Well, the media has been saying Ike would strengthen into a Cat 4 while passing over the warm Gulf
Wrong again
He's just barely a Cat 2
Posted on 09/08/2008 4:36:08 AM PDT by Molly Pitcher
Is the Obama campaign falling thru the floor? New poll numbers favor McCain/Palin.
Hurricane Ike crosses over Cuba heading for the GOM and another possible US landing.
Sarah Palin will sit down with ABC's Charles Gibson for a one on one interview this week.
The federal government has taken over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in an effort to stabilize the struggling housing market. That means you, me, all us taxpayers... have assumed the risk of this bailout...
And finally, the 7th anniversary of a horrendous day in our beloved country's history approaches..
Let's keep our country, our citizens, and that day's victims in our prayers this week.
Thanks, Jem. Well, it might blow over in about 3 days, but the recovery from the devastation effects can go on for weeks, months, or years.
Well, the media has been saying Ike would strengthen into a Cat 4 while passing over the warm Gulf
Wrong again
He's just barely a Cat 2
You know how the old saying goes - if you want less of something - tax it?
I’m working on this plan to tax Democrats.
I’ve read we have more than Iran, more than Saudia Arabia plus other countries. We have oil in Alaska plus natural gas, the Bakken oil field in Montana (it’s huge, extends into Canada) Co has oil, TX has oil on-shore and off-shore plus natural gas, CA has off-shore and on shore oil, WY has oil, PA has natural gas and oil, FL has off-shore oil, LA has oil on-shore and off-shore, MS has off-shore oil, AL has oil, OK has oil, these are to name a few. These states have their infrastructure already in place to move the oil. What we need too are new refineries without the epa constantly changing the rules to keep them from operating. Remember, back when clinton was president he sold our oil reserves to Occidental Petroleum? Algore owns a goodly number of shares with that company. But, you are right, we do have 3% or more of oil reserves, but I don’t know about the 3% of the world’s oil reserve.
I think if we will stick together and get our congress critters off their high falootin’ butts and put through a pork free bill to open our oil fields plus building new refineries, we will be free of foreign oil. We will need an up and down vote. We need to stay on these “representatives of the people, to get what is needed for this country. We might even be able to help out the European countries who depend on the Caspian Sea oil line that Russia uses to transport their oil. At the moment Europe has to stay as quiet as church mice when the Russian midget rattles his saber, ‘cause they’re worried silly he might cut off their oil.
At this moment in time, I’ve heard we have enough coal to meet our country’s needs for 200 years and enough oil and natural gas to meet our needs for about 160 years.
I think we should all put our heads together and think of all the products we use that began as oil. (This computer we’re using and all of it’s components, for instance) Think of all the ways we use coal. One other way with hard coal is jewelry.
Sorry I’ve used so much band-width, there are two national areas of interest for me, our military and their care for this nation and oil, gas and coal for our country’s needs.
The Dems, being the Party of Death, are aborting themselves at such a pace that all we have to do is sit back and wait — but then there are all those college students who adolize Che, so maybe my theory is problemmatic...;-))
Thank you Jem. I think we might get swished by the wind and some needed rain. But kassie is in it’s path.
I’ve been thinking of Toby too. It’s unusual for him to stay away this long.
What I have found is that drilling is occurring at the Bakken Reserve, but that the oil is hard to extract. Your link refers to an upcoming USGS report (since released) that says there is 3-4 billion barrels of “technically removable” oil there.
Where I live we have numerous offshore platforms, and drilling going on next door to houses, in parking lots and lots of random places. The oil platforms look really pretty at night.
I just have never heard that we have so much oil.
Me thinks little Annie has her head straight up where the sun don’t shine. Has she never heard binladen and alqueda met with Saddam more than once? Has she not heard the “yellow cake” in Niger, (which didn’t exist according to wilson) is now in Canada? I’m not the brightest bulb in the porch light, but I remember these things.
Bit, if we let all those dems abort their “mistakes” and let men marry men and women marry women, pretty soon we won’t have a democrat left. Then we’ll be free..hee hee, Then we’ll be free hee hee.
It would be nice if they were in play. The USGS report from April 2008 seems to contradict the 1999 estimate you refer to.
OK, so I guess we don’t try at all. There is *no* oil around the continental and even extra-continental US that we can conceivably go after, even though we haven’t looked for it for 30 years in some places...I am not buying that porposition. I think there are waaay more than 3-4 billion barrels in Bakken, and even the Chinese realize that there is oil in the Caribbean, yet we choose not to pursue it, regardless of how ‘pretty the rigs are at night’...;-))
Are you somehow interpreting my comments as meaning I am against drilling for oil?
It sounds to me, from the little reading I did on it, that the estimates about the total oil there have not changed. It seems it is the extraction that is the problem. I don’t have time to look for more stuff on this right now, and the cost of gas doesn’t really bother me enough to care about it. I paid $3.73 a gallon the other day, and was happy it was so cheap, but it’s just not something I think about a lot, to be honest. Sometimes, though, it costs me triple digits to fill my tank and that does catch my eye.
I thought the areas that are off limits to drilling were mostly in the Gulf of Mexico, and that we already knew there was oil there.
I can see oil platforms from my windows, and we had the big Chevron oil fields down the street from me. We have refineries around here (Orange County, California). I always hear how off-shore drilling is forbidden, and that California enviro-wackos prevent it, but I can see it going on every day. We have a nuclear power plant 25 miles away, too.
But yes, we should know how much oil is available here in the US.
BO....smell the change
Threads dead Fred....:-(
Yep...and we know who the murderer is, don’t we Queen Bev?
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