Court Cancels Offshore Drilling
This is why this debate is so important. If the Environmental Protection Agency believes that CO2 is a pollutant than we are in for a lot more rulings like this one:
A three-judge panel in the District of Columbia says the Bush administration’s Interior Department failed to consider the offshore environmental impact and marine life before approving an oil and gas leasing program in the Beaufort, Bering, and Chukchi (CHOOK-chee) seas.
While this ruling is not related to the EPAs finding the CO2 is a pollutant it does open the door to shutting the door on oil and gas exploration. I’m not looking forward to higher (much higher probably) energy prices that we can look forward too. It’s bad enough that Winter is hanging on into late April over parts of the country! Soon, we may add a high cost to keeping warm in the Winter and cool in the Summer.
I didn’t even mention the $700 billion flowing from the USA to oil producing countries. I also didn’t mention that our proceedures for extracting oil is more environmentally friendly than other countries. Nobody does a better job of preventing spills than the USA! Most oil accidents are tanker mishaps, which, as we import more and more oil and natural gas, we increase tanker traffic.
So, to summarize. Buy a pot bellied stove, chop up some tress and keep warm the best you can next Winter. It’s likely to be a cold, expensive one!
