They also like to calve under the pipes to take advantage of the warmth coming from them. As a result, caribou numbers have increased.
Oh, and the bears use the pipe lines like their private highway - they love it because it's warm on their toes.
Posted on 06/21/2008 6:36:16 PM PDT by FocusNexus
After taking the body blows of higher energy prices, Americans seem more willing than ever to fight back with bold initiatives. For example, just over three-quarters (76 percent) support immediately increasing oil drilling in the United States - a position recently espoused by presumptive Republican nominee John McCain. More than seven in 10 Democrats (71 percent) also hold this view.
A slim majority (53 percent) supports drilling in a small area of the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge - up 5 percentage points since March 2006. Support also has risen over that same period for drilling in the Gulf of Mexico - 77 percent today, up from 68 percent.
And nuclear power - another McCain energy plank - seems to be enjoying a resurgence of popularity as well. By a 51 percent to 41 percent margin, Americans favor building more nuclear power plants than the 100 or so that already exist - a 4-point increase in support over the last two-plus years.
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Washington doesn’t have off shore oil, that I know of. California is a lost cause, the illegals will take it over eventually, anyway.
Develop alternatives, but in the name of God, please:
GO GET THE OIL WE HAVE...NOW!!!!!
We’ve not got any more time to waste on political posturing.
There is a migratation pattern, Blue State to Red State, that exists. It has everything to do with economic growth. Of the top ten states for economic growth, EIGHT are Red States. If the choice is given to the states and Red States drill -this is not good thing for high minded non-drilling Blue States.
BTW, I live in NY, the only thing we drill down on is the taxpayer.
Take a chill pill already
They also like to calve under the pipes to take advantage of the warmth coming from them. As a result, caribou numbers have increased.
Oh, and the bears use the pipe lines like their private highway - they love it because it's warm on their toes.
Interesting article about how we could and should use France as a model for nuclear energy (nuclear power supplies 80% of their energy needs.)
France: Vive Les Nukes
Steve Kroft On How France Is Becoming The Model For Nuclear Energy Generation
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/06/60minutes/main2655782.shtml
When much of the world spurned nuclear power, 30 years ago, the French, being French, decided to go their own way and embrace it. Paris, the “City of Light,” is lit by nuclear energy, which powers just about everything else in France: its homes, its factories, even its high speed railroads.
Nearly 80 percent of the country’s electricity comes from 58 nuclear power plants, crammed into a country the size of Texas. Pierre Gadonniex, the head “Electricite de France,” the country’s national utility says it all began with a French obsession for energy independence.
“In France, we have nearly no coal. We have no oil. So clearly, nuclear appeared to be the best way,” Gadonniex explains. “And 30 years later, it appears to be a very smart decision.”
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Americans, he says, tend to forget that there are 103 nuclear plants operating in the United States, that have produced 20 percent of the nation’s electricity without major incident in the 28 years since Three Mile Island.
“And in fact, they have an outstanding record. There has never been a radiation-related death in the commercial nuclear sector in the United States, ever,” Sell points out.
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For decades, Americans have stored their radioactive waste on-site at power plants, awaiting a permanent solution, the Yucca Mountain Repository in Nevada. It’s years behind schedule, will cost $30 billion to open, and is already too small to hold all the waste. The French have taken another approach to the problem.
While the United States decided to store its nuclear waste, the French embraced the idea of reprocessing it. Instead of burying the spent fuel rods underground or underwater, they decided to build a massive plant on the coast of Normandy and recycle the used fuel and reuse it.
I'n please...
And yet these same Democrats will vote to increase the majority in Congress that will NOT open any more areas for drilling. They'll also vote for "Pool Boy" Obomba.
Maybe someone else has answered this, but McCain proposed allowing states to decide if they want drilling off their shores. He’s still stuck on no ANWR drilling. So he’s changed in that one aspect involving offshore drilling, not changed in regard to ANWR drilling.
Alaska is something like 20% of the entire US land mass. It’s five times the size of California, and 2.5 times larger than Texas.
Why the HELL is it just 76%???? What’s with the others??? Dumbasses.
Get your membership card early - oh, you may already have one...
But, what about the 76% who want CHANGE? LOL!
I met a woman at a business conference from the northern part of NY, who told me that she as a natural gas well on her property that she uses to heat and cook, etc. She said that most of her neighbors do the same.
With all due respect, your statement is entirely false. McCain’s position has changed with the dramatic increase in gas prices.
It’s a common sense move, not a phony one.
“I think ‘Drilling’ is Dems Archilles Heel!”
I agree, and I can’t help but wonder about the Saudi’s strategy in announcing a policy for increased production, given the context of the presidential election.
"Flea" might be overstating it
And it's located just 80 miles or so east of the existing Trans-Alaska pipeline. So you just need to construct a short leg on the pipeline to deliver the oil
“Coal is plentiful and cheap. I don’t see it as dangerous at all, other than any industrial activity with large equipment, weights, pressures is so.
We live in ten times cleaner environment than man has ever lived. Affordable domestic energy saves lives. Pneumonia, high cost of energy and thus people living in sub standard housing, using extension heaters, using kerosene heaters in doors, many people lighting the gas stove for a bit. In rural areas, wood stoves.
Coal fired generation plants with modern scrubbers delivering electric heat is clean, and could be well cheaper.”
You make some excellent points, and, of course, I would support using coal as a last resort, rather than have folks freeze to death in their own homes.
But I would like to use (and train people) nuclear energy, drilling & building more refineries FIRST, because they are safer, and more healthful, than coal for the workers.
By some estimations almost 3% of the coal miners get Black Lung disease, and dying way underground in a coal mine as too many have (including recent history), must be an awful way to die, and in their prime of life, leaving behind their wives and children.
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