Steve Hoffacker's Sales Quips

The EPA is bad for America. They are a train wreck for our economy. They do what they want. Congress really should defund them. Closing them down altogether doesn't seem like a bad idea.

Anyone who has been to the gas station in the last couple of months knows about  the spiraling cost of gasoline. Our governmnet is contributing to this by giving lip service to producing more domestic oil but denying it at every turn.

In the Arctic, Shell Oil has spent $2.2 billion in just securing the leases to be able to drill - before even getting started. Now the EPA has pulled the plug.

Shell was all set to begin drilling off the coast of Alaska, and there are an estimated 27 billion barrels of oil to be mined. This is some 2½ times more oil than the Alaskan Pipeline has transported in its history.

The EPA has denied the air permits for the wells.

Either we are serious about drilling for oil in this country or we are not. I am. I would love to read about a new well every single day.

Oil we need. The EPA we don't.

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Steve Hoffacker - Consultant, Coach, Author, Blogger, Photographer, Motivator, Teacher, & Strategist - for Realtors, Real Estate Sales Professionals, Home Builders, New Home Salespeople, Entrepreneurs, Small Business Owners, and Independent Sales Representatives.

© Steve Hoffacker, 2011. All Rights Reserved.

Gas prices are horrible, but they will seem cheap a week from now. And, we have only ourselves to blame - no not for driving cars or using energy, but for not replacing the energy supply.

Since 1973 when we had our first oil emergency, we have been talking about the need to drill for oil - but no one has. Environmentalists, labor unions, bureaucrats, and everyone else who wants to see us dependent on OPEC nations has won.

It's time we win. Insist, demand, and don't take no for an answer. Drill. Drill in my backyard - yes my backyard. I volunteer. Drill off the coast of Florida, regardless of what Charlie Crist says to the contrary. Notice he's not calling the shots anymore.

Drill off the coast of Texas, Louisiana, Virgina, Alaska. Drill in Alaska. Drill in Wyoming and Montana. Let's tell the world what it can do with it's $120 a barrel oil - on it's way to over $200 - and let's bring the gas back down to under a dollar a gallon.

Competition - let anyone get into the game that can pass a few basic safety requirements and pay for a license.

Obama promises (and we know how good those are) that oil will stabilize once the Libyan tensions are over. Stabilize? At $100? Forget stabilize. We need prices to plummet and then stay low. Supply and demand.

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For more information on my coaching and educational programs and services, visit my website stevehoffacker.com, or go to my other blog homesalesinsights.com for additional sales tips, insights, and commentary. Listen to my free podcast messages at Steve Hoffacker's Happenings.

Steve Hoffacker - Consultant, Coach, Author, Blogger, Photographer, Motivator, Teacher, & Strategist - for Realtors, Real Estate Sales Professionals, Home Builders, New Home Salespeople, Entrepreneurs, Small Business Owners, and Independent Sales Representatives.

© Steve Hoffacker, 2011. All Rights Reserved.

Well, it's taken a couple of years, but we're back over $3 a gallon again for gas. Doesn't it feel great to spend that much money for a product that last year was about 40 cents a gallon less and two years ago was well over a dollar less (after the precipitous drop from over $3)? At the end of 2008 and first part of 2009, gas was down in the mid $1s in many places.

I especially like how we have been drilling for oil in ANWR and offshore. I appreciate the moratorium on all new projects (some 33 of them) as a convenient knee-jerk response to the BP oil spill.

Now the President has ordered no new offshore drilling or exploration at all. That certainly helps to create a new supply of oil, gasoline, and natural gas.

Question: if we prohibit our own exploration and drilling in international waters off our coasts, what's to stop Venezuela, Cuba, China, Brazil, or anyone else from doing so? That's right, nothing. Let's beat them to the punch. There are going to be oil wells off our coasts - that's a given. Shouldn't they be ours instead of those from another country where we have no say-so, control, or benefit?

Maybe when gas hits $3.50 or $4.00 the talk about drilling will surface again.

We could have been a long way down the road to more refineries and more producing wells if we had acted the last time we had this discussion, or the time before that, or the time, before that. or ...

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For more information on my coaching and educational programs and services, visit my website stevehoffacker.com, or go to my other blog homesalesinsights.com for additional sales tips, insights, and commentary. Listen to my free podcast messages at Steve Hoffacker's Happenings.

Steve Hoffacker - Consultant, Coach, Author, Blogger, Photographer, Motivator, Teacher, & Strategist - for Realtors, Real Estate Sales Professionals, Home Builders, New Home Salespeople, Entrepreneurs, Small Business Owners, and Independent Sales Representatives.

© Steve Hoffacker, 2010. All Rights Reserved.