The price of Oil and gasoline is creeping back up.

The price of Oil and gasoline is creeping back up.

I sent this to the Obama Administration:

I am writing to voice my strong support for the Minerals Management Service’s (MMS) Draft Proposed 5-year OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2010-2015. Consider these comments as a filing in Docket ID # MMS-2008-OMM-0045.

This program presents positive, meaningful steps to address our nation’s growing and dangerous dependence on far-away people and places for our essential energy supplies. Rarely has the imperative to increase the production of domestic energy been more important or apparent as it is today.

Oil and natural gas affect practically all Americans—anyone who cooks or heats with gas or natural oil, anyone who drives a car, anyone who flies on planes and anyone who buys goods transported to them by gas-powered trucks or planes.

With an economy in peril and millions of Americans out of work, developing just a portion of our nation’s abundant offshore energy resource base would generate hundreds of thousands of new jobs, billions in additional tax revenue and royalties, and help ensure that our country’s long road back to economic recovery is built quicker and made smoother thanks to a steady stream of reliable, affordable energy.

No other country in the developed world has even considered locking its abundant resources away. America alone has decided to forego hundreds of thousands of new jobs, billions in additional revenue, and a generation's worth of affordable energy, thanks to an offshore energy ban that disproportionately affects the most, those with the least. Although that ban is no longer operable, no energy can be produced without a forward-looking, supply-oriented five-year energy plan.

Therefore, I respectfully ask that the MMS proceed with their 5-year plan and include all the areas outlined in the Draft Proposed Program. Further, MMS should continue aggressive leasing in open areas and not subject new leases to any additional environmental restrictions.

Sincerely,

Dr. Chris Albritton
Abilene, TX

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