Posted on 07/18/2008 3:04:33 AM PDT by Puzzleman
Now that an executive branch ban on offshore oil exploration has been lifted, the time has come for Democrats in Washington to lift their own ban on increased domestic supply. Americans are demanding that Congress do something about record-high gas prices. They recognize that prices will not go down unless supplies go up. And they also know that the only thing now standing in the way of more domestic supply is the Democratic refusal to allow it...
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But the Stupid Party is too dumb to pick it up and use it.
PS. After all a billionaire who made it in oil (and is now selling windmills) has told us “We can’t drill our way out!”
Would someone who knows the physics tell me just how far one could drive the average car on the energy output of one of those windmills. I suspect that the average daily output of one of those things might just push a 4 thousand pound car twenty miles. So we need about 100 million windmills I would imagine. LOL. God help us.
Open the floors of the Senate and House to a serious debate on drilling.
If the price of crude drops after Congress merely talks about drilling, maybe Congress should continue looking into it.
They should be put in the position (tiny minority for comic-relief) where they don’t have to “let” us do anything.
This issue is big enough to sink the Dems, but the Republicans always play “Washington Generals” for the Democrat “Globe Trotters.” I swear they lose deliberately. Could anyone be as timid, stupid, and incompetent as our people?
Pelosi won’t. She knows it is a losing issue for the democrats.
Don’t expect help from the media. This morning on a local affiliate station (Fox) the announcer said “Democrats want the oil companies to “use it or lose it” and drill on the land they already have leased. Republicans say it wouldn’t help the price of gas much”
What? Can we get a little more information than that?
It is actually much more than that; the technology is pretty sound but the cost/benefit analysis is up for debate because those towers are VERY costly to build.
This is what really makes me mad and, evidently, 91% of the rest of the country: Congress puts itself ahead of the people they're supposed to represent. They could care less about gas prices, as long as they win in November. Harry's going to hold all of us hostage until after the elections. This buffoon--the same guy who said federal income taxes are voluntary--openly admits he wants to do nothing to help you and I at the pump until it's to his advantage to do so. I hope you people in NV find some tar and feathers and just hammer him with it.
Maybe it’s because i was raised in the oil patch and have been involved with it for over 35 years. But the total lack of knowledge by general public and especially our
politicians simply amazes me. We’ve leased property many times and found no signs of oil. But the key is, you have to lease it first. It’s like they think oil is under every rock and in every crack of the world. It’s a hide and seek game thats been going on for years.
That’s what I said yesterday. Heck, to hear them tell it, I could be sitting on a goldmine! Not.
Ridiculous, just because they have land to drill on doesn’t mean there is oil to drill out.
There seems to be a lot of these people who made their fortunes in oil, that are now in (unelected)positions of power and trying to screw up the whole world with their dreams of a global Marxist dictatorship.
Exactly. Much of this “leased land” has already been explored and had all the geological sound testing done on it to determine whether it’s worth drilling there or not.
While there ‘may’ be some oil in these area’s, it simply isn’t worth the cost of recovery.
The Dems and the media don't want you to have more information than that.
T Boone isn’t planning on making money off the windmills. He is going to make $$$ off the gummit subsidies of windmills, just like Ethonol. Windmills aren’t economically feasible but the subsidies are.
If you like $5/gal, Thank Congress
Pray for W and Our Troops
If there is enough recoverable oil on those leases for profitable operations, the oil companies would have had it in the pipe line long ago.
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