McCain Enjoys Energy Photo-Op On Gulf Of Mexico Platform That Produces 238 Barrels Per Day - NYT

ABOARD THE CHEVRON GENESIS (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain visited this oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday to call for increased offshore drilling that he claims would lower the cost of food and heating homes.

McCain traveled 130 miles by helicopter to tour the massive facility, which produces 10,000 gallons of oil each day. He criticized his Democratic rival, Barack Obama, for not supporting such a plan.

''He says it won't solve our problem and that it's, quote, not real. He's wrong and the American people know it,'' McCain told reporters.

Obama's campaign, meanwhile, called the four-hour excursion nothing more than a stunt. Obama supporter and former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack compared McCain's position to the ''Beverly Hillbillies'' television program where the main character -- Jed Clampett -- stumbles onto an oil gusher. McCain, he said, has ''a Jed Clampett energy policy.''

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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/washington/AP-McCain-Energy.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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enough for one SUV and a tractor, a few hundred pounds a fertilizer and maybe a plastic milk carton or two?

So, just another few tens of thousands of these plucky little 238-barrel-per-day platforms and we can tell those Saudis where to get off!!!

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I thought barrels were 55 gal?

http://www.oil150.com/essays/2007/08/the-42-gallon-barrel-history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel_(unit)
http://www.quoteoil.com/oil-barrel.html

Please note you get 44 gallons of product out of 42 gallons of crude oil:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/sources/non-renewable/oil.html#Howused

How does this even pay for itself?

Let's face it, it would hardly be the first time a reporter couldn't find his own arse with both hands and a map, and rigzone has Genesis listed at 55k barrels: Allowing for slow-downs from Edouardo and Fay, 10k sounds reasonable.

With reporting as bad as it's gotten, who can tell these days?

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Hmmm... but don't you think that Jethro Bodine ought to be able to rig up a car to run on Granny's moonshine?

He's purty good at cipherin'

et voila, energy independence.

55,000 bopd per the following:

http://www.rigzone.com/data/projects/project_detail.asp?project_id=19





So, we only need 250 more of the above to end our dependence on foreign oil (at current consumption rates, depending on the breaks).


And GM is selling Hummer? Why?