A Few Shiny Pebbles

In Part Three, I concluded that the United States will continue to require copious amounts of petroleum, and will for decades to come. And so will the rest of the world. For decades to come.

THE SOLUTION

What do we do? As I showed, even if we follow many transition efforts (such as T. Boone Pickens’s Plan) we, and the rest of the world, will still need millions of barrels of oil per day for decades. Pickens points out that we are sending $700-billion a year out of our country to pay for the oil we need. (About $168-billion of that—about 24%—is for petroleum we use every year for non-transportation, everyday products we manufacture in the US.) This has to stop!

For all these reasons, I support an immediate, over-arching plan for we Americans to start producing as much oil as we can, as soon as we can, by opening up ANWR, the Rocky Mountain Shale, and the outer continental shelf regions of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf to drilling, and putting them on a fast-track through the rules and regulations involved with that drilling.

We need to produce petroleum within the United States so that we can bring down the price of it for ourselves, so we can control the flow of oil by becoming the petroleum source for certain other nations or areas of the world when necessary. We need to keep our military supplied for operations all over the world, and we need to be able to fight the war against the terrorists that now can be found all over the world. We need to be able to do this without worrying about where the petroleum will come from for ourselves and our allies, and even for those who are on the fence at times, and we need to be able to respond quickly in world emergencies.

This will also keep our money in the US, for all we can do with it here. Moreover, it will keep billions of dollars away from our enemies. Another strong argument is that there are countries throughout the world who are paying for petroleum from countries whose leaders are channeling hundred of billions of those dollars into terrorism, insurgencies, and outright war against the interests of the United States. We need to re-channel as much as possible of that money to our own income. This would bring us even more billions each year.

How can we do this? You have probably read and heard the Main Stream Media repeating the idea that the United States has only threepercent of the world’s reserves of oil. But now we know this is not true! We have all the oil we’ll need right here. We can produce all the petroleum we need by ourselves, and we can sell petroleum to others any time we decide it is in our best national interests to do so. Look at the startling, crucial Chart that shows the “Potential US Oil Shale Energy v. Foreign Oil Reserves” in just the Rocky Mountain sites. As John Hinderaker, at Powerline, points out:

Rocky Mountain shale is believed to contain the equivalent of 2 trillion barrels of oil. Is that a lot? The entire world has used around 1 trillion barrels since oil was discovered in Pennsylvania in 1859.

We can supply our military, and, if need be, the militaries of our allies in NATO and throughout the world who are fighting in our national interests. It is in our vital interest to drill NOW and to keep drilling HERE at home. Forget the mediocre or empty 68-millions acres the Democrats want to foist off on us. We need to drill in the BIG THREE US AREAS: the Oil Shale Rocky Mountains, ANWR, and the outer continental shelf. We cannot allow ourselves to be dependent on anyone outside of the USA for petroleum any longer than necessary.

There are also billions of dollars to the US government in royalties, oil leases, taxes, and so on, that will come from such drilling.

We need as quickly as possible to be able to help ourselves, our allies, and others to withstand, any blockades of the Strait of Hormuz or sabotage in other oil routes. It is not just the United States that would be harmed in that sabotage. The world is interconnected economically in ways that will devastate all of us if the flow of oil is cut off in any significant way. We also must have more than just our “Strategic Petroleum Reserve”, (which is only enough for the US itself for about a month).

We have a long history in our country with using our resources to benefit our friends around the world, and this is another policy we can add to Lend-Lease, the Marshall Plan, and the Berlin Airlift in our history books. With the oil we could produce, we could drive down the price drastically and still have a healthy profit.

In Part Five, I will discuss some of the enemies of this potentially successful drilling.

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