Posted on 05/09/2008 9:37:14 PM PDT by kingattax
Gas prices are so high Mark Gleim chooses to drive a scooter. “As gas prices keep on climbing, I’m going to keep on driving it, just keep on beating it into the ground,” says Gleim.
With no relief in site, some in Congress want to offer up Florida’s coast to oil companies. David Mica with the Florida Petroleum Council says drilling closer to shore could lower gas prices.
"Anytime we add to that supply side it’s a positive and can have a real significant impact on that whole equation of price and supply,” says Mica. Environmentalists say there isn’t a significant amount of oil near the coast, but motorist don’t care they just want the prices lowered no matter where it comes from.
“Whatever it takes to keep the consumer’s money in their pocket,” says Alecia Heffner. “Whatever it takes to give us Americans a break. We need to start taking care of our own,” says Archie Weatherspoon.
Speculation plays a major role in setting gas prices. Whether there is a large amount of oil off the gulf coast may not matter. If people believe it’s there it could help lower gas prices. Drilling off shore is a gamble, with the environment at stake, and the pay off uncertain, but if billions of barrels are found Mark Gleim won’t have to drive a scooter to get around. If a large amount of oil was indeed found off the coast, it would still take years to reach the market.
No - it hasn’t changed my mind. Why would it? In fact, with the higher gas prices we should be drilling even more! (Oh - this question wasn’t really for me, was it?)
Hey GOP, they call this a clue. Get on this hard and stay on it until November.
It seems like no matter what time of day it is, I'm stuck in traffic thinking, "What the hell is wrong with you people? Don't you know gas is 4 dollars a gallon???"
Idiots.
Being former Alaska resident King
I totally agree drill Anwar artic oil circle there
Not drilling is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
Before China does!
Drill Gaia’s brains out.....then give her a cigarette.
When Rush was talking about oil speculation, he mentioned something about the market will dictate the price. I’m trying to summarize this so bear with me. He seemed to think that there will be a price that most Americans will change their spending habits to where it will affect other businesses. Granted some Americans already are. If gas say were to hit $10 a gallon, yes you would still have to buy it to get to work, but you would cut spending in some other area whether its food, travel, etc. When huge percentages of the population start doing that and other businesses will suffer such as Airlines, tourism, etc. They will start asking for relief from oil companies thus they would’nt be able to sell gas at $10. But if companies and vast majorities of people started demanding that we drill for oil in Alaska, and offshore maybe Congress would act. Maybe gas would have to hit 7,8,9 or 10 dollars a gallon before that will happen!
thats OUR oil
“Environmentalists say there isn’t a significant amount of oil near the coast, “
EnvironMENTALists are always naysaying, but I don’t believe them.
LOL. Yeah, what is it with "those people"? :)
Too bad Governor Charlie Crist is such a tree hugger, and sadly, he’s a Republican.
“Offshore drilling separates hopefuls
Gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist opposes rigs within 125 miles of Florida’s coast, while Tom Gallagher supports the idea”
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/11/07/State/Offshore_drilling_sep.shtml
People need to start saving gas reciepts.
Claim them as work expense. (just to get to work)
tom gallagher would have been 100 times better as governor than tinker bell crist.
No wonder Soros, Gore, Obama, McCain, and their fellow-travelers are engaged in a multi-hundred-million-dollar propaganda blitz to convince us that ‘we must stop global climate change at all costs’. Gas prices are going up, temperatures are going down, and European governments are drifting to the right.
Keep telling us that ANWR and the offshore sources are closed for business, boys. Democracy may actually do something useful for once and kick some ecotard butts out of office if enough sheeple are capable of making the connection between the restriction of supply and the high gas prices. (those glowing signs advertising gas prices could be a powerful symbol of over-regulation of the energy industry if someone with a PR knack could get that ball rolling)
Kinda reminds me of my drinking days. I'd slam my mug of beer down on the bar, point my finger at the people sitting across from me and yell, "You people are a bunch of drunks!"
Then the bartender would say, "Okay, Bud, that's enough for you. I'm cutting you off"
So I'd say, "Why!?"
And he'd say, "Because you're yelling at the mirror."
Bet we don’t do any thing to alter our dependence on foreign nations.
no drilling, no new refineries, no nukes, no alternatives.
The enviro weinnies are far more active politically in this nation then we.
Their desire is for gas to to be 30.00 a gallon or what ever number stops our use of cars.
And we will not do a thing to stop them.
Every one that votes to stop drilling shall win re election.
Or become president.
“jeb bush opposed offshore drilling in florida also
tom gallagher would have been 100 times better as governor “
Florida Republican voters made a huge mistake in the Republican primary! Don’t they do their research before they vote??
It’s as if your family is starving to death but you refuse to grow vegetables in your flower garden for aesthetic reasons.
i supported gallagher.
I agree. But I think their motive is to push us all into mass transit. More control.
Just after I left this thread I found this one about higher gas prices pushing more into mass transit.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013903/posts
BS. There is an estimated 9 to 15 billion barrels of crude under the FL Straits 50 miles off the FL keys. American oil companies are not allowed to drill that crude reserve because it might foul FL beaches if there was a spill, but China is currently pumping it out and refining the crude in a renovated Cuban refinery built by the old USSR. America's oil companies are the most environmentally safe oil drillers in the world, many times more so than China's, but they aren't allowed to drill there and China IS drilling there.
Of course we all know about the Alaska north shore fiasco where another few billion barrels are off limits because of the environmentalists' unwarranted fears. We were told ten years ago that even if drilling was allowed to begin there at that time it would be another ten years before that oil would be gas in the US drivers' gas tanks. Well it's now been ten years and that gas still isn't any closer to our gas tanks than it was ten years ago.
The Interior Department estimates that there are roughly 113 billion barrels of recoverable crude lying under the continental shelf within 200 miles of our shorelines. We have the technology to recover that oil, but most of it is off limits due to environmental concerns. What will it take to get Americans to tell the enviro-whackos where to put their nonsense and get on with drilling our own oil reserves, $10 a gallon gas, $15, $20?
Living in the politically correct US today has become like living in a surreal, nightmarish scenario where nothing makes sense but everyone is afraid to say that the enviro-whackjobs are crazy as bedbugs for fear of being accused of wanting to destroy the global ecology.
And so goes the Age of Unreason...when reasonable people are ridiculed and the idiocy of the rabble prevails..
Yes we should drill for oil, everywhere we can...Are we waiting to run out of oil, or until every tin pot dictator is drilling for oil in our waters all around us and the vast oilfields of Alaska stay untouched..
If a bear was standing in your kitchen, you think you might change your thinking about gun ownership ?..Well we’re running out of gas, so better rethink the global warming nonsense and get with it...
It is here for some of us.
I paid a couple grand to pick up an older, small pickup ('90 S-10) to take care of light duty work which gets twice the mileage of my heavier hauler. It will pay for itself in fuel savings in the first 1500 miles, and save the wear on the larger vehicle for the heavy work.
Oops, that should have been 15000, not 1500 miles.
I think Bush could solve this problem with the stroke of the pen. The answer. Issue an executive order to open all known oil reserves for drilling and unrestricted exploration. I beleive this could be done if put forward as a national security issue (soon it will be a crisis). Problem solved.
The result would be a drop in the price of crude by $50 virtually overnight. It would be $120 one day and $70 the next. Then over the next two years or so as we are drilling our butts off it would continue to drop and I think we would see $40 a barrel oil within two years.
As the evil oil man says in “There Will Be Blood”
“I drink your milkshake. I drink it up.”
China, Cuba, and Russia are getting ready to drink our milkshake.
.....anyone ask her about unlocking the low sulpher coal the toon locked up in Utah (or some such state) by Executive Order....?
Gas-competitive gas / ethanol mixturesAlso, I was surprised by the introduction of a machine for making home-made ethanol.
EFUEL100But watch out for fines for violating biofuel regulations.
Fines for violating biofuel regulationsFinally, I'm keeping an eye on the following development in non-corn ethanol production.
Non-corn ethanol
Sticker Shock-$3 a gallon gas? Click the picture:
And I still stand by my vest-pocket summary:
I've been saying for years the way to revive and restore the economy ( and it would have headed off these oil price problems as well ) was to-
1- drill for gas & oil like crazy- onshore, offshore, and in Alaska
2- go nuclear for power
3- convert stationary plants to clean coal technology
4- slash taxes and regulations like crazy
I'll bet there's someone in that traffic jam looking at you and thinking the same thing....
“EnvironMENTALists are always naysaying, but I don’t believe them.”
Ha ha, and our great candidate, John McCain, declared himself an environmentalist on O’Reilly the other night, and is against drilling.
“I’ve been saying for years the way to revive and restore the economy ( and it would have headed off these oil price problems as well ) was to-
1- drill for gas & oil like crazy- onshore, offshore, and in Alaska
2- go nuclear for power
3- convert stationary plants to clean coal technology
4- slash taxes and regulations like crazy”
And the Democrat/Socialist party knows this as well. So their plan is to force us to do just the opposite and in turn destroy the economy. When are the people that vote for these socialists going to wake up! Oh, I forgot, they likely never will. Some unknown force about liberalism makes you unable to see the truth even if you are smacked in the face with it.
If there isn’t a ‘significant amount of oil’ near our coasts then there isn’t any reason not to allow drilling is there? After all, if there isn’t any oil, there won’t be any drilling will there?
The only solution accepatble to the environmentalists is conservation, ie, everyone drives a scooter like this guy.
So what? The Liberals will never, ever, ever, ever allow us to drill for our own oil. They then use the high cost of gas to get their fellow socialists elected. And we do nothing.
It can, but being insignificant it won't.
It still cracks me up to this day , Backhoe,that the very first post in that 04 thread was somebody calling you an idiot.
Yep. I don't forget stuff like that, either.
We got Congress to change it’s mind on amnesty, so let call our reps and U.S. senators and get this done!
So you say your phone call or letter won’t make a difference? Well, tell your friends, neighbors and relatives to do the same, and then write a short editor’s letter asking folks in your home down to do the same.
Let’s get it done!
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