Replies

President Bush mentioned the Oil shale Field in Colorado , Utah and Wyoming this morning in his request to Congress to open up restricted areas off shore and in Alaska for Oil exploration.

FR Thread

Bush: Lift ban on offshore drilling (Pelosi, where's the lower gas prices you promised?)

All these things should have been put in place during at worst time wise, George Herbert Bush's time in office.
The dikes have burst, now it is to late.
Many of us do not seem to understand that at best if all where to go with out hitches, we are many years away from having the ability to extract all the estimated oil/gas reserves mentioned in the major areas discussed. And it takes hundreds of billions of dollars and a number of years to build up sufficient refinery capacities to properly convert these mineral resources into all the things, lubricants, fuel oils, jet fuels, gasoline, petrochemical stocks etc., to turn the tide.
As for nuclear and clean coal liquidification processes, same goes. It just royally pisses me off.
As for those that would say we have those other natural resources such as wind, solar, geothermal. Well fine. But they in past years where nowhere near close to even a partial solution on a national scale. Fine for geographically blessed areas, but not nation wide.
IMHO the big push for corn based ethanol to replace gasoline is a prime example of how stupid for the most part our leadership really are.
There where sufficient studies that made it clear that this path would not be sufficient to offset our growing need for gasoline from a transportation standpoint.
Only in the past year or so, do we now get people telling the morons on the hill etc., that the cheap fix was a big mistake.
About the only thing I see positive is the fact that just perhaps the environmentalist may soon become less effective at pushing their agendas. We see a few Senators and HR Reps making public statements during their open sessions of energy that the blame can be laid on these groups. But of course the blame must be placed on all the dopes in these two houses that allowed themselves to be conned over the years.