do not like running out of gas or waiting for hours in gas lines.

Vote for Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin if you worried about having gas available to put in your gas tank. Atlanta voters know that Democratic hot air will not fill your gas tank.
Democrats should be happy, oil companies are not making record profits selling gas because there is now no gas to sell. Democrats have finally accomplished their goal in the Southeast.

Independent voters do not like running out of gas or waiting hours in gas lines.

[ubrew12]

Offshore drilling will yield a TOTAL of 8 billion barrels of oil: about what the world uses in 3 months. And, it''ll turn most US coastlines into versions of the Gulf coast: oil-spill wrecks.

Invest in alternative energy, as Obama plans to.

[pughenry3]

Why should Barack Obama insist that the removing the offshore ban should be part of a comprehensive energy ban? Why should it be a bargaining chip.

Lifting the offshore oil drilling ban is the right and appropriate thing to do and should not have been used as a Democratic leadership fillibuster or extorsion tool to extract concessions on other issues.

The current gas lines and closed gas stations with no gas in the Southeast including Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina are just a prelude of what we can expect under Barack Obama and Joe Biden energy policies of limited offshore exploration and no new refineries.

[pughenry3]

Senator John McCain picked Governor Sarah Palin because he intends to follow through and make his Project Lexington for United States energy independence the dominant issue in this campaign.

Governor Sarah Palin is a strong supporter of increased offshore drilling and she knows that Alaska has an offshore coastline greater than the rest of the country combined and is also comes in second among the states in oil production. Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and John McCain understand that Obama and the Democrats would never consider government loan guarantees or tax breaks for a sure thing that will produce energy for the American gas tank.

In fact Democrats are trying to put together a so-called windfall profits tax which will have the effect of discouraging future investment in the United States oil industry. John McCain also knows that Governor Sarah Palin family situation also illustrates that longterm Democratic leadership hostility and policies toward United States owned energy companies have caused our current energy crisis. Sarah Palin%u2019s husband works for British Petroleum but instead should be working for the former American owned Arco Oil Company.

[pughenry3]

Sarah Palin%u2019s husband works for British Petroleum but instead should be working for the former American owned Arco Oil Company.

Arco Oil Company developed and explored the Alaska North Slope and formerly owned eighty percent of our proven Alaskan reserves. With its substantial oil reserves Arco Oil Company should have bought British Petroleum instead of British Petroleum buying out Arco Oil Company during the second Bill Clinton administration. With the right business environment and support from both political parties in the United States, Arco Oil Company might have been more successful and been able to buy out British Petroleum instead of British Petroleum buying out Arco Oil Company. Look at Apple Computer and Microsoft. Their success in the computer world have made them bullet proof to corporate takeovers.

Longterm Democratic hostility and opposition to offshore drilling and periodic talk of windfall profits taxes contributed to the takeover of Arco Oil Company.

[pughenry3]

Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin understand that under the theory of plate tectonics and continental drift, 300 million years ago when oil was formed all of the continents were one supercontinent called Pangea. The continents then drifted apart. The Africa coast was right up against North Carolina 300 million years ago.

Today half of the oil production of Nigeria is now offshore and the odds of large offshore deposits off our east coast are very strong. There are also huge oil deposits off of east coast of Brazil. Brazil has tied up almost all of the world ocean drilling ships in the hopes of developing those deposits.

Given there is confirmed oil off of Brazil, likely oil off the Southern US east coast and there is confirmed large deposits south of Newfoundland then it is likely there is oil all up and down the entire United States east coast.

The United States has the largest coastline in the world and it is simple common sense to make use of those offshore resources to achieve our energy independence. John McCain energy proposals will bring about this development that we so desperately need.

[pughenry3]

Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin realize that the Democrats under the leadership of Barack Obama want to effectively give away in trust our offshore exclusive economic zone by standing in the way of any current offshore development. Under the 1982 United Nations Law of the Seas Convention the US has an exclusive economic zone of 200 nautical miles and mineral seabed rights up to 350 nautical miles extending along the Continental shelf. A nautical mile is 6080 feet so our exclusive economic zone extends about 240 miles and mineral seabed rights extend 420 miles. The US has the world''s largest offshore exclusive economic zone totaling 4.4 million square miles. In comparison, the total land area of the United States is only 3.4 million square miles.

On the East coast alone, if you drive from Key West Florida to Bangor Maine it is 2000 miles. Multiply the 2000 miles by mineral seabed rights extending out 420 miles results in a total of 840,000 square miles of ocean acreage.

Because we have the world''s largest offshore coastline which is twenty-eight percent greater than our land area, it only makes common sense that we exploit our offshore resources to achieve our energy independence.

[hsinco-2009]

Say it ain''t so Joe!

[pughenry3]

What a piece of hyperbole. Oil is always spoke of in barrels of oil a day. The United States consumes 20 million barrels a day and imports fourteen million barrels of oil a day. A barrel is 44 gallons of oil. Divide 500,000 gallons by 44 and you get only 11,000 barrels of oil were spilled. The offshore Gulf Coast production is roughly 1.5 million barrels of oil a day. Eleven thousand barrels is a drop in the bucket considering the size of the hurricane. A small tanker leak bringing in our 14 million barrels of oil a day can produce a much greater spill than only 11,000 barrels of oil in total for the whole hurricane.

[babooph]

Exactly what the oil co.& politicians said -500,000 gal is surely not "ONE DROP".

[ubrew12]

The GOP mantra: ''Drill, Drill, Drill''

Here we see the result...

(its past time for an investment in alternative energy technologies: Obama is that way forward)

[leo050142]

Face the Nation should not have these "spin" people from both parties and wasting our time with repeating the same old message. Find people who are on both sides but are not spokespersons for either.

Bill is not challenging his guests enough. The stupid question today was that the new woman on the block would take the Hilary voters! It''s like watching some teenager challenging another woman who has spent half her life in politics and has a wealth of knowledge behind her. Yes, they are both women, but hardly in the same league.

Also when they bring up the Vietnam war, no one says WE LOST! We killed hundreds of thousand civilians with bombs and napalm, poison the ground and water and we STILL lost! It was a pointless political mistake, and that is one the reasons France still cannot stand us. They told us after decades of colonial experience in that country that we should never go in. We did it anyway and lost our men and women with no gain whatsoever. The communists won. and the world did not fall apart as we were told.

Every time McCaine wraps himself in the flag, remind him that HE lost the war.

[flajoe1]

Gee.... I thought they said with the new technology they could prevent this.

Some states may now think twice before opening their coastlines to drilling.