In the last couple of weeks we have had our gas prices drop a few cents. We currently have the price of a barrel of oil under $100. It is currently at $99.60 per barrel right now.
Yes these are little things, but sometimes we must find the the positive in the little things. Well we just might have some more things to be positive about if our own government will allow it.
I am talking about getting us away from our dependence on Arab oil. The oil we depend of from the Middle East is always so volatile, meaning the price of that oil is never safe. With ever new disturbance that breaks out in the Middle East the price of oil climbs higher and higher. With every new protest or revolution in the Middle East the price of their oil goes higher and higher. Of course there is also OPEC the oil cartel that loves to set quotas of barrels of oil that they know they cannot or will not meet. By doing this it drives the price of oil up higher, making those countries in OPEC more money.
So how do we get away from Arab oil? Well first thing is to remember, we will never be completely free of Arab oil but we must rely less on it. Just last week a high ranking official in Saudi Arabia was recorded as saying that the Saudis do not want Americans to find other alternatives to their oil, so they were going to look into lower the price per barrel. We must get away from this and there are ways.
Obviously the offshore drilling option has been discussed here multiple times so I wont go in depth on that issue. I will tell you about a way we can receive approximately 740,000 barrels of oil a day shipped to a refinery on the Gulf Coast.
It is called the Keystone pipeline. This pipeline is already up and operational. It delivers approximately 540,000 barrels of oil from Alberta, Canada to Oklahoma. Now there is a proposal to expand this pipeline from Oklahoma down south to the Gulf Coast, Galveston to be exact.
By expanding this pipeline it will increase the flow of oil into the United States by roughly 200,000 barrels a day. It is proposed to also create a revenue of approximately $20 billion dollars a year by the refining and selling of this oil's products. This does not include the jobs that will be created in order to create this new section of pipeline from Oklahoma to the Texas coast.
This is really a no brainer for our government. The decision is actually very simple. We already receive 25% of our oil from our ally Canada as it is now. So it only makes sense for us to increase that percentage from a country that actually likes us and not from one that doesn't.
We sit on or are privileged to enough natural resources to supply our country with energy for life times to come. Our government must untie our hands so that we may create this opportunity.
Environmentalist will argue that this is a bad idea due to the risk of oil spills in the environment. We have spoken here many times that in order to create anything you must take risks. Where are all of those environmentalists ideas for energy sources? All the clean energy ideas they have are marginal at best.
We are at a point in time where we can start to separate ourselves from Arab oil. We need to stop supplying countries that are not really our allies with aid, we need to start helping countries that are our allies.
This our chance to create jobs, gain some independence for Arab oil, and add billions to our economy. This is a chance for our government to actually show its citizens it is serious about fixing some of the problems we are facing right now.
Let's see what happens. What do you think about adding billions to the economy? What do you think about creating thousands of jobs? What do you think about not depending on Arab oil so much?
Tell us, agree or disagree at least we know what the PEOPLE think.
2 comments:
Sure, we can drill more. But at what cost? As we have seen with the BP incident, offshore drilling is unsafe; and I think thats pretty undisputable. My point is that we live in a finite world with finite resources (specifically non-renewable resources.) At some point we will run out because Americans use substantially more energy than the rest of the world. Sure we may have energy for generations to come, but all we do is push back the inevitability of eventually running out of oil to future generations. If debt is morally wrong to hand down to generations, so is a planet with no energy source and unbreatheable air. Renewable energy is cost effective, and can create at least 5 million new jobs. Folks can believe what they want about Global Warming, but there has to come a time in which we can put aside our partisan differences, look at the facts, and agree on reality. Unfortunatly, I see the Left side of the isle able to do so, and hissy fits coming from the right.
@Sam Caceres thank you for your comment here and for following our website. Unfortunately you are right everything we do is at a cost. But to say we are going to stop doing something because of one or two accidents is the wrong mentality in my opinion. Planes crash trains wreck ships sink but we do not stop flying riding or sailing do we. No we move on from the mistakes and we learn and improve from them as well. You are absolutely right that some day we may run out of oil but what about a way to recycle old oil and use it for a new energy. You see I am not against clean energy because anything that can make our planet and lives on this planet last longer I'm all for. What I am against is wasting money tax payer money for no good reason. And to not use a resource that is available to us and not have a credible cheaper alternative. Then let's use whatwe know works until we can figure an alternative out. I'm not from the left or the right but one thing is for sure about both of those sides they talk a lot and do very little. Let's start doing something.
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