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> > Our energy supply should not be hostage to the whims of a dangerous
> > and erratic regime when we have enormous untapped resources right here
> > in the United States.
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> > when President Obama is faced with the prospect
> > of using military action to preserve oil routes a few miles from
> > Iran's
> > shore at the same time as he denies so much energy potential here at
> > home,
> > his priorities are profoundly wrong.
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> > O is a socialist asshole that must be removed from our government
> > asap by any means necessary ... even if it means replacing him with
> > zionist warmongers who will keep the US in non-stop war with the
> > muzzies for oil and israel
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> > > We Need An American Energy Plan -- 'Strait' Away
> > > *by Newt Gingrich*
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> > > Dear Keith,
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> > > One-fifth of the world's oil trade passes through a six-mile wide sea
> > > traffic lane in the Strait of Hormuz, bounded on one side by the Islamic
> > > Republic of Iran and on the other by the Arabian Peninsula.
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> > > An average of 14 oil tankers travel through the strait each day on their
> > > way to deliver fuel to Europe, Asia, and the United States.
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> > > Cutting off this supply line would propel soaring energy prices and
> > cripple
> > > economies around the world. That is exactly why Iran's regime has
> > > threatened to close the Strait in retaliation if the United States or
> > > Europe takes serious steps to punish its pursuit of a nuclear weapon.
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> > > It's not exactly an idle threat.
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> > > With such a narrow chokepoint, the U.S. military has acknowledged Iran
> > > could likely close the Strait for a period using mines and conventional
> > > naval forces or even with more crude tactics like sinking barges in the
> > > shipping lanes. Iran recently spent 10 days conducting naval exercises in
> > > the area to prove it could close the Strait, and earlier this month armed
> > > Iranian speedboats harassed two U.S. Navy vessels in separate incidents.
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> > > Even if Iran is unlikely to prevail in a naval conflict with the United
> > > States, the regime is so unpredictable that such a conflict could be
> > > dangerous and disruptive.
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> > > With Europe confronting recession and the United States coping with slow
> > > growth and high unemployment, the spike in gas prices that would result
> > > could not come at worse time.
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> > > The Iranian regime wants to force America and Europe to choose between
> > > higher energy prices and deterring its nuclear development.
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> > > Either outcome—an Iranian nuclear weapon or economic disaster from an oil
> > > shock—should be unacceptable to Americans. After all of Iran's threats
> > > surrounding the Strait of Hormuz, how big a warning do we need to have an
> > > American energy policy that makes us independent from such conflicts?
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> > > Our energy supply should not be hostage to the whims of a dangerous and
> > > erratic regime when we have enormous untapped resources right here in the
> > > United States.
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> > > A real American energy policy would employ offshore oil and natural gas
> > > development, domestic oil shale, wind, biofuels, clean coal and nuclear
> > > energy to eliminate our dependence on oil from an unstable and unfriendly
> > > region of the world.
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> > > America should never be faced with a choice either to appease regimes
> > like
> > > Iran's or to hinder our economy.
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> > > The obstacles to an American energy policy are political, bureaucratic,
> > and
> > > ideological.
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> > > For instance, we have an estimated three times more oil than Saudi Arabia
> > > locked up in oil shale in western states, much of which is banned from
> > > development. That's just the beginning. Oil and natural gas worth
> > hundreds
> > > of billions of dollars is sitting just off our coasts in land the
> > American
> > > people own but which the Obama administration refuses to allow to be
> > > developed.
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> > > Since the President reneged in 2010 on a promise to allow oil and natural
> > > gas exploration on the federal lands of the Atlantic Outer Continental
> > > Shelf, states along the East Coast have been denied what could become an
> > > important source of revenue, tens of thousands of high-paying jobs, and
> > > most of all a new source of American energy.
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> > > There are an estimated $28 billion worth of oil and natural gas off South
> > > Carolina and almost $64 billion off Virginia.
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> > > Oil and gas resources worth hundreds of billions are likely available off
> > > the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts of the United States.
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> > > Even these estimates might be lower than the true American energy
> > > potential. Predictions for the East Coast, for instance, are based on
> > > decades-old seismic research done with obsolete technology. Such outdated
> > > assessments have often dramatically underestimated the potential of
> > > American energy.
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> > > The estimate of the Bakken formation in North Dakota has jumped 25-fold,
> > > 2,500 percent, since 1995 due to new technology.
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> > > The amount of natural gas in shale has increased our estimated supply of
> > > natural gas by more than 15-fold, 1,500 percent, in the last decade.
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> > > The administration's regulatory barriers to American energy
> > development—and
> > > for that matter, its indecision on the Keystone XL pipeline—are
> > needlessly
> > > crippling our economy, thwarting thousands of good jobs, and keeping our
> > > energy supply vulnerable to Iranian aggression.
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> > > Undoubtedly, the United States should do anything required to keep the
> > > Strait of Hormuz open. But when President Obama is faced with the
> > prospect
> > > of using military action to preserve oil routes a few miles from Iran's
> > > shore at the same time as he denies so much energy potential here at
> > home,
> > > his priorities are profoundly wrong.
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> > > Your Friend,
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