DIG!
We've got our own oil...let's go get it!
Posted on 04/14/2008 7:32:18 PM PDT by Dane
With oil prices skyrocketing, and everybody agreeing in saying that the US should be out of OPEC's grip, there are divergent opinions on how to do it.
Me, I want to see a Manhattan/Moon shot type of project, where the US focuses right now on getting out of the grips of OPEC and a petroleum based economy. I know, I know, some elite Rush conservatives on FR will say that I am a heretic, for not waiting for pure economic theory to come through, but hey you Rush elitists, the pure economic theory is not working and people are hurting.
I am sick and tired of every time I fill up my gas tank, that the money goes to islamofascists and artificial ski hills in Dubai, but of course the Rush conservatives will say it is akin to some simple jamoke complaining about ATM fees and poo-poo the complaint, ala obama complaining about the hicks in small town Pennsylvania.
Well I have vented, and hope that you will give your suggestion and solution to the predicament that we are in now.
OH, BTW, saying that one is for alternative energy(be it hydrogen, coal nuclear, solar, etc.) is not kissing al gore's ring, but is a national security issue, and that is where the debate should be, not this globaloney crap.
We should have figured this lesson out after the first Arab oil embargo in 1973, but alas.
Perhaps if our politicians ( R’s and D’s) weren’t such money-grubbing whores we might have actually solved this problem.
Agree with you completely. Its absolutely a national security issue, and it absolutely deserves government money to subsidise and foster nukes first and foremost, and then to move away from petroleum powered transportation.
I totally agree we should get away from petroleum if or whenever possible, but at the same time we should explore what oil sources we may have within our own country.
Please, stop this nonsense of above, the saudi's and the Persian Gulf emirates have us by the cajones, and also what is wrong with trying to state that the US should be energy independent, be it from the suadi's, Canadians, Mexicans, Brazilians, etc.etc.
Get Bush to raise his hand.
You could have probably made your point without deliberately trying to offend people.
I would recommend reposting it without all the anti-Rush crap. You might get more responses from a wider audience.
Just sayin.
I agree. The first step to solving a problem is to define it without any emotional bias.
and then to move away from (middle eastern) petroleum powered transportation. We should have been drilling off the coasts of the US and Anwar for thirty years now.
We should be energy independent, but we should also stop living in the myth world that we get most of our oil from the ME.
And what is the typical Rush response? Paraphrasing Rush, "My friends in the oil industry tell me there is no problem, be happy that you are not waiting in line for gas".
Basically the other side of the obama coin.
re crude oil: OPEC isn’t your problem. Russia is.
Maybe we shouldn’t vote for Presidents that hold hands with Saudi oil barons and open oil companies with the bin Ladens.
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The problem is the politicians. The Democrats are dead set against doing anything useful, because the worse the problem gets, the more they can blame it on the Republicans.
And the environmentalists are getting more and more insane every day. Global warming is a complete red herring, which is distracting everyone from the real energy and pollution problems. Ethanol is a political scam of the worst kind.
And let’s not neglect the probable importance of bribery. Politicians are being bought off by the oil interests. Not by Exxon, which gets the blame, but by the Saudis, Dubhai, even the Russians.
And the Culture of Death exponents don’t want to solve the problem. The more people they manage to kill off or abort with this insanity, the better.
The solutions are well known. But the politicians are not even beginning to solve them. Why should they, when there is more political profit in making them worse?
We've got our own oil...let's go get it!
I’m with Fred Thompson on this one...(not into raising my hand).
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