Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 06/13/2008 6:58:46 AM PDT by K-oneTexas
Quoting later, thanks.
That's *if* you return. If the cold and snow doesn't get you, the polar bears will, and I assure you, the bears are not as helpless as the greens' PR machine makes them out to be.
Can I neuter them with my .45 ?
My advice to ConocoPhillips in IL and Chevron in CA - close down your facilities, and explain why you’re doing so.
BTTT
Do you really believe that if more drilling were authorized, refinery capacity would remain the same?
No, but it wouldn't expand any faster either.
Existing refineries are already expanding as rapidly as the greens will permit. New refineries are being attempted and thwarted.
Please explain how US refining capacity would increase any faster with more crude on the market? Should we assume it would happen by magic?
I'm all for more domestic crude production, don't get me wrong. But it wouldn't do much to the consumer price of fuel when all our refineries are running at 95-100% of capacity.
Other countries are expanding their refining capacity where we cannot, so the US market will be importing not only foreign oil, but more and more foreign gasoline and Diesel fuel in the coming years.
The envirowackos will ensure that the USA remains dependent on imported energy, one way or another.
http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2008/06/04/news/top/4e608d46402d5adb8625745e00110beb.txt
ELK POINT, S.D. -- Flashing a smile, Joyce Bortscheller briefly hugged Hyperion Energy Center executive Preston Phillips as she greeted him in the backyard of her home here.
Bortscheller, president of the Elk Point City Council, had invited about 250 supporters to an outdoor barbecue Tuesday to await the returns for arguably the most important election in Union County's history. The big crowd didn't leave disappointed.
As midnight approached, they popped the champagne corks, celebrating a hard-fought victory that keeps alive the county's chances of landing the nation's first all-new oil refinery in 32 years.
By a solid 58 percent to 42 percent margin, county voters approved Hyperion's request to rezone 3,292 acres of farm land for a new classification, Energy Center Planned Development.
"What happened tonight, we were not supposed to be able to do," Phillips told a cheering audience. "Development projects like this are supposed to be outright rejected by residents and neighbors. But this project is a testament to our balancing the needs for growth and for protecting the environment."
At stake was billions of dollars in capital investment and thousands of high-paying jobs. From the beginning, Hyperion executives said they would abandon its Union County site, just north of Elk Point, if a majority of voters failed to give their blessing to the rezoning.
While conceding defeat, opponents vowed to keep fighting the controversial project on every imaginable front, pressing on with a lawsuit it filed against the county over the zoning procedures and opposing Hyperion as it applies for a bevy of state and federal permits.
"We have strategies in place to slow or delay all the permit processes," Ed Cable, chairman of the anti-Hyperion group Save Union County, said after the vote.
1976.
Kudos to Ed Cable, a great Union County patriot.
/sarc
Very well said!!! Bravo!!! Encore!!!
Ed Cable may want to be careful—he may end up at the end of a rope tied to a high branch in a tall pine tree!
Don’t be silly. If there’s going to be new drilling, there will be subsequent new refineries built as well.
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