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Charles Krauthammer: The oil we just can't have
The Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune ^ | June 20, 2008 | Charles Krauthammer

Posted on 06/20/2008 8:21:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: redhead

“At what point did we begin to cut our own production in the seventies, and why? “

In my opinion, the cut in production, the attack on private property and the rise of Marxism disguised as so-called “environmentalism” began with passage of the Endangered Species Act and the creation of the EPA. Numerous congressmen warned that both would be used to destroy free enterprise by giving government de facto control of private property by unelected bureaucrats and their puppet masters in the fascist environmental movement.

The warning has been proved true.

Thank the simpleton and traitorous RINO Dick Nixon - much worse than the disaster Jimmy Carter - and his Marxist rat buddies in congress in 1973.


41 posted on 06/21/2008 5:28:37 AM PDT by sergeantdave (We are entering the Age of the Idiot)
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To: Viking2002

“Let me chum the conspiracy theorist waters with two words: Gull Island.
Google it.”

O.K. - I found it. Now, what about it?


42 posted on 06/21/2008 6:09:36 AM PDT by RoadTest ( Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. But he spake of the temple of his body.)
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To: 353FMG


“Sadly..IMHO..it is oil..not love that makes the world go round.”

You’re wrong on both accounts — it is greed that makes the world go around.”

Love made the world, greed stole it and love will take it back. (God is love).


43 posted on 06/21/2008 6:11:09 AM PDT by RoadTest ( Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. But he spake of the temple of his body.)
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To: Impy
Threaten the Sultan with supporting the Jihadists who want him dead unless he up productions and lowers prices.

OPEC is producing enough to meet demand. That's not the problem.
44 posted on 06/21/2008 8:50:35 AM PDT by Terpfen (Romney's loss in Florida is STILL a catastrophe. Hello, McCandidate!)
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To: sergeantdave

Thank you. This makes a lot of sense. I wasn’t too politically “engaged” during that period, so I don’t recall a lot about the decisions that eventually came back to bite us all in the but—tocks.


45 posted on 06/21/2008 9:16:23 AM PDT by redhead (B-I-NGO...B-I-NGO.....)
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To: redhead
WHY we have to import our oil?

First of all, the peak of domestic American petroleum production was seen coming about twenty years after WW II was concluded and somebody could look at something other than the war. $10 billion was freed up by Congress in 1948 to begin coal to liquid plants, but the massive availability of cheap foreign oil caused that project to be shelved. So here we are post peak in America and no coal to liquid plants.

46 posted on 06/21/2008 9:23:52 AM PDT by RightWhale (I will veto each and every beer)
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To: RightWhale

“Peak Oil” isn’t here yet. We’re floating on an ocean of oil..all we have to do is drill for it.


47 posted on 06/21/2008 9:56:56 AM PDT by Mogollon
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To: Mogollon

This is Peak Oil now. This is what Peak Oil is like.


48 posted on 06/21/2008 10:02:19 AM PDT by RightWhale (I will veto each and every beer)
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To: sergeantdave
Spot on ... but guilt of a seamy president works for us too, as in the sexual degenerate clinton not vetoing the welfare reform bills, etc. when he was in the midst of his exposures coming out soon (and he knew it in advance). The really dangerous presidents are those like Johnson, who set out to enslave black people to a welfare system so they would be dependent upon democrap power for their lives!
49 posted on 06/21/2008 12:36:11 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
bumper-sticker
 
 

Contact your Congress critters to let them know that you are tired of high gas prices.

U. S. Senate

U. S. House of Representatives

50 posted on 06/21/2008 12:41:20 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Excellent article!


51 posted on 06/21/2008 10:49:25 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather (DRILL HERE-DRILL NOW-PAY LESS)
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To: RoadTest
'O.K. - I found it. Now, what about it?'

I can only lead a horse to water, folks, not drink it for him, too.....LOL


52 posted on 06/22/2008 3:10:48 PM PDT by Viking2002 (Barak and Michelle: The Sheik and The Freak.)
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