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GOP pushes plan to open ANWR, expand offshore drilling
Fuel Fix ^ | March 31, 2011 | Jennifer Dlouhy

Posted on 03/31/2011 11:59:29 AM PDT by thackney

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To: SaxxonWoods

Agreed. I’ve always viewed ANWR as our strategic petroleum reserve. WTSHTF, we can drill and send to the lower 48 in the middle of WW IV.


21 posted on 03/31/2011 12:45:19 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The 0bamaNation of America slides toward death as planned.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

It isn’t stategic unless it was already drilled, lifted and processed.

WW3 or 4 would be over before we got it flowing.


22 posted on 03/31/2011 12:48:13 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer (biblein90days.org))
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To: thackney
President Barack Obama on Wednesday pitched his plans for slashing U.S. oil imports by a third over the next 14 years, including support for natural gas-powered vehicles and stronger fuel-efficiency requirements for cars.

Someone help me understand why natural gas, a fossil fuel, is acceptable to leftists, but gasoline isn't? If the answer is less CO2 emissions, hasn't CO2 been exonerated by the revelation that its relationship to warming is a complete hoax?

Measures designed to increase the fuel economy of our vehicle fleet have only proven to drive downward the cost per mile driven, then people tend to drive more miles, thereby negating the benefit. We have a history to observe here, it is the very definition of insanity.

23 posted on 03/31/2011 12:48:17 PM PDT by wayoverontheright
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strategic, not stategic

sigh...


24 posted on 03/31/2011 12:48:49 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer (biblein90days.org))
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To: thackney
But Democrats and administration officials stressed that any new drilling projects — even if approved today — could take years to produce oil and gas. And even then, the added energy production might not make a difference in oil prices that they insist are set globally.

That is the same excuse that the demonRATs have been using since jimah carter.

If we would have had the good sense to implement any of these plans 10, 20, 30 years ago, we wouldn't be in the middle of this shit sandwich.

I'd love to get these tree huggers out in the woods with me, my son and grandsons, in the middle of winter and see how much they really love nature.

Let them sleep in a tent, when it's below zero, hang their fat naked butt over a frozen log and walk miles through a foot of snow.

They'd give their left nut to get close to a pipeline throwing heat.

They can't answer the fact that the caribou herd has increased by a factor of 10 because of the heat generation of the pipeline.

25 posted on 03/31/2011 1:08:19 PM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages.)
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To: thackney

Before they EXPAND offshore drilling, they must first RE-LEGALIZE it!


26 posted on 03/31/2011 1:20:42 PM PDT by 2harddrive
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To: econjack

Having worked on the “north slope” I can tell you that you are mostly right. The pictures the leftist media uses, mountains, etc., are bogus, the Brooks range is so far to the south that it can barely been seen against the horizon. Nothing at ANWR but bleak tundra.

But it would be incorrect to say it is void of wildlife. There are bears, arctic fox, etc., but, as has been proven by the trans Alaska pipeline, they do not impact the wildlife negatively, to the contrary, the pipeline and the drilling get along quite harmoniously on the slope. No reason at all for them not to drill.


27 posted on 03/31/2011 1:22:00 PM PDT by sasportas
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To: USS Alaska
a pipeline throwing heat

I've heard folks tell this tale before but it just isn't true. That Pipeline is well insulated. I've been next to it a few different times. It can set stopped without flow for several days before the cooling of the oil becomes a big problem.

Look at the picture below. The snow isn't melted on the pipeline. And the day is warm enough that the guy can put his bare hand on the steel vertical riser.


28 posted on 03/31/2011 1:26:57 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer (biblein90days.org))
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To: sasportas

Correction on my last paragraph, I meant to say:

But it would be incorrect to say it is void of wildlife. There are bears, arctic fox, etc., but, as has been proven by the trans Alaska pipeline, the pipeline and drilling platforms do not impact the wildlife negatively, to the contrary, they get along quite harmoniously on the slope. No reason at all for them not to drill.


29 posted on 03/31/2011 1:26:57 PM PDT by sasportas
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To: sasportas

Most of my North Slope work was at Alpine. Where did you work?

30 posted on 03/31/2011 1:29:41 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer (biblein90days.org))
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To: thackney

Your post is absolutely correct. Milepost 450, that would be north of Fairbanks, somewhere around Livengood?


31 posted on 03/31/2011 1:31:04 PM PDT by sasportas
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To: sasportas
It isn't my picture, just one I found that would demonstrate my point.

I know it must be between Pump Station 7 and 8 so it is near Fairbanks.


32 posted on 03/31/2011 1:40:07 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer (biblein90days.org))
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To: thackney

Pump Station number one, I am retired from the pipeline. I live in Valdez, the southern end of the pipeline. It’s a tad warmer down here.


33 posted on 03/31/2011 1:41:11 PM PDT by sasportas
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To: thackney
About damn time. They could have done this when they had the majority but nobody in the GOP ever really gave a damn from Bush 41 until (possibly) now.

We'll see.

34 posted on 03/31/2011 1:47:52 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: sasportas
Tad warmer but a lot more snow.

I lived in Alaska from 2003~07. We miss it a lot but had to return to Texas partly for family, partly because of the declining work.

We lived in Eagle River. My office was in Anchorage but went to the slope for many site visits.

35 posted on 03/31/2011 1:47:56 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer (biblein90days.org))
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To: InterceptPoint
25% Waisted? The GOP is out of their mind.

U.S. Gives Obama Donor $500 Mil For “Green” Projects

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2697627/posts

Westly bundles over a half Million for Obama's campaign and Obama pays him back over a half Billion in taxpayer dollars.

It seems it pays Westly well to do business with a crook.

36 posted on 03/31/2011 3:54:11 PM PDT by TYVets (Pure-Gas.org ..... ethanol free gasoline by state and city)
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