Americans Foresee Energy Shortage Within 5 Years

Gallup.com ^ | 3/13/03 | Lydia Saad - Gallup News Service

[NormsRevenge]

Americans have grown a bit more concerned over the past year about the seriousness of the nation's energy situation, and are more likely to predict the country will face a significant energy shortage within 5 years. According to Gallup's annual Environmental Issues survey, updated March 3-5, a higher percentage of Americans today rate the nation's energy situation as "very serious" than did so last March, but this is still well below the level recorded at the height of the 2001 California energy crisis. Gallup finds no change in Americans' policy preferences on energy matters; these tend to favor the positions espoused by environmentalist groups rather than those of the Bush administration, such as opposition to oil drilling in northern Alaska.

[NormsRevenge]

This info was just talked about on the 6 PM news on KTVU . Click the article link for all the graphic details, questions asked, etc.

I guess the fact that we aren't able to drill offshore or in the Arctic doesnt't matter to demRats. They would rather have us held hostage by foreign oil and despots

[sinkspur]

We knew going in the quality of the Polish work wouldn't be quite as good, but the price was much better.

ANWR's important but, ultimately, ANWR's a nit.

Positioned squarely with a new government in Iraq, I've got the feeling that we'll have oil as long as the Middle East has oil.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Americans have grown a bit more concerned over the past year about the seriousness of the nation's energy situation

Why because a poll said so sounds like more created news spews to me.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

You always have the best links for the bump lists.

[CrimeOf73]

The Democrats' solution to the energy shortage, like their solutions to most problems, is social engineering.

They refuse to look at the most obvious solution: America needs to go out and develop new sources of energy, both foreign and domestic.

Instead, they believe the US population must be manipulated and engineered to achieve an outcome the Democrats deem acceptable. They think Americans should be required to adjust their behavior so that the Democratic party can score political points with the consituents it fished out of the environmental loony bin.

[NormsRevenge]

seamole - Ask the "Obstructionist" demRats that question. Their full-out frontal assault on Amercia and all it stands for is on.. THis is just one more battle that is ragin' over the future of America and will she become a follower of Marx or stay the course with the Constitution.

ANWR is very close to going over the top per some other articles posted earlier.

Atomic Punk.. Why the concern? .. 2 words or is it one? Pocket book

[Interesting Times]

Let's see... the leftist media shrieks that we're running out of energy and the sky is falling. The 98% of the population who know nothing about the topic gradually absorb this, and over time it becomes their default assumption. Then pollsters elicit this useless opinion and trumpet it as though it was evidence.

And there you have it -- the great Circle of Spin, hermetically sealed from any actual information about the topic at hand.

[Dr Warmoose]

Let me get this straight. So barely literate cretins read some script off a computer screen to some barely literate cretins who are foolish enough not to screen their calls nor able to tell the stranger to bug off, are those who we seek as some great oracle or fountain of Truth.

From this great pool of wisdom and knowledge comes policy.

Sounds good to me. Tell the scoundrels in DC who regularly toss billions of dollars towards parties who waste the money on lengthy and redundant studies on the mating habits of college students or dispersal patterns of farts passed in elevators and instead underwrite the nitwits who ask 1,500 randomly selected people who answer calls that caller ID registers as "Out of Area".

Forget elections! Screw the UN! Disband Congress! Just enumerate and blindly follow the Solomon like wisdom of those 1,500 randomly selected people and we can have a thousand years of peace and prosperity.

[Willie Green]

Positioned squarely with a new government in Iraq, I've got the feeling that we'll have oil as long as the Middle East has oil.

They used to say that when the Shah of Iran was in power.

[sinkspur]

They used to say that when the Shah of Iran was in power.

We didn't have C-130s in Iran when the Shah was in power.

[NormsRevenge]

Ok..OK..You guys win.. Excuse me for posting this ..It's obvious it is total rubbish and we should all just hop back on our cars and trucks and drive merrily down the road.

BTW, MY cheapest gas in my neighbor hood is $2.10 for unleaded.

They also showed a demonstration by a bunch of Soccer moms in San Francisco who are protesting for higher fuel mileage standards/efficiency. Then they puled DiFi's puss into it to drive the point home, whatever the hell the point was.

PS .. I don't normally post poll info, but Hey .. Make of it what you will.

[Interesting Times]

Now don't go all wobbly on us.

The natural assumption is that you posted this as a courtesy, so we could practice honing our invective.

And I for one am grateful.

[Willie Green]

We didn't have C-130s in Iran when the Shah was in power.

The first C-130s were delivered to the military in December of '56, stinky. (Source)
It's likely that a few of them were somewhere in the Shah's neighborhood.

[NormsRevenge]

Damn, Why don;t ya go over on Willie Green's threads and work out then ;-)

My skin is so thick after trying to Push Bill Simon into Sacramento anyway, it took 3 of ya gang tackling me before I flinched. :-) No harm, No foul.

[NormsRevenge]

I don't know which I hated worse .. Flying in a C130 or a CH53..You couldn't get me on a CH46.

[plusone]

Even a natural doom-and-gloomer like myself can't get too worked up over the threats in this article. The cost to pump oil from Arabia is only a buck or two per barrel. What is going on now at the pump is either short term gouging by the big oil corps, because they can get away with it, or some short term supply problems. If you check the futures market for oil, you will see that only the immediate contracts are spiking. The contracts a year or two out are still in the mid 20's, at least the last time I checked. This indicates that the price of gas will drop back once this war is past us. There is an old saying 'the cure for high prices...is high prices."

[sinkspur]

It's likely that a few of them were somewhere in the Shah's neighborhood.

Willie, irony goes right over your head.

The point is, of course, that the US military will have a presence in the Middle East unlike any it's had before.

Iran will collapse from within, and the little moussed-up gook who runs North Korea thinks rattling the sabre will get him a cup of rice.

[Interesting Times]

Damn, Why don;t ya go over on Willie Green's threads and work out then ;-)

Nah. No challenge...