savedbygrace wrote:
Expounding won’t convince you, will it?
We can’t solve the problem without drilling and refining, can we?
Comment:
I take it by your posting name of savedbygrace that you probably claim to be a Christian.
If you do make that claim, why the snarky, un-Christian like attitude.
Is it because you do not want to agree with anyone who thinks T. Boone is on the right track or that he donated millions to Oklahoma State and not to the University of Oklahoma.
We have known in this country for at least 40 years that we faced an oil supply problem in the future.
Some of us Oil Field Trash were saying 30 years ago that we should have more onshore American refineries and needed to open more areas to exploration along with alternative energy sources.
We worried back then that the NIMBY, tea sipping. bow tie, ice cream britches and sand dipper shoe crowd of political folks (Environ-Mental’s, Selfish Liberal Democrats) in Washington and New York did not understand the importance of taking needed steps to insure America’s energy independence.
However, drilling alone will not solve the overall problem unless a person believes like JR Ewing that all you have to do is drill a hole in the ground, build a Quick Trip gas station and immediately start pumping gasoline.
You may not like T Boone Pickens but his message of we have to explore all energy alternatives is nothing more than common sense.
Common sense, which Hairy Reid, Nancy Pelosie nor the Democrat party seems to have in great amounts.
The bible I study says in Mat 7:8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
Cheap fossil fuels are a thing of the past.
It would therefore be prudent on a Christian America not only to search/explore (Seek)/(Findeth) all available energy areas and sources but also to drill or produce (Knocketh) those areas for not only today’s problem but also for those we will encounter in the coming years.
I told the truth, and you proved me right with your reply. You will not be convinced by any arguments that run counter to your opinion.
BTW, you ignored the fact that I included refining in my previous post. Of course we have to refine the oil we bring up by drilling. Of course we can produce enough oil to get ourselves out of this present problem.
This present problem is simple: There is a worldwide shortfall of a few million barrels a day. That gap can be closed by domestic drilling. But Pickens and the Dims who agree with him want to make the problem into a thousand year problem (an exaggeration, but only a bit of one), and since oil is assumed to be unable to solve the long term deficiencies, they conclude that drilling can’t solve the present problem. Balderdash. Solve the present problem first, which CAN be done by domestic drilling (and refining), to produce a few million barrels a day.
Eph 2:8-9 - For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.
(I’m not saved by anything I do or don’t do. If you criticize my salvation, you criticize the One who has saved me. Are you sure that’s the direction you want to take?)