Ten Big Accomplishments in Less Than Ten Years

All American Blogger ^ | 6-25-08 | Duane Lester

[Bodhi1]

Are we to believe that in the early 1900s, we could move “238,845,587 cubic yards of material” in Panama, creating the canal where the French failed, but we cannot get oil out of the ground in Alaska in the same time?

Are we to believe that we can build a railroad in the 1800s from Omaha to Sacramento in less than ten years, but it will take us longer to drill a hole in the ground and start pumping oil? ANWR is only 50 miles from Prudhoe Bay. Last I checked, Omaha was a little further than that from Sacramento.

It is hard to believe that with the infrastructure already in place, with the technology available to the oil companies allowing them to drill horizontally, that it would take ten years to start seeing any crude from ANWR. There are estimates that say it could take anywhere from 18 months to two years to see results.

We will need oil in two years and we will need oil in ten years. Why are we refusing to use the natural resources here in America while transferring billions and billions of dollars to nations that are our enemies? It defies logic.

[ZGuy]

Eight and a half years will be needed for the Environmental Impact Reports.

[massgopguy]

“Just because you started digging in 1900 doesn’t mean one ship will go through the next day. I’m Barack Obama, and I’m Black. So there.”

[Lokibob]

No sure, guessing here, but I would bet the the ANWR oil would need a new pipeline constructed.

IOW, the present pipeline is running a close to 100%, so any new capacity would need infrastructure.

.....Bob

[mnehrling]

A lot of politicians who claim we won't see a result for ten years don't know how the commodity markets work. We actually would see a short term decrease in cost. Speculators are bidding on the fact that much of our oil is sourced from highly volatile areas where small political or military changes can have an immediate impact on supply. If there was the knowledge that we would now move away from sourcing from these regions to a domestic market supply, there would be no need to bid as high on future production because future production would not be as threatened.

[massgopguy]

Most politicians don’t know how anything works because they’ve never had jobs.

[Lokibob]

No sure, guessing here, but I would bet the the ANWR oil would need a new pipeline constructed.

IOW, the present pipeline is running a close to 100%, so any new capacity would need infrastructure.

.....Bob

[DuncanWaring]

The pipeline has a capacity slightly more than 2 million barrels per day.

It’s current usage is about 40% of that.

http://www.alyeska-pipe.com/Pipelinefacts/Throughput.html

If a pipeline from the ANWR drilling area were plumbed into it, it could carry another one-and-a-quarter million barrels per day.

[Always Right]

And besides, every day we delay starting, means the solution is one day further away.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Why are we refusing to use the natural resources here in America while transferring billions and billions of dollars to nations that are our enemies? It defies logic.

Ah, but you see, you are using common sense instead of "liberal logic". The liberals WANT high gas prices so they can force their agenda on us. To them, we have too much money to spend on things like big screen tv's, big cars and big houses out in the suburbs. Because, you see, it just isn't FAIR that we live in relative comfort and mostly crime free areas. It isn't FAIR that we pay $2/gal for gasoline while the Europeans are paying $6. It isn't FAIR that we have enough to eat while people in Africa are starving. They want to force us into government owned cracker boxes in the inner city right next to the housing projects, run the price of gas up until we can no longer afford to own a car, and run the price of food up so that those of us who have to pay out of our own pockets don't have any money left. As for the countries who hate us getting all our money, they see the US as more of a threat on "the world" than Iran with nuclear weapons. So since there is nothing they are willing to do to disarm Iran, with Obama, they can make the WHOLE WORLD "safer" by completely disarming the US and inviting Osama to the White House for tea and a game of "Execute the Infidel".

[TexasRepublic]

Why are we refusing to use the natural resources here in America while transferring billions and billions of dollars to nations that are our enemies? It defies logic.

It is quite logical if you realize the Marxist-infested Congress wants to destroy our economy for their own purposes.

[Arrowhead1952]

There are estimates that say it could take anywhere from 18 months to two years to see results.

When I went to my dad's farm back in the early spring, there was a drilling rig about 1/4 mile south of SH 21, about two miles east of the SH 21 & US 290 intersection Texas. I went back to see him on Father's Day, and there is a pump jack pumping crude into the cisterns sitting next to the jack.