Posted on 04/09/2003 9:05:39 PM PDT by An.American.Expatriate
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Please, don't flatter yourself. I saw my name and responded. Perhaps you should back off and let the issue die,
For someone who complained that they did not find much interaction when they posted, you sure have some replies to you now, don't you?
I did not complain about interaction...I said that this thread developed into a 'chat' thread.
It's a shame you had to pick a few ladies to personally attack to get some reaction to your "contributions" to this thread.(by the way, personal attacks are aganst the rules???)
Personal attacks????
I am particularly offended with your treatment of Soldiersgirl.
Solidergirl said I failed to understand...I responded...why are you offended?
Me, I could care less what you have posted to me. I think eventually you will offend enough people, and they will not reply to you at all.
Thank you for being open minded....
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As you said, we are free. I never said you can't say it. Just advised on how it appears.
And I might say, invoking my name without flagging me, is, well, I was surprised to see it.
Live reports are more than Freepers sexual fantasies.
pardon me, but I think you are having some serious inabilities to correctly read a post. I have had enough of your negativity for this evening and refuse to feed into you any longer.
I am not having trouble reading posts. I am not the only person who has brought this topic up. I have not 'demanded' that people post according to my will...That's nonsense. I merely questioned why the nonsense on this board wasn't moved to chat!!
I have no idea. But the deflection response would be "it's however many barrels the US would use in a 6-month period of time."
My turn: Do you have information to refute the 6-month supply issue? If so, please direct me to it... I am happy to be proven wrong.
Let's throw out some ideas for the MONUMENT that we'd love to see erected in the traffic circle. (Realizing it will be the Iraqi people themselves who get to do that sort of thing.)
I am pleased CNN showed this.
Rick Levanthal talking about the suspicious truck again on Fox.
On the palace grounds they stood around, exhausted from almost two days without sleep but somehow not yet tired enough to sleep. First they had to get to tell their stories about how many RPGs hit their tracks "Four's nothin'; ours took five!' and the guy who got hit in the head by an RPG that was a dud, and the guy who got grazed by a bullet on the behind, this to the post- action amusement of his buddies.
My sources are actually not ones that would hold up in court. I haven't been in the field for a few years myself, but I keep in touch with my old workmates, and they are my "source." A couple of them in particular are pretty plugged in on stuff like that, so it's a case of "If Bob and Frank say it's true, then it must be true" for me.
Like I said though, I would be happy to be proven wrong, since I don't have any hard sources that I am citing myself. Like you, I would love to find some hard info on it. But I do know that there are advanced technologies now that enable us to guesstimate subsurface resources w/o having to drill. LandSat technology can do mineral exploration from space, w/o ever walking the ground or taking a sample. And there's always GeoPhysics... don't need to drill for that. Or just simple mapping of the formations, which can provide estimates based on previous knowns. You know the drill (pun intended)... Drill here, strike oil. Drill 10 miles away, strike oil. Formations are consistent in both wells... means there's a darn good chance you'll strike oil if you drill halfway between them, etc.
So, no, I don't have any personal knowledge of the data that was used to conclude there are only 6-months worth of reserves. I am just trusting my Geologist friends who follow these things. :-)
True. Another way to look at is: Iraq apparently (supposedly?) supplies 10% of our oil needs. So if we used ANWR instead of Iraqi oil (such as if we hadn't "won" this war... LOLOLOLOL), then that "6-month supply" would last for 5 years. (Did I do that math right? Operating on very little sleep for a week makes an Addict very fuzzy in the brain.)
I'm no nuclear physicist, but if an atomic bomb can produce that much energy... you'd think we could figure out a way to make nuclear cars that could drive for a few hundred miles. ;-)
I thought you worked in hazardous materials, earlier...
Yes, both true. My degree is in Geology. My career is Environmental Consulting = haz mat emergency response, soil/groundwater investigations cleanups, due diligence site assessments, etc.
But since I'm not a 'boots-on-the-ground' Geologist, I'm not as informed about the latest technologies and such that I should be.
I did a summer internship in Midland, TX for an oil company back in 1984. Didn't learn much, but did win the office Football pool. LOL
Well.... that's pretty close to my point. I don't look at it being "Our / United States" oil resources over here under our soil vs. "Their / Middle East" oil resources under their soil. We all know that Oil cannot be regenerated. It took millions of years to produce it. We cannot "grow" new oil. Once it is gone, it is gone. Like an endangered species. At some point, it is ALL going to be gone. Ours, Theirs, His, Hers, all of it. So we might as well start planning for the inevitible now, right? Don't wait until it starts raining to build your shelter, right?
OTOH, it's a FACT that if we don't use it (oil in general), then someone else will, so we might as well get while the gettin' is good. (Kind of like the looters.) Sooo.... it's a complex issue, which is why it's tough for me to have strong feelings one way or the other. I just don't have enough information to take a strong stance yet.
LOL.... Nope. I'm telling you that I never SAW it. You know, looked right through it? I was focused on reading the sign up rules (what am I getting myself into?), privacy policies, etc... and focused on getting through the registration process to post whatever I felt was so dang urgent/important/witty that I couldn't hold out any longer as a lurker... I had to jump in with both feet. But I was focused on getting back to this thread... anything that was slowing me down (such as the Home page) was just an annoyance. LOL
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