Drill, Coast Haste!

Soon, we will have Cuban gas wells off the coast of Florida while we continue to prohibit American gas producers from doing so. Russia will extend its control of Arctic fields while Alaskan oil production continues to decline. And the Democrats will achieve their goal of destroying the economic sovereignty of the United States. Just ask Maxine Waters.

Well, we could drill our own oil, just off the shores of Texas, Florida, California or the eastern coast ….

or, we could wait and simply buy the oil from China, Venezuela, Mexico, Cuba and Russia who are drilling off the same shores, just 12 or more miles off the shore in international waters. Because, as everyone knows the cause of all the world’s pollution is the USA, every other country is far more ecologically conscious than the evil Americans.

Drill, Coast Haste

Energy Security: With the prospect of an oil shortage and $12 gas, the energy crisis is turning into a national emergency. One solution: Give states the option to develop offshore tracts.

Uncle Sam bans states from drilling in the Atlantic, Pacific and eastern Gulf mainly to protect the environment. Some 85% of the U.S. coastline is off-limits to energy production – including huge reserves off Florida’s coast, which China is exploiting in Cuban waters.

To change that, a lawmaker is offering a novel idea. Rep. Sue Myrick of the House Energy and Commerce panel wants to let coastal states decide whether drilling is environmentally risky. She has introduced a bill that would give coastal states that want offshore drilling the power to opt out of the Interior Department’s offshore restrictions.

And politicians concerned about America’s energy security ought to do a better job educating the public with the facts. For example:

- Less than one one-thousandth of a percent (0.001%) of the 7 billion-plus barrels of oil that Washington has allowed to be produced offshore over the past 25 years has been spilled, according to the Interior Department.

- A whopping 63% of petro pollution in North American seas comes not from offshore rigs, but from natural seepage from the sea floor. Source: National Academy of Sciences.

- There hasn’t been a major oil spill from an offshore well since 1969 even though rigs since then have been lashed by Katrina and other major hurricanes.

(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com …