Daniel L. Gardner
Guest Columnist
What effect will a six-month moratorium on drilling for oil in the Gulf have on the economy of the Gulf States and the rest of the country? Is the moratorium an Obama kickback to George Soros who needs more oilrigs off the coast of Brazil? Is this the crisis Obama will use to transform America into a socialist state? Hear me out.
The Obamatorium is forcing employers to layoff drilling workers. Moreover, whole industries devoted to supporting drilling in the Gulf are laying off even more workers. The $20 Billion escrow account BP set up is a drop in a bucket compared with lost commerce and jobs in the Gulf States.
Rigs drilling in 500+ feet of water rent for $500 – 750 thousand per DAY. One retired engineer estimated 33 rigs would be shut down, $16.5 million dollars per day lost, not counting 200 to 300 workers per rig who lose jobs. Authorities estimate 2-3 support jobs for each rig worker, meaning 27,000 workers losing their jobs because of the Obamatorium.
These numbers do not include restaurant, tourist, or fishing industry workers. Let’s see Obama and his cronies estimate how many jobs they’ve saved or created after doing these numbers!
We should not force whole industries to close because ‘somebodies’ screwed up and blew up a deepwater oil well! Coincidently, independent local business people who happen to have BP signs on their gas stations shouldn’t lose their livelihoods because misinformed boycotters stop buying their gasoline.
The accident is not an international BP plot to make gazillions of dollars at the risk of destroying the world.
Let’s think outside the Ivy League classroom for just a minute.
The oil gushing in the Gulf is already an unprecedented environmental disaster. Don’t use this disaster to create another unprecedented economic disaster affecting not only the Gulf States, but also the rest of the nation and, indeed, the world.
Thousands of wells have been drilled in the Gulf for decades without incident. Granted, this track record neither diminishes nor discounts the extraordinary environmental damage caused by the gusher in the Gulf. However, it does argue against a wholesale moratorium on drilling that threatens to destroy whole industries and livelihoods which otherwise would have survived.
The Obamatorium may, in fact, be more haphazardly risky to the environment according to at least seven ‘experts’ counseling Interior Secretary Ken Salazar not to impose a wholesale moratorium on drilling in the Gulf.
Finally, the Obamatorium will force oilrig owners to seek business elsewhere, like off the coast of Brazil where George Soros is using $2 billion taxpayer dollars to drill for oil. Rig operators won’t let rigs sit idle for 6+ months, but will move them to international waters where they will stay indefinitely.
For those of you who may not know, Soros is the ultra liberal/progressive moneyman for Obama and all socialist causes. He’s continually boasted about transforming America into a socialist state. Sound familiar?
Follow the money and the ideology. What are they thinking in Washington?
Daniel L. Gardner is a syndicated columnist who lives in Starkville, MS. You may contact him at PJandMe2@gmail.com
His column does not reflect the views of Starkville-Now.com.
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