Yes, I do.
I appreciate your desire to save face, but you can't bluff when your opponent knows as well as you do you're holding a Seven-High poker hand, Tex. I'm simply observing a fact.
Your pride is unchristian, first off. But I'll let God deal with you on that one.
Observations of fact are not expressions of "pride". They're simply observations of fact.
Now as for Alaska, we need to drill there, but there is no way it can solely supply all our crude needs for the hundreds years to come.
"All of our energy problems could have been solved in the 70's with the huge discovery of oil on Gull Island, Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. One of the richest oil fields on earth belongs to the American people. There is more pure grade oil there than in all of Saudi Arabia. Gull Island contains as much oil and natural gas as Americans could use in 200 years. Many, many other oil fields of the same high quality crude exist throughout and around Alaska," according to Williams. -- http://www.infowars.com/gunther.html
Are Mr. Williams estimates correct?
Not being an industry expert, I'm not one to judge.
But I'd certainly be in favor of finding out.
I agree that Alaska needs to be opened up. But try getting that past the Liberals. Did you even see the last Zogby pole on it? You see this is why I say I deal with reality and you don't. You sit there with your "if only", while I understand that to even get a small amount of drilling in Alaska is a tremendous task. There is no other way to go about it. Do you just want to pretend that treehugger liberals don't exist in our nation? Or should we go kill them?
No, my short-sighted "realist" friend. You outmaneuver them.
WASHINGTON (AP) The Teamsters will start airing radio ads this week in favor of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. The campaign aligns the union with the Bush administration and sets it apart from much of organized labor. The 60-second spots will air on radio stations in Pennsylvania and West Virginia this week as the House prepares to vote on the issue and other energy proposals. The ads will cost at least $20,000, said Teamsters spokesman Rob Black.
Pennsylvania and West Virginia were selected because of the impact energy exploration could have on their economies, union officials said. More than 200 businesses in those states are involved in Alaskan petroleum exploration. The ads say that opening the refuge could mean 75,000 new jobs "Good jobs, union jobs" with 40,000 of those in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Environmentalists get slammed for being "so intolerant and excessive" while jobs are being lost and families are hurting. -- www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b6707c9013e.htm
Because you can count on this: if the United States embarks on a serious war of destruction against the oil-rich radical-Islamic states of the world, gas prices are going well over $2.00 a gallon. In a real War, that's probably extremely conservative on my part.
In that "environment", the environmentalists will rightly be seen as the enemies of the US Consumer and of US Labor. We will have another opportunity to renounce our reliance on foreign oil supplies, advocate the full development of our (almost mind-boggling) Alaskan reserves, and split the Left in the process. Don't let your imagined "realism" piss away yet again the opportunity to cut ourselves loose once and for all from the soft economic tyranny of the Oil dictators. Don't continue to blindly swallow the Interventionist line that we "need" the Middle East, so we "must" spend tens of billions a year maintaining an "active presence" in a region which hates us all the more the longer we stay there. These policies are blind, stupid, and counterproductive. Once this War is over, it will be high time for you to swallow your pride, admit your stupidity, and renounce your support of foreign military adventurism which has brought us NOTHING but blood and sorrow. Instead, for the love of your fellow-citizens, have the moral integrity and strength of will to carry the battle home to the political fields of the Unites States, setting our political enemies against eachother in a battle of "Union Jobs versus tundra mold" and build a genuinely self-sufficient energy infrastructure here, in the United States, rather than pretending that by your much-vaunted "realism" we can somehow maintain our Liberty and Security by the machinations of empire-building abroad -- a policy which, in fact, costs us both Liberty and Security, as a "realist" study of the history of the world's Empires would make immediately apparent even to your clouded mind...
...if you're not too blind to see it, that is, a bet on which I would not lay good odds.
As I said: Once this War is over, it will be high time for you to swallow your pride, admit your stupidity, and renounce your support of foreign military adventurism which has brought us NOTHING but blood and sorrow. Have the moral integrity and strength of will to carry the battle home to the political fields of the Unites States, setting our political enemies against eachother in a battle of "Union Jobs versus tundra mold" and build a genuinely self-sufficient energy infrastructure here, in the United States. Do NOT continue to support pissing this opportunity away on foreign wars.
Your asinine presumptions expose your hollow ideals. You are no more than a Monday morning quarterback, of course as a party that will never have power, that is all the LP consists of. In all your posts you have said NOTHING!
There should be no apologies for Iraq. Saddam is an evil that still needs to be defeated. Israel is an ally and we should assist it in it's time of need.
Face it, you have no valid argument, but you wish to assert yourself as an intellectual. You are one sad excuse for a human. And your baseless self amusement in your ability to debate illustrates your sad condition. I feel sorry for you really.
Christian you are not.