Posted on 06/19/2008 5:54:52 PM PDT by mdittmar
As gas prices continue to increase, Congress continues to blame others while ignoring practical steps to stop the pain Americans are feeling at the pump. To lower gasoline prices and reduce our dependence on foreign oil, we need real solutions to our energy challenges.
If you like $5/gal, Thank Do Nothing Nancy.
PRay for W and Our Troops
*Big middle finger up*
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I wish some our President said something of this nature when he recently spoke.
Who are these elected officials in Congress who want to disrupt the symbol of American freedom?
The Gas House.
That's what we should call the House of Reps.
You want $10/gal gas? Rely on Rahm Emmanuel of Chicago to define the event: "We can't drill our way out of this."
Of course we can, Rahm. We also can't exclusively conserve our way out of this.
This one rates maximal support. It’s only the second really efficient way to really hurt the rats I’ve ever come across, the other being the National Right to Work group in Springfield Va.
Every Dem on TV, including Allen Colmes, has for the past two days been repeating the same mantra like a broken record, “The oil companies are not drilling in 68 million acres to which they already have the leases”.
But others are saying that’s because there’s no oil there. I don’t know who is BSing who on this issue.
The oil companies are in it to make money; we need to make it possible to produce oil here AND ensure that there’s MORE money in it than in simply buying oil from OPEC. The most extreme solution possible would be to ban the importation of oil: we’d recover; OPEC wouldn’t.
What percent of the Alaskan oil now brought out of the ground makes its way to the lower United States and what percent makes its way to Japan?
There is the issue of refineries.....
It was at 970,000 or so twelve hours ago. That’s a pretty good rate of growth.
This is the mantra the dunbocrats keep repeating. Unfortunately, those leases have not been explored at all, most are starting at ground zero, or if they have been investigated have produced no evidence of oil. The doofuses in Congress say "drill anyway".
Meanwhile, the areas that have been drilled, logged and checked, and where we know there is oil
, are deemed "inappropriate", and off -limits.
Congress, the Feds and the Administration asleep at the wheel as usual when it comes to the domestic economy; however, they seem to always be keen on their timing an ability to keep raising taxes.
Hmmm. The dimoCRAKS took control of congress in 2006. Is it me or does anyone here see a coincidence here?
Nevermind. The question has been answered many times on FR in the past decade.
But others are saying that’s because there’s no oil there. I don’t know who is BSing who on this issue.
I have no idea where this 68 million acre figure comes from. I think it is just made up.
I work for an oil company. A big one. We simply do not have vast amounts of acreage that are undrilled.
Now, it's true that you don't put oil wells one foot apart (which isn't even allowed) but is every acre without an oil well on it counted into this total?
And is every new lease that is purchased, but not yet drilled, counted into this total? How are we supposed to instantly have a well on it the day after it is acquired?
The notion that oil companies have huge leases covering millions of acres that we're just ignoring is bullcrap. The provisions of the leases say, use it or lose it.
So, I'm baffled by the Big Lie here. I don't know how it even started, much less how a figure was assigned to it.
Naaawww...can’t be the Wall Street global financial markets reaction to ‘socialist tax and spend libs’ coming into power can it?? Let’s not forget either that the GOP from 2000-2006 have spent like drunken sailors too!!
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