Comments on: Smoke & Mirrors & Oil

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:42:29 +0000

Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas are the only states that would approve it, and they already have all the wells they can handle.

Oil companies make too much money from “reserves” to actually want to pump any more oil out of the ground.

By: cookie jill

cookie jill — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:10:14 +0000

The Governator blew off BushCo’s drilling idea.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:11:46 +0000

Crist better get the VP nod because he just embraced the third rail of Florida politics. I don’t imagine even Arnold is dumb enough to want to discuss this.

By: cookie jill

cookie jill — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:29:46 +0000

Don’t get me started on offshore oil drilling. 🙁

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:24:22 +0000

Alaskans are concerned, Badtux… that one day the oil will run out and they’ll have to start paying taxes. I mean right now for every dollar in Federal taxes they pay they only get .. $1.84 of Federal spending.

Whereas a liberal, wasteful state like California gets 78¢.

Everyone needs a dream, and for Alaskans it’s a free lunch.

The geology south of the Florida Panhandle says natural gas at best, and we are already getting that drilling on the Panhandle. We could do just as well recovering it from landfills, instead of just venting it.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:57:02 +0000

Well, there’s also the problem that the parts of the U.S. and U.S. continental shelf that have not yet been explored and exploited amounts to perhaps 5% of the area of the U.S., and we can at most get 5% of the oil out of them that we got out of the rest of the U.S. during the previous 100 years. In other words, 5 years supply at most. Yeah, we’re really gonna drill our way out of this oil shortage, are we? BWHAHAH!

– Badtux the Oil Penguin

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:09:05 +0000

First off, Crapola, you might want to do a little research on “peak oil” and then in the guesses for Alaskan oil deposits.

Second, you need to remember that the people of the United States bought Alaska, and a lot of it still belongs to the people of the United States and not just the residents of Alaska.

Third, the people of the United States are not receiving checks annually from the oil business, like the people of Alaska, and our state governments are not funded by oil revenue, so we tend to have a different view of such things.

Fourth, the oil companies are not doing a lot of exploration or exploitation on leases they already own, so there is no indication that they are chomping at the bit to do anything about possible oil in Alaska. It might be a good idea for Alaskans, but why would the oil companies care?

So you don’t have to ask, yes I did, in fact, live in Alaska for a while in the Air Force, up at Eielson AFB outside of Fairbanks, as well as on the Aleutians.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:39:07 +0000

LLL, I agree with Mustang Bobby that Charlie is running for Vice President, as that’s the only explanation for even mentioning this idea. It will certainly be brought up if he has to run for re-election.

Lady Min, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Republicans didn’t select McCain as their nominee. It’s a long time until the conventions, and John might be “forced to withdraw for health reasons”. It has happened before, and Rove is still crawling around in the basement.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:32:55 +0000

FM – Reagan didn’t want to make the sacrifices back when they wouldn’t have been that bad, and we would have been over the problems by now, making a lot of money from other people selling non-petroleum-based solutions to the world. Despite what they did to us in the 1970s, Reagan left us at the mercy of the Middle East.

Welcome, RC. Yes, it’s the same pattern that American industry has been in for the last half century – maximize profits by minimizing expenses. Among the expenses are research and new equipment that would have made manufacturing profitable forever, but would reduce the profits for a few quarters. American business no longer thinks in the long term. “Investors” have become gamblers. I’m waiting for them to reduce the time frame for a “long-term” investment from one year to one month.

By: Crapola

Crapola — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:23:49 +0000

McCain wants to leave it up to the states? If he and the rest of the lefty wackos would get the hell out of the way Alaska could produce half of the US needs for the next 100 years! Better way to spend your 100 years than in Iraq. Longer term there must be alternative energy developed and ready to roll unless we want to enjoy a resurection of the dark ages. Spend a few billion dollars on this idea instead of “Liberating” a world that would rather have someone hand them their daily bread.
Well… We call it a “refuge” for a reason. And just what is that reason McCain? A trade off to the greenie wackos that have no clue that isn’t modified by Mary Jane smoke! Blame the Republicans for a failed Democrat Congress! Just typical of the Berkeley educated idiots!
Change? The only change we will see is the two nickles left in our pocket after Washington is finished with us!
Don’t start the revolution without me!