Oil at $300

Human Events ^ | 07/04/2008 | Terry Easton

[Logical me]

Do you remember when the Republicans had full controll of the White House and both Houses of Congress?

Yes and I remember the environmentalist and the pressure of the total Democrats with the help of a few RINOs that prevented the move to drilling and building more refineries.. Your memory is slightly flawed, better go back and recall. You have a real problem.

[B4Ranch]

I recall a President who didn’t seriously try to open ANWR to drilling for oil or get nuclear power plants in operation. I remember how he held his Arabian friends above his sworn duties as President. The man is a total failure in my opinion.

I hope you enjoy paying $10 a gallon because that’s where it’s headed.

[CharlesWayneCT]

That’s odd, I thought Coal had not increased in price much. OF course, they may have shipping charges for the coal.

[RightWhale]

Transportation has to be a major factor, but operating the mining equipment (have you seen that monster truck?) has also had to be increasing.

[dragnet2]

homes heated with heating oil, to expect bills this winter of $2000 to $2500 a month, given the current trends in oil costs.

It's going to get very hot.

[Fishrrman]

“Of course. But, changes are coming. Won’t hurt to start thinking about alternatives. You can still buy a cast iron hand operated water pump. They are cheap, too. My grandparents bathed in hot water in a regular bathtub with a drain but no water spigots. They had a big old cast iron stove in the kitchen that would get hot all over, heat the kitchen, bake bread, heat bath water all at once”

It’s ironic that - if things keep going the way they’re going (and I don’t see any reasonable alternative as to them changing) - Americans in 2100 may live under circumstances that are much the same as the Americans of 1900.

It may become more practical to live with little or no energy, than trying to live with energy that is luxury-priced and affordable only to the few....

- John

[JimRed]

It will take at least 2 years of building 1000 new rigs per year, to bring the rig count back to where it was in the ‘70’s. Then, to get that oil into production will take at least another 3 to 5 years. (Some as much as 10.)

So, the lib reasons, let's not drill at all if we can't have instant gratification!

We need to mobilize as we did in the first year of World War II, offering whatever incentives it takes to get the required performance. That alone will drop the prices some, as the fear of competition tends to do. But then they'll just sell to other buyers, says the leftist rebuttal.

Let them sell to China and India at outrageous prices, until one or the other decides to stop paying and simply walk in and take over.

[markman46]

btt

[rjp2005]

Science fiction can often be more prophetic than people realize.

Heinlen’s Dune compared with today’s energy situation/desert conflict. Star Trek’s communicators and our cell phones. Etc, etc.

[headstamp 2]

That site is enough to make you suck on a shotgun. LOL

[RightWhale]

much the same as the Americans of 1900

My grandparents both told me that 1895 was the Golden Age for America. They didn't mean the Gilded Age, which others have called that era, but simply the best life ever.