Information about H.R. 4381, 4382, 4383, a trio of bad oil and gas drilling bills. These bills are solutions looking for problems - and if enacted would cause greater problems than they purport to solve. See our fact sheet for more information.
Also included are the letters The Wilderness Society sent to the House Natural Resources Committee about the bills.
Gasoline is expensive, but don’t tell that to Big Oil.
They love the profits from $4 gasoline. Every time the price at the pump goes up another penny, Big Oil increases its profits by $200 million. The oil industry made over $137 billion in profits last year from American’s pain at the pump – and made more than $1 TRILLION in the last 10 years. Annual production is at its highest in 8 years, and even that hasn’t had any effect on prices at the pump. Here’s how the oil companies do it:
Data from the Bureau of Land Management that shows that as of September 30, 2011, the oil and gas industry had more than 7,000 unused Approved Drilling Permits - the final approval needed before beginning to drill for oil or gas.
The oil and gas industry claims that the only way to address our country’s numerous energy issues is to open more public lands and waters to oil and natural gas drilling. What they don’t tell you is that drilling in America is already occurring at an astonishing pace and in a bewildering number of places. The facts below show that “more drilling” won’t solve America’s energy problems.
In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig accident — which could become the largest ecological disaster in history — a coalition of environmental organizations sent a letter to the U.S. Senate, urging them to pursue clean energy instead of the destructive and dangerous practices of oil and gas drilling.
