Today, September 16, 2009 the American Trucking Association is asking for people to send a letter to the U.S Minerals Management Service. The goal of the ATA with the letter is get some off shore regions that are allegedly loaded with oil and natural gas open for drilling. Thisissue can be especially to those involved with truck jobs.
The ATA aims at getting the off shore areas included in the upcoming law changes that will open up some leases of natural gas and oil drilling regions. The areas that the AA would like to get included would be added in the 2010-2015 offshore program that will be no onger accepting new locatins as of september 21, 2009.
According to ATA vice president Rich Moskowitz, “Offshore areas are home to huge, untapped resources of oil and natural gas that are crucial to lessening our dependency on foreign oil and keeping our economy and our country going strong.”
Mr. Moskowitz certainly is going to bat for the trucking industry. With added offshore drilling could come increased supplies of quality fuel at prices that are more reasonable and less volitile then what we have now.
The offshore areas are estimated to have as much 17 billion barels of oil and over 75 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. This issue is certainly getting some publicity as we are approaching the the September 21, 2009 deadline.
Visit http://www.mms.gov/5-year/2010-2015DPPComments.htm to find out more about how you can voice your support of exploration for natural resources along the OCS. Visit the ATA Here for more information.
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