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August 17, 2007
Don't Like High Gas Prices? Blame a Moonbat
Wonder why gas prices are high? Part of it is taxes, and part of it is this:
A US federal appeals court in San Francisco has upheld an order blocking supermajor Shell from exploratory drilling in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska's north coast. […]
The ruling deals a serious blow to Shell's plan to drill up to four exploration wells during the brief Arctic summer to test a $44 million investment the company placed in the region in 2005[…]
This sets up proceedings for the same Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to look into the matter more fully.
However, with December being the first chance for the three-judge panel to address the issue again, Shell has been shut out from drilling before the Beaufort Sea freezes for winter.
I'm sure Shell will continue to get a fair and impartial hearing from the leftists on the Ninth Circus. The US Department of Interior's Minerals Management Service already approved the drilling, but that's no reason not to tangle it up in expensive red tape, possibly indefinitely.
Good thing environmentalists' Suburus and Piouses run on pixie dust and not gasoline, or how would they get from their demonstrations to the courthouse and back?
In addition to preventing the exploitation of an energy reserve that does not involve handing over money to Muslims or Hugo Chavez, both of whom will spend it on weapons to kill us with, the envirowackos and their moonbat accomplices in the insane asylum known as our legal system have managed to jack up the price of doing business for Shell, which has no choice but to pass along such costs to us. Also, they have managed to prevent the creation of hundreds of permanent jobs.
On the plus side, liberals have given themselves something else to feel smugly self-righteous about.
On a tip from Byron.
Posted by Van Helsing at August 17, 2007 6:46 AM
Comments
How about an Executive Order, on national security grounds, permitting the exploratory drilling for oil already approved by the Dept. of the Interior? Gives the wackos something to bitch about, let's the company that paid millions of dollars for the right to do this job do the job it's supposed to do, brings in oil from America, so we're not lining the pockets of scum that want to kill us, tells the 9th Circus to go to Hell, and demonstrates real conservative leadership. A "Win-Win" all around . . .
Posted by: jc14 at August 17, 2007 7:25 AM
Actually, its not just the 'no-drilling' that has screwed us. Its the damn 'No new refineries' crap that went on for years on end that has got us over the barrel. For that, the big oil companies are now mostly complicitous in the matter, since new refineries would mean lower prices.
And then we get into the other way Enviroloons have got us f'd up: no new nuclear powerplants. If we had converted the majority of our powergrid to nuclear, we wouldn't be facing these kinds of issues. Yay for an outdated power structure, overloaded/outdated grid and the bloated bureaucracy to keep it on life support.
Posted by: Brooklyn Red Leg at August 17, 2007 8:49 AM
The big oil companies complicit in the lack of new refineries? Try building a new major refinery with all of the Clean Air Act regulations there are to deal with, when older refineries are pretty much grandfathered in and are exempt. The slim profit margin has run a good number of existing refineries right out of business, and over-regulation does not promote construction of new refining capacity. Big oil has its skeletons in the closet, but suppressing new refinery construction isn't one of them.
Posted by: monsoon at August 17, 2007 9:47 AM
The three-judge panel ruled that the environmental groups challenging Shell "raised serious questions and demonstrated the balance of hardships tips sharply in their favor."
- from the article
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that these environmental groups also have an undisclosed financial stake in alternative energy? If so would a conflict of interest be a reason to investigate these environmental groups for manipulating the courts of the United States for monetary gain? Would RICO violations come out of that?
Posted by: Kevin at August 17, 2007 11:43 AM
