[WardMClark]

Too bad your Momma didn't pay for Hooked On Phonics.

[American Quilter]

What will it take for us to wake up and decide to stop using Saudi oil

I'm ready. What alternative fuel do you recommend, and where can I buy it?

[Clint N. Suhks]

IBTZ

[cripplecreek]

I'm all for letting them starve themselves back to pre 1800s population levels.

[Wiseghy]

You may want to check out Sunday's Dilbert.


That said, I agree that foreign oil poses a strategic problem that could be easily addressed if we got serious about developing domestic sources.

[Ligeia]

I agree with you completely. We're funding our own demise until we become energy independent.

[KC Burke]

LOL. As we can see the offering of a rant is easier then the offering of, or the responses with, a program for the concern expressed.

Even when a program is formulated, like Bush's energy issues expressed in the State of the Union, it has to be hamstrung by the obviously contestable -- ANWAR wasn't mentioned. And if a program can't be developed by a President with a majority in both houses how can we get one from the author of a vanity or those that respond to it?

I will offer one item and one item only. We need to ask ourselves (as the poster implies) is OPEC a combatant in the WOT for the side that is trying to kill us? (Hint, hint, hint -- war in money is war "by other means")

[Flifuss]

Methane Hydrates-I don't think its a matter of "if we could develop the technology", I think its more a matter of when.

Gas (Methane) Hydrates -- A New Frontier

The worldwide amounts of carbon bound in gas hydrates is conservatively estimated to total twice the amount of carbon to be found in all known fossil fuels on Earth.

Recent mapping conducted by the USGS off North Carolina and South Carolina shows large accumulations of methane hydrates.

[hermgem]

For thirty years the green crowd fought tooth and nail for reducing consumption by restricting local resources of drilling for oil and natural gas.
Here comes Chavez threatening cutoff, then we got mocked by Saudi Arabia for being unable to even refine oil should they supply it, while Osama, Chavez and Putin know darn well that one way to dismember the U.S. is a partial oil cutoff.
We are sitting on unexplored oil in Alaska, close and deep offshore resources, the off limits eastern Gulf, to the tune in excess of 40 million barrels a day.
To top it off there also come trillions of cubic feet of natural gas along with it.
And who's fighting for limiting supply, high gasoline and natural gas prices:
The green crowd operating under tax exempt status and eager to engage the liberal media along with the democrat party to indefinitely assure and justify this sweet tax exempt deal.
Why is it that Norway is considered ecologically friendly while drilling generously in the North Sea, or France which derives 78% of electrical power from nuclear energy. What makes them so acceptable, while the U.S. is roasted on the altar of ecology. Answer: there are no tax exemptions along with generous grants for an existence to justify stand stills.

[varon]

What will it take for us to wake up and decide to stop using Saudi oil

When our vehicles start running on quarter pounders & French fries ;-)

[NTW64]

Thanks for serving!

[bayouranger]

bump

[from occupied ga]

[Finalapproach29er]

Every western nation should build reserve takes and counter-threaten to flood the market with oil.

If everybody stored an extra 30-50 days oil, they could destory the speculators market.

[MikefromOhio]

wow that rant is as F'ed up as a Football Bat...

want to try again?


BTW, Iraq doesn't control OPEC. That seems to be misunderstood within this rant.