Houston Chronicle
By JENNIFER A. DLOUHY Washington Bureau
Feb. 25, 2009, 10:32PM
Gary Luquette, the president of Chevron North America Exploration and Production Co., said new offshore drilling is essential to meet growing energy demands in the U.S.
Todays decisions should help us prepare for not jeopardize tomorrows economic growth, Luquette told the House Natural Resources Committee.
To prepare for tomorrows economic growth and meet our nations increasing long-term energy demand, we need more conservation, we need more alternatives and renewables, and we need more conventional oil and natural gas. We need more of all our resources.
Two long-standing bans that blocked drilling on most of the Outer Continental Shelf were lifted last year, giving energy companies their best chance in decades at trying to tap pockets of oil and natural gas beneath Atlantic and Pacific waters.
But Congress is considering whether to make some areas off-limits again. Even if lawmakers dont impose new drilling bans, a final decision on issuing new offshore leases would rest with the Obama administration. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar recently delayed a Bush administration proposal to offer new leases for offshore drilling along much of the U.S. shoreline and signaled that any surviving plan would be more limited.
The Wednesday hearing before the House panel was the last of three dedicated to the issue with the first two focusing on the views of environmental advocates and state leaders.
A common refrain from the energy executives was that oil and natural gas are needed to fuel the country.
BP America Chairman Lamar McKay said the U.S. needs an all of the above approach to energy, with investments across the board in fossil fuels as well as alternatives.
The corporate leaders touted the potential energy resources in unexplored parts of the Outer Continental Shelf.
Critics have said it could take years for that untapped oil and gas to flow.
Rep. Nick Rahall, D-W.Va., the Natural Resources Committee chairman, said the amount of additional oil that we could drill offshore is a drop in the bucket of what we need to sustain our economy and meet our energy needs.
But Luquette projected that production in new areas of the OCS could add 1 million barrels of oil per day to the nations energy portfolio by 2025.
Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
