Pa Doctors gag order on Gas drilling!!

EPA to gas companies - tell us what is in fracking water

Halliburton caught using diesel fuel in drilling

Gag order to doctors

Gas companies and Halliburton have used a 2005 law loophole and used it for the biggest disregard to the clean air act and clean water act meant to protect the little poeple... instead people get sick ... people die and big oil and gas does not have to tell anybody how bad the chemicals that they use and how much they are killing everybody !!

Extra credit opportunities

Film: Gasland

Tuesday, March 20 - 7:00 PM

The Moose Exchange

203 West Main Street, Bloomsburg

Film: Petropolis

Wednesday, March 21 - 2:00 PM

Bloomsburg Univ., Student Services Center 004

Film: Crude

Tuesday, March 27 - 7:00 PM

Bloomsburg Univ., Student Services Center 004

Gas and Oil

I realize this link might have a bit of a political swing to it, but there is some very telling information about the use of oil and gas and where it is all going to and coming from! Look at how quickly Chinese automobile usage has in creased in just the last 4 years

US Government link

Energy consumption by state

In my internet travels i found some very interesting information that is public use from Google. I never knew Google had this type of information available on line. Anyway, go look and see what you find for a state by state comparison. I found the fact that Texas having 10 million less people than California. Texas used almost twice the energy per person than California!!! STUNNING!!

Energy on Google

Petroleum Exports exceed imports

The United States in 2011 exported more petroleum products, on an annual basis, than it imported for the first time since 1949, but American refiners still imported large, although declining, amounts of crude oil, according to full-year trade data from EIA's Petroleum Supply Monthly February report. The increase in foreign purchases of distillate fuel contributed the most to the United States becoming a net exporter of petroleum products.

U.S. petroleum product net exports (exports minus imports) averaged 0.44 million barrels per day (bbl/d) in 2011, with imports at a nine-year low of close to 2.4 million bbl/d and exports at a record high of nearly 2.9 million bbl/d. The gap between exports and imports widened the most during the second half of the year from August through December (see charts below), with total monthly exports topping 3 million bbl/d for the first time.

Original posting on EIA.gov site

Foreign oil dependence

America’s dependence on foreign oil has gone down every single year since President Obama took office. In 2010, we imported less than 50 percent of the oil our nation consumed—the first time that’s happened in 13 years—and the trend continued in 2011

We’re relying less on imported oil for a number of reasons, not least that production is up here in the United States. In fact, America is producing more oil today than at any time in the last eight years. As part of his strategy to increase safe, responsible oil production in the United States, President Obama has opened millions of new acres for oil and gas exploration and we now have more working oil and gas rigs than the rest of the world—combined.

Despite all this, Americans are still paying more at the pump when we fill up. That's because drilling for more oil here at home won’t affect the price of gas on its own. Oil is bought and sold on a world market. In the short term, it’s subject to price spikes when there’s instability or uncertainty along the global supply chain. And growing demand in countries like India, Brazil, and China, which tripled the number of cars on the road in the last five years, will drive prices even higher over the long term.

So we have to do more than drill now to bring down prices for the future. Relying on the fossil fuels of the last century won’t be enough, especially as demand keeps increasing. We need an all-out, all-of-the-above strategy that develops every available source of American energy. This includes everything from tapping our offshore oil supplies and vast natural gas reserves, to doubling down on clean energy resources like wind and solar power, and developing new technologies that help us use less energy altogether.

This is the strategy President Obama has been pursuing since he took office, but there’s still more to be done. We need to put in place the right incentives to encourage a clean energy future, and repeal the $4 billion in annual taxpayer subsidies paid to oil and gas companies. Today in New Hampshire, the President will reiterate his call on Congress to do just that.