[mattdono]

With supplies of "cheap" oil running scarce, what fool would build something that takes 20 years to pay for itself until he is quite confidant that demand and oil prices will stay high enough to justify it? What happens if alternate energy sources take off, who is going to pay for his losses?

That's a fair point, but the "20 years" (more like 30) of regulation is what has gotten us to where we are right now.

Those investments would have made an insane amount of sense, but the only thing that stood in the way: regulation.

Part of the core in demanding action is stopping the "big lie" that the envirowhackos have perpetuated so long.

Global warming being attributed to mankind is junk science.

It's a fact that marine life increases around an oil rig.

It's a fact that caribou populations have increased since the completion of the Alaskan pipelie.

Those 2 stark facts, alone, negate about 3/4th of the entire arguements of the environmentalist left.

Almost every purported fact about the dangers to the environment that oil extraction, refinement, and distribution supposedly cause is a lie.

In large part, it is this lie that needs to have the light of truth shown on it.

[Rte66]

Well, you know it was Big Oil that caused New Orleans to flood after Katrina, because Big Oil built roads in the wetlands to get to their evil offshore rigs in the Gulf. People in New Orleans don't need or use gasoline, so they'd just as soon everybody stop taking it out of their swamps. Dontcha know? That was probably Cheney or Rove's fault or maybe Don Evans's, certainly not GWB's. *ha*