Posted on 05/05/2008 6:29:39 AM PDT by Red Badger
‘This will be fought tooth and nail by the Rats and their envio-buddies.’
Yes, it will. And, those of us who believe we MUST work on domestic energy sources so we stop dependence on foreign sources, MUST FIGHT BACK....or better yet, take the initiative. Calls, emails etc worked on the ILLEGAL immigration bill and maybe massive calls,emails will help in this instance too. Maybe not, but, if we don’t try we have no chance.
Thanks!
You’re welcome
Michael Ramirez is the BEST political cartoonist around!
Didn’t see nuclear power in this. It has everything else, why not that? Why also the funding: should cost nothing.
Regarding coal liquification refineries:
The Dem Govenor of Montana stated that there is one refinery being built right now to convert coal to gasoline.
However, based on the MT & WY coal deposits that 10-15 more could be built based on the $50-55 cost per barrel equivilent to produce it.
New construction of refineries was being held up by legislation in the US Senate as to the tax on carbon emmissions. I saw this all on Glen Beck’s show last week.
Where’s my pitchfork?
The military and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve should be required to get a small percentage of their oil from coal at any price. That is strategic. The military has always played the prime role in inspiring major leaps in technology. That's because initially only the DoD can afford it. The price eventually drops and then the new technology goes mainstream. We should foster this time-honored process.
I'd hate to think if the leftists got their way and the threat of war was eliminated. We'd hardly ever invent or discover another thing. As long as we have leftists that's impossible though. Leftists and their envy are the cause of most wars. That is their one useful feature: to create major problems that conservatives have to hunker down to fix.
‘Regarding coal liquification refineries:
The Dem Govenor of Montana stated that there is one refinery being built right now to convert coal to gasoline...’
I, too, saw a TV report on this. Makes you shake your head....seems like a no brainer...why aren’t we doing this.
Hmmmm......no BRAINer....Dems....
Because some of the people hit hardest by high oil prices usually vote Democrat.
How do you expect Republicans to ever regain a majority if they don't force such votes and expose the Democrats as the main reason why the cost of oil is so high?
Unfortunately, the GOP couldn't actually pass this kind of legislation back in 2001 to 2007, because the had far too many RINOs in their ranks, and the price of oil was not yet as painful as it is now.
As the price of oil has gone up, the situation has changed, and people are less likely to just listen to the environmental B. S. about how burning oil is destroying our world without questioning it.
I think this is just to address the gasoline/diesel conundrum....Nuclear will be another battle for another election..........When the price of electricity goes thru the roof because we are using all our coal for fuel........
Next to your gun and Bible?..........
When I was a child my parents were so poor they couldn't afford a piece of coal for my Christmas stocking.
We had a coal pile out back for heating. A piece of coal was a good thing........
Doubly tragic since we lived in a coal-mining town.
Now THAT IS POAH!............
One can hope.
Cut all aid to the UN and reinvest that money into a “Manhattan Project” for oil exploration and biofuel (non-ethanol) science. That would be money well spent.
U.N.’s World Food Program Cried Poverty While Sitting on Cash Stockpile of More Than $1.22 Billion
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,353944,00.html
In the case of CTL (Coal-to-Liquids) the science has been done for decades and decades! What we need is plants built and ready to go! In the case of Bio-Diesel, all you need is a press and a filter...........
To put the Dems, esp. Barry Hussein and Shrillary, on record as opposing energy independence.
He vetoed it and used as an excuse that it'd take 10 years to begin production and that it wasn't worth it. Well, here we are 13 years later with no oil, and the SOBs are making the same damned excuse. We could have had several hundred thousand barrels a day flowing for the last 3 years...but for that scumbag and his like-minded friends on the Left.
If McCain doesn't make a BIG issue of this, against either RAT, he's a damned fool. Another few hundred thousand barrels a day would have oil in the neighborhood of $70-$80/bbl., and gasoline at probably no more than $2.50/gal. nationally. The rest of your gas bill you can thank Bill Clinton, Al Gore and the rest of the enviro-whacko Lefties for.
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