Video: End The De Facto Off Shore Drilling Moratorium Now

Drill, baby drill.

With Hawaii being the first state to hit $4 a gallon for gas, drilling is sounding like more and more of a solution everyday.



Whoever the artist is with the dry-erase board is amazingly good. Almost had to watch this twice.

Thanks to Rebecca.

A Real Life Example Of The Moratorium On Brains

This was a constant theme throughout the book, Atlas Shrugs. The people in charge of the railroad that should know what to do, don't. The same with the people in charge of the government. The chapter is an amazing study into human nature.

And in real life, the Moratorium on Brains gets people killed.

And There Are 19 Others Like This

Over at Doug Ross's place. Twenty of the most shocking photos from the Gulf Oil Spill.

They Told Me That If I Voted For John McCain, We Would See Journalists Arrested In The Streets For Reporting. . .

. . . And they were right.

Via Smitty at The Other McCain who has more.

If You Don't Like This Segment By Steven Crowder. . .

. . . Then you are worse than the guidance counselor who told Hitler to "Follow your dreams".



Via The Jawa Report.

"In The Very Best Of Hands"

Not much else here to say other than this:

The federal government is shutting down the dredging that was being done to create protective sand berms in the Gulf of Mexico.

Sometimes it's as if Obama wants a man-made disaster to generate a crisis for him.

When They Said That Obama Is The New Jimmy Carter. . .

. . . I had no idea how accurate they were.



Is the Gulf considered a 'Malaise' now?

Related enough: When you have lost Jon Stewart and The Daily Show. . .

Obama is a comedy goldmine? Who knew?

Worse Than The Spill Itself

Peter Schiff on Obama's Gulf of Mexico Speech last night:

"What we've learned from this spill is the unintended consequences of government policy,'' Schiff said. Drilling closer to shore is politically problematic because beachgoers don't want to see oil derricks, Schiff said. That has forced oil companies to drill in deeper water, a far more risky endeavor.

"We'd be better off drilling closer to shore,'' he said. "And why are we even drilling in water? Look at all the oil that's up in [the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge] in Alaska."

For such a 'Green' President, Obama hasn't done much for the Gulf area. Aside from photo opportunities.

Anyway, the worse this disaster gets, the better Obama likes it. It gives him the political capital to help push through Cap and Trade throw Congress. Never let a crisis go to waste.

As for people who say we need to get off of oil, wind and solar isn't going to cut it.

The production of corn ethanol is a loser for many reasons. Just a quick glance at corn ethanol's power density--just 0.05 W/m2--shows why the fuel makes no sense from a physics standpoint. Corn ethanol's low power density is inherent in all biomass, which leads us to the second of the Four Imperatives. Energy density refers to the quantity of energy that can be contained in a given unit of volume, area, or mass. And the low energy density of biomass--corn, switchgrass, wood, etc.--makes it difficult to produce sufficient amounts of energy without occupying huge swaths of land.

Now let's consider the power density of wind energy, which is about 1.2 W/m2, and solar photovoltaic, which can produce about 6.7 W/m2. Both sources are superior to corn ethanol (nearly everything is), but they are incurably intermittent, which makes them of marginal value in a world that demands always-available power. Nor can they compare to the power density of sources like natural gas, oil and nuclear. For instance, a marginal natural gas well, producing 60,000 cubic feet per day, has a power density of about 28 W/m2. An oil well, producing 10 barrels per day, has a power density of about 27 W/m2. Meanwhile, a nuclear power plant like the South Texas Project--even if you include the entire 19 square-mile tract upon which the project is sited--produces about 56 W/m2.

Yeah, there is math involved but the extent of it is "Greater Than" and "Less Than". Nothing on the market can replace oil as the best source of energy today.

Keep drilling, baby.

Related enough: Where are the environmental groups at exactly?

Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda

If Obama only had met Doc Brown and his DeLorean.

“I think it’s fair to say, if six months ago, before this spill had happened, I had gone up to Congress and I had said we need to crack down a lot harder on oil companies and we need to spend more money on technology to respond in case of a catastrophic spill, there are folks up there, who will not be named, who would have said this is classic, big-government overregulation and wasteful spending,” Obama said

Bobby Jindal In Action; Barack Obama Twiddles His Thumbs

There should be no reason why Gov. Jindal can't have the authorization to use this approach to cleaning up the beaches on a massive scale.



Cajun engineering at it's best.