Romney: open federal lands to drilling. How much oil and gas ?

[DavidL]

Romney would open federal lands to drilling. How much oil and gas is there?

The report found that opening up all of these areas would bring in $7 billion in tax revenue over the next decade. That’s fairly small compared to the $148.9 billion in royalties that the federal government is expected to receive from existing leases.
Why so little revenue? In part because those currently restricted areas don’t seem to have much oil and gas compared with what’s already available. Here’s a chart that might help clarify matters:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/08/25/romney-would-open-federal-lands-to-drilling-how-much-oil-and-gas-is-there/

(If someone can tell me how to copy and paste the chart, I'd gladly add it, but for now, since I'm new and don't know how, you'll just have to follow my link to the article.)

[caraher]

1. One less obvious thing Romney says about energy...

When he promises "energy independence" by 2020, he's always careful to define the region that is "independent" as "North America" (i.e. the US, Canada and presumably Mexico). He's counting on all that Canadian tar sand oil in his planet-killing nightmare "drill-baby-drill on steroids" fantasy.

Here's the figure: (for a .jpg just type the URL into your post - DU automatically inserts the image without the need for any special tags)

[DavidL]

4. Thanks so much for inserting graph jpg

Will try that next time.

[blkmusclmachine]

2. Obama's no different on it:

Drill, baby, drill. Spill, baby, spill.

Operation Northwoods

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[BrendaBrick]

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