Why on earth would we-the-people sell assets such as this instead of leasing them, producing an income that would benefit future generations??? That would be Natural Public Revenue.
The value of that acreage will rise over time. Why will that be private, or corporate, gain, rather than public gain??
U.S. Government Sells 400,000 Acres in Gulf
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AUG. 20, 2014
The federal government has sold more than 400,000 acres in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas coast for
oil and gas exploration and development, an official with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said Wednesday. The acreage represents a small fraction of the 21.6 million acres the agency had offered as part of a five-year program to develop resources on the outer continental shelf. Offerings since 2012 in the western Gulf attracted buyers for about 60 million offshore acres, adding about $2.3 billion to the Treasury. Wednesday’s sales, if approved, will bring in about $110 million. BP submitted the largest number of high bids, winning 27 of the 81 tracts that sold. It was the first sale in the western Gulf for BP since it was barred from such auctions after the 2010
oil spill. Conoco Philips spent the most of the 93 bidders in the sale, paying about $61 million for a tract in the ultra-deep-water Alaminos Canyon area.
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