MORFORD: Here's oil in your eye

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 4/18/8 | Mark Morford

[SmithL]

Morfordite Alert

You have been warned!

[avacado]

"Perhaps I'm missing something."

Indeed you are. It's called knowledge of subject and a thought process. Both of which you lost when your boyfriend left you on the alter. Get over him Morford! He's not coming back! He has a new lover!

[Former Proud Canadian]

Crude is down $15 since Bush lifted the ban. End of story.

[FlashBack]

Perhaps I'm missing something.
It's called "a brain".

[y6162]

“..swallow it whole and smile for a week.”

Moford’s subtext. He always sneaks in a personal desire.

[econjack]

Perhaps I'm missing something.

This has to be the biggest understatement of the year! I'm surprised this guy can breathe without help. I don't recall ever seeing a more biased, uninformed piece of journalism. Doesn't this guy realize that crap like this represents an unnecessary denuding of the nations forests? Clearly he has no understanding of basic economics or capitalism in general.

[A_perfect_lady]

Perhaps I'm missing something

Naw. Couldn't be.

[dblshot]

No energy, no economy, no jobs.

So newspapers using trees to make paper that is bleached with chlorine that goes into the water supply and has a high energy use in distribution and winds up filling up landfills is good? HYPOCRIT!

[doodad]

Perhaps this weasel can explain what the government's motives are then, since their profits from taxes are much higher than the evil, sinister, corrupt oil companies profit margins. And heck, the gov didn't even do the heavy lifting.

[Edit35]

This Mark Morford character should be sentenced by the dimwad police to six months living in a tent, rubbing sticks together for warmth, no electricity, no machine-made clothes, and only a tricycle for transport.(a bicycle seems too advanced).

After his 'back to-nature' experience, Marford could enlighten us on the benefits of a "no oil" lifestyle.

[PugetSoundSoldier]

Morford: You’re right - let’s not punch holes in Alaska or the coasts. Give them all up. Yes, I’m serious - we don’t need them! No drilling at all in Alaska. Or off the coast of California. Or Florida. Or the Gulf Coast. Bahamas. None of that.

Rather, we have 280 YEARS of our TOTAL oil consumption - 20 million barrels of day - sitting as proven reserves in our oil-shale. We should develop that. It is over a large enough geographic area we could realistically extract 20 million barrels a day.

We can have first production in 3 years, and full production within 10. All located in geographically stable, central locations in Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado.

Add that to the 7 million barrels a day we make right now, not only could we be 100% self-sufficient in terms of oil, we could be a net exporter of oil. At $100 a barrel, that is $700 MILLION a day in exports. At the 25% tax rate the oil companies pay, that would also be another $64 BILLION in tax revenue for the government.

So by all means, let’s not punch more holes in Alaska or the coast. But we’ll go after the shale oil with a vengance and never have to buy another drop of oil, ever again.

[dighton]

Perhaps I’m missing something.

Adulthood.

[arthurus]

Bush lifts drilling ban, oil execs leer, nation cringes, Obama sighs, Oil price slides.

[arthurus]

Not to Mention the Bakken reserves.

[GloriaJane]

"Perhaps I'm missing something."

I know! I know what you're missing! ..... A brain.

[Brett66]

So he’s kind of like the scarecrow on Wizard of OZ, except he’s a homo-scarecrow, and not very likeable.

[Neoliberalnot]

The marketer of deviance and the highly regarded rimmer of his beloved community is once again demonstrating his enhancement of stupidity.

[Col Freeper]

Little Markie,

Enjoy yourself as you spew your inane venom, but remember this, one of these days you'll get your layoff notice, or, the publisher's email about the paper's eminent closing.

[Old Professer]

So he’s in his fatalist mood this morning, is he?

[Old Professer]

Imminent, I hope.