[ April 24, 2024 ]
[the_ad id=”87125″]
Common sense. Much needed. We need to be freed from dependence upon Middle East oil. This will do a great deal to dry up the jihadis’ money stream.
Story continues below advertisement
“Trump Opens ‘All Available’ Gulf Of Mexico Waters To Oil Drilling,” by Michael Bastasch, Daily Caller, March 7, 2017:
The Department of the Interior will include “all available” federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico that have not already been leased out for offshore oil drilling.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced Monday 73 million acres off the coast of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida would be offered at a lease sale in August as part of the Interior Department’s five-year leasing plan.
“Opening more federal lands and waters to oil and gas drilling is a pillar of President Trump’s plan to make the United States energy independent,” Zinke said in a statement.
Interior finalized its current five-year offshore leasing program in January, just before Trump took office. The current plan includes 11 potential lease sales — 10 in the Gulf of Mexico and one in Alaska’s Cook Inlet.
The Obama administration, however, did not include any lease sales in most of the Arctic Ocean and all of the Atlantic Ocean. The administration initially considered offshore drilling in those areas, but decided not to on the urging of environment groups.For now, it seems like the Trump administration will stick with current policies. that could possibly change one Secretary Zinke gets all his appointees in place. The Senate confirmed Zinke last week, and it’s unclear when they will hold confirmation hearings for other high-level Interior positions.
“The Gulf is a vital part of that strategy to spur economic opportunities for industry, states, and local communities, to create jobs and home-grown energy and to reduce our dependence on foreign oil,” Zinke said.
Zinke’s announcement came the same day as President Donald Trump congratulated ExxonMobil on its $20 billion investments in Gulf Coast states to boost its petrochemical refining operations. Exxon started making big investments in the region in 2013 and continue until 2022.
Exxon says its investment is creating more than 45,000 construction and manufacturing jobs with salaries ranging from $75,000 to $125,000. Exxon CEO Darren Woods said Trump’s agenda of deregulation”enhanced” his company’s investments.
Shortly before leaving office, former President Barack Obama locked up even more offshore areas from drilling, issuing an executive order in December making 31 canyons in the Atlantic off limits to drilling. The order took 3.8 million acres of the Atlantic ocean out of play for drillers.
In that same order, Obama designated “the vast majority of U.S. waters in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas as indefinitely off limits to offshore oil and gas leasing.”
Environmentalists supported keeping Arctic and Atlantic waters off limits to drilling. Activists say it’s necessary to protect marine life and slow global warming.
Trump, on the other hand, promised to boost U.S. energy production through opening more federal lands and waters for exploration and eliminating regulations. That includes rolling back Obama-era policies blocking offshore drilling.
“This is exactly the kind of investment, economic development and job creation that will help put Americans back to work,” Trump said of Exxon’s investments announced Monday….
The Truth Must be Told
Your contribution supports independent journalism
Please take a moment to consider this. Now, more than ever, people are reading Geller Report for news they won't get anywhere else. But advertising revenues have all but disappeared. Google Adsense is the online advertising monopoly and they have banned us. Social media giants like Facebook and Twitter have blocked and shadow-banned our accounts. But we won't put up a paywall. Because never has the free world needed independent journalism more.
Everyone who reads our reporting knows the Geller Report covers the news the media won't. We cannot do our ground-breaking report without your support. We must continue to report on the global jihad and the left's war on freedom. Our readers’ contributions make that possible.
Geller Report's independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our work is critical in the fight for freedom and because it is your fight, too.
Please contribute here.
or
Make a monthly commitment to support The Geller Report – choose the option that suits you best.
Quick note: We cannot do this without your support. Fact. Our work is made possible by you and only you. We receive no grants, government handouts, or major funding.Tech giants are shutting us down. You know this. Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Adsense, Pinterest permanently banned us. Facebook, Google search et al have shadow-banned, suspended and deleted us from your news feeds. They are disappearing us. But we are here.
Subscribe to Geller Report newsletter here— it’s free and it’s essential NOW when informed decision making and opinion is essential to America's survival. Share our posts on your social channels and with your email contacts. Fight the great fight.
Follow Pamela Geller on Gettr. I am there. click here.
Follow Pamela Geller on Trump's social media platform, Truth Social. It's open and free.
Remember, YOU make the work possible. If you can, please contribute to Geller Report.
Join The Conversation. Leave a Comment.
We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, profanity, vulgarity, doxing, or discourteous behavior. If a comment is spammy or unhelpful, click the - symbol under the comment to let us know. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain fruitful conversation.
If you would like to join the conversation, but don't have an account, you can sign up for one right here.
If you are having problems leaving a comment, it's likely because you are using an ad blocker, something that break ads, of course, but also breaks the comments section of our site. If you are using an ad blocker, and would like to share your thoughts, please disable your ad blocker. We look forward to seeing your comments below.
13 Comments
7 years ago
Three cheers for us. Now let’s open the Atlantic and the Florida Straits before the Chinese grab it all.
7 years ago
Drill, carefully, it is not an issue if done properly.
7 years ago
DRILL baby drill.
OIL is the life blood of FUNDING terrorism.
Notice when we frack, middle east oil prices go DOWN.
When we stop fracking,oil prices go UP in the middle east.
OIL is ALL they have to offer.
The middle east is so desperate for oil money their LAVISH living when OIL prices were HIGHER is now creating DEBT because they are charging LESS to keep their monopoly.
Thank you Presoident Trump
7 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Meanwhile, fracking causes huge environmental problems. So, no. We need to work on sustainable, clean energies.
7 years ago
More relief will come as Trump gets his cabinet and team in place.
The DEMS are doing their best to slow walk this.
I do have to say, I am NOT happy with Paul Ryans Obamacare 2.0.
Basically it is still government funded and rolled into Medicaid through state grants.
What I voted for was NO GOVERNMENT healthcare. Repeal ALL of it and REPLACE it with the PRIVATE SECTOR crossing state lines like car insurance. Let them have it – let the PRIVATE sector also handle pre-existing issues and let them write it off.
Also let people have CHOICE. Women past child bearing should not be locked into a plan that includes abortion or birth control. That si how Obamacare is set up. When you buy a car, you are not insured for flat tires or oil changes. I put birth control and Viagra in that category and should NOT be covered by insurance.
Take the government OUT of it and prices come down. Chose the coverage ala carte what you need and be rated on that and do NOT make health insurance MANDATORY with a PENALTY if you don’t have it and make sure ONLY legal Americans have the offering. I don’t want to be pooled with ILLEGALS.
7 years ago
I’d say that OPEC and Middle East oil countries heads are exploding. The United States have always had the resources, but not the will to flip off, mainly Muslim oil producing countries like Saudi Arabia etc.
7 years ago
Reply to
JacksonPearson
Ha ha….even the leftists are spinning in their graves over this! Oops…i think i meant the ones who are living…….
7 years ago
LOL! Let the prosperity begin!!! MAGA!!
7 years ago
Once the US become energy independent the ragheads will be back in the goat business overnight.
7 years ago
God has given us billions of gallons of oil beneath these blessed United States. We can, we should, we MUST drill it up for our use and get out of the clutches of the potentates of the Middle East. Thank God for our Donald. He will Make America Great Again! Blessings on all…Marianne Ricci-Wilson
7 years ago
Trump gets better, smarter and more patriotic every day. He’s going to by pass Reagan. Remember, he was a Democrat and ran against the second worst president, Carter. It was different times then and there was a Democratic party, not like today where we have the Liberal/communist party that welcomes Muslims to destroy my country..
7 years ago
Nice why dont we turn the gulf coast into the largest landfill in the world because soon enough life won’t be able to thrive outside of bacteria! Lets use up all our fossil fuels because that is whats great for this world! Global Warming doesnt exist we just set new planetary records for highest average temperature naturally and not due to human causes over the past 5 years. PAMELA GELLER and anyone supporting this does not realize the obvious corruption in government. Our secretary of state was the CEO of exxon mobile who still holds stocks for that company. Only oil companies will benefit from this but everything from the fishing industry to hotel properties on the beach will have a major drop in value. If ocean levels rise places like Mamhattan and Miami will be in serious danger of property damage that exceeds 500 billion. Global warming exists and if we have the foresight to put aside our differences we can mitigate it.
7 years ago
Sorry, can’t get on board with this. What we need is to concentrate on sustainable, clean energies. This is just another disastrous oil spill in the making in an area that just cannot afford it, Earth.
