Trump administration dramatically expands offshore drilling
Another "Giant Step" toward energy independence and increased national Security.
The more energy we produce for ourselves rather than import from those who, to put it mildly, don't like us, the better off we are.
This also increases the job markets. All good things.
The more energy we produce for ourselves rather than import from those who, to put it mildly, don't like us, the better off we are.
This also increases the job markets. All good things.
If we can produce what we use,
Our national security is benefitted two fold : reduces Middle East importance and
Provides Economic security protected from disruption to supply.
Any argument contrary ignores the fact that this resource is extracted from the earths crust somewhere and we all use it one way or an other. I don't think green peaces ships are paddled. It's Environazi's earth first , sacrifice the people so future people can see the wilderness as untouched?
Of course people first should be The motto for that vision to happen.
Wait, I just did write that.
Never mind. .
Would instead the natural gases present in the Arctic not provide the world with much-needed resources?
"The Arctic is the air conditioner and the refrigerator of the planet and what happens here affect all of us," says Kumi Naidoo in this interview with Bill Moyers. Including people outside of the USA!
Of course, that assumes many voters still know how to use the logical side of their brains.
There are actually a lot of oil wells in California - quite contrary to what one would think. Even downtown Los Angeles has hundreds or thousands, they have buildings around them or are camouflaged in some way.
Santa Barbara had a massive spill in the 70s and that shut down off-shore here. Reagan was President not long after, and had been Governor of California prior - and he lived in Santa Barbara - so use your imagination on “how” the lockdown became so tight. The Kennedy’s love air power - just not off Nantucket.. Bush’ies are not fans of it either off Kennebunkport.
The NIMBY groups will fight tooth & nail, of course, but the extraction fees & taxes are probably very attractive to the California government. An open secret of California's broken budget is that it "chooses" to cover groups not allowed under Medicaid - specifically, illegal immigrants. The cost of providing health coverage without the federal reimbursement for illegals is $4.2 billion PER MONTH. The state's general fund is around $120 billion annually, $50+/- billion is soaked up by Medi-Cal - mostly for that program.
They just raised car registration another $175 a year, so most of us with nice pickup trucks are going to be looking at over $1000 for our registration tax, on top of $800 / month for property taxes for a typical house, and about 10% income tax. I think they may have finally broke the camel's back with the taxes... the few GOP governor candidates that are starting to surface now are not trying to be Schwarzenegger-esque democrat-lite anymore, they seem to be openly conservative.
Does federal jurisdiction go out further?
I may be out of date- but was it 3 miles, 12 miles?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territo...
200 nautical miles economic zone
12 nautical miles territorial zone
These are for a country. Not sure what federal law will control the rights of states, but since 1865 states power has been waning in favor of federal power.