Ask a Landman

80% of Oil imports arrive on SINGLE HULL super tankers.
Just like Exxon Valdez
Other countries do not have to abide by our Double Hull ships laws.
Our environment is in more risk by importing our oil.
We have the best and most advanced drilling technology in the world.
Let us use it!
http://www.anwr.org/
US Oil production (lowest since the 1940’s)
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/hist/mcrfpus2a.htm
US Imports
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html
The [...]

The price of gasoline soared after the Exxon Valdez grounded in Alaska. As a matter of a fact, all petroleum companies increased their prices to rescue Exxon… And that was strange to me at the time..
How much are the jewels of the Queen of England worth?
This is a financial burden that American consumers should not [...]

The purpose of these tax breaks is to encourage oil companies to explore for and drill for new oil. The recent revelation that the oil companies are using their profits to buy back there own stock to increase its value, rather than drilling new wells or upgrading and purchasing new equipment runs contrary to the [...]

Since 1982, oil exploration has been banned offshore of the United States. At the time, the Republican Congress enacted an environmental moratorium against offshore drilling for oil and gas. In 1990, the year after the Exxon Valdez oil tanker disaster, US President George H.W. Bush signed an executive order creating a second, presidential moratorium.
Also, Bush’s [...]

Conservatives are starting to say that if only we opened ANWR to drilling, oil prices would come down.
They must have missed the Department of Energy study that said opening it would only lower the cost 50 cents a barrel after several years, and maybe a penny of savings would make it to the pump.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4542853/
They seem [...]

Gas was about .25 per gallon when Bush took the Presidentail reins in his first term.
Last week, Big Oil’s first-quarter profit reports came rolling in with more bad news for consumers. On April 26, Exxon/Mobil reported that even though it produced less product than last year, it earned profits of 10 percent on unusually high [...]

Exxon Mobil says it has begun drilling at Alaska’s Point Thomson oil and gas field.
Patrick McGinn, a company spokesman, says drilling operations were launched Friday.
In February, Exxon returned eight of its Point Thomson leases that were part of 13 added to the field in 2002. Exxon had promised to drill wells and begin producing oil [...]

I want to tell Chinese people that Hawaii and Alaska should be free.
America forcibly seized control of Hawaii from its native people in 1893. The Kingdom of Hawaii was overthrown by US Marines and thugs working for American plantation owners. The disenfranchised native Hawaiian people still struggle to maintain their identity.
America purchased [...]

In March 1989 the Exxon Valdez ran aground and spilled 240,000 barrels of crude petroleum off the coast of Alaska. One barrel of petroleum is equal to 42 gal. How many liters of petroleum were spilled?

Exxon even admitted to paying scientists to lie about global warming and promised not to do it any more (but broke their promise).
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/01/oil-lobby-payments/
Other sources on big oil paying for climate change denial scientists:
http://www.watoday.com.au/opinion/who-is-behind-climate-change-deniers-20080802-3ou6.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/feb/02/frontpagenews.climatechange
http://dieoff.org/page82.htm
If they paid people to lie before to protect their profit margins, why don’t conservatives believe big oil would do it again on [...]

In early May, the average price $ per gallon in the U.S. was under per gallon. Right now, with oil back at that previous level, gasoline is still hovering around per gallon. Tell me that Exxon Mobile is not gouging us.
Go Broncos…Theoretically, yes that is the way it is SUPPOSED to happen but [...]

I was just wondering if high crude oil prices make stock prices like exxon mobil rise or fall.

When I lived in Alaska during the 04 elections there was a proposition by some candidate that I don’t know the name of that suggested that Alaska state should allow the residents of Alaska to vote for or against a State owned oil and refinery company. and a month or so before the 04elections the [...]

Shouldn’t we be doing something to regulate the profiteering by the oil companies? I’m all for a free-market, capitalist system (I’m a republican at heart), but to allow these greedy bums to make billions in profit each quarter and then to claim that they’re just passing the increase along to the consumer is BS. [...]

Would it be better to see Exxon’s profits go through the roof or send that money to Saudi Arabia and Iran?

I don’t think gas is all that expensive. It’s just a price we pay attention to and it fluctuates more than other expenses. But it really bothers me that companies like Exxon make greater profits when they have to pay more for oil.

The way NAFTA is set up,
the highest bid buys the oil
no matter what country
McCain likes the free trade
the way it is, and doesn’t want
any changes to it
So if the Saudis out-bid Exxon/Mobile,
we will still pay roughly the same high
prices for gasoline
only it will be the Saudis selling us
what is supposed to be our own oil

Miss Kitty: you seriously think there are no oil wells in Alaska???? You’ve never heard of the North slope, Valdez, the Exxon oil spill, or the Alaskan pipeline?