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There's plenty of oil, prob is we haven't built a refinery in umpteen years... because of the greens.
The benefit would come because we are currently using a great deal of natural gas to make power. This demand drives the price of natural gas upwards. The result is that petrochemical facilities that use gas a feedstock or need it for fuel must pay more and are less profitable. When the profit crunch is bad enough, the parent companies move the chemical plants to China, and Americans lose jobs.
I like clean air as much as anyone does, but if I have to choose between less than perfect air, loss of freedom to drive where and when I want, and loss of my job, I'll choose slightly more polluted air. For most of us, the difference between what is allowed now and what we'd see with slightly relaxed standards is a difference that we'd never notice. Those with breathing difficulties might have some problems, but even they will do better in an America that has good jobs as opposed to an America that doesn't have good jobs.
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Bill
The solution is equally simple: Increase domestic oil production."
Not so fast. We invest in foreign sources because it is CHEAP. A significant amount of "foreign oil" is pumped by private western countries and they travel the globe to find the cheapest resources. If domestic production was economically beneficial it would be done in a heartbeat.
IMO, bring Iraq online and prohibit its reentry to OPEC.
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I have NO sympathy for any American who complains about the price of gas. Anyone with a little foretsight could have figured out a few years ago that gas prices weren't going to stay low. Instead, too many of us decided to buy the Excursion, the Suburban, the F-350 Super Duty (to drive to work as a commuter vehicle). I see it every day here in Wyoming. Big fragile ego + zero forethought = going into debt for an absurdly large vehicle. Cry me a river.
...but if we made ethanol out of our millions of tons of agricultural waste, and all that grain we store until it rots, just to keep it off the market..and added a gallon of unleaded per gas tank...we could drive all we want, and our friends in the desert and Venezuela would be out of business.
No ?
Executive order; stroke of a pen, law of the land...cool!
Never fear, for John F. Kerry is here, declaring the prospect of lower gasoline prices "outrageous and unacceptable to the American people."
On the bright side, this boosts the resale value of my Honda Insight at the very time I'm thinking of selling it due to a move to Montana!
Actually, I'd say it's not all the green's fault, it's also the car manufacturers who make gas guzzlers. Though, cars have become much more fuel efficient lately
Modern coal-fired power-plants are much cleaner than the smoke-belching plants of yesteryear. Still, there is even a better solution: nuclear power.
The US Navy has been operating nuclear power plants safely for many years now. There is no reason for us not to be producing cheap and abundant electricity using emissions-free and fossil-fuel-free nuclear energy. That would free up a lot of oil and natural gas, reduce our dependence on terrorist-supporting nations, reduce overall pollution (including the pet pollutant-of-the-day: greenhouse gases), and alleviate the power-deficit problems that are rapidly growing in this country.
Oh yeah, there is ONE reason for not producing nuclear power: the political activism of the Greens and other Leftists that want to see America re-join the ranks of third-world nations.
I just realized something based on a couple of articles I read here several months ago. One involved reviving oil exploration in Tennessee, and the other involved a plan to preserve a small area on the Tennessee-Alabama border. It seems that the greenies had the ultimate goal of placing some 3 million acres of the region around the area to be preserved under protected status, including areas which were in the oil article. Imagine placing an area larger than Death Valley National Monument over middle Tennessee and northeast Alabama and make it off limits to oil exploration, or coal mining, or any other development. Do that all over the United States, and you take away any chance to develop oil or coal or any other type of energy because you can't even take it out of the ground. The reason the greenies want to create a 3 million acre preserve to protect an area of a few thousand acres is to prevent development of our resources and further their leftist agenda.