[SunkenCiv]

Conservation won't do it. Regaining control of our energy supply will.

[SunkenCiv]

How Long Will the Oil Age Last?
Popular Science | August 2004 | Kevin Kelleher
Posted on 07/31/2004 4:48:26 PM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1182542/posts

(Pres. Clinton’s) Ex-CIA chief spooked by fossil fuels (R. James Woolsey)
LexisNexis News | March 7, 2007 | Steve Hargreaves, CNNMoney.com staff writer
Posted on 03/08/2007 2:19:35 PM EST by 2ndDivisionVet
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1797530/posts

Turning Oil into Salt:
We must become independent - not just of imported oil, but of oil itself
NRO | September 25, 2007 | R. James Woolsey & Anne Korin
Posted on 09/26/2007 3:37:27 AM EDT by neverdem
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1902254/posts

Saudi Arabia is hub of world terror
times online | November 4, 2007 | Nick Fielding and Sarah Baxter, Washington
Posted on 11/04/2007 8:34:38 AM EST by Flavius
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1920759/posts

Saudi minister warns of dollar collapse (Threat?)
The Business | 17 Nov 07 | None
Posted on 11/17/2007 6:16:53 AM EST by SkyPilot
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1927118/posts

also:

James Woolsey (Former CIA Director)
Comments on Clarke + Ties between Iraq & AlQaeda (MUST READ!)
CNN (Lou Dobbs Interview) | 3/23/04 | James Woolsey / CNN Moneyline
Posted on 03/23/2004 11:52:48 PM EST by Steven W.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1104121/posts

The Clintons Terrorist Ties
VARIOUS | Various
Posted on 02/12/2005 8:32:38 PM EST by Calpernia
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1342023/posts

[SunkenCiv]

saudi opec dollar euro site:freerepublic.com

Google

[SunkenCiv]

Huckabee: America Enslaved to Saudi Oil
AP | Nov 25, 2:59 PM (ET)
Posted on 11/26/2007 5:45:51 AM EST by gondramB
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930521/posts

[SunkenCiv]

$100 oil fades fast by David Ebner

[SunkenCiv]

Gold bounces as dollar dips but stays below $800 by Lewa Pardomuan

Another Fed Rate Cut Could Mean $900 Gold by Christmas by Stephen Clayson

[Darkwolf377]

We should switch over to an Al Gore-based fuel economy. We should be able to run everything on melted-down copies of An Inconvenient Truth and burning Earth in the Lurch and Assault on Reason copies for centuries.

[DaveTesla]

"Among his suggestions was California's decision to
decouple energy company profits from sales two decades
ago, keeping the state's electricity consumption flat
while the rest of the states have experienced a 60 percent increase"

What a load of fertilizer.

Less than 2% of the nations electric is generated by oil.

"On the malignant side, oil and coal consumption are
contributing to global warming."

The United States has one of the worlds largest reserves of
coal which could not only be used to generate electricity but can
be used to produce synthetic fuels for transportation (fischer troupe).

But of course the global warming boogie monster wont allow us.

I will make you freeper's a wager.
The largest oil reserves in the world are hiding in Alaska.
What say you?

More cr@p from a Clinton crony to control the masses.

[antinomian]

Among his suggestions was California's decision to decouple energy company profits from sales two decades ago, keeping the state's electricity consumption flat while the rest of the states have experienced a 60 percent increase.

I guess Woolsey missed that whole California energy crises thing - the one that cost Gray Davis his job. Shortages are what happens when you try to "decouple profits from sales".

[Nathan Zachary]

""We should not just try to import less oil," the former CIA director under former President Clinton told a Miami audience Sunday. "We should destroy oil as a strategic commodity"

Then tell your enviro wacko ninnies to stop interfering with development of our own resources, Alaska, shale, and development of resources of our eastern coasts, including the huge methane ice deposits that have the potential to supply all our gas needs for centuries to come.

As far as silly solar panels go, quit daydreaming. They just aren't viable, and most likely never will be. But you can go ahead and staple them all over the city if you want to, but I'm telling you now, they'll look like hell and bring about many an eyesore complaint. And there is that other problem with them. They don't last very long, about 5 years before they need replacing, and don't work at all when the sun doesn't shine, which is every evening, and when it's cloudy.

What else do you need to make solar panels more useable? Lots of lead acid batteries, which guess what? don't last forever either. We have a long ways to go to invent a more practical and environmentally friendly storage device for that electricity, and those environmental disasters they put under the hood of a prius isn't the answer either. The manufacture of each prius battery causes more environmental damage that running 10 Humvies for their entire life expectancy. If you don't think so just go look around the nickel mines in Ontario and Flin Flon in northern Manitoba, The processing plants in Germany where the nickel is processed, and the processing plant in Japan where they prius batteries are made from that material.

Some nuclear plants will really help while we develop our own oil and gas resources and other renewable biological industries which could help reduce the amount of oil we use.

[Nathan Zachary]

"The U.S. electricity grid and world oil supplies also face threats from terrorists and not just glitches that can now cause massive power outages in the interconnected grid."

No Wooly, our electric grid is a overburdened disaster because of the leftist environmentalist terrorist attacks it has been constantly bombarded by for decades now, which have left it horribly overburdened, and in need of massive upgrading and expansion. The problem is, the C holling earth worm has "rights" so we can't stick a transmission tower anywhere.

[Texas Eagle]

This is ridiculous. We can never get completely off of oil.

We could reduce our oil consumption by 75% and all our suppliers would have to do is close the spigots accordingly. We would still be at their mercy.

What we need to do is drill for oil in Alaska and Colorado and offshore.

[DaveTesla]

http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html

Only 15- 17% of our oil comes from the middle east.

Opening up offshore drilling will easily replace them.

Me thinks the masses are having games played with them.

(Generate phony crisis, then manipulate.)

[sphinx]

Jim Woolsey may be the biggest hawk left in the democratic party. He's also one of the most engaging speakers I've heard in many a year. He lays out the strategic/national security case for diversifying away from oil superbly.

Al Gore is a howl-at-the-moon loonie. Woolsey is a "praise the Lord and pass the ammunition" energy security guy. I'm sorry Bush didn't appoint him to something -- he's served in two prior Republican administrations so he swings both ways, but perhaps after CIA Director there's nothing much left to offer.

[Hunterite]

“On the malignant side, oil and coal consumption are contributing to global warming...”

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This statement negates everything else he said.

[raygun]

Woolsey also made a pitch for new battery-powered, flex-fuel cars that could be recharged during off-peak periods of electricity costs...

That's a great idea. How 'bout you perfect that concept in California and then get back to us on that, eh?

Seriously, what amps are necessary to "fuel" all of these vehicles throughout an average subdivision (let alone an urban area)? Can California keep the lights on 24/7/4.3/12 as things are? Even so, electric cars are purported to be a good thing though, eh?

[Alberta's Child]

Woolsey is full of sh!t. Ten bucks says he’s now working for some kind of think tank that is supported by industries involved in the development of alternative forms of energy.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Regaining control of our energy supply will."

fission, solar, and fusion (IEC, specifically).

[kabar]

No one seems to want to mention that we have added 100 million people to ur population since 1970 and will add another 167 million people by 2060. Immigration, legal and illegal, are driving about 75% of this population growth. The idea that we can go from a nation of 200 million in 1970 to a nation of almost half a billion in less than 100 years without impacting on our energy needs is just nonsense. We are going to have to run just to standstill.

[eleni121]

Great compilation!

Woolsey is right on less dependency on the oil mafia..and that means he should tell his Dem pals to stop hindering that very goal!

[RightWhale]

"We should destroy oil as a strategic commodity"

Proof the man is certifiable.