oil drilling

  • “Drill-baby-drill” worthless for lowering gas prices says 36-years of data

    Ralph Maughan

    Slogan might sway elections, has no effect on gasoline prices- Whenever the price of gasoline rises, we hear what is by now a coordinated shout that there needs to be more domestic oil drilling and “damn, the damn bunnies” and the rest of the wildlife too.  Thirty seconds thought tells a person that a short…

  • Gulf oil spill could hit Louisiana coast Thursday night

    Ralph Maughan

    Oh yes, let’s drill for a lot more off-shore oil. They have great, green technology now! Although this Administration is not responsible for this huge oil leak, it highlights their boneheaded policy of greatly expanded off-shore drilling.  It looks like this could be almost as bad as the 1989 Alaska catastrophe with the Exxon Valdez…

  • Good news: Drilling off Alaska can't proceed without further environmental review

    Ralph Maughan

    Appeals panel rules that the Interior Department didn’t adequately analyze a Bush administration plan to auction off leases in the Arctic seas- Drilling off Alaska can’t proceed without further environmental review. By James Oliphant and Kim Murphy. LA Times. An off-shore oil spill into the Arctic Ocean would be a terrible disaster.

  • BLM, NPS to settle? Utah parks may yet escape oil drilling

    Ralph Maughan

    Lease sale for Dec. 19 might exclude parcels adjacent to national parks- Utah parks may yet escape oil drilling. Land lease » BLM and Park Service may settle their dispute today. By Patty Henetz. The Salt Lake Tribune – – – – Original story in this blog from Nov. 9Utah oil and gas lease sale…

  • Do you remember the chant Drill, Drill, Drill?

    Ralph Maughan

    It was important to drill everywhere even if it would only reduce gas prices by a penny or two over 20 years- That’s were the Republicans were saying just a couple months ago. It was the only solution, they said. In Pocatello, Idaho the price of gasoline is $1.89/gal. $1.75 (11/25). This summer it hit…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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