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The Democrats like to say that giving U.S. oil companies the right to drill in ANWR or offshore would mean that it would take at least 10 years before any oil actually flowed.

Why so long?

Most of the time is spent complying with environmental regulations or defending suits from the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, etc.

Following are a couple of illustrations of the hurdles placed between the oil companies and U.S. oil by the Bureau of Land Management.

Here are some from the Forest Service (they haven’t figured out how to get forests underwater on the continental shelf, but they’re working on that)

The states get into the environmental flow chart business as well. Here’s North Carolina’s:

and California:

It’s clear to me that you can’t propose any major energy program without a flow chart, so I’ve gone ahead and put together the WingRight Lower Gas Prices Flow Chart:

Which of these processes do you think can proceed the fastest?

Tags: Energy, Liberalism, Oil //