How liberals are putting America on a Slim Fast energy plan
by McCainiac
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) made headlines this week by decrying the export of LNG from Alaska to Japan and complaining about the high price of natural gas.
Oh, the hypocrisy.
Wyden and other Left Coast liberals such as Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and my governor, Ted Kulongowski (D-OR), have done everything they can to stonewall LNG terminals proposed for the West Coast, including three proposed terminals right here in Oregon. There are currently no LNG terminals on the U.S. West Coast, the nearest terminal is across the border from San Diego in Baja California. The Baja terminal just opened two weeks ago. I repeat... just opened.
A drive down the Oregon Coast finds vocal opposition to LNG terminals in the form of yard signs. NIMBYism run amok and typical liberal false outrage and overreaction in the name of "environmental and economic concerns"... not to mention climate alarmism run amok.
Oregon imports 99.72% of its natural gas from other states and Canada, primarily from Alberta. Oregon and Washington are energy welfare states, producing virtually no oil or natural gas of their own. According to the federal Energy Information Administration, Oregon residents use more than 3 times as much natural gas as they did in 1967. No doubt, many of those NIMBY, climate alarmist liberals use natural gas to heat their homes while protesting the construction of LNG terminals that could supply more gas. Just as they bash Big Oil and decry the high price of gas while motoring along using the very resource they condemn as an "evil fossil fuel".
According to the state of Alaska:"Alaska’s exports of LNG from the Kenai Peninsula facility were $161 million for 2006. The LNG loading facility in Nikiski and the regasification facility in Negishi, Japan pioneered LNG marine transport in 1969. Alaska LNG export to Japan has been continuous since then. The current LNG contract is for five years — 2004 through the first quarter of 2009."
We could use that Alaskan natural gas, but the liberals who run this state are fighting the LNG terminals tooth and nail... and then they have the nerve to complain when Alaska sends the LNG to Japan because West Coast liberals won't build LNG terminals.
Kudos to Alaska for producing American made energy. Don't blame them if Oregon refuses to build a LNG terminal to use Alaska's surplus gas.
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