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US to open 3.9m acres in Alaska for drilling
Financial Times ^ | July 16, 2008 | Sheila McNulty

Posted on 07/16/2008 7:18:15 PM PDT by bobsunshine

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To: BOBTHENAILER

“Is it a DMV requirement to have an Obama Sticker on a Volvo, old or newer models?”

I mentioned this observation to my Trophy Wife over the weekend.

She as usual laughed at me until she started seeing this reality. Yesterday afternoon was our errand day. In the parking lot of our library, we saw 3 Volvos with the Obama Sticker on the rear bumper. She said there are at least two in the parking lot of the building where she works when she pulls into the lot before the offices open.

The Subaru drivers out here usually have some eco sticker from Save the Whales to Keep Tahoe Green with a kayak or two on top of the dirty Subaru.

The liberal owned cars, I love, are the ones with Gore/Lieberman stickers and Kerry/Edwards stickers still on their cars. I asked them where their 3 time loser sticker is, the Obama sticker.
Interesting some have actually said there will not be one.


181 posted on 07/17/2008 8:09:47 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (America's Mugabe, the Obamination.will bring Mugabe Change to America!)
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To: Jedidah
Bush has been trying to get the lily-livered Congress to drill for more oil since he first took office, but the comfort of cute little caribou won the public heart.

The caribou are now starring on YouTube: The Truth About ANWR

182 posted on 07/17/2008 8:10:46 AM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: N. Theknow
How many on this thread thought it meant ANWR?

What else can you expect from these stupid journalists? I have read 4 articles on this subject and not one of them mentions ANWR or puts in geographic and ecologic perspective this decision with respect to all the earlier discussions on opening ANWR.

I have had to spend time doing the geographic research myself to see what this decision means.

However, had this been 9 people killed in Iraq, we would have gotten the exact GPS coordinates, pictures of the wounds and a matematical disertation boiling down to 4550 + 9 = 4559.

183 posted on 07/17/2008 8:16:48 AM PDT by mwilli20 (Don't let them reformulate it, call it "Global Warming"!)
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To: bobsunshine

So Bush sat on this for 7.5 years. Great.

We’d be in less of a pickle if he’d acted on this 7.5 years ago.


184 posted on 07/17/2008 8:24:37 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Bernanke is a Monetary Slut!)
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To: K-oneTexas

The judge doesn’t have any army divisions.


185 posted on 07/17/2008 8:31:52 AM PDT by GOPologist (Illigitimi non carborundum.)
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To: Jedidah
Good grief. Settle down. Bush has never “restricted the production of oil,” as you say.
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If you wish to have a dialog with me it will hehove you to get the facts straight. I think a brief review of my reply will reveal that I said “the government” restricted the production of oil. Here again I am having a slight problem in understand the rational. Sorry but I do not accept your “no pain, no gain” approach to life. I go for less government not more.

186 posted on 07/17/2008 8:40:44 AM PDT by CHEE (Stink, Steam and All)
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To: bobsunshine

Out standing news.
I really believe that it was from support garnered from places like this that helped considerably.


187 posted on 07/17/2008 8:55:54 AM PDT by Munz (Infiltrate Interrogate Eradicate NEXT!)
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To: bobsunshine

last 133.63

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188 posted on 07/17/2008 9:19:50 AM PDT by Clint N. Suhks
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To: Grampa Dave

Interesting some have actually said there will not be one.

Interesting indeed. Tired of licking their wounds, most probably.


189 posted on 07/17/2008 9:32:58 AM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
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To: ken21

“the democrats say that drilling will not result in immediate reductions in gasoline”

And had the Rats not blocked Bush’s energy plans back in his first Term we would be pumping new oil today. This point needs to be driven home every day.


190 posted on 07/17/2008 9:39:21 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: bobsunshine

.....but somehow I don’t think this applies to ANWR.


191 posted on 07/17/2008 10:12:09 AM PDT by ElectricStrawberry (27th Infantry Regiment...cut in half during the Clinton years.)
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To: bobsunshine
REALLY???

OMG this is not a spoof site article...have to look at source.

192 posted on 07/17/2008 10:22:16 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (Some days it is not worth chewing through the restraints.)
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To: Grampa Dave
"Is it a DMV requirement to have an Obama Sticker on a Volvo, old or newer models?"

Yes! Only the older models with the slotted headrests. Those were designed to accomodate radical Commonist dope smokin Hippies so's their stupid maggot infested ponytail hairdos wouldn't be inconvenienced!!!

193 posted on 07/17/2008 10:39:12 AM PDT by SierraWasp (I'm not against the environment, just GovernMental EnvironMentalism!!! (our new state religion))
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To: SierraWasp

Actually we are seeing more Obama stickers on the newer expensive Volvos.

My wife commented yesterday, unlike most older Volvos with more stickers than paint showing, these new Volvos have one Obama sticker and nothing else except maybe a professor’s parking permit for the local community college, UC Davis or one of the Frisco Area Universities.


194 posted on 07/17/2008 10:44:33 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (America's Mugabe, the Obamination.will bring Mugabe Change to America!)
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To: bobsunshine

Well, stune my beeber with a spork weasel.

Miracles do happen...


195 posted on 07/17/2008 10:46:57 AM PDT by Danae (A Taxpayer voting for Obama is like a Chicken voting for Colonel Sanders)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra; All

“offset drilling...can cover a much larger area underground.”

I joked about drilling sideways into ANWR. Someone answered that it was too far away as sideways drilling could only go about 8 miles. Another person said that BP is working on drilling 44 miles sideways. Is this the project your uncle helped develop? If not, how far can his techniques drill, and what company was it for?


196 posted on 07/17/2008 10:50:20 AM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: Scotswife; All

“Bears use the pipelines like a highway...”

If it is winter, why aren’t these bears hibernating? Could this picture have been photoshopped?


197 posted on 07/17/2008 10:54:32 AM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin

” Is this the project your uncle helped develop? If not, how far can his techniques drill, and what company was it for?”
Uncle Dan is now 84, and has been retired for a long time. Back before the cheap mideast oil boom, he lived in Midland, Tx. I don’t recall the company. Due to mideast oil, many, many Americans lost their oil-related jobs here. He went on to become a private consultant. He did work for the government on one of the earliest geo-thermal projects, near Yellowstone. That’s where, and when, they really got serious about offset drilling. Must of been about 30 or so years ago. Lots of progress since then!


198 posted on 07/17/2008 11:00:40 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: Danae; All

Please define “stune”, “beeber”, and “spork weasel.” Inquiring minds want to know in case we want to use this colorful phrase ourselves.


199 posted on 07/17/2008 11:09:16 AM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin
Not photoshopped. I've seen a 3 foot version of it on the wall in Deadhorse Airport in Prudhoe Bay.

A bear that tried to sleep through the entire season of snow on the Alaska North Slope would starve to death trying to hibernate for 9 months or more.

200 posted on 07/17/2008 11:10:35 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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