SB19

SB19 Sponsors- JSmith, Tennessee, moderate conservative Rdevine, New Jersey, conservative Nsettecase, Louisiana, conservative

__**Environment and energy**__

__**Opening Up Protected Lands in Alaska for Oil Drilling**__


 * __Purpose__**- The bill's purpose is to open up protected lands in Alaska for mining for oil. This will save us billions in oil imports because we will be mining for oil, and this will lower our gas prices. This bill will open up land for onshore oil rigs. The cost of an onshore oil rig is significantly less than an offshore oil rig. We will still be able to get the same amount of oil, just for less money. This bill will also buy 450 oil rigs to start mining for oil in the protected lands.

__**Eligibility**__- This bill will apply to oil companies such as BP, Marathon, and Shell. this will let them drill for oil. This bill will also apply to all gas buyers because it will lower gas prices which are at an all-time high, since almost all our oil comes from foreign countries. This will also apply to all unemployed people because it will create new jobs. An oil rigger job has a medium to high wage, so it will attract people.

__**Terms and Benefits-**__
 * Open protected lands in Alaska to oil companies.
 * Government will give any legal oil company the power to drill and mine for oil on the land.
 * Oil companies will buy any plot of land that the government lets them.
 * Oil companies will drill for oil on this land until they decide to sell it.
 * 450 oil rigs will be used on the lands opened up.
 * When we use all the oil in the future, a new bill must be passed for more oil rigs to be set up.
 * The government will maintain the drilling of oil.
 * Animals living in these territories will be relocated to a better and similar enviroment.
 * This bill has many benefits.
 * This bill will save the United States billions of dollars.

We are spending way too much on foreign oil imports, which has caused the gas prices to rise dramatically. This bill will still give us the same amount of oil, just way more affordable. The drilling for oil will be onshore. The onshore oil rigs only cost several million dollars, compared to the offshore oil rigs costing up to several hundred million dollars. Onshore drilling will still produce clean oil, but for a fraction of the cost of offshore drilling. With Onshore drilling, there is less of a threat of an oil spill. If there happens to be an oil spill it will not harm any animals because they will have all been relocated, so the oil spill will not destroy the habitat as an offshore oil spill would. This bill will be safe, and it will save the United States of America billions of dollars in oil. We will be paying for all of this through taxes and private funds. Taxes will give us most of the money to pay for the oil rigs and the rest of the money we need we be payed for through government funds. No other money will be needed to pay for this bill. Also, the cost of the bill will be easily covered by the taxes and private funds.

**__Fiscal impact__-** On average, each land oil rig costs five million dollars. Five million dollars for each of the 450 oil rigs would cost 2,250,000,000 dollars. **Labor**: An average oil rig employs fifty people. The average worker gets paid 54,200 dollars annually. The cost for all 450 rigs to be employed is 1,219,500,000 dollars.

**Total cost:** __The total cost of the 450 rigs will be 3,469,500,000 dollars.__

**Production savings:** The United States of America spends over 700 billion dollars annually on oil from foreign countries. The main goal of this bill is to eliminate all dependence of foreign oil. Giving us the power to lower our own gas prices. The best on shore drilling rigs produce 100,000 barrels of oil per day, per rig. The amount of barrels per day, (100,000) multiplied by the number of days per year, (365) equals 36,500,000 barrels of oil annually per year. With there being 450 rigs, the amount of barrels being produced total is 16,425,000,000. Currently the cost of a single barrel of oil is 99.94 dollars. The total amount barrels being produced multiplied by the cost of a single barrel (99.94) equals 1,641,414,560,000 dollars annually. This would make the United States completely oil independent.