[Calpernia]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1394968/posts?page=45#45

Arctic Coastal Zone Management

[maestro]

Oil Now and Oil Tomorrow

.....over-population.....was the problem in the past?

/railroads and nuclear trains?

[poobear]

This article started making sense, saved for later. No time now, but I've always thought it a little fishy that we have always leaned towards importing other resources rather than "dipping" into ours. (tin foil hat on) ;D!

[PeterPrinciple]

Between January and this month, the cost for filling my car tank has doubled.

Does anyone else think this is a lie? They get by you pretty quick.

[IronJack]

The answer is that years of effort by environmental organizations have finally paid off, placing so many restrictions on this nation’s ability to keep pace with its energy needs, that everyone will now pay more

Yeah, it would be nice to blame it all on "environmental organizations." But the truth is, Occidental Petroleum, British Petroleum, Exxon, Royal Dutch Shell, Superior Oil, and Reliance Oil all reported record profits this last quarter.

This is not entirely the fault of enviro-wackjobs. This is untrammeled greed at its worst. And the best part is, the thieving bastids in oil company boardrooms have ready-made whipping boys: the environmental lunatic fringe.

[DustyMoment]

The irony is that if ALL sources of energy development were terminated per the environmentalists demands, they would be the first ones screaming about the discomfort and inconvenience.

If they honestly lived what they believed, they would live in tents and all ride bicycles or horses.

Enviro-wackos are the embodiment of the phrase "All hat and no cattle."

[KC_for_Freedom]

The reason for this is the cost. However, as the cost of a barrel of imported oil reaches $50 and is likely to stay there, an investment in the technology to extract it from shale begins to look feasible and sensible.

Main point, this has always been true, but the oil cartel in the Middle East has always in the past lowered oil prices until it was not sensible and feasible. Environmental concerns did the rest. The oil retrieved from these deposits in the US and Canada are not as easy to get or as clean to use so they cost too much. One day the price of oil will stay high, but as soon as we start to invest heavily in our own oil reserves, the Saudis will drop prices again and put these new businesses out of business.

BTW, there are new drill rigs and pumping in Texas because of the high price which will be shut down again as soon as the price drops to $30 a barrel.

[TexasRepublic]

years of effort by environmental organizations have finally paid off, placing so many restrictions on this nation’s ability to keep pace with its energy needs, that everyone will now pay more

The environmentalist movement is but one of many allied organizations within the "fifth column" that seeks to wreck our economy as a means to destabilize our society and precipitate political change to a Marxist system. We are being mugged on a national scale.

[Cowboy Bob]

If the Left were serious in their call for energy conservation, they would put an end for forced busing.

[Stand Watch Listen]