Feds Ordered to Expedite Energy Projects

[Khephra]

August 9, 2003, 2:19 PM EDT


WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration has directed federal land managers to remove obstacles to oil and gas development in parts of five Rocky Mountain states.

New policy directives issued to Bureau of Land Management state directors give the officials tools to implement the administration's long-standing goal of opening the Rocky Mountain West to increased exploitation of oil and gas resources.

BLM field offices in Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico will have until the end of the year to evaluate whether restrictions on oil and gas development can be removed.

more.................

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-rocky-mountain-energy,0,5537718.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[ewagner]

1. Expedite?

what the hell is going on?

Why would the administration have a sense of urgency on this?

[Emboldened Chimp]

2. Remember those 'stories' about a NG shortage this winter?

They were floated a couple months ago, said we're going to run out by winter. Time to get drillin' before it's too late!

[brokensymmetry]

3. Maybe because -

oil from the Middle East is becoming less dependable day by day?

[sam sarrha]

5. Saudi could be taken over by fundamentalists any day now, and we lose 40%

of our oil overnight. i believe that it is the plan the Neocons have. create a culture of shortage, desperation. a reason to declare a national disaster, to suspend the constitution, end the election. they are quickly getting us into a situation where only nuclear weapons can get us out of.:tinfoilhat:

[sam sarrha]

4. these guys are are going after anything of value like a bunch of monkeys

at a salid bar.:tinfoilhat: :freak:

[ewagner]

6. I had much the same thoughts

but I've been wearing the tinfoil hat a lot recently....

I didn't want my fellow DUers to think I had gone totally over the edge.

I thought about another possible explanation. If Bushs* election isn't in the bag, then they will have to implement things before the next Democaratic Administration can reverse them. Is this a sign that they don't think they have it in the bag for 2004?

:tinfoilhat:...there...it still fits!!