The Oil Rigs Are Coming, The Oil Rigs Are Coming!

Recently BARRY RUSSELL, President Independent Petroleum Association, wrote a letter to the editor in my California hometown explaining that only .001% of 7 billion barrels of oil had leaked into the environment, so they must be good stewards of the environment........it all looks good if you read right through that,..now do the math: .001% of 7,000,000,000, is 70,000 barrels,.....now a barrel of oil contains 42 gallons,..so that amounts to just under 3 million gallons of oil leaked into the environment,...paltry right???,...more like toxic environmental destruction....

entire letter to the editor posted below. (SF Chronicle)

In defense of drilling

Your April 16 editorial, "Just Say: No, baby, no on the proposal to expand offshore drilling in California," unfairly portrays energy development in the outer continental shelf as a "nonstarter," downplaying the potential for America's offshore resources to mitigate our dependence on foreign energy and spur economic development.

You ask: "Is there anything new to be said?" about offshore energy development. The answer is yes. New imaging technologies make it possible to find new sources of energy safer, quicker and more accurately than ever before. That means fewer wells drilled and less disturbance. New equipment which would have prevented the Santa Barbara spill of 1969 is now standard.

In fact, from 1985 to 2001, 7 billion barrels of oil were produced offshore with a spill rate of just .001 percent. The paper confidently claims there is "little oil to be had" offshore. If that's true, then why not allow us to go out and look? After all, you can't develop resources that don't exist. Can we create jobs, provide needed government revenue and reduce our dependence on foreign energy while continuing to be sound stewards of our environment? The answer isn't "no, baby, no," but "yes, we can."

BARRY RUSSELL, President Independent Petroleum Association

Washington, D.C.

I thought I'd add another link for some info on natural seepage and production spills of oil into the ocean.
This is from "Oil in the Sea III: Inputs, Fates, and Effects.

I suggest checking out the following pages at least:
--pg.65 (Input of Oil to the Sea)
http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10388&page=65

--pg.192 (Seepage Estimates for North America and the Globe) ~180 Million gallons/year
http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10388&page=192

--pg.193 (Accidental Discharge from Platforms)
http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10388&page=193

For clarification purposes, each metric Tonne is ~288 Gallons. There are 55 gallons per barrel of oil.

"The National Academies Press (NAP) was created by the National Academies to publish the reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council, all operating under a charter granted by the Congress of the United States."

http://current.com/items/90020707_this-is-my-plan-to-save-the-environment.htm

This is my solution, We can choose to make loads of money off of electricity stations which also means independence from oil and fuel corporations which means it cuts out the whole middle man way and makes the gas stations into independent energy stations which can bring more money, competition, and more sovereignty to our nations and put an end to the corporate war against the people and in end to corporate ripoffs and being forced to complain to them since they don't give a **** whether you complain or not.

We need a better solution then ethanol because it will never help us and will cause food riots and food crises and may lead to martial law.

We need a better source of energy and commerce and I got it all on scribd and here.