Posted on 05/18/2008 5:29:27 AM PDT by A Navy Vet
I have come to the sad conclusion that President Bush is a Punk on the World stage. If ever a US President deserved that term, it is George W. Bush.
In case you haven't been keeping up with current events, the leader of the free world made a special trip over to Saudi Arabia recently to ask them to increase oil production. They said no, Bush left with hat in hand.
While some may see this as some sort of diplomatic effort to reduce the price at our pumps, I see it as surrender to the OPEC tyrants.
This is the United States of America President that was essentially beggin for sandrats to give the world more oil.
I don't know about you, but I'm done with this man and will forever call his time in the Oval Office the PUNK presidency. I acknowledge his WOT, but the DefSec and the Generals make that happen and they are doing better with the surge. The President, along with the StateSec make foreign policy and it has been a disaster. PUNKED!
...I am sick and tired of this bashing Bush for every little thing. I don’t agree with everything but this whine, whine, whine is tiring.
Don’t you think “disaster” is an exaggeration?
Now if Obama gets elected, it will be a disaster.
Oh please.....The big problem lies in the USA refusing to dig in ANWAR or utilize offshore assets or clean coal....or nuclear power plants.
I noticed that too, Navy Vet. It’s part of the price we pay for globalism and GWB: the coming of Oprah’s Obama.
To keep in theme, Republican Congressmen are also PUNKS because they refuse to fight the Democrats. They want to be liked. Maybe a better definition is PUSSIES. You decide on the term. I just think they are all, from Bush down, a bunch of self-serving self-agrandizing bought turncoats. I could probably name the Constitutionalist members on one hand.
So, the Bush legacy is what? You tell me if you don't agree with my word.
I wouldn't be so quick to believe what the main stream mediot adolescents tell you.
Thank you for your service, A Navy Vet.
The will to get out there and produce either crude oil, or a reliable and relatively easily available substitute for petroleum, is what is lacking. We could have an adequate number of coal-to-liquid fuel plants up and running, as well as a number of new-generation nuclear power generation plants. In fact, the nuclear “waste” we now have in storage in various places around the US would be an important resource in fueling these nuclear plants. We have the technology to separate out the radioactive isotopes that was not available back in 1960 and 1970, so what once was untouchable now becomes just another raw material for industrial use.
There are waste-to-power plants that consume solid-waste trash and rubbish, by a method known as Plasma Arc Trash Reduction, that both eliminates landfills, and produces electrical power generation as well, far in excess of the power consumed to start up the operation. There is carbon dioxide produced by this process, but it is carbon dioxide that would be produced anyway over time, plus no methane or leaching into the groundwater of various contaminants.
Carbon dioxide is plant food. In fact, to get a greener world, we may have to step up the proportions of CO2 in the atmosphere, or dissolved in the oceans of the world, just to boost the photosythesis activity of plant life, so we are assured of sufficient free oxygen in the atmosphere.
The watchword is actually to produce more and more of our energy in the form of electricity, by fueling the generators with compressed natural gas, drawn from the depths of the ocean as Methane Hydrate (just LYING there, people!), or from using the Fischer-Tropsch process to convert any of a number of carbon compounds to syngas, and using that to drive power plants. Syngas is made up of equal quantities of free hydrogen, which may be used directly in a fuel cell, and carbon monoxide, a deadly poison to almost all forms of animal life, but an excellent fuel in its own right.
The total number of alternative energy delivery systems is staggering. It is something of a puzzle why we continue to place so much of our reliance on a substance like petroleum. It is great stuff to make plastics with, and goodness knows, it can be transformed into any number of useful products, so its value is probably far greater than just as a means to generate heat.
If we NEED petroleum, we can manufacture it out of otherwise waste organic material, by a process called Thermal Depolymerization, which converts a slurry of organic wastes and water into a grade of kerogen with the application of heat, pressure, and a couple hours of time.
This could be used to reduce the effluent in wastewater plants, sending all the wastewater through this system, and letting the steam produced in the process cool and condense as distilled water, free of minerals, contaminants and pathogens. The heat could be supplied as a by-product of the operation of a nuclear power generation plant. This is essentially how clean water is supplied to the crew on a nuclear-powered warship at sea.
GWB=Oprah’s Obama. Even Jenna said on TV before she married the Hager guy that she’s for Obama.
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AND more globalism. The American people have never said "No" to the globalists at the ballot box.
Excellent post- very informative.
300,000 barrels? That's a drop in the lake. Get a handle on reality, the Saudis blew Bush off. And what the hell is he even doing over there begging for more oil?
...we need to reconsider the military and food aid we give the Saudis.....and next, in this country; we need to quit talking and start drilling...
If there is one genuine Constitutionalist in Congress it would surprise me.
Must be something in the Bush genes. I remember Bush pere on a begging trip to Japan.
Wherever you look the Congress, not Bush, has made the wrong decisions.
that isn’t a diss against GWB, because he isn’t running. duh!
Mega Dittos!
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