Posted on 06/20/2008 6:18:29 AM PDT by Tolik
Gas is $4 a gallon. Oil is $135 a barrel and rising. We import two-thirds of our oil, sending hundreds of billions of dollars to the likes of Russia, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. And yet we voluntarily prohibit ourselves from even exploring huge domestic reserves of petroleum and natural gas.
“...we voluntarily prohibit ourselves from even exploring huge domestic reserves of petroleum and natural gas.”
It’s really too much! If we want grain, lumber or steel we don’t go begging. Why should oil be any different?
I’m in NY, McCain has no chance, I’ll vote for third party candidates.
‘environmental imperialism’
great line!
Time for actual conservatives to get off the bashing bandwagon and let Sen. McCain's people know what Americans desire in the energy policies.
What a jackass.
I read this on another thread..... If I was starving, and there was a field of beans down the road, and I could pick all I want for free, but just before I left to pick, a government man showed up at my door and said “ Don’t go there, you cannot pick you way out of this”, I would punch him in the face and go pick some beans....maybe it is time for this tactic...
Thanks for the ping!
If you were starving, forget those beans.
Some liberal would put an excise tax on those beans, buy them for himself using his own consultant company funded with govt grant money, serve them at his daughter’s wedding, and tell you to seek alternative food. And get another govt grant for his company to publish a pamphlet on grass recipes.
It's time! In fact it has been past time ... for decades.
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE
No one should be surprised that Obama jumped on this. But the article nails it...McCain needs to go all the way and open up ANWR. Indeed, his opposition to this is one of the largest stumbling blocks to my support for him (like he cares).
Another good point is that we're talking an area measured in tens of thousands of square miles but drilling in only a few hundred square acres.
Finally, what would it hurt to use these few acres when millions remained unchanged? How many of you are planning vacation trips north of the Arctic Circle to visit mosquitoes big enough to have FAA numbers painted on their sides. Other than a few caribou (which you can see much easier at other, less remote, sites), what's the big attraction of a "pristine area" that's so remote no one in their right mind would go there? Even if you wanted to go, simply alter your destination a few miles in another direction and you can fight the caribou and mosquitoes to your heart's desire in perfectly pristine conditions.
Personally, I don't care if these few hundred acres look like Newark on a bad day, the social benefits to drilling far outweigh even the worst-case scenario the tree huggers can dream up.
McCain is simply wrong about ANWR and he needs to hear the wake up call from the 87% of Americans who would like to see him do what's right rather than what a minority of lefties want.
He might be right or wrong on the taxing cheap oil (when it was cheap), but jackass he is not. He supported his view with arguments, you did not.
To summarize his point in my own words: taxing an economic activity is the most strait forward way to make an effect on it. Better than any other convoluted way to improve energy efficiency, that has proven to be not effective, but costly anyway. And not just costly, but hidden from public view. Plus, a part of his plan was to return the taxed away money in a form of lowering income tax.
Now, I am not convinced by this argument, and would prefer the markets work unobstructed. But it is a valid argument.
Abolish the gas tax.
Threaten the Sultan with supporting the Jihadists who want him dead unless he up productions and lowers prices.
Confiscate the driver’s license of anyone who supports to global warming mythos and ban them from taxis and livery services. Most of congress will be forced to take the bus.
Urge scientists to hurry up with the magical clean cheap energy thing.
Anytime.
Charles Krauthammer bump.
Great post, Tolik. Thanks.
He was, at least, proposing a corresponding decrease in income taxes.
I hope someone from Senator McCain’s campaign is monitoring this thread. IMHO, the Drill Here Now theme should be complimented by the theme of MORE GREAT PAYING JOBS HERE NOW IN THE ENERGY INDUSTRY. When we drill on American soil, mine coal, process shale oil, or convert coal to diesel the jobs are created HERE. Instead of enriching OPECKERS we enrich our own workers, companies, and government. We should be EXPORTING ENERGY and hyrocarbon products to meet growing world demand. The environmental movement has not stopped world demand for hydrocarbons; they have just hamstrung America’s economy.
The Libs have figured this out.
I just re-read the editorial he wrote 2 weeks ago and I think you may have missed the point, which is things will change when it becomes the economically wise thing to do. I think Krauthammer is on the money here. Again.
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