Posted on 07/18/2008 7:41:00 AM PDT by coffee260
There are 3 Grades of "NO" to lower gas.
"NO"
"NO"
"NO"LOL
Full of Win!
excellent find.
Funny, when Lord Nancy said that drilling wouldn’t lower gas prices a single penny this year she failed to notice that Bush made a single symbolic announcement and knocked oil down $15 in three days. Sure, Nancy, drilling won’t do anything to bring down prices. Sure.
BTTT!
The Republicans have their issue, if they are willing to pick up the ball and run with it.
But the Republican party is not called the “stupid party” for nothing.
In the face of the “evil party”, the Democrats, it is only necessary to change the name of things, and the game is completely reversed.
This spike in gasoline prices, and the APPARENT crisis in the supply of crude oil, is almost entirely due to the twisting of the language, so things not especially “poisonous” get ruled “pollutants” by a court of law that is almost completely illiterate when it comes to biology, physics and chemistry.
We have a HUGE supply of low-sulfur coal (to make electricity) that is locked up and inaccessible because it is in a “national monument”. We have a HUGE supply of petroleum that is not accessible because it is locked up in a “national wildlife refuge”. We have a HUGE supply of natural gas in our offshore outer continental shelf, but is is locked up because of “environmental concerns”.
There is an almost superstitious fear of ALL things nuclear, including nuclear power generation, because it could cause widespread environmental damage if it ran away and went into a meltdown, an incident that is indistinguishable in the minds of these same superstitious people from a detonation of a nuclear bomb. And nuclear bombs mean war, war is bad. Especialy when the war is being engaged in, to SUPPRESS the point of view that the world must live a simpler lifestyle.
A “greenhouse gas”, which by definition means pretty much water vapor and carbon dioxide, have that designation for an entirely different reason than some of the fearmongers seem to believe. “Greenhouse gases” are present in greenhouses, that is the NATURE of greenhlouses. True, carbon dioxide DOES capture some heat from solar radiation, but water vapor has almost exactly the same characteristics concerning heat capture that carbon dioxide has. But at any given time, there is from 25 to 100 times as much water vapor in the atmosphere as there is of carbon dioxide, so how much effect could that little bitty amount of carbon dioxide have? Now methane is supposed to be even worse, except for one glaring fact - unless you are standing over a natural gas leak, the amount of methane in earth’s atmosphere is there only in trace amounts (mostly as a product of decaying organic matter). And it disappears quickly, changing to water vapor and carbon dioxide in the presence of oxygen in the atmosphere.
And what happens to carbon dioxide, anyway? Plants scavenge the carbon dioxide and with the presence of water, use it to build molecules of carbohydrates, releasing free oxygen gas as a byproduct. We would not have the atmosphere we have today, without this conversion of the original very high concentration of carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and free oxygen. The highly reactive oxygen converted the free ammonia (NH3) into free nitrogen and an additional amount of water vapor, so much that it filled whole oceans, enough to cover the entire surface of Earth to a depth of several hundred feet, if the earth were a perfectly spherical ball.
Now there was an awful lot of carbon dioxide, ammonia and methane in the primeval earth atmosphere, totally noxious and unbreathable by today’s standards. In fact, if the “pristine” nature means restoring Earth to its condition about three billion years ago, oxygen and nitrogen as free gases would disappear altogether. Not especially a desirable state.
Human beings are fully adapted to the existing atmosphere, which is some 21% oxygen, 78% nitrogen, from 1%-4% water vapor, and about 0.0455% carbon dioxide. There are also trace amounts of the so-called “noble gases”, argon, krypton, neon, xenon and radon, and even more trace amounts of methane and other hydrocarbon gases, and strange things like hydrogen sulfide, the “rotten egg” smell, or ammonia, which has such a sharp odor, it may be detected by the human nose in extremely small concentrations.
Excellent! I like it.
Good job coffee260!
Mark
Hey, hey, hey!!
Just too many facts there, and you know the Democraps won’t
have ANY part of that, now !!!
Not when they have algore to tell them what the “facts”
really are. :)
:^D
Along with your usual democrat dupes are plenty of repub dupes who pushed MFN with China....the reason gas is expensive.
Mar. 2007 - China - The country’s use of gasoline reached 52.47 million tonnes last year, an 8.4% year-on-year growth, after the year’s car sales jumped 27% to hit 7.2 million. The forecast for this year’s growth is 18%.........
China and its Role in the Oil Price Rise
http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=30073
[snip] China has become forced to import three million barrels a day, making it the world’s second biggest oil-consuming country, after the US and ahead of its neighbor Japan.......This was reflected on the world price level, which remained at around $20-25 a barrel until 2003, when a big and perceptible increase in China’s consumption began.
http://english.daralhayat.com/business/10-2007/Article-20071028-e676e62b-c0a8-10ed-0004-6136f3cd0252/story.html
Thanks for posting that.
I have tried to tell folks that Economics 101 is
what is driving the price of oil (and, hence GAS)
up. That China and India are experiencing increased
growth in their economies and so world demand for
oil is pushing the price up.
You get it, I get it, and many here on FR get it. But
try to explain it to any Democrat ??? It just doesn’t
sink in at all !!!!
It seems that when it comes to ANYTHING regarding
Economics or basic business stuff, the Democraps are
as dense as the London Fog !!!
And I guess that when they have some BRILLIANT genius
like algore to ‘splain it all to ‘em, why should they
get it???
**SIGH!!**
You are welcome. It was a snip from this article.
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=Gas+4.39
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