Tuesday, July 15, 2008
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You Can't Drill There...There's Oil There!
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Posted by:
Michele Bachmann at
10:37 AM
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Below is part of a release from Majority Leader Hoyer (D-MD) in response to President Bush’s announcement to lift the executive ban on offshore drilling:
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“Drilling in the OCS will do nothing to lower gas prices, but it will mean one more handout to those who are already enjoying billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies. Let me remind President Bush: If the oil companies wanted more domestic drilling, they could begin today. They could begin on the 68 million acres of land that are already set aside, leased, and available for drilling. And with upcoming Democratic legislation to speed up the leasing process for 20 million more acres in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, they’ll be able to drill there, too.” ___________________________________________________________
I can think of no better example of pure partisan rhetoric. This statement does nothing more than contradict itself. On one hand you have Majority Leader Hoyer saying that offshore drilling in the OCS will do nothing to lower gas prices, but then he promotes Democrat legislation to speed up the leasing process for drilling in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. If increasing supply doesn’t matter as he implies in his comment about the OCS, then why promote legislation about drilling in Alaska? Could it be that the pressure from America to drill is forcing the Democrats to appear like they care about rising energy costs?
Hoyer is reaffirming the Democrat talking point of being against drilling which appeases their base, but being for drilling on lands where leases already exist to assuage the anger of the average American voter. That might be a good policy if these lands where leases already exist actually contain oil and natural gas. However, we know this is not the case -- as do the Democrats who voted to recently defeat the Hoyer-Pelosi so-called “Use it or Lose it” bill. (That’s what his 68 million acre line refers too.) Nearly 1 in 10 Democrats joined Republicans to defeat that bill because it did nothing to actually increase our energy supply.
These are the kind of games that explain why Congress’ approval rating hovers at 9%. This statement proves that the Democrats are willing to talk the right talk but not seek out real solutions. Americans want energy; they don’t want political ploys.
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It is Bizzaro world.
And we wonder why Congress has an approval rating less than 20%. |
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The Futures Market would react TODAY to an announcement that drilling was authorized, even if the actual oil isn't produced for several years. That's what is meant by "futures". The impact on prices would be noticed. The Dems can't see beyond their idiotic rhetoric. |
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Strategic eludes these Democrats? There is a reason why it is a Strategic Reserve...hello? is Iran's threat and the constant rise in gasoline price not a "hint" of what the meaning of the word strategic is about...
Morons, retards and pshychopaths, that's who represents us... a whole boatload of elitist Democratic Party members.
Congress has a 9% approval rating... |
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What do you people tell your kids when they ask "Mom, if we use up all the oil we have here, what will be left for me in the future?" Do you just make something up, like "Oh, don't worry, God has blessed us with enough oil to last forever." Do you people seriously believe we can just drill, drill and drill some more and there will be no end to oil to fuel our oil-based economy? What if your kids say "Mom, why don't you use less?" What do you say then: "I'll give up my Escalade when you pry my cold, dead fingers from its steering wheel." |
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It isn't a partisan statement directed at Dems only. The appproval rating was in steep decline when the GOP was in charge too which is why they are no longer in charge. Bush himself is less popular right now than King George III was in the Revolutionary War. That make him more than three times as popular as Congress! We just don't trust our government right now and to have two liberal clones running against each other behind different masks is not very reassuring. We are in deep trouble if we don't do something very different this year. It starts by voting against the one-party system. Voter 3rd party. Just pick one and vote for him. |
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So far, that conversation has not happened in my home. What HAS happend is my children asking:
Mommy, why can't we afford gas in our old van, to take us to the camping vacation?
Mommy, why is food so expensive, that we had to cancel the cable to help pay for it?
Mommy, why do you an daddy cry now when you fill up the old van?
Mommy, why can't we go see grandma and grandpa?
Mommy, why was the family reunion cancelled this year? Why can't I see my aunts and uncles and cousins from California?
Mommy, why did you and daddy cancel grandpas visit from South America? I really wanted to see him, before he dies. But you said you can't afford the plane ticket anymore because of gas prices.
Mommy.... |
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Mommy, why can't we go to the swimming pool? Is it really that much extra for gas?
Mommy.. why are there idiots in congress who won't drill? Can't we just try? Your always telling us to try. Why can't they?
So monkeywrench, while we look for alternative fuel sources, we are stuck on oil. You may be able to afford a hibyrd car - we can't. Our cars are paid for, and the gas prices are so high we can't even save for a new one. Not that we can find a hibyrd one to even begin to fit our large family. (oh, and before you talk to me about 'birth control', you should know all my kids are adopted out of Foster Care. They are off YOUR welfare rolls). So, my soulution? DRILL WHERE THERES FLIPPIN OIL. And while were in this election year, thoss them all out on their ears and start over. |
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Monkeywrench and Pasedena Phil are DNC operatives whose mission in life is to confound, confuse, pass blame, and make excuses for the socialist democrats. Their motivation is clear, to confuse the voters so that the dems can keep control of congress.
My suggestion to them is to find an honest job. Their smokescreen is not fooling anyone. The DNC will probably be laying off staff big time after their crushing defeat in November...
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I dont believe that any Conservative Republican is advocating to dump the concepts of hybrid cars, or throw out research on windmills, or soloar energy. I dont see any Conservative Republican saying, not to use sugar cane based fuels (corn based, yes but not sugar cane based).
I dont see any Conservative Republican saying NO to nuclear power. However, I do see the Demoncrats saying, NO drilling, YES to raising prices on food with corn based alternatives, NO to sugar cane alternatives, NO to nuclear power.
I also see the Demoncrats saying, Drilling wont help, but you need to drill here to help.
That is like saying to a wounded man. Dont put a bandage on that cut, it wont stop the bleeding. Apply pressure on the cut with this cloth so the bleeding clots.
The Demoncrats are on the wrong side of this issue and they know it. |
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rational thought is for smart people, not you inbreds.
You can't have lower gas prices and innovation. It doesn't work that way. Without high prices there is no incentive to invest in alternative energy. You can't have convservation without high prices. Without high prices you morons will go back to your SUV's and 100 mile commutes.
You can't have your cake and eat it too. Either you accept high prices and start conserving and investing in alternative energy or you drill like mad and kick the problem down the road for your children to deal with.
Oil is down 9 dollars today, did we drill overnight? Oh, that's right, DEMAND is excepted to drop so prices are dropping. So if you morons get rid of your SUV's oil will drop without drilling? Yes! Its called conservation you hicks. |
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Since you profess to know who and what I am, what do I do for a living wise guy? Total BS. That is why your guy is going to get smoked in November, nose-holding myrmidons like you don't make for a very good party. |
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Thank you for setting me staight. I had no idea that it was high prices that drove innovation. After all it must have been the astronomical cost of the horse and buggy that gave us the automobile. And the LP price went through the roof and gave us CD's. 8mm film was reserved for the rich and famous, but now we have DVD's for the lowly masses. Innovation is driven by need, not price. When we need alternative fuels they will be there. The research and development is going on as I type this, and drilling for more oil is NOT going to stop it. Drilling, or even the announcement of drilling, will however lower the price of gas today, and if you could read something other than the Communist Manifesto, you would find that peak oil is a myth. THe known reserves have doubled since 2001, and are still growing. Our kids will be fine, unless people listen to the likes of you.
On another note, I have written this whole thing without calling you a single name. Could it be that I don't have to resort to such tactics because I have the truth? |
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Alternative Energy development are still nascent technologies.
I am all in favor of finding newer, cleaner energy resources and methods of powering the American economy. For the time-being, oil and gas are still cheaper, more efficient and, in some cases, less damaging to the environment and less hazardous to human beings. (what are we going to do with all those batteries?)
There will still be a ton of money poured into AltEng technologies because there are people like you and me, except with money, who want cleaner energy and find the subject fascinating.
There is already progress being made in this area. In the next 10-20 years we will likely see breakthroughs that make these energy options competitive with oil/gas. And no, I don't believe we will destroy the environment during that time.
In the meantime, why punish the American consumer with higher gas prices when it is just not necessary.
Also consider the positive environment effect of allowing American companies to drill for our own oil. American oil drillers are the cleanest in the world. Third-world countries, desperately seeking to boost their economies are rushing after oil without the same environmental safeguards Americans employ.
By drilling our own oil thus increasing the global supply, we will lower prices and decrease the incentive for these other countries to drill their own. That is a net positive impact for both our economy and the environment.
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What part of the Dem "base" supports their leadership's posiiotn? The poor and middle class balck part? The single mom part? The poor and middle class Hispanic part? No, only the eco-MArxist latte Libs on each coast support this insane position.
I hope to God the Dems/socialists are wiped out this Nov. It is absurd that we send close to a TRILLION dollars a year out of this country for oil when we have trillions of barrels of our own here. What could the hundreds of billions we send out of the country buy if kept here? How many millions of new industry jobs could be created if we developed our own resources? How much royalty money could accrue to the Treasury? Enough to retire the national debt? Our natural resources are a solution to many of our current problems. The Dems know it and that is why they are opposed to it. They want to win in Nov more than they want the country to be strong and healthy. |
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"(The Dems) are for drilling on lands where leases already exist to assuage the anger of the average American voter. That might be a good policy if these lands where leases already exist actually contain oil and natural gas. However, we know this is not the case..."
How do we know that? As Bachmann points out, the oil companies already hold drilling leases on 68 million acres of land. She's also telling us that there's *no* oil or natural gas on that 68 million acres of land.
So--the oil companies *bought and are currently paying for* leases on 68 million acres of land where there's *no* oil or natural gas? Does that makes sense to anyone else here? |
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What is the objection to letting the Oil companies lease as many acres as they want? They DO pay for them after all and the Dems are money grubbers so it sould be a win for them.
What are they afraid of? That the oil companies might actually find a big strike? And if they don't believe that drilling now will bring down the current price of gas, let the oil companies drill and prove them and the GOP wrong. Again, what are they afraid of? That prices will in fact come down? Why don't they have the courage of their convictions? Come on Dems, put your money where your mouths are. |
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VOTE THE BUMS OUT AND START OVER. |
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Saying we can't drill out of this crisis is as stupid as saying you can't eat your way of being hungry.
Increase supply. Lower demand.
Thanks for the lovely name calling, Kimbat. Crawl back under your rock. |
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The leases that are held are not economically feasible and won't provide the amount of oil needed.
The OCS and ANWR are and will.
It is the democrats that have obstructed production.
It is the democrats that have held up development.
It is the democrats that have let us be held hostage to foreign oil.
And it is the democrats that should suffer the most at the ballot box.
democrats wanted the majorities, now let them lead. But they won't. |
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It is the democrats that have artificially raised the price of food with biofuels and increased energy costs.
Tell my how your foot feels when you blow it off voting democrat this fall. You will only be hurting yourself. |
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Republican Governor Jeb Bush of Florida is passionately opposed to offshore drilling. So is Republican Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger of California. Prez Bush's lifting of the presidential ban would have been more credible last year when he could have lined up his ducks and fought the fight. As it is, he is a lame duck and the next prez will rescind the order. Still, it would help if Jeb came out in support of offshore drilling. Any chance that will happen? |
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It's just a guess. You obviously love bashing conservatives.
Few would spew such partisan nonsense without being a payed mouthpiece.
Your partisan talking points are right out of the DNC playbook.
Of course it is possible that you do this just for fun, but I doubt it.
If you think that your arguments are convincing or compelling, you are dead wrong. The dems are in deep trouble over the energy issue and will take a pounding in November no matter what they do at this point. The voters are not as naive as you think.
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Pas Phil doesn't relish bashing conservatives. He loves bashing President Bush, John McCain and generally the GOP.
He *suggests" he's a conservative - but certainly, based on his lack of being pragmatic, he is the libertarian version (ie Ron Paul).
He is the kind of conservative that would rather throw the baby out with the bath water (elect Obama) than get SOME of the conservative issues supported in John McCain (2nd amend support, fiscal conservative, etc).
You'd think he were a dailykos liberal from his statements. He's just an Anyone-but-McCain type. |
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I continually wonder why profane trolls like "Readabook" are permitted to post here. Vulgar and desparaging remarks are his trademarks.
Perhaps the moderators will read some of his "finest" work and decide TH doesn't need such trash. |
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Jeb Bush hasn't been governor of Florida for over a year and a half. Charlie Christ is the current governor. |
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I have 8 kids. I drive a 1997 Full sized van. Fill up today: 108.00 bucks. That will last me about 4 days of very little driving.
So, until your actually working a real job, paying real taxes and supporting a real family, just sit down and be quiet. You don't know what your talking about. I do. I'm living it. |
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Oil companies need to drill on the land that they own. The Energy Information Agency which is government agency this.
OCS areas available for leasing and drilling since 2003 which oil companies are not have more oil than the areas the areas which Bush is trying to open. And that drilling will not have an effect in world production until 2030 and even then it will be an insignificant.
Amount of oil available in 2003
OCS areas avialable for leasing and drilling= 40.1 billion barrels
OCS areas not available for drilling and leasing=
18.17 billion barrels
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/otheranalysis/ongr.html |
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entire post below is from
http://tinyurl.com/63q2cy
ANWR Bottom Line: Two Cents A Gallon
Oh, and that's in 2025. Here's some analysis using the Department of Energy's "Analysis of Crude Oil Production in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge" (May 2008)
The opening of the ANWR 1002 Area to oil and natural gas development is projected to increase domestic crude oil production starting in 2018. In the mean ANWR oil resource case, additional oil production resulting from the opening of ANWR reaches 780,000 barrels per day in 2027 and then declines to 710,000 barrels per day in 2030.
Additional oil production resulting from the opening of ANWR would be only a small portion of total world oil production, and would likely be offset in part by somewhat lower production outside the United States. The opening of ANWR is projected to have its largest oil price reduction impacts as follows: a reduction in low-sulfur, light crude oil prices of $0.41 per barrel (2006 dollars) in 2026 for the low oil resource case, $0.75 per barrel in 2025 for the mean oil resource case, and $1.44 per barrel in 2027 for the high oil resource case, relative to the reference case.
The median case suggests the effect on gasoline prices in 2025 will be $0.02 a gallon. The immediate effect will be zero as we’ll have to wait a decade to see any oil from ANWR. (Link)
I understand it makes good politics to respond to high gas prices by claiming new exploration will take care of the high price of gas and those damn Democrats are getting in the way of cheap gas for everybody. But any oil still to be found and pumped is many years away, would be bound for the global marketplace, and sell at market pricing.
(Do you really think American oil companies are going to give U.S. customers a "sweet deal" when they can sell it at global pricing on the open market?)
I want to know more about Oil 2.0 products. Necessity is the mother of invention.
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Amen, Keep up the good fight. |
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No one knows where oil is for sure until it an area is explored and proven. Most oil geologists are wrong more than they right in picking the right play to drill, so sweeping statements about the existance or non-existance of oil are ignorant and idiotic.
One thing however is certain, if you do not drill you will never know.
Not drilling for oil in America because of some alleged harm to the enviroment as a result of drilling is equally ignorant.
A drilling site is 100 yards by 100 yards. Within the current rules and best practices of the oil and gas industry a site can be drilled and returned to its pristine state with no difficulty and at little cost. All oil companies operating in North America take these costs into account before they make the decision to drill.
The same is true of gaining access to the site itself.
Finding more oil and gas in America will not lower the cost of oil and gas, it will only alter who gets paid for it and who is the first best benefactor of the purchase.
The oil and gas industry employs more people in manufacturing jobs that are secure and high paying than does the automobile industry. Yet is seems ok to ignore those jobs and those people but somehow treasure the guys who build cars.
The debate is senseless because fact is replaced with fiction and opinion overthrows truth.
Cheers,
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So what on earth is your point?
Do you somehow believe that not-drilling in ANWR is somehow then a benefit to American's?
Ignoring the existance of the resource does nothing to improve this barren piece of land and the lives of the people who make a living on it. Drilling it does not necessarily harm the land but it certainly provides the potential for jobs and a better life for those who do the work.
Or is it somehow better to subsidise the profits of General Electric to create windmills and the natural gas fired power-plants each one of them requires when the wind doesn't blow.
The environmental impact of the wind-farm equivalent of the btu's produced if the energy department is correct about ANWR is an order of magnatude worse than drilling the 2,000 acres in ANWR.
Lies by Vesta's to the contrary the CO2 foot-print of a wind-farm and the necessary instant on power source fueled by natural gas is at least equal to simply burning the natural gas in the first place.
Vesta's analysis of the carbon foot-print of their wind-mill fobs the input carbon from all of their suppliers back onto them. However if the supplier was not building the wind-mill, they would not be creating that carbon dioxide.
Think for a minute about the amount of carbon dioxide created in making the tens of tons of fibreglass required in wind blades before rushing off to give more of your money to the GE's of the world.
Cheers,
Bloefeld |
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It turns out the lease doesn't give the lessee the right to actually drill - only to explore. Beck gave a depressing and aggravating example of what you're up against.
Also search on the details of the Michigan judge reversing an approved permit just a couple of days ago.
Pelosi and the 'hoax' comment a week after she suggests we start tapping into our emergency supply - explain that one to me.
Bush sounded horrible today and McCain is sucking up to La Raza - can we redo that primary?
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Oil, oil, give me oil so I can drive my fat family in my gas guzzling motor to my local eat-out and gross-out.
The US is the slob nation of the world. No where else in the world do you see people destroying the planet with such focused laziness and self indulgence. Well America our days are numbered. Our greed and lust will guarantee our undoing.
Enjoy the twilight years cause like the oil, they will not last! |
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You should go to Korea, India or China. There you will see the consequences of greed and rapid industrialization unlike anywhere else in the world.
This country is a pristine wilderness compared to those.
I know, you are going to blame us because we buy things from there so it is our fault, regardless of the other countries buying from them.
You just hate it that we can afford what we want and aren't living in third world poverty. Do you feel the same way about the Germans, French, English, Italians and Spanish that import many items? Or do you just consider them "cultured"? |
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conservative, not a knee-jerk Republican. And judging from the title of this article, it could well have been about McCain, at least the you can't drill there part.
As another thoughtful conservative, BrianR, noted about McCain's drilling policy:
'McCain's as big a hypocrite as anyone on this issue. Yeah, he's now flip-flopped on offshore drilling, a totally meaningless sop and bit of eyewash for conservatives, as he knows all the states involved will block any efforts to do so, since they're all liberal states. So he can look "reasonable" on the issue without really changing one thing.
I'll be more impressed when I see him advocate drilling in ANWR. Maybe THEN you'll truly have something to brag on for your guy.'
Or this from TH columnist Debra Saunders:
'There was applause for McCain's support for nuclear energy. Sure, there were biofuel and solar fans, but one attendee chided McCain for opposing drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Maybe it's the price of gas, but this audience seemed largely in sync with McCain's shift from supporting a ban on offshore drilling in Florida and California, to now saying he wants to see an end to the federal moratorium on offshore drilling, and let state voters decide.
Does this mean Californians should choose to drill? "Sure, I'd love for them to, but again I leave that decision up to them," McCain answered at a press conference after the town hall. Yes, it was a politician's answer.'
http://ktkz.townhall.com/columnists/DebraJSaunders/2008/06/ 24/mccains_straight_talk_needs_sizzle?page=full&comments=tr ue |
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With all the new experts in the oil and gas field we have in the media, congress and bloggers of all stripes. I set in amazement that we do not put another 5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 24 million barrels of oil a day of domestic production on the market by the end of this week. Becoming a petroleum geologist must be at least as easy as getting a leaner’s permit to drive a car. With all of the new found expertise we have now' we can stop wasting time and money of knowing where to drill, how much production we will get and how long it is going to take to get it in the market (another reason to hate the demons in the oil and gas business for wasting billions of dollars trying to find these things out). I do not think it is to out of the realm of possibility that this new brain trust is using physic powers or has access to a secret time machine. This is just a suggestion but if you can drill a producing well on land with the leases that you now have, why do you want to go off shore with the considerable cost that comes with that type of drilling. Having thousands of acres of leases does not equal oil and gas production, in most cases it is searching for oil and gas production; please can one of our soothsayers in congress mark the spot to drill with the help of the spirits. We have a very possible future president who has stated he doesn’t mind gas prices getting so high but wished it did not happen so fast. Well no need for worry President Obama, we are sure on that course, and with these stable economic times I am sure this country can handle $6.50 or $7.00 a gallon gas with out a hitch. All you have to do is contemplate how that price range may affect your own life.
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The whole ANWR 2 cent thing is bogus.
Look at what happened to the price of oil the day after Bush lifed the ban, the price fell 9 dollars a barrel. Why do you think that is?
Lets use logic here: You own a hardware store, there is not another hardware store within 50 miles of your location. You have friends on the city zoning commission that will not allow another hardware store to be built, so you can have your prices as high as you wish, nobody is going to drive 50 miles for a hammer.
Suddendly, your friend leaves the zoning commission, and then a Lowes or Home Depot is allowed to put in a super store right in your territory.
What do you do as a business owner? Do you keep prices high, knowing that you will be undersold, or do you lower your prices so that you can build a customer base even though Lowes or Home Depot will not be built in 6 to 10 months?
Odds are your prices will drop. Just like if America opens the door to drilling, which Bush did in part, the prices around the world will drop.
Again, Bush lifted the ban, prices fell 9 dollars a barrel. How much do you think the prices will drop IF the Demoncrats lifted the ban? |
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Thank you. Nothing like a little bit of factual evidence. I smirk at geniuses like Monkeywrench who thinks they can easily predict the futures market, and tell you exactly how much gas prices will decrease per gallon by drilling somewhere.
Monkeywrench-- your talents are wasted here! You could be making millions in the futures market right now with your clarity of predictions.
Kimbecile-- I heard somewhere Dick Cheney said that 'Bears sh*t in the woods,' this; obviously, must be untrue because it came from a, and I love the new DNC spin btw; 'GO-Plunderer.' Go forth, and right those wrongs!
God Speed Idiots. God Speed. |
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Sell your democrat talking points somewhere else. How does MOVING to increase the supply NOT help lower prices?
Democrats need to drop the phony bumpersticker partisanship and pick up a copy of Thomas Sowell's book "Economic Facts and Fallacies". That goes for you two, too.
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You're tired of hearing:
-"we can't drill our way out of this crisis"
-"peak oil"
-"get out of your SUV's"
-"we need to invest in alternative fuels"
The democrat plan to solving our energy woes amounts to this: impose a 'windfall tax' on big oil, and from the proceeds, form a commission that will distribute 300 million solar powered windmill hats to every citizen. |
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The sad thing is I see so much ignorance about environmental impact of drilling in Alaska that is flowing through so many of these threads. I see bias - to the point that I can relate to the signs I see that say ' I think - therefore I'm a Democrat.'
Think - before you act! Research your facts. I lived in Alaska for 10 years. I've read studies and listened to people who have dedicated their lives to researching this issue.
When I heard Michelle speak on CNN the other day I heard ignorance. I heard someone who hasn't researched her material. I was embarrassed for her. For those who have 'listened' and given thought to this issue she does come across as ignorant. Seeking the limelight before you gather all of your facts isn't very flattering. |
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"...I've read studies and listened to people..."
Sorry, that doesn't convince a 'thinking' person. You know, the kind of person you are so quick to credit yourself as being.
What studies? What evidence? What people? Better yet, what credentials? Are they paid for by big oil or big enviro? What can you provide that explores the issue from the other side to show that you have even looked at the other side?
If you want to be taken seriously as a 'thinking' person, instead of coming off as justs merely condescending (e.g. readabook,) bring some evidence to back up your argument. |
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Here are some questions to which I have heard no answers from the no-drill crowd.
What are you doing/ planning to do about the environmental damage in other countries by their drilling for oil?
What are you doing/ planning to do about the famine and food shortages caused by high food prices?
What are you doing/ planning to do about the loss of rain forest in Brazil do to the need for farmland for food and for sugar (ethanol) do to the fuel and food shortages worldwide?
How are you planning to continue to fund our own government when the private industries and small businesses that pay for it can no longer survive do to much higher prices?
Who is going to fund the alternative energy research during the coming energy shortage induced depression?
Finally, do you care about people or just the environment?
Do not tell me you are looking at the big picture, because if you were you would be concerned about Africa, South America, and Asia, not just your little corner of the world.
Do not tell me you are looking out for the future either, because if you were then you would also be concerned about the economic realities that make a better environment possible. Only people with their basic needs met care a wit about the environment or the future. |
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I own three cars. In spite of that, I ride my bike around to and from the office most days for 11 months of the year, and I live in Minnesota. My wife and our five kids ride bikes their bikes around town most of the summer (my wife actual pulls our 11 week old infant in a car seat strapped in a kid carrier and carries our 3 year old in a kids seat on her bike.) I recycle everything I can and have for 8 years. I do drive my minivan when I have to, but only when I take the whole family out of town, which is about once a month. I also love the outdoors, and most of my vacations are spent camping with my family.
In other word, I am way more "green" than most people, even most environmentalist.
So what do I say, drill here, drill now. My wife, a professional, chooses to stay home with our kids, and we live on a limited budget. We are already doing all we can to conserve energy (we even bought the energy efficient light bulbs years ago.) The energy crisis hits us very hard because we don't have any "extras" to spare. If liberals really cared about poor people they would care about energy prices, because we are affected the most.
Drill here, drill now. |
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I can't stand the democrats anymore. They speaketh supposedly for the "little guy," then do whatever it takes to maintain the "crisis." They are mal-educated elitists, who profess to know how to protect the proletariat from those who actually can provide for its needs.
NO WE CAN'T... drill for the future, which we know will happen... time marches on!
NO WE CAN'T... go forward with nuclear power... EVEN THOUGH FRANCE (OF ALL PLACES) GETS 80% OF THEIR ELECTRICITY FROM NUCLEAR!
NO WE CAN'T... go forward with wind power, because a few birds have died after running into the wind turbines' blades...
NO WE CAN'T... go forward with solar in the desert... because the spotted black footed lily livered cockroach will be endangered...
NO WE CAN'T SOLVE ANY PROBLEMS, BECAUSE THE VERY EXISTENCE OF THE DEMS WILL BE ENDANGERED, IF, GOD FORBID, SOLUTIONS COME FROM THE PRIVATE SECTOR, OUTSIDE THEIR POWER BASE...
The democrats thrive on negativity and "can't-do" thought patterns. You see, they are the party of "Big Granny" (no we mustn't), and will do ANYTHING to thwart REAL, COMMON SENSE SOLUTIONS TO JUST ABOUT ANY SUBJECT ONE CAN THINK OF!
Vote these power hungry non-value-added swine from power in the Congress and keep them out of the presidency! All they do is throw sand in the gears of progress, so that we'll "need" them in order to "save" us!
Democrats, MOVE OVER, GET OUT OF OUR WAY! THE TIME FOR PATIENCE IS OVER. EITHER CONTRIBUTE TO SOLUTIONS, OR WE'LL DO IT IN SPITE OF YOU! (you being sent home after losing in the elections)
Ohh... and HAVE A NICE DAY. |
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I recall gaslines. I was even. Now, I have to take from peter to pay paul for my gas bill. I have to move about, I have to move my family. We have to get to work, to grocery store, to church and to school. Frankly, I don't give a flying fig about a carabou, polar bear or penguin. We have this invention called a fence, that can keep critters out of the drilling area (Ok, Iknow penugins are in the south, not north). I care about feeding my family. I care about making sure we can provide the bare necessities to them. I want drilling in the ANWAR. I don't plan on vacactioning there anytime soon, and if drilling can provide us with some resources, I say DRILL. You need some reality. It's not about you anymore. It's about us working families, who only want to feed our kids, and keep them moving about safely. |
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It's really great to finally have a crystal clear issue that all voters can understand. With the gasoline price issue focusing our attention and anger on the behavior of Congress, it clearly illustrates the agenda and mindset of the Democratic Party.
Their agenda is increased power via government control of our lives. They have little power in a free and prosperous nation. Their only play at this point is to create am energy crisis to bring down the economy so that they can claim "its Bush's fault" and then promise some pre-election illusionary slight of hand to get reelected.
Politicians hate it when they can't manipulate the issue and for good reason. It requires risk and hard work on their part to be effective leaders and very little risk and energy to talk out of both sides of their mouths.
If they really cared about the voters we would have been drilling 6 months ago.
After we clean house in November we will need to continue to disinfect both chambers for at least another 6-12 years.
I am certainly going to pay close attention to Congress' behavior from now on.
I expect to start hearing of democratic defections to the drill side any day now.....
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Michele, you did a great job hosting the Republican debate on this oil drilling "use it or loose it".
I watched you hosted debate about all our options for energy. After your one hour and a half, the Democrats came up. They said you did not mention conservation. So, this was suppose to wipe away all your arguments.
In this "use it or loose it" vote, we did have Democrats with us, but twice as many Republican went with the Democrats.
I don't understand it. |
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