American Thinker: The Trump administration is set to open vast amounts of U.S. coastline for oil exploration. Green heads are already exploding, as America’s huge offshore oil reserves will now be available for exploitation.
The new five-year drilling plan also could open new areas of oil and gas exploration in areas off the East Coast from Florida to Maine, where drilling has been blocked for decades. While some lawmakers in those states support offshore drilling, the plan drew immediate opposition from governors up and down the East Coast, including Republican [g]ovs. Rick Scott of Florida and Larry Hogan of Maryland, who pressed President Donald Trump to withdraw their states from consideration.
The five-year plan would open 90 percent of the nation’s offshore reserves to development by private companies, Zinke said, with 47 leases proposed off the nation’s coastlines from 2019 to 2024. Nineteen sales would be off Alaska[;] 12 in the Gulf of Mexico[;] nine in the Atlantic[;] and seven in the Pacific, including six off California.
“This is a draft program,” Zinke told reporters during a conference call. “Nothing is final yet, and our department is continuing to engage the American people to get to our final product.” more here
DRILL BABY DRILL!!!
“Drill baby, drill!”
It’s good that it is done but fracking has been killing offshore due to lower costs.
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=79687&p=irol-reportsother
Just tell BP not to bother asking.
Please, please, PLEASE…..put an array of platforms directly in front of any Kennedy family member beach front property!
A couple of jack up rigs off the Kennedy compound in Cape Cod would make me smile.
“exploitation” implies getting something for nothing or ravaging the planet. Why not say”harvesting” or “production” which more correctly shows that money and effort is required?
Well liberals, you had decades to find alternative sources of energy, and was even given a $20 Billion/Year Dept. of Energy budget (Carter) and you squandered it, and wasted your time and money protesting and opposing oil and gas.
Well, we are going to pull out our own oil and gas now…..blame yourselves.