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.
...square acres...??
And you will be contributing to the election of Obama the antichrist who is going to ruin our country. At least with McCain we will have a chance to get out of this energy mess. Obama is not for any oil exploration. Hes a chump.Just like you if you vote 3rd party.
Obama wants us down to the same living conditions as his Muslim desert dweller friends undergo.
The whole thinking behind not going into areas that are "pristine" is ridiculous. ANWR is just the latest example of this nonsensical thought. What if all our oil and natural gas had been in so-called pristine areas? What then? If radical environmentalists had the same control in the 1800s as they do now, we would never have drilled for oil or n-gas anywhere.
You drill where there's substantial resources: pristine areas or no pristine areas. And yes, that means the Grand Canyon if it has substantial resources. Not to do so is insanity.
It’s a communist plot to economically strangle us. Drill the communists, then drill for oil.
Yes, square acres. ANWR is about the size of Great Britain but the proposed drilling site is about half the size of Manhatten. I think square acres is an appropriate scale to use.
Oil is one of those issues that prove you cannot be thinking very much and still be a Liberal. Liberals don’t want us to fight for oil; they don’t want us to refine oil; they don’t want us to build oil refineries; they don’t want us to build nuclear power plants as an alternative to help lower oil consumption; they don’t want wind power because it bothers birds, and they especially don’t want it near the Kennedy’s view; they don’t want oil companies to profit as much as other businesses, and on and on. They’ve no idea how supply and demand impacts prices. And they like to tell us how smart they are.
There's a big diff in opposing something when oil is at $30 a barrel vs $130..and climbing.
If McCain has the b@lls to keep elaborating on the above sentence, he'll win in a landslide.
My Energy Manifesto:
* Cease all ethanol production. It takes away from food production and the unintended consequence is higher food costs. As diesel prices go up, the cost of farming tips the balance of cost to make ethanol a bad idea. Just say "no" to ethanol! Even Jimmy Carter says that diverting farm production from food to fuel is dumb – even HE gets it. This will create only ONE "blend" of gasoline and will cease regional "boutique" blends (gasohols) which are stupid, costly, and meaningless. Trucking custom blends around the country is wasteful. Ethanol blends may actually lead to fewer miles to the gallon, and adds to the cost of production and transportation. Newer cars do not need oxygenated fuels.
* Lift the restrictions in order to drill for oil in Alaska, Gulf of Mexico, and other sites in the CONUS as a matter of national security.
* Encourage the petro industry to construct state-of-the-art refineries and/or retrofit current and dormant ones and crank up production for our newly-accessed oil in the CONUS.
* Make all “carbon credit” scams unlawful. Discrediting Algore should have been a slam-dunk a long time ago. Stop electing Reps who buy into the Global Warming / Global Cooling / Climate Change Hoax. CO2 is not our enemy!
* Construct SEVERAL, regional Pebble-Bed Modular Reactors (or other similar modern designs) that are rechargeable, and cleaner than any current nuclear generator design. Refine spent nuke fuel for recycling. DO SOMETHING NUCLEAR to resolve energy problems.
* Use the residual heat from the reactors above to process motor fuel from coal and/or shale. Even though Clinton "stole" some of the best coal reserves, we still have a lot to use.
* Become independent enough to make the cartels (i.e. OPEC) inconsequential.
* Convince local taxing bodies to lift or cap the sales tax on gasoline so that as gas prices go up, the local tax collectors don’t see a windfall revenue jump at the expense of the consumer. The Federal government could compel the states (and locals) to cap the fuel taxes.
If you squint real hard, and read between the lines, the ‘manifesto’ will require fewer RINOs and LibDems and the election of some clear-minded conservatives to even consider the above.
So what do you base your belief on that McCain can win New York....AND, do you realize how the electoral college works in Presidential elections?
The democrats cry that Republicans are a “one trick pony show” but they themselves are know only one-solution: tax, tax, tax the people. THey have NO CHANGE for our FUTURE in mind and NO SPECIFIC PLANS AT ALL for making us an energy efficient society. I’m sick of other people trying to ram down our throats their environmental crap when it is solely based on their liberal biased thinking which disregards truth as stated from the Bible.
I heard someone say, The Demoncrats do not know what the question is but they already know the answer. A new Government program and raise taxes.
There is no such measure as “square aces”. Acres already rrpresent an area.
At this point I have no idea who's right. Both articles contain the same basic figures about reserves and usage. But the interpretations are very, very different.
I'm on it...and I hope others will chose to do the research as well.
You’re calling one of the preeminent minds a “jackass” because you don’t understand him???? Your credentials are?
Advocating higher taxes and government manipulation of prices in an effort to socially engineer the behavior of taxpayers, as Mr. Krauthammer did, is no way to solve a problem, unless you're a left wing Socialist. And, at such a time as this, it's a dick move on his part...that's equally as bad as anything the greens have dished up so far.
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