| McCain Trusts Big Oil More Than The EIA |
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| Written by Charlie Lawton | |
| Wednesday, 06 August 2008 | |
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Somewhere deep in our breasts lay the faint hope that anybody'd be better than President Bush in the struggle to enact sane environmental and energy policy. Barack Obama has been making some hearteningly reality-based comments about offshore drilling and energy policy lately, and the formerly "maverick" John McCain cultivated the image that he was an environmental standout in his party. We've had some reason to hope that, even if McCain does become the next president, sanity in some measure might return. Nope. Turns out McCain trusts oil industry executives more than the Energy Information Agency, completely blowing off the recent EIA report that indicates that the soonest offshore drilling could come online is 2017, and would make no impact whatsoever on whatever oil prices are in nine years. Instead, he embraced the assurances of unspecified oil executives that drilling could begin within months. "In fact I met with oil executives just a few days ago in California ... and the fact is that we can, using existing facilities, expand our oil production within months, according to these executives," he said Friday. "In my view and that of oil company executives that I've talked to -- the people that actually do it, not those that comment on television, but those that actually do it -- we could, in a very short time, have a beneficial effect." It's even a question whether those "oil executives" said any such thing, or even if he actually met with any; the American Petroleum Institute, that bunch of treehuggers, says that "before a lease sale could even occur, a complete environmental study would have to be conducted by the government. Once leased, it could take anywhere from five to ten years for production to begin, depending on the amount of oil and gas discovered, availability of infrastructure and the geological complexity of the region." Which begs the question, who on earth is McCain talking to? One wonders if McCain is really prepared to effectively lead a government whose specialists he doesn't trust, on the strength of uncited information from one side of the oil industry's mouth. Sounds like a prescription for more Bush-style manipulation of regulation and regulatory agencies in the service of industry priorities to us. "Jesus! Where will it end? How low do you have to stoop in this country to be President?" - Hunter S. Thompson
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written by Tim H, August 08, 2008
Okay, let's say for a minute the execs are right, and that somehow magically we can expand production within months, not years.
I don't hear any execs saying that will lower the barrel price. Fact is, you can expand production in lots of places (many of which are environmentally unhealthy) once the market price makes it profitable to do so. And the reason the oil companies don't drill there at any given time--for instance, on properties they already lease--is that economically speaking, they can't. So yes, McCain, when oil companies are making $12B a quarter, there's lots of opportunities to expand production, but it doesn't lower the pump price at all. written by Uncle B, August 12, 2008
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After the millions of murders, and $650 billions of dollars, borrowed from our children written by Joe, August 14, 2008
Are you surprised that your conservative pollies are oil company spokesmodels? The deep cynicysm of McCain is chilling and the vagueness of Obama is frustrating, I do not envy the US the choice it must make between two unkown devils, good luck.
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