Posted on 09/03/2013 9:56:33 AM PDT by jazusamo
Furthermore, we’d be in a much stronger position militarily in the ME.
I say the H*** with the oil countries in the ME. We have more than enough oil already located and ready to be drilled that would last us for more than 100 years. And there’s more than that waiting to be discovered. We should be exporting oil to the rest of the world. Same with coal.
I agree with you on the hypocrites, fools and liars. Sensenbrenner has skated on his “conservative” credentials far too long.
Don’t worry, they’re going to be. I will play my part. I absolutely don’t give a good sh*t anymore. Let them get their votes from the left’s pet constituencies.
Amen to that...The VRA is outdated and has been for many years, it’s been a tool for both political parties and should die a quick death.
Sensebrenner has been disappointing lately. Too much time in the DC swamp has muddled his brain.
I have to add that the policy of “use up everybody else’s oil first” was probably formed when people believed in the concept of “peak oil”. Recent discoveries, improved geological mapping, and new methods of recovery have long since put that myth to bed. It is the policies of DC that are keeping the price of gas so high. No new refineries and no leases granted have curtailed production. Plus the stalling on the Canadian pipeline.
High energy costs affect every single person in the US and every business in the US with higher prices for gasoline, food, plastics, electricity, and fewer jobs, etc.
We agree.
However, I doubt the “keep our oil in the ground for 20 years” had a thing to do with *peak oil*. It has to do with who benefits from any given policy.
Our government is owned by big money interests. They donate to both *sides*. They all sit on the same BODs. They keep us distracted with parties and elections and whatever else they can keep in the media spotlight to distract us from the political and economic realities.
When the empowered enemies of the USA strike on American soil, no one from either party will care, as long as they, themselves are either protected or perceive a personal benefit. And they really don’t give a rip about each other, either. No matter what they prate on about, they each are out for themselves, alone.
No amount of logic or truth or reality will change them. When, God forbid, some SHTF, they will be fighting among themselves over the remnants, setting up their own fiefdoms, vying to become warlords.
I am just so disgusted with it all that after a while, words just don’t convey the depth of my revulsion.
Agreed. But it allows the arrogant ruling class to strike fear into the hearts of common men. Common men think that oil is being epleted. They don’t understand that it is being processed by the earth every day. That is the fault of our schools.
My husband was an engineer in oil related businesses for more than 20 years, inventing and building machinery used in off shore oil drilling in the North Sea. He says that when you drill a well, first rich peat comes up from the bottom of the hole, then gas, and finally oil. The peat is gradully being reduced to oil. It is a process that has been ongoing for millions of years. We are NOT depleting it.
Add to that the fact that processes have been developed to extract oil from shale (that was only a dream 30 years ago) and the ocean floor has been mapped with a sonar-like technology to show the locations of the deposits. No longer are drillers punching holes just any place. They already know where the oil is.
My husband says that the problem with Congress is that most of them have never had a college level science course. They are all lawyers.
for later
“We should all be calling and emailing our reps and telling them we don’t want Section 4 of the Voting Rights act that was shot down by SCOTUS to be rewritten by Congress”
No we should be calling for a national strike, and we should not return to work until Obamacare is repealed, spending cuts in place, an immigration reform dead.......
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