{"id":30597,"date":"2017-04-07T11:20:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T15:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30597"},"modified":"2017-04-07T11:20:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T15:20:14","slug":"making-america-energy-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30597","title":{"rendered":"Making America Energy Independent"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are a lot of entities that have a vested interest in preventing America<\/a> from becoming energy independent. The obvious ones are OPEC<\/a> and the Soviet Union<\/a>. When you look at the money behind the anti-pipeline and anti-fracking movements, you will see a lot of Saudi Arabian<\/a> money and a lot of Russian money. Why? Some scientists believe that the oil and natural gas resources in America reachable by fracking are larger than the oil resources in the Middle East<\/a>. Fracking will quickly end OPEC’s monopoly on the world’s oil supply. It will also prevent the possibility of Iran at some point blocking the Strait of Hormuz<\/a>. Thirty percent of the world’s oil travels through the Strait of Hormuz. Imagine the disruption of the world’s oil supply if that Strait was blocked. Right now, Russia<\/a> is the largest supplier of natural gas to Europe. The pipelines run from Russia to Europe. Russia has been known to threaten Europe with shutting down the pipeline if Europe does not comply with Russia’s wishes. American oil and natural gas would also alleviate that threat. The environmentalists who are blocking the development of America’s fossil fuel reserves are serving as useful idiots for OPEC and the Russians. The elevated status these objectors were given during the Obama Administration is about to end.<\/p>\n

The Daily Caller<\/a> is reporting today that the Trump Administration is getting ready to open up new areas to offshore oil and gas drilling.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Industry sources familiar with the matter told Platts<\/a> an executive order is in the works to rewind Obama\u2019s decision to make large swaths of the Arctic and Atlantic off-limits to oil and gas drilling.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke told industry representatives the new drilling plan would be signed soon, according to Bloomberg<\/a>.\u00a0However, he gave few details on what the order could include.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Department of the Interior\u2019s (DOI) new five-year offshore drilling plan could take years to develop and would replace the Obama administration\u2019s five-year plan finalized in November.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like it or not, fossil fuel fuels the world’s economy. Until the free market is allowed to work to develop a reliable source of green energy, fossil fuel will continue in that role. The good news is that natural gas is an extremely clean-burning fossil fuel, and America has plenty of that.<\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

Trump is expected to sign the order by the end of April, and it\u2019s sure to draw legal challenges from environmentalists who\u2019ve argued Obama\u2019s indefinite ban on Arctic and Atlantic drilling can\u2019t be overturned.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Obama used Section 12(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act<\/a>, a 1953 law governing offshore drilling, in an unprecedented way, blocking leases in the Atlantic Ocean<\/a> and the Chukchi and Beaufort seas.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s order took 125 million acres in Arctic seas<\/a> and four million acres in the Atlantic Ocean out of future lease sales indefinitely. Supporters said the former president\u2019s actions \u201cpermanently\u201d banned drilling in those regions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But the drilling ban is only permanent if Congress doesn\u2019t change the law or Trump doesn\u2019t move to test it in court. Past presidents have reduced the size of Section 12(a) designations but never fully repealed them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The U.S.-held portion of the Arctic Ocean is estimated to hold 27 billion barrels of oil and 132 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. The oil and gas industry has struggled to access these vast energy reserves but new discoveries in northern Alaska have reinvigorated some interest in the region.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Energy independence is both a matter of national security and economic success. Cheap fuel prices will bring industry back to America. American labor costs may be higher than the almost-slave labor that exists in some countries, but American quality control standards are also high. Lowering energy costs (and lowering corporate tax rates) will be a positive step toward reviving an American economy that has not been doing well in recent years.<\/p>\n

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