Uncle Sam And Oil

Forbes ^ | 6/18/2008

[samtheman]

The cat of nine tails will be used again on all dem dumbo slaves fo not high steping it to get the lemonade.

You will be beaten for wanting airconditioning. You will be beaten for remembering airconditioning.

[BOBWADE]

Bush should sweeten the deal for the Dems by offering a $2.00 per barrel tax on all new domestic offshore and anwar oil production for alternative energy research and grants. This could provide funding for solar and wind projects that might otherwise be too expensive up front to pursue. I don't like taxes very much but that kind of tax might be enough to win a few fence ridin’ Democrats that are under pressure from their constituents about prices at the pump.

[ishabibble]

This is a great letter. It hits on the major points, especially that worm, Hinchey, and his plan to pull a Hugo on the oil companies. I prefer the phone for two reasons.

One of my sisters is an insider with the unions/Congresscritters/elitist politicians. She told me that e-mail is generally deleted without even a cursory look. I tend to believe her, since after the amnesty siege, most of the Congress offices now have automated lines on their phones.

She also told me that union business and political business in most often conducted in exotic vacation venues, “where the guys can golf, and the wives can shop”. IOW, they ignore everything unless you disturb them by screaming blue murder. It works for me!

[Gumdrop]

Everyone winn! Our energy supply increases; the price eventually modifies downward; and our 401K’s get more money - instead of ME oil kingdoms.

[LibLieSlayer]

The feeling is mutual, I assure you. I despise dims with every ounce of my mind. You will now be attacked by osmambama sycophant plants here on FR.

LLS

[Ben Ficklin]

The GOP mis-info about China drilling off Cuba does nothing except discredit the GOP. This began in 2006 when they were trying to pass the GOM Energy Security Act and again recently as the offshore drilling has become a big issue.

Stick to the facts. Cuba has leased about 25 deepwater blocks in the North Cuba Basin to oil companies from 7 different nations and China is not one of them. Petrobras will be the first to drill in 2009.

Because of the Cuba embargo, no US oil companies will be drilling there. Nor can any oil produced there be refined in the US. Nor can it be refined at the refineries in the US Virgin Islands. Nor can gasoline, or other distillates, be imported from Cuba.

[stuartcr]

Try as I can to understand why, this just doesn’t make any sense to me. None of the democrats I know think like this at all.

[EBH]

http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/09/news/economy/oil_cuba/index.htm

[EBH]

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/china_starts_oil_drilling.html

[Ben Ficklin]

From your link: "said Larry Craig, Republican of Idaho"

In the last paragraph of this article Cheney admits his statement about China drilling Cuba was an error.

Oil exploration in Cuba's waters

If you want to get up to speed on Cuba and oil, us CUPET in a Google news and web search.

[samtheman]

Don’t be so sure about that. First of all, who are they voting for? Secondly, what is their true inner motivation (as opposed to what they tell you)?

[stuartcr]

Obviously, they’ll probably vote democrat and unlike you, I can’t tell what their true inner motivation is, so I have to take them at their word. The fact that most are in the Navy or military contractors, makes me think they really don’t want our country to fail and judging by their homes and lifestyles, I find it hard to believe they want to live in any kind of squalor, much less the paleolithic kind..

[samtheman]

Ok. You got me. I shouldn’t be speculating on unknowable “inner motivations”.

I’m just flummoxed by the phenomenon of so many Americans voting for so many obviously anti-American politicians. Flummoxed, I tell you.

[Roccus]

From the article;

"Royalty revenue-sharing agreements would have to be worked out between the states and the feds."

Already done. Here is the agreement for the leased tracts in the GOM.

http://www.gomr.mms.gov/homepg/whatsnew/newsreal/2008/080527.pdf

[The Great RJ]

Don’t forget to mention the 35% federal corporate income tax levied on those obscene oil company profits and the double taxation as stockholders pay capital gains tax on their already taxed earnings.

[stuartcr]

I just can’t see the anti-American stuff that you see. Perhaps it’s really just anti-to what you and others may believe?

[samtheman]

It depends on who were talking about, of course, and on what issue.

Murtha on Iraq is obviously anti-American.

In some cases an idea might not be so overtly anti-American and yet be very, very bad for America, such as the idea that we should allow UN “law” to take precedence over the US constitution. The people who push that idea might not THINK they are anti-American, but they are, in fact, in terms of results, very, very anti-American.

And that’s just one example. There are plenty more.

At a certain point, if the ideas someone holds all add up to being very, very bad for America, it almost doesn’t MATTER what their motivation is.

[samtheman]

From your personal page, the Mark Twain quote:

“Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.”

You could take that same idea and apply it to the leftists who attack America so viciously. The make up cheap lies about America and those lies soothe their conscience so they are then free to say the most vile things about our country and to work to undermine our country in every possible way.

[stuartcr]

I guess it also depends on what someone considers to be very, very bad. People think differently.

[stuartcr]

Yep, lots of things can be applied to lots of people.