Ping to a Republican-American Editorial.
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Bush, of course.
—speaking of ANWAR, here’s a good reference—
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http://www.nationalreview.com/flashback/goldberg200503180758.asp
Nobody is to blame. There will generally be less and less oil and higher and higher prices. Opening up new sources will only delay this slightly. Politically driven energy policy will generally makes things worse. The old guy freezing with the thermostat set to 40 will have to move further south or move in with someone else, no big deal.
It might meet Alaska's need for 25 years.
We are to blame for not taking the wake up call in the 70s and allowing oil based fuels to maintain a monopoly while refusing to acknowledge that the world’s largest superpower needs to be energy independent. If we had started in ‘74, we would have achieved energy independence years ago. The profiteers are only guilty of exploiting the situation that we as a society created.
Sierra Club and ecofreaks who make big owl stories to stop progress.
Idiot congressmen that listen to the above.
There is 36 Billion barrels of oil in Colorado Utah that is untouched.
There is shortage of refineries and plentiful idiots.
Mr. Thackney, your views please?
Fixed it for him....here's a reminder of the President's Energy Plan, not the one he had to accept from this Congress.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,110237,00.html
Here’s irony. I’m living here at the edge of the treeline in what is without a doubt the coldest place in the United States. We use about 380 gallons of diesel each year as the only source of heat for our home. (It’s a toasty -19 degrees outside right now; we’re actually wasting energy, since the freezers out in the garage are keeping the food 20 warmer than the air around them.) So we use a little less than twice the amount of fuel that he uses in a climate that is literally Siberian, and I’m not talking about southern Siberia.
I’m sorry for the poor slob in balmy (gardening zone 5) Connecticut. If his home had been built to the same standards as our house, he could probably keep warm simply with the residual heat from his appliances, the sun, and his body in a climate that’s a lot more forgiving than interior Alaska. The reason our house in Alaska is built this way is a decision made by the builder, not the government. We have no housing code out here. I’ve lived in Connecticut, too, most of my childhood and early adulthood, and the place is crawling with regulation and taxes - and that has a tendency to atrophy the section of the brain dedicated to thinking ahead and planning for yourself.
I don’t know why this guy didn’t insulate and build and plan for winter. He had enough money to pay for 200 gallons of heating fuel, which at the current price is about $500. You can buy a lot of insulation for that money. In fact, if you work at it a little at a time, year after year, you could really get your house set up to survive what they call cold down there in my former home... if the code enforcement department allows that, if the regulations allow that, if he didn’t have to spent hours and dollars filling in paperwork to do it.
I’m up with ANWR oil, too. Believe me when I say that I wouldn’t be in favor of ANWR drilling if it would harm the environment. I’ll bet Pres. Obama or Pres. Rodham Clinton would lock it up for decades, too. *sigh*
“...High oil prices: Who’s to blame?...”
That’s what I’d like to know.
Isn’t it ALWAYS BUsh’s fault?
Not the Democrats in Congress ... Nah - it’s Bush’s fault.
And BTW, the estimate was up to ~ 10 billion barrels, not tens of billions.
I blame the oil, for not being more plentiful, and for being so hard to get to.
Who’s to blame? Hubbert’s Peak along with China and India industrializing.
My idea for a bumper sticker?
Don’t want to drill? Then get the hell out of your car and start walking you ignorant libtard!
I know, kind of wordy...
If you are interested, click below to see 5 pages of photos of the magnificent mines that were put out of business.
Is this a trick question? It turns out that there probably is one person who bears a large responsibility for the current market squeeze: Vladimir Putin.