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Why Won't Congress Drill for Oil?
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Posted on 11/22/2007 6:51:11 PM PST by cool2007
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To: PapaBear3625
If the replenishment rate is lower than our usage rate, then it doesn't matter much True, and what the drill our way out of it and the other alternative source people don't understand, is that we have to do both, given the number of Chinese and other people around the world that don't own cars. Demand will continue to climb, and prices will go higher. Look how thirty million illegals in our country has increased demand, and lots of them don't drive.
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posted on
11/22/2007 7:27:49 PM PST
by
org.whodat
(What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
To: cool2007
If we drilled in America (significantly), wouldn’t we also have to decide whether to restrict the consumption to America, or not? And would this decision be based on the market value of the oil, or on the political matter of energy independence? What if the oil companies didn’t want to restrict themselves to domestic sales?
One good (bad) Dem president and we’re looking at nationalization. :(
To: Williams
“Even the republican Congress wouldnt permit drilling in a God forsaken wasteland at the top of the world, based on environmental concerns”
Not so. ANWR had the votes to pass even when there was a Dim majority. Problem is, it takes 60 votes to overcome a filibuster
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posted on
11/22/2007 7:36:25 PM PST
by
Figment
("A communist is someone who reads Marx.An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx" R Reagan)
To: cool2007
Why Won't Congress Drill for Oil? Because we're using up their cheap oil first - and saving our more expensive oil for a real crisis.
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posted on
11/22/2007 7:37:48 PM PST
by
Mr. Jeeves
("Wise men don't need to debate; men who need to debate are not wise." -- Tao Te Ching)
To: Partisan Gunslinger
the states where the oil is tax the crap out of it to where it about defeats the purpose, in a redistribution-of-wealth kind of way...Maybe we need to invoke the Interstate Commerce ClauseWell there you are. I don't trust the Congress to do anything smarter than their own "redistribution of wealth" program: nationalize the oil industry.
Not to say we shouldn't become energy independent, and drill the livin' daylights out of every oil deposit possible, but the politicians will quickly find a way to foul it up.
To: ken21
they won’t allow drilling because they are making millions not drilling.
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posted on
11/22/2007 7:38:56 PM PST
by
television is just wrong
(deport all illegal aliens NOW. Put all AMERICANS TO WORK FIRST. END Welfare)
To: org.whodat
we have to do both, This makes sense to me.
To: org.whodat
“given the number of Chinese and other people around the world that don’t own cars”
Where’d you get the idea chinese don’t own cars? In 1972 when Nixon visited Bejing, the city was awash with folks on bicycles. Bicycles are outlawed in Bejing today.
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posted on
11/22/2007 7:45:36 PM PST
by
Figment
("A communist is someone who reads Marx.An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx" R Reagan)
To: television is just wrong
yeah. i heard part of rush’s dialogue while driving yesterday.
i used to listen to bill wattenberg of radio kgo san fran in the 1990’s down here in socal,
and he’d scream his head off about the cal epa bureaucrats and oil co bureaucrats
exchanging jobs, each time for pay raises.
it’s gridlock, politically.
.
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posted on
11/22/2007 7:47:02 PM PST
by
ken21
( people die + you never hear from them again.)
To: rockinqsranch
Personally I dont want Congress drilling for oil.Oh heck, make 'em all roustabouts. Get 'em out on tour in the North Slope.
Let 'em find out what work really is, and what the oil business is like.
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posted on
11/22/2007 7:47:10 PM PST
by
Ole Okie
To: Conservativegreatgrandma; All
Well, if you believe there is a finite amount of oil, you may be right but what if the theory that the earth replenishes oil is the correct one? Bingo! Between the proven reserves being underestimated by a factor of about ten and the difficult of extracting domestic oil overestimated by a factor of about two, libs and other commies have plenty of excuses as to why we can't take care of our own house!
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posted on
11/22/2007 7:52:02 PM PST
by
notdownwidems
(Shellback, pollywogs! 1980)
To: cool2007
>"RUSH: People have been trying to put pressure on Congress to drill for oil, and Democrats are not going to go for it. The Democrats are beholden to the environmentalist wackos,
AKA the CPUSA! Sounds like a legit PLAN (cough.. conspiracy.... cough RICO la)... to bankrupt and overthrow our republic!
Do any DOJ people ever read anymore?
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posted on
11/22/2007 7:55:43 PM PST
by
rawcatslyentist
(I'd rather be carrying a shotgun with Dick, than riding shotgun with a Kennedyl! *-0(:~{>)
To: ken21
Because there is not enuf kickback for THEM. Traitors all.
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posted on
11/22/2007 7:56:22 PM PST
by
Diogenesis
(Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
To: Ouderkirk
IN the end it may be better to use the oil from the middle east first. When its gone... they are back to eating sand. We have plenty of oil reserves in the continental US, offshore and in Alaska. If we use them up first...were dead.In my part of the woods where there has been oil and gas drilling for as long as I can remember, those in the oil business all tell me that is the unspoken wisdom from Washington.
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posted on
11/22/2007 7:57:31 PM PST
by
Rudder
To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
Not to say we shouldn't become energy independent, and drill the livin' daylights out of every oil deposit possible, but the politicians will quickly find a way to foul it up.Yep, once they take over we can't get them out of it. We,re still paying heavily for FDR's misadventures in farming subsidies.
To: Conservativegreatgrandma
If a Dem gets the Whitehouse, they will authorize drilling in a matter of days because then, they believe, they will get all the credit when the prices stabilize.
To: Diogenesis
personally, i get tired of all the fashionable fascist
beautiful people of hollywood and washington
traveling the planet while mouthing their eco-dribble.
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posted on
11/22/2007 7:59:18 PM PST
by
ken21
( people die + you never hear from them again.)
To: Figment
I think the current figure is that only about 20 to 25% of the Chinese own cars. But you can go look it up if you like. Also something like 60% don’t have utilities in their homes. Etc. The most of china is a very undeveloped place.
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posted on
11/22/2007 8:08:32 PM PST
by
org.whodat
(What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
To: cool2007
I’ve been wondering the same question. I’m tired of paying the Saudis $3.20 a gallon. We need to drill within our own borders to decrease some of that reliance on foreign oil.
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posted on
11/22/2007 8:08:59 PM PST
by
G8 Diplomat
(Creatures are divided into 6 kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Monera, Protista, & Saudi Arabia)
To: Figment
Should have added that I was watching a dicover special about china, last month, they just got their first Mickey-d’s this year. They had to put one of the employees on the street to show the drivers how to go through the drive up windows. the customers would drive through and get their food , then they would park and go inside to eat. LOL
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posted on
11/22/2007 8:15:54 PM PST
by
org.whodat
(What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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