[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

To: Fred nerks:

Australian Greenies may have a problem stopping this .

[Abathar]

Probably the habitat of the few original native creatures left there that haven’t been displaced by some idiots wild idea to screw with the ecosystem to their benefit.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

“This is a huge problem for PM Gillard. No one lives out there so ....”

Wrong! The fact that “no one” lives there won’t stop the greens from opposing the development. They can take a page from the Canadian greenies’ playbook. (The GABA is a hot, dry version of Canada’s Arctic.) Development in built-up areas is bad, because people live there. Development in remote northern regions is bad, because (almost) no one lives there. It’s a pristine wilderness, and we must not violate the sanctity of a pristine wilderness.

[Brad from Tennessee]

These Australians apparently aren't aware that Barack Obama has declared oil “a fuel of the past.”

[Recon Dad]

I would hope the world oil price futures go to $10 BBL......

“Question, is there enough water in areas of Australia?

[theDentist]

In other news, Dictator Obama the First, your Dear Leader, has annexed Australia and declared the oil fields discovered therein as a National Park, and demands you never speak of it again. All Hail!!

[BOBTHENAILER]

PM Gillard should study the American SW. There, the EPA uses “native grasses” and sand lizards as a means to slow down or actually halt production.

Then again, there may be an Aussie version of the sage grouse which has been used throughout the Rocky Mountains, in addition to the prarie chicken.

There is a never ending group of scarce animals/reptiles/plants, etc., that have been used throughout the US, by the EPA, to either halt of slow down production.-——BASTARDS

[Stosh]

Shouldn’t be any problem developing this site - about the only thing I can think of that’s more desolate would be the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge . . . oh, wait a second there . . .

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

-— the US could overtake Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest oil producer as soon as this year. -—

Really?

[Red Badger]

The Oomie-Goomie Bird:
The oomie-goomie bird has balls that hang down 14 inches. Unfortunately, his legs are only 12
inches long, and whenever he comes in to land, you can hear him cry, “Oooh, me goomies. Oooh,
me goomies.”

http://24thmissile.tripod.com/id60.html

[Marine_Uncle]

I've been a busy bee today trying to flatten out an area of terrain in Afghanistan's Zubul province where based on Google Earth maps my nephew is residing in a forward operating base.
Finally got it figured out. Then had to build stone perimeter walls around the base, and start to populate it with hangers, tents, barrack areas, single walled in home areas, fuel trucks, beacon towers....blah blah.
Slowly it is shaping up to look slightly like air photos depict it as.
I plan on using it as a heliocopter base where I can make flights between say Bagram AFB or the main Kandahar base.
I'm now proficient enough to pilot some of the choppers I have in Micro Soft FSX Flight Simulator.
I like the CH47 Chinook quite a bit. Lots of practice still needed for me to take off in a smooth vertical accent, and then fly the beast around. But it is a lot of fun.
So I have spent little time at FR or elsewhere on the Internet today other then getting rather disgusted at watching some parts of the Hanoi John Kerry Senate conformation.
I'll spare you on that one.

It will be interesting to see how this deal might play out for the oil/gas companies. I'm sure their crazy environmentalist will find a particular spider that grows to the full size of a tiny pea to keep much from happening.

[GeronL]

Now lets put the Muslim nations out of business!!