More drilling is part of a strategy that works

I do not understand how anyone can say that drilling for offshore oil and oil elsewhere will not affect our situation. I also disagree when it is said it will not have an effect for years.

Let’s turn back the clock about 35 years. The oil gangsters of OPEC decided to cut the production of crude oil and drove up the price. The United States then decided to allocate several billion dollars to exploration for oil and for alternative energies. When the oil gangsters realized the United States was serious about this, they opened up the oil faucets and drove the price of crude oil back down, and in the process made that several-billion-dollar investment in new oil and energy sources unattractive.

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Groups voice support for Colo. oil, gas rules

Judith Kohler
Associated Press
Vail, CO Colorado

DENVER, Colorado — In the ongoing debate over sweeping new oil and gas regulations, about 70 conservation groups and outdoors businesses are running newspaper ads backing a Colorado law that mandated some of the changes.

An ad printed in Denver and Grand Junction newspapers Friday thanked Gov. Bill Ritter for supporting the Colorado Wildlife Stewardship Act law passed unanimously by the Legislature last year.

The ad acknowledges the oil and gas industry’s importance, but adds that “drilling must not jeopardize what makes Colorado such a remarkable place to live.”

Radio and newspapers ads by two trade groups in June warned that the rules would threaten the oil and gas industry. The campaign by the Colorado Oil and Gas Association and the Colorado Petroleum Association singled out proposals intended to protect wildlife, saying the regulations would shut down drilling several months out of the year and throw thousands of people out of work.

Groups voice support for Colo. oil, gas rules