Good for Elton! This should be a HUGE PRIORITY right now!
If the GOP were smart, they’d be hitting the jackasses right between the eyes with this...
Remember their “we can do better” BS from the midterm? Well, gas prices sure aren’t better...the stock market isn’t better...there wasn’t a recession two years ago, and there was no talk of food rationing two years ago because of this ethanol craze, which drove up the cost of food, and food staples.
Oh well...such is where we are.
The congress is too stupid to realize what’s needed for a sound energy policy. I wish we could throw them all out and start over with Reps that have a brain.
Closing more oil fields, shutting down more refineries, and mandating new area-specific 'blends' of gasoline.
Libruls iz SMART.
Be nice if we can drill in California, AZ, New Mexico, Texas, WY, Gulf heck, anywhere in OUR country.
Time for truckers and everyone else who is sick of this to forget the impotents in DC and head to Wall St. Until we make a personal visit to the stock exchange and face off these arrogant speculators, we are stuck. Drilling in ANWR is a great idea, but this market madness is pure speculation.
You have John McCaine, who wants to represent all of us comparing ANWR to the Grand Canyon.
We are all so screwed!
But... but... but... THEY HAD HEARINGS!!! They did *everything* in their power!
The irony is thick. We always hear the left scream bloody murder over the loss of manufacturing jobs, yet they won’t let domestic oil companies drill for oil on/in US soils/seas.
The nutless wonders in congress will never allow it. Mark my words, this nation will be brought to its knees before congress critters allow drilling there.
For DemocRATs saying you have a plan and actually having a plan are two different things. Oh, THAT PLAN!
People...you have to realize...our Congress critters don’t give a rat’s *ss about everyday Americans...The people we’ve elected time and time and time again to their cusshy little positions have become nothing more than “professional politicians” whose only concern and worry in the world is getting re-elected...As soon as one election is over, they are campaigning for the next...they lie and smile and tell you what they think you want to hear, then go about doing what they do best... take care of each other...you mean nothing to them but for one day every two to four years...election day....
Vote OUT the incumbents and tell the next batch to do something for the people or they are history also...
Our founders are retching in their graves at what we’ve allowed to happen to the system they gave us....
MAN UP!!!! Take back our country....
The time to drill ANWR was 10 years ago.
Bio-Fuels- NO! Unless we can made cellulosic ethanol work with bio material NOT used for food.
CTL (coal-to-liquid) - YES! We are going to have to do this anyway so why not get started now.
GTL (gas-to-liquid) YES! Same as CTL above.
NUCLEAR- YES! YES! YES! We need a ambitious program NOW! This is far and away the most important thing we can now do!
SOLAR- YES, if it can survive without subsidies.
WIND- YES (see SOLAR above).
CONSERVATION- Yes within limits. Most people are already conserving as much as they can. We have already picked the fruit from the low branches of the tree on conservation. When the vast majority of people purchase their next vehicle it will probably be one which gets very good gas mileage.
POLITICAL/LEADERSHIP- Please stop listening to movie stars, the Sierra Club, Al Gore and other assorted idiots on the issue of energy. Do not listen to political leaders from corn growing states. Listen to good scientists and engineers who have a background in energy.
I ran across this article today explaining how Alaska plans to force drilling in ANWR.
http://www.adn.com/money/story/389829.html
Oil production from Sourdough wells might impel feds to lease in ANWR
ADJACENT: Reservoir seems to extend beneath the refuge.
This guy needs to be running the Republican Party, instead of the pantywaist RINOs of the past 10 years.
Going to take more than just ANWR. Oil is a global commodity and right now it will take something like 1 million BPD to push prices down. Probably be several million BPD before we could get the first well online even if an executive order was signed today.
“....19 million-acre refuge is more than three times the size of Massachusetts, yet fewer than 2,000 acres of the Coastal Plain would be impacted by oil production.”
A little calculator work shows that this area is equivilant totaking a football field along with both end zones and exploring and drilling in three square inches of it...
THREE SQUARE INCHES out of a friggin’ football field!!!!!
That ain’t gonna hurt any caribou!!!!!!!