H. Josef Hebert of the Associated Press. Here's the top of the article and it's everywhere today. CNN, Yahoo, Networks, etc.. Anywhere that posts AP articles.
...[Bush to Congress: Embrace energy exploration now
WASHINGTON - With gasoline topping $4 a gallon, President Bush urged Congress on Wednesday to lift its long-standing ban on offshore oil and gas drilling, saying the United States needs to increase its energy production. Democrats quickly rejected the idea.
"There is no excuse for delay," the president said in a statement in the Rose Garden. With the presidential election just months away, Bush made a pointed attack on Democrats, accusing them of obstructing his energy proposals and blaming them for high gasoline costs. His proposal echoed a call by Republican presidential candidate John McCain to open the Continental Shelf for exploration
"Families across the country are looking to Washington for a response," Bush said]...
Here's my message: A desire to drill and explore in the most dangerous, expensive and difficult places to gamble on small amounts of oil is a short term profit play. And it misinforms people!
The fact that this is published everywhere shows how the media works as a mouthpiece, and not an independent information source. To blame Congress for high gas prices because they say no to disaster drilling on our coastlines is public-rhetoric-speak to get us all riled up over the wrong thing and then create agreement for us to nod unwittingly at 'said proposed drilling' because now "we think" it will lower prices. IT WON'T!!!!!
Why?
1. It's now known that global oil production has hit a long coming peak, and the next part of peaking is the decline.
2. The consumption of 80 million barrels per day is required for industrialized society to sustain. (aka. all of us)
3. increased energy use is directly correlated to a nation's GDP, and is required to expand our economy.
4. About 72% of the world's oil supply belongs to the peoples of Saudi Arabia, UAE, Iraq and Iran - aka the Persian Gulf Region.
5. 1% of all the oilfields in the world produce 50% of the oil consumed worldwide. Those 500 fields are all in decline. That's important: 1% of the fields give the world half its energy.
6. A global production decline will not be offset by crisis drilling in our coastlines. It might help maintain America's 20million barrel per day (mb/day) habit for a year or two.
So here's what's at play: We're at war in the Persian Gulf because that resource is vital to the US economy. You are not the economy. If you think that's you take a look at where the wealth is distributed. It's oil. I consume it, it makes my life better, but I don't have the wealth from it. That money goes somewhere else.
A barrel of oil is expensive enough now to make it profitable to get difficult, sour, dangerous oil from deep water and the Arctic. And some businesses are going to cash in on that stuff, and that's what our friends Bush & McCain are supporting. The cashing in of some payola for the corporations that will end up drilling on our coasts.
AND IT WON"T LOWER GAS PRICES!!!! It won't. It'll probably barely maintain the 20mb/day we use now for a short time. And it wont' come online for 5-8 years, that's why he doesn't want delay. To delay will put that oil outside the profit window.
That's a very different reality than what this AP article is creating.
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