[kellynla]

"The next time you hear a politician say we need to be “energy independent”, ask him or her why Americans cannot have access to the oil reserves known to exist in California, in Alaska, and in many of our other States or off the coastlines of Florida and elsewhere.

Ask them why the fate of the condors and little known species is more important than the family budget of Americans forced to make choices between more food and more gasoline.

Ask them why they continue to claim that global warming is a threat when the entire Earth is now in a decade-old cooling cycle.

Ask them why they insist on blaming investor-owned oil companies whose own reserves are barely four percent of the all the oil that exists worldwide? Ask them how they expect these oil companies to compete in the global marketplace when they threaten to seize their profits."

[G Larry]

Lie to be challenged:
1. We can’t drill our way out of this....

In fact, we CAN drill our way out of this. Why do you keep repeating that unfounded nonsense?

2. The oil companies have an obligation to invest in alternative energy.

No they don’t, they have an obligation to provide the best return on investment for the shareholder. Which is also why your simpleminded suggestion regarding “windfall profits tax” won’t produce more energy or help the consumer.
The costs will be passed on to the consumer and there will be less supply. Both of which will only serve to make things worse.

3. We must regulate speculation in oil prices.

That is not possible, and your simpleminded populism doesn’t help anything, except to appeal to the ignorant.

[DaveTesla]

See how easy the time to market is.
Fischer-Tropsch process
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer-Tropsch_process

Gas-to-Liquids
Transforming Natural Gas Into Super-Clean Fuels
http://www.chevron.com/deliveringenergy/gastoliquids/

Shell Oil
What is GTL?
http://realenergy.shell.us/?lang=en_US&page=homeFlash#

[FormerACLUmember]

The democrat party and its mainstream media are our sworn enemies, totally destroying the US. Beginning with, but not limited to, the annihilation of proper energy production in America.

I cannot understand why Obama, Reid, and Pelosi are in any position of power. Are we insane?

[pallis]

If we don’t drill our way out of this, we aren’t going to get out of this. The reason speculators are blowing up the oil bubble is because Congress and environmental terrorists have prevented us from utilizing the one natural, economic tool that prevents this sort of thing, new development, like ANWR, our coastal waters and shale. We can make all the oil we want at half the price a barrel of oil is going for now, and still turn huge profits for oil companies and speculators. If we don’t do it, the terrorists, including the environmentalists, the speculators and government win. We lose.

[CreativePerspective]

Not to mention adding in nuclear power.

Nuclear Power in France

France derives over 75% of its electricity from nuclear energy. This is due to a long-standing policy based on energy security.
France is the world's largest net exporter of electricity due to its very low cost of generation, and gains over EUR 3 billion per year from this.
France has been very active in developing nuclear technology. Reactors and fuel products and services are a major export.

France has 59 nuclear reactors operated by Electricité de France (EdF) with total capacity of over 63 GWe, supplying over 430 billion kWh per year of electricity, 78% of the total generated there. In 2005 French electricity generation was 549 billion kWh net and consumption 482 billion kWh - 7700 kWh per person. Over the last decade France has exported 60-70 billion kWh net each year and EdF expects exports to continue at 65-70 TWh/yr.

The present situation is due to the French government deciding in 1974, just after the first oil shock, to expand rapidly the country's nuclear power capacity. This decision was taken in the context of France having substantial heavy engineering expertise but few indigenous energy resources. Nuclear energy, with the fuel cost being a relatively small part of the overall cost, made good sense in minimising imports and achieving greater energy security.

As a result of the 1974 decision, France now claims a substantial level of energy independence and almost the lowest cost electricity in Europe. It also has an extremely low level of CO2 emissions per capita from electricity generation, since over 90% of its electricity is nuclear or hydro.

[Mogollon]

but most Americans are blissfully unaware that it requires 1.5 gallons of ethanol to produce the same energy as a gallon of gasoline.

They are also unaware that it takes 1.25 gallons of gasoline to produce one gallon of ethanol.

[DouglasKC]

btt

[Quix]

Have you watched the good pipeline Chaplain in this video?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3340274697167011147

He convincingly asserts that it’s the IMF/WORLD BANK puppet masters who’ve raised the price deliberately as part of a 30+ year plan . . . BTW, to go to $10/gal

I’ve been wondering . . . why is diesel suddenly more than normal gasoline?

Could it be because that would be an excellent way to raise the prices quickly on everything? And what would the globalists’ goal be in doing that? Trashing the USA economy; trashing the dollar toward . . . what? Amero?

What other aspects of this would feed which of their global government goals?

Asking for brainstorming here . . . for those read-up on such and interested.

Naysayers may be ignored.

[Earthdweller]

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[motor_racer]

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