skippy the bush kangaroo

california should outlaw the use of that phrase. but looks like the outlaws in this administration are working hard in their final days and having those "fire sales" to benefit their outlaw buddies.

on election day, the u.s. bureau of land management announced a dec. 19 auction of more than 50,000 acres of oil and gas parcels alongside or within view of three national parks in utah. environmentalists are calling the move a bush administration “fire sale” for the oil and gas industry while the national park service’s top official in the state said it was “shocking and disturbing.” - cbs news via think progress

Labels: aWol, environment, lawlessness, oil

they cave in to everything.

democrats have decided to allow a quarter-century ban on drilling for oil off the atlantic and pacific coasts to expire next week, conceding defeat in a months-long battle with the white house and republicans set off by $4 a gallon gasoline prices this summer. - sfgate

spineless, cojonesfree brie eating, chardonnay swilling surrender monkeys.

wonder if they have ever seen our gentle neighbors in the channel, whose lives and welfare they just threw under the speedboat.

Labels: democrats, losers, offshore drilling, oil

during ike...know the truth.

oil industry web sites were reporting that as of wednesday at least three offshore rigs known as jackups remain missing and are presumed to be total losses and at least one deep-water production system sustained damage to its drilling package from last week's hurricane ike.

mong the category 2 hurricane's casualties was a rig that remained missing in the gulf of Mexico despite having been equipped with a global positioning system

....the maritime industry online news service lloyd's list gave an even gloomier assessment of ike's damage, saying "28 platforms have been demolished by the worst storm to hit the u.s. gulf coast since 2005."

the rigzone report and others renew questions about rig standards that were set in place after hurricanes ivan and katrina destroyed dozens of gulf rigs just a few years ago.

a press-register report after 2005's hurricane katrina found that oil platforms in the gulf were designed only to withstand borderline category 2 or 3 storms and that the anchors of big drilling rigs were only required to hold during conditions associated with minor tropical storms.- press register

you would think that with all that profit being raked in by the big oil boys, they would at least upgrade their rigs' safety.

Labels: hurricane, offshore drilling, oil

proposed by the democrats? proposed by the democrats? you're freakin' kidding me.

the u.s. house of representatives passed legislation tuesday that lifts a longstanding ban on offshore oil drilling, opening most of the u.s. coastline to exploration. the package proposed by democrats would give states the option to allow drilling between 50 and 100 miles (80 and 160 km) off their shores. - reuters

what...they jumped ship to the lie-berman party?

watch the "offshore land grab" start in santa barbara.

Labels: democrats, offshore drilling, oil

some serious decisions are being made without people noticing back here on the central coast....

nearly 40 years after a disastrous oil spill off the santa barbara coast galvanized the nation and gave birth to the modern environmental movement, the county board of supervisors is poised to vote today in support of offshore drilling. - latte times

calitics has more.

and, by the way...wtf is this?

the oil industry is holding an “energy mid-day reception for invited guests only” today at the democratic convention. “location: unannounced,” writes the houston chronicle. “the event is sponsored by the american petroleum institute, the american gas association and the edison electric institute.” - houston chronicle (ht think progress)

Labels: california, drilling, oil, santa barbara

and talking back.....showing some green spine

congress should not lift the ban on offshore oil drilling. - joe biden

"a gift to the oil companies"

Labels: biden, environment, oil, veep

so it won't help lower gasoline prices but is there an oil services corporation that would benefit by having irreplaceable coastal areas open for drilling?

Labels: bipartisanship, halliburton, oil

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Originally uploaded by lengwa55.

we're up to approximately $6.2 million thus far.

Labels: gap fire, oil, republicans, santa barbara, taxes

"it is sad that it was necessary that santa barbara should be the example that had to bring it to the attention of the american people. what is involved is the use of our resources of the sea and of the land in a more effective way and with more concern for preserving the beauty and the natural resources that are so important to any kind of society that we want for the future. the santa barbara incident has frankly touched the conscience of the american people." - richard nixon

Labels: nixon, oil, santa barbara

slams awol and mcsame.
we "heart" our congresscritter. she's reality based.

Labels: aWol, california, congress, energy, gas, mccain, oil

can we have a windfall profits tax now? oil companies get sweetheart deal from iraq's "sovereign" government. american and british companies only.

Labels: corruption, iraq war, oil, war profiteering

on offshore drilling....
and...if there is spillage or an accident, taxpayers will be footing the bill for investigations and cleanup, like our state is "flush" with cash....not! psyche!  here in adobe disneyland (santa barbara) we've been having some horrendous pollution troubles with one oil company still here ...greka.

....but hiding among the decades of victories and vigilance, a small energy company — which bought its way into the county in 1999 by snatching up half-dead, run-down oil and gas leases — has been quietly earning a reputation as california’s number-one inland oil polluter with little to no fanfare from the media, environmentalists, or county officials. despite racking up more than 200 documented spills that leaked at least 500,000 gallons of oil, violating county air quality standards more than 300 times with releases of potentially deadly natural gases, and provoking a visit from the county’s hazmat teams 400 times in fewer than nine years — not to mention being successfully prosecuted by the federal government for violating the safe drinking water act — it wasn’t until four months ago, after a publicly visible spill just south of santa maria, that anybody in santa barbara county wanted to give greka oil and gas corporation the attention its track record demanded. - the santa barbara independent

Labels: california, energy, oil

they're only thinking about automobile traffic. they're not concerned with the harm done to another type of "traffic"....that of migrating whales through the santa barbara channel.



call your congresscritters. tell them we must stress alternative energy. we must begin stressing consuming less. we must begin stressing conserving more. show them this video and ask them how they might feel about harming these amazing, gentle creatures with the construction of more derricks, more boats for transport and the possibility of another major spill.

Labels: california, congress, ocean, oil, whales

the santa barbara channel is a dangerous place to drill for oil as it is fractured with earthquake fault lines that are very active and allow seeping out the gooey black stuff. (check the bottom of your feet when you walk our beaches.)

we've already had our environmental disaster...we don't want another one.

try conserving oil first, eh?

Labels: oil, santa barbara

huge basins of untapped oil are available throughout the u.s. according to a new government report. much of that oil is in santa barbara.

Labels: oil, santa barbara

at fire sale prices

interior department to hold alaska oil lease sale

the interior department said friday it is moving forward with an oil and gas lease sale covering nearly 4 million acres in alaska's national petroleum reserve.

the government says the lease area could hold 3 billion barrels of oil.

...the national petroleum reserve-alaska sits on federal land that is part of alaska's north slope, lying just west of the arctic national wildlife refuge.- ap

Labels: alaska, environment, oil

zones of death are spreading in oceans due to global warming. marine dead zones, where fish and other sea life can suffocate from lack of oxygen, are spreading across the world’s tropical oceans, a study has warned. - london times

dead water. too much nitrogen being washed into the sea is causing dead zones to spread alarmingly. - economist.

biotech companies rush to patent plant genes. biotech seed companies are behind a wave of patent claims on dozens of 'climate-ready' genes. - nature.

plans for new coal plants under fire. protesters are to launch one of the hardest-hitting environmental campaigns for more than a decade over plans to build a new generation of coal-fired power stations in the uk. london observer

inupiat sue to fend off danger of offshore oil. as mayor of alaska's wealthy north slope borough, edward itta is keenly attuned to the importance of oil, but his enthusiasm for the industry plummets when conversation shifts to offshore extraction. -ap.

chinese flee flood threat from quake. thousands of earthquake survivors fled tent camps and villages in sw china after the government warned that several lakes and rivers were getting dangerously close to overflowing because landslides have blocked water flow. the official death toll is now nearly 29,000. - new york times

water adds to worries in china's quake-hit sichuan. there is water everywhere in china's quake-ravaged sichuan province, where rain is hampering rescue efforts and reservoirs are pressing against weakened dams. but for some people there is not a drop to drink. - reuters.

effects of tce still a haunting mystery. a subterranean chemical plume -- thought to be latent under layers of dirt, asphalt and cement -- was found to be pushing toxic gases through the foundations of hundreds of buildings south of the ibm campus in the heart of the village. binghamton press & sun-bulletin

world’s poor pay price as crop research is cut. damage from the brown plant hopper, threatening the diets of many poor people and occurring at a time of scarcity and high prices, could have been prevented. researchers say budget cuts prevented them from doing so. - new york times.

one country’s table scraps, another country’s meal. americans waste an astounding amount of food — an estimated 27 percent of the food available for consumption, according to a government study. it works out to about a pound of food every day for every american. - new york times.

how secure is our food supply? the price of rice is rising. wheat is in short supply. bees are dying. what's next? vancouver sun

Labels: china, environment, food supply, oil

let's just not raise the price anymore...

mom-and-pop service stations are running into a problem as gasoline marches toward $4 a gallon: thousands of old-fashioned pumps can't register more than $3.99 on their spinning mechanical dials.

the pumps, throwbacks to a bygone era on the american road, are difficult and expensive to upgrade, and replacing them is often out of the question for station owners who are still just scraping by. - latte times

Labels: gas, oil

distributorcapny explains the 'crude' truth:

Labels: economy, iraq, oil

as long as you are selling gasoline. other retailers are hurting.

Labels: economy, oil