Posted on 07/02/2008 8:46:07 AM PDT by HawaiianGecko
We’re surprised that Sen. Chuck Schumer can keep straight which foreign countries he’s haranguing to pump more oil and which he’s haranguing to stop pumping more oil. A few weeks ago the New York senator and aspiring global Petroleum Czar was threatening to block arms sales to Saudi Arabia if it didn’t produce more oil. Now, he’s outraged that the Iraqi government may give modest no-bid service contracts to Western oil companies as a first step toward more fully exploiting the country’s vast oil reserves. Perhaps Sen. Schumer would approve if the Saudis were to agree to pump the Iraq oil?
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They obviously want anyone but Americans to make money off of the oil boom. Only a Democrat could come up with thinking like this.
Hey, Chuckie! Victory sucks, eh?
“A few weeks ago the New York senator and aspiring global Petroleum Czar was threatening to block arms sales to Saudi Arabia if it didn’t produce more oil.”
That and suing OPEC...good thinking on the part of the lobotomized left.
Don't forget the American Conference of Mayors pi$$ing off the Canadians to the point where they have begun looking for ways to sell the Alberta Oil Sand output on the world market instead of to the U.S.
Schumer the tumor.
Schumer is proof of a broken government. I don’t think he is even capable of developing a rational policy on anything that is in the best interests of America. It’s all about politicking and grandstanding. The citizens of New York elected a second-rate carnival barker to the United States Senate.
If he was a true American with America's interest at heart, he would be promoting and encouraging the Iraq government to choose American companies.
American workers should be pi**ed at this scum bag.
Why in heaven’s name should we go begging for the Saudis to pump more oil when we have more oil reserves in the USA than they do? Wouldn’t it make more sense to have US companies drill for oil in the US? The only drilling the Democrats want to do is in people’s wallets to extract more in taxes.
New Yorkers are about to get a practical lesson in Economics 101.
"Wouldn’t it make more sense to have US companies drill for oil in the US?"It does drive one crazy doesn't it? I hear the left screaming that big oil doesn't invest enough in alternative energy. What? Big oil is very, very good at poking holes in the Earth and extracting oil from it. As a small investor in oil companies, I'd be upset if they were taking my money and applying it to anything other than what they have been successful at doing for the last 150 years.
I keep hearing a consistent mantra that we can't drill our way out of this oil crisis? Really? Since nearly our entire economy runs on oil, how exactly do they expect us to get more oil if we don't drill? Wish it out of the ground? I read a comment that it's like saying one can't drink their way out of dehydration.
Oil companies in the U.S. have paid more than twice the amount of money to the federal government in taxes than they've earned in profit. Doesn't seem fair does it?
As far as this crud that drilling won't supply oil for another five to ten years, do these idiots really believe that wind power or solar energy or even a nuclear plant can fill the gap tomorrow? It will take a lot longer than five years. In fact a DOE document that I post in FR several months ago says that by 2030, alternative energy will only supply 9% of our needs.
These guys are not looking out for our best interests.
While Chuck Schumer and the democrats are chasing after castles in the air, the ruskies, the arabs and other non-democratic states are digging our graves with oil profits.
There is no evidence that oil is created solely by dead dinosaurs. Hydrocarbons abound on Titan. Peak Oil or (that’s all there is and its running out) is a scare tactic that most are too afraid to oppose for fear of standing up for rational thought. Oil is there for the taking but enough of us have lost the will to survive that the entire nation is doomed. We are not a has-been nation whose time in the sun is over simply because we are afraid of hydrocarbons....
It’s time to survive and not dream of what if.... You can’t put a gun to the heads of scientists and engineers and command them to ‘invent’ us out of the need for oil.....there are no new technologies that can prevent us from starving to death and imploding into civil-war depression in the next 5 years. Oil is the name of the game in spite of the energy-anorexic liberal mantra of alternative fuels...
"New Yorkers are about to get a practical lesson in Economics 101. "It's really amazing how the environmental tuning fork in each person can change it's tune when it hits one's pocketbook.It only took about six weeks for the polls to turn completely in favor of drilling for oil.
Paycheck to paycheck voters will become increasingly disenchanted with inflated prices due to the price of oil and as you said... when they start filling their heating tanks this fall they're going to feel totally helpless. When your children are freezing, you'll burn old tires to stay warm and say to hell with the environment.
It's easy to be a liberal when you can afford to waste money.
“environmental tuning fork in each person can change it’s tune”
Nicely turned phrase.
Contact your Congress critters to let them know that you are tired of high gas prices.
Interesting chart. Keep posting it!
Very well put and I agree wholeheartedly.
These pols get a little testy when they don’t get their palms greased. Iraq hasn’t learned how to play the democrat game yet.
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