On Tuesday night, September 10, the House Rules Committee met to consider three House Bills that are either new or amendments of earlier bills which will restrict oil and gas drilling.
These issues were conceived of during both the second Bush administration and the Obama Administration to impede oil drilling.
Some were moratoriums on drilling with dates when the moratoriums might be lifted.
The intent of the reconsideration of House Bills 205, 1941 and 1146 is to make drilling moratoriums permanent. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer pledged that the chamber will vote on the bills this week.
House Bill 205 is titled the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006. It placed a moratorium on leasing areas to drill in certain areas of the Gulf of Mexico.
Amendments have now been offered by Representative Francis Rooney to the bill which would ban Offshore Drilling in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico.
Another Amendment has been offered by Representative Kathy Castor to ban all drilling off the coast of Florida.
Knowing the areas well I can tell drilling in these lease areas are not in sight of the shoreline and do not risk oil spills washing up on these shores.
Much has been learned from the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf in 2010 that is unlikely to ever happen again.
House Bill 1941 is a new bill which would amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from including any leasing program on either the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean shelves The new Act will be cited as the Coastal and Marine Economies Protection Act.
House Bill 1146 amends Public Law 115-97 known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act which opened up the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR) to oil drilling after decades of regulations against such activities.
ANWR is a 19 million-acre area of Alaska filled with beautiful forests. However, the areas believed to have huge quantities of oil are in a small area known as Tundra, without vegetation of wildlife.
This charade was maintained for decades until George Bush pulled the curtain away from the fraud. Now the Democratic Congress desires to turn us back a century when inexpensive readily available energy did not exist as today.
If the climate change delusion eventually is exposed the Congress has this back up plan. Seal off as much of the nation’s abundant reserves of oil and gas as possible.
For decades liberal politicians and zealous environmentalists pushed for the end of fossil fuels with the belief that, in reality, oil as a resource was over.
It was thought that “Peak Oil” had arrived: the year that we would use more oil than we would discover as new reserves were upon us.
From that point on, we were on our way to exhausting all our reserves and would have to shift our energy away from oil.
Atomic energy at one point appeared to be the answer, and still could be were it not for the ability of anti-nuke folks to scare the public away from the world’s most prolific and safe energy source.
Thus focus changed to so-called renewable energy such as wind and solar, regardless of its cost and lack of dependability.
When peak oil never arrived because technology advanced our ability to find, extract and refine oil, it had no impact on changing progressive minds away from wind and solar.
When horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing came along making the United States the richest fossil fuel country in the world, the enemies of fossil fuel switched their focus to the climate change delusion claiming that carbon dioxide emissions were to end life as we know it.
While that scenario is beginning to weaken as absolutely no predictions of catastrophic climate change from carbon dioxide emissions have come to pass, panic is setting in within the Democratically controlled Congress and they have chosen a potentially new path to reduce the nation’s use of fossil fuels.
That path is to prevent further exploration of oil and gas off the shores of the United States or in the Arctic National Wildlife Preserve (where hardly a plant or animal resides).
Let us hope they don’t succeed in ending America’s energy renaissance.
Dr. Jay Lehr is a Senior Policy Analyst with the International Climate Science Coalition. He has authored more than 1,000 magazine and journal articles and 36 books.
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These people are completely insane. For decades politicians of all stripes – beginning with democratic president Carter as I recall – were yammering about the urgent need to achieve “energy independence” for the US. Now that energy independence is finally here (the government had nothing to do with that, it needs to be stressed), they want to go back to the previous state of affairs? What is wrong with these morons?
These Democrats are all Traitors their all part of the agenda of the CFR and the Globalists as well as the Watermelon Enviromentalists they all belong in prison for Treason doing Life without Parole
The proposed legislation in this article has no chance of making it through the Senate or being signed by President Trump. So why are the Democrats doing it. First, it is a propaganda move. Second, they are posturing for what they hope the 2020 election will give in control of the White House, Congress, and a filibuster proof majority in the Senate. As crazy and the Democrats have been lately, this doesn’t seem likely.
I must admit I didn’t watch much of the 7 hour Democrat town hall implosion
but the faces of the CNN “journalists ” made me laugh .
Did CNN actually clue into the public service they were providing ? Ten bobbing heads trying to out green each other while regular people were going ….are these people nuts .
I would be willing to bet not one of those clowns is the Greenocrat nominee .
Bernie wishing to help black African women abort more babies certainly beat out banning straws in my book .
The big question is will the Democrat party even exist in 3 years ?
Another big Bray In for the Liberal Democrats the Jackass Party lives up to his donkey logo Stubborn and Stupid while the other four legged donkeys are more intelligent