New oilfields are only half the answer. We need to increase refining capacity as well.
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Last August, Fortune magazine ran a cover story entitled, "How to Kick the Oil Habit." Incredibly, the 5,000-world article did not once mention nuclear power.
That is incredible.
Nuclear power can be extremely efficient. I was a nuclear power plant operator on Nimitz class carriers. On one ship we calculated our fuel usage rate at over 8,000 Nautical Miles per gram. With improvements in fuel loading and core design it can be even better.
See this article about hybrid cars and expensive gasoline
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1378468/posts
Hybrid-Car Tinkerers Scoff at No-Plug-In Rule
And from what I have heard so far, all of the oil in the Alaska Pipeline is sold to users outside the United States. So other then Oil companies making more money, how the h*ll are we going to reduce our dependence on Foreign(Read Opec) oil this way?
Is the ANWR debate really over? After all the decades of arguments, it's hard to imagine that this has now been settled. If so, it's great news.
Nuclear power for the grid(s), and two words for mechanized transportation: methane clathrates.
And we get hydrogen from where? Oh yeah from fossil fuel... never mind.
NO NUKES, just windmills.
Who needs fusion power research when we have welfare bills to pay?
"In a word, economic reality suddenly intruded. No environmentalist is going to chain themselves to the gates of ANWR when it costs $40 to fill your tank. Pillorying "Big Oil" is one thing. Confronting an angry public is another."
Well said! That sentence speaks VOLUMES about what self-serving chickenchits EnviroWackos can be.
You know, I don't mind people having convictions. I conserve natural resources where I can, but I don't demand that anyone else do so.
I've always wanted to see some in-depth interviews with these types. Where do they live? Do they have electricity and running water? Do they only use (chemically soaked when grown) natural cotton garments? What about leather shoes? Do they drive? If not, they'd better be biking because mass transit consumed natural resources as well.
You get my drift...
I had some fun at the pumps yesterday. As I was filling up, another woman pulled up at the next pump. Though a stranger, she asked me where I thought it would stop. I said, "Gee, that depends. If we can get some new refineries built, start drilling in ANWR, and use alternate transportation when it makes sense, we might have a chance. If not, it'll go over $3/gallon." This is in Madison, WI (80 square miles, surrounded by reality), so I suspect she didn't care for any of my suggestions. I was done filling up, though, so I didn't stick around! :-)
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I never hear it suggested that eliminating gasoline taxes would be a great way to bring down the pump price. I wonder why. And yes, those pennies do make a difference.
Haha. These two forms of producing energy would destroy or render uninhabitable more acreage than oil, gas and nuclear power.
Yep...President Bush said we'd come to these gas prices without his energy policy being passed....and here we are folks.