A bunch of bureaucrats in Sacramento are about to give California and the rest of the nation a license to drill for more American oil.
In an effort to save the environment, the California Air Resources Board has come up with a set of Low Carbon Fuel Standards that measure the carbon footprint of different kinds of fuels.
As it turns out, the Air Resources Board has determined that oil-based fuels have a smaller carbon footprint than ethanol or other biofuels.
Seeing as how oil-based fuel has a smaller carbon footprint than ethanol, this pretty much opens the door for more drilling of American oil – perhaps right off the California coast. And we all know that, as California goes, so goes the rest of the nation. Pretty soon, we can expect oil rigs popping up from ANWR to the Gulf of Mexico to the Virginia and North Carolina coast.
Now, there’s a group of scientists who are not happy with this determination that oil-based fuels have a smaller carbon footprint than ethanol, and they have sent a letter to Gov. Schwarzenegger, informing him of this misguided decision by the Air Resources Board.
This letter to The Governator pleading for him to do something might work, but this could be Arnold’s shrewdest political move ever – using a bunch of environmental wacko bureaucrats to pave the way for more domestic drilling in the name of the environment. To the California Air Resources Board, we say, this is one small step for common sense, one giant leap for US energy independence.
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Irony.
Xasteius (Diary) Tuesday, March 3rd at 3:51PM EST (link)Erick, I savored every word of this diary.
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Not a chance...
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Tuesday, March 3rd at 4:01PM EST (link)The ObamaBinBiden/Pelosi/Reid crowd will just institute an even stricter Ban than the one reimposed (that Bush lifted, far too late) and/or their Enviro-Terrorist allies will perform the usual Red-Tape and Lawsuit delay tactics for the next decade.
Republicans should have Fast Tracked Drilling while they had the chances…. The go along to get along (and re-elected) lost us so many opportunities. Should they ever win a Majority control back, this better be high on the agenda to rush through….
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10ksnooker (Diary) Tuesday, March 3rd at 5:02PM EST (link)How can this possible be. Well quite simple actually, any chemist/physicist/engineer could run the numbers for you and prove oil is lowest.
What next, they may even conclude that liquid transport fuels made from coal are the best alternative fuel to oil. Cleanest also, since it passes through a gas phase which leaves the pollutants behind. You can convert coal to diesel for about $30 a barrel oil equivalent. It’s a well understood, proven process.
Is this really true?
larueladue (Diary) Tuesday, March 3rd at 7:13PM EST (link)If so, why isn’t someone setting up a plant to manufacture diesel this way, and to be able to provide it very cheaply (when oil prices skyrocket backup)? Or is someone already on top of this?
2 possible enviro-weenie responses:
Steve Maley (Diary) Tuesday, March 3rd at 6:36PM EST (link)1. Thoughtfully consider this report’s conclusions and embrace hydrocarbons as the best possible energy source for the next generation, at least.
2. Change the subject. Look for another reason to hate oil companies.
BING!BING!BING!BING!BING!BING! We have a winner!
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Praying (Diary) Tuesday, March 3rd at 7:01PM EST (link)This is great. Sort of like the global warming hoaxters meeting in Washington D.C. yesterday, in the middle of the biggest snow storm in years. Gotta love the irony. But seriously, someone has got to stop this cap and trade nonsense, before it ruins the country.
No!!!11!1!!1!1! The Bilderbergers are coming
they won't buy it
Common_Cents (Diary) Tuesday, March 3rd at 7:04PM EST (link)They have never allowed reality to interrupt their plans in the past, why start now?
Obama=Golfer in Chief, Leading from,
behind, the Back Nine.Leaders don’t create movements. Movements create leaders. Get involved. Your future depends on it.
Govt “invests” YOUR tax money for POLITICAL return rather than economic return.
Leverage the contradictions
DerKrieger (Diary) Tuesday, March 3rd at 9:21PM EST (link)The Democrat party is nothing more than a coalition of disparate groups of agitators united only in their opposition to Conservatives. Thus they are ripe for self-destruction if only we could spark the conflagration.
Consider,Liberals looooovee money. Domestic drilling would bring in so much money for the Dems to squander that most people probably won’t even pay attention as long as individual tax rates are low and the economy booms. The two Liberal sides need to be thrown in the squared circle to duke it out.
Another Liberal cat fight that needs to be started is the environmentalists vs. the open borders crowd. I’m surprised they haven’t come to blows yet. The open borders crowd with their demands to bring in millions and millions more consumers of energy, food, land, et al put a severe strain on our natural resources. The environmentalists ought to be Conservatives allies in this battle.
There are probably other Liberal cat fights out there just waiting to be started.
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