Posted on 04/18/2006 4:27:22 PM PDT by SierraWasp
Why not just have the oil companies make ethanol from ethanne gas and water, as I proposed back in the mid-80's? There is plenty of ethane in natural gas that we can use to make as much drinking alcohol as we want! Tank up our cars, and ourselves...on BP or Shell Vodka!
My co-workers lost their jobs and never came back.
You only remember price increases, never the price decreases.
And you think we somehow control them. Friends, if we controlled them, there would never be price decreases. Your amnesia doesn't change reality.
Mr Exxon CEO is that you?
Not hardly, but if you don't want an American oil industry drilling for oil in this country, just say so.
Just repeating what I said up-thread a fur piece... Do ya ever git tired of pushing back the frontiers of ignorance? (as Walter Williams likes to say)
We'll be remembering $3 gasoline with fondness, and fifty years from now when we tell our grandchildren they won't believe any of it.
Just like I remember two bits per gallon gasoline!!! Actually, I think I remember it cheaper than that during some "GAS WARS!" (like under a dime!)
My first car I filled up every day for about $2, ten gallons. Used to drive a lot.
He said insane (pointing)
Ah heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh...
Let me "point" out, you can't even read! I did NOT say "insane!" Go back and try reading what was written... Ah heh-heh-heh-heh... PHHHHHHT!!!
Many happy returns!!!
Picture was for the people with a mind up their butts, not directed towards you.
Guess I should put a line or two explaining the pics I post.
No you don't. I built gas stations all thru the 80's and early 90's in NJ. MTBE, granted, floats on water and is insoluble, but the only way it gets into the water is thru leaks. Now leaks are already illegal, so the crap about ethanol is nothing but the Politics of Money at its best. The cost of Ethanol is more than MTBE and it give us worst gas mileage then regular gas. So now that cost of gas is going up, who is going to blame Congress for the rise, the drive-by Main Stream Media.
Homey, don't think so.
I've been working for a major oil company for more than 25 years and I think the switch to ethanol is stupid.
You either misunderstood my post or you think that your job in construction gives you more expertise to expound on what's going on than I have.
Eat an enviromentalist? I really like the irony of that, since most envirocommunists are vegetarians. Go ahead and roast mine too, if you could, please, but slow-roast him and make him rare if you would please, sir. Oh, and some A-1 sauce would be nice too. I hear vegetarians are kinda' dry... Thank you.
There is absolutely no reason that this country can't drill for it's own damned oil. Execpt for maybe America-hating Democrats who are more worried about the three hoofed elk than they are about the American way of life...
I have always wondered...since envirocommunists are so worried about the trees, does that mean that they don't use toilet paper?
But I digress...
I apologize for the mild profanity, but I do believe that the situation calls for it, sir.
respectfully yours,
.......leefish
Big V-8s and cheap gas forever! We can make it happen!
I like it! I love it!! I want somemore of it!!! (grin)
We're not going to run out of oil anytime soon unless we decide not to continue to extract it.
It's a matter of cost and political will.
Someday, I'd like to own a V-12.
Yes... I understand that's really smoooooooth POWER!!! Them piston are about the size of them little bitty cans of V-8 juice, right? (grin) Pour on the GAS, doggonnit!!!
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