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Clinton: Offshore drilling delays "ridiculous"

Faster horses

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Delays in offshore oil and gas drilling permits are “ridiculous” at a time when the economy is still rebuilding, former President Bill Clinton told attendees Friday at the IHS CERAWeek conference. Clinton spoke on a panel with former President George W. Bush that was closed to the media, Politico reported. There also was no video of the event.

Still, there were several attendees who confirmed to Politico that Clinton agreed with Bush on many oil and gas issues, including criticism of delays in permitting offshore since last year’s Gulf of Mexico spill.

“Bush said all the things you’d expect him to say” on oil and gas issues, said Jim Noe, senior vice president at Hercules Offshore and executive director of the pro-drilling Shallow Water Energy Security Coalition. But Clinton added, “You’d be surprised to know that I agree with all that,” according to Noe and others attending the conference who talked to Politico.

Clinton said there are “ridiculous delays in permitting when our economy doesn’t need it,” according to Noe and others.

Both Clinton and Bush agreed on the need to get offshore drilling workers back on the job. They also agreed on the need for more domestic shale gas production, with Clinton noting that it has been done safely for years in his home state of Arkansas.

(from Newsmax)
 

hypocritexposer

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obama would rather lie about the situation as he did in his press conference the other day.

“We’re adapting. We’re producing more oil, and we’re importing less,” he remarked.

“Now, the hard truth is, is that as long as our economy depends on foreign oil, we’ll always be subject to price spikes,” he noted.

He indicated that “our oil production reached its highest level in seven years. Oil production from federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico reached an all-time high,” adding that “for the first time in more than a decade, imports accounted for less than half of what we consumed.”


“We can’t escape the fact that we control only 2% of the world’s oil.”

“Industry holds leases on tens of millions of acres both offshore and on land where they aren’t producing a thing.” President Obama adds to this whopper by saying he wants to “encourage companies to produce [on] the leases they hold.”
 

Steve

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Production
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

U.S.
5,419 5,178 5,102 5,064 4,950 5,361


U.S. Field Production of Crude Oil (Thousand Barrels per Day)

2000's Year-0 5,822 Year-1 5,801 Year-2 5,746 Year-3 5,681 Year-4 5,419 Year-5 5,178 Year-6 5,102 Year-7 5,064 Year-8 4,950 Year-9 5,361

by all accounts, I would judge this one a bold face lie...

but just in case he was looking at total oil, gas and other oil related production..

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yep, still a bold face lie..
 

katrina

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Obama wants to creat such a crisis that the people will riot for change.. And the change that Obama will create will put us into a Socialist country.... We must be very carefull on how we handle the up coming turmoil.
 

Steve

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but thanks to our economy tanking ,..still,....

he was correct on the decline of oil imports..

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http://www.eia.doe.gov/energyexplained/index.cfm?page=oil_home#tab2
 
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