Posted on 03/16/2005 11:01:57 AM PST by BladeLWS
You are funny... I think
DU is going ape over this.
You may be right.
It seems unlikely, though.
I'm corrected on that, thanks. My point, though, is that I see the greatest advance in opening ANWR in the slap at the enviros as much as anything else.
Ya wanna know whut my Momma used ta say? Wull, I'll tell ya! She used ta say:
"Can't nevur did anything!" I'm sure she wuz tawlkin 'bout that there Cantwell womun!!!
I agree "long time no see". He probably never has or will see the light.
Kinda reminded me of the old days when FR was "Eagles Up!" an ALL about freedom within "the Republic for which it stands!"
What is symbolic about billions of barrels of oil? That's like asking why drill any new well in Texas. At most, that well will provide only a few seconds of the nation's energy needs (assuming as the leftists do with ANWR, that it is the only well in the whole country).
the answer is: Oil Shale and Tar Sands Oil production in North America...according to recent est.
It definitely was a good response, and true to our conservative core values.
A million barrels a day out of ANWR, the amount we now purchase from Saudi Arabia.
Despite a pledge by OPEC ministers to increase oil production, don't expect much of a break on oil prices. With crude oil prices hitting a record $56 a barrel Wednesday, OPEC ministers meeting in Iran have been grappling with a problem they haven’t confronted in the cartel’s 45-year history. In the past, OPEC tried to cool overheated prices by pumping more when supplies got too tight. But most OPEC producers say they’re already pumping as fast as they can. And despite the high cost of a barrel of crude, world demand shows no signs of slowing...
That is going to greatly help in the next couple of decades. However, the startup time is long, and the investors have to be confident that it will remain profitable over the long term.
We have tried this before and the producers lost their butts. If the big companies believe that $50/bbl is here to stay, you can believe that the oil shales will be exploited. But not if doing so drives the price of oil down to $20/bbl.
Then they've lost their butts again.
Well, yeah then. That magnifies the situation. If OPEC is pumping at
capacity, that signifies even MORE the need to drill ANWR, imho.And from what I've seen, it appears emerging economies like CHINA
are the ones adding to the demand equation.
Agreed
Think you missed the whole point. The enviros continually harp on keeping the whole area pristine so as not to harm the caribou.
Of course, the caribou then have a whole country while our homeless do not even have homes. Fair isn't it - more concern for caribou than American people?
This has nothing to do with damaging the earth. Alaska and Texas, Oklahoma, and other states have done very well with drilling going on. Some even have wells in their back yards.
So just why would any want to keep a whole area free of drilling? Could it be that they someday want control of that oil? Could it be that they want America to be at the beck and call of world powers who will say when we can use our lands and for what purpose? As is the goal of enviros.
Don't give me the line of being good stewards of the earth. We have to take care of our country, our people and prevent being under the jurisdiction of terrorist groups or nations wanting to control us.
Does anyone have the list of how our Senators voted?
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