Posted on 06/01/2008 11:12:38 AM PDT by K-oneTexas
Fact #11. There’s a lot of oil in ANWR and now is the time for republicans to show just a little leadership.
Republicans should now push this in congress. I believe they’d get the support of the American people. They need to ask the American people if they like paying $4.00+ per gallon and if they like being at the mercy of terrorist towel-head wearing nations.
It won’t make a drop of difference. This is Peak Oil and has been since Nov 2007.
If we don’t start producing our own energy here, our nation is in trouble. Energy independence an important plank of any successful WOT.
Is it just the way I read it, or do fact # 2 and fact # 3 contradict each other? Either supply and demand does, or does not, affect oil prices.
I find it very curious that the majority of Congress recognize these facts as facts and continue to push us in the opposite direction.
Their motivation can only be to drag us down to dead stop and expect us to run to them to save us.
Yes it does. And they should be splattered all over the news media. And Conservative lawmakers should be on a rant with this stuff.
Instead? ... crickets.
Another part of the path to energy Independence is conservation of energy usage and new sources of energy.
This does not have to be seen as capitulation to the Environmental Wacko's.
Republicans should now push this in congress. I believe they’d get the support of the American people. They need to ask the American people if they like paying $4.00+ per gallon and if they like being at the mercy of terrorist towel-head wearing nations.
Are you kidding?
We had a MAJORITY for how many years? ... And did nothing!
This is a typical Republican politician:
BTTT
I agree. As long as new sources of energy is the main focus. I just don’t see us having enough oil to fill our daily demand of 20 million barrels very long, even if we cut that demand to 15 million barrels.
Whether we do or don't we have 25 years of pain ahead. If we resolve the problem that will be that. If we don't the 25 years will be followed by another 25 years of pain and so on forever. We already had 30 years in which to resolve the problem and decided to party.
Good post. The other day my friend made a good point though, which is regardless of WHY prices become high (speculation, supply/demand, etc.), we are all vulnerable.
I’d like to see lots of options for vehicles but mostly, what I wish would happen is that we’d start building some mass transit systems like in Zurich. I’d love to take a train to work instead of getting stressed out in a 50 minute commute like I have now dealing with the continual summer road construction and the bozos on the road that are so busy texting and punching in numbers that they aren’t looking when they merge onto freeways and so on...
Why we never put our resources into this is crazy. It would also provide jobs, which would be another good thing.
All of the ranting about OPEC, environmentalists, speculators, Democrats, and other villains is just a distraction. We're bumping along the plateau that petroleum geologists have predicted for decades, when oil production peaks because the elephant fields are winding down, the smaller fields coming online can't replace the lost production, and flat (soon to be declining) extraction of oil meets increased demand from around the world, including the increasing energy thirst in China, India and the Middle East.
Anyone who doubts this needs to go off, do some serious research and get back to us.
Yes, it’s just you.
Speculation has driven the price higher than supply and demand would dictate,but that dosn’t make supply and demand meaningless.
Peak oil is a meaningful concept when one is talking about a place like the United States,. which is literally covered with boreholes. So, yeah, we hit outrpeak in 1970, and that could seen by plotting boreholes on a map. Worldwide, the claim is more problematic, because it is based on what geologists know. Even so, exploration in Alaska and off the coasts shows that it drilling had been allowed that we would not have reached this point for another ten years or more. Beyond that, our energy problem is troubling, because we seem to be heading for energy rationing, which would put us in the same place as Europe. I think our elites would like this, because they think that of our growth were less, the world would be a calmer place. Growth limitation fits their world view, because they would not suffer personally. As to the plain folks, let them ride bicycles.
Peak oil is a meaningful concept when one is talking about a place like the United States,. which is literally covered with boreholes. So, yeah, we hit outrpeak in 1970, and that could seen by plotting boreholes on a map. Worldwide, the claim is more problematic, because it is based on what geologists know. Even so, exploration in Alaska and off the coasts shows that it drilling had been allowed that we would not have reached this point for another ten years or more. Beyond that, our energy problem is troubling, because we seem to be heading for energy rationing, which would put us in the same place as Europe. I think our elites would like this, because they think that of our growth were less, the world would be a calmer place. Growth limitation fits their world view, because they would not suffer personally. As to the plain folks, let them ride bicycles.
Fact #2: I have been saying this for over 8 months. No ome would listen to me.
FYI
Fact #8:
Pick the most restrictive or “cleanest” and use it nationwide.
45+++ different blends is just plain nuts. Drivers buy the fuel in one place and by the time they have driven to the bottom of the tank, they are in a completely different place. Driving across country, means that you are using a great number of blends and then “blending” them inside your own gas tank. Sheer stupidity.
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