[Dawnsblood]

OPEC won't like this...

[Slapshot68]

“OPEC won’t like this...”

Neither will the greenies. I wonder how many of these nations are signatories to the Kyoto protocol?

[carjic]

And the good ole USA has more than anyone and we sit on it.

[alloysteel]

OPEC won't like this...

We do not give a rap whether OPEC likes it or not. They had their opportunity to behave as fair and honest brokers, and they chose to go for the big score.

Now if we could only get the US Congress to see that they have built a box they must either dismantle, or find themselves confined to until they perish, there might be some REAL progress on wrestling this demon to the floor.

[stuartcr]

I haven’t seen anything on other countries and their prices at the pump. Are the pump prices for gas increasing at the same rate for Europe, South America and Asia, like they are here?

[Lazamataz]

Proof that the oil boom is over.

Once real solutions are being investigated, it's over.

[pabianice]

So what if the U.S. has a 300-year supply of coal? Nancy and Harry will never, ever, ever let us dig for it. I look forward with perverse enjoyment what the public is likely to do to Congress when gas hits $7 a gallon in August.

[Poison Pill]

Illinois is a big coal state. It will be fun to see if Obama kicks his constituents or the greenies to the curb during the general.

[vpintheak]

You reap what you sew enviro-wingnuts! Or, put that in your pipe and smoke it! Or, stupid is as stupid does. And last, let the free market decide!

[backhoe]

Just sayin’...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/724170/posts
That Trillion-Dollar Ripoff— Clinton’s Utah Coal Deal
various websites | 7-29-02 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

[TLI]

Yep. It is part of the long term solution.

Explore and drill, east and west coasts and Alaska and develop the reserves contained in the Bakken Formation

Build modern technology refineries

Build Nuke power plants

Build Coal power plants

Open the clean coal deposits Klinton “closed” which contains 62 BILLION tons of environmentally safe low-sulfur coal from the Kaiparowits Plateau in Utah.

Slowly but steadily increase the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE)

But noooo, we get ethanol. And from CORN no less.

And the enviro-wackjobs demand this...

If the President were to announce this tomorrow and clearly state that due to the necessity of averting a disaster to the economy and a threat to National Security he will emplace Executive Orders that will not only immediately initialize this overall program but exempt it from excessive or unnecessary environmental regulatory agencies rules where do you think the hedge fund speculators will go, thus dropping the market price of crude by 20 - 40 bucks?

They will go straight to that new market of energy production and the companies that will build it, as a well functioning economy SHOULD be that inviting. Not only will the price start to drop immediately, the very nature of new industry gains and emerging technologies will keep the price down.