Oil is up when priced in Euro's or the Yen.
Posted on 04/21/2008 6:10:30 AM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
And our "friends" the Saudis are balking at increasing production. So while they continue to screw with us on oil ... let's be sure to respond here in this country by: Refusing to drill in ANWR for more oil in the very portion of ANWR that was set aside for the purpose of drilling for more oil.
Refuse to tap the known reserves of oil and natural gas off the West coast of Florida because, after all, we certainly don't want tourists in Florida to catch sight of a drilling rig 25 miles off shore now do we?
Refuse to develop ways to use the oil shale from the Western United States.
Refuse to develop coal gasification techniques. Refuse to build any more refineries in the United States.
Listen to the anti-nuke moonbats and continue to delay building some nuclear power plants.
And while we're doing all of these things let's make sure to keep the subsidies for ethanol at a ridiculous high so that we can take more land out of food production to grow more corn to be turned into an alternative fuel.
We burn more than a gallon of fossil fuels to produce a gallon of ethanol .. so this sounds like a good bet to me!
Oh ... and let's continue to call the Saudis our friends and kiss their sandy butts at every possible opportunity.
Here is a suggestion.
For the next election, we only elect representatives who:
Are in favor of drilling ANWR
Are in favor of term limits
Democrat or Republican, it doesn’t matter.
As you might imagine the nay-sayers against clean Nuclear power are still pulling the ropes as are all Environmentalists to stop energy independence. Because the politicians have shown they will not do the right thing and lose votes, it is up to "We The People" to tell them to start building Nuclear plants and oil refineries now - NOT after the 2008 election…..we elected them to do the peoples work now and if they can’t get it done now we need to shovel the lot of those in this inept congress out the door and find some people who will do the work and produce what we need for oil independence NOW.
These oil prices could be taken care of IF the dimwitts would allow driling at Anwar. Lets also hope that the ND fields will be drilled on shortly, IF the dimwitts won’t stop that also.
“Can you name a business with more than a 100 employees that moves into a town or city that does not get a subsidy??? Nothing wrong with turning sunlight to ethanol. Been around since about 1980 and I doubt it goes away just like the thousands of other businesses that are subsidized. Just to separate the two in all fairness, industry produces useful products whereas welfare does not. There is a difference.”
Hey Red. You didn’t address my question about the overall issues of subsidies afforded 1000s of businesses. How bout removing all Ag subsidies and see what that does to the price of food?
The die is cast, the pattern is set.
Stop all efforts to make the US energy independent, at all costs.
No new nuclear power plants.
No new refineries.
No new oil fields, not even test drills.
No new pipelines.
No new wind farms.
No new ANYTHING!
The environmentalists have every base covered. Every single project will be challenged, FOR YEARS, in court after court after court.
Until it becomes so expensive, the investor just gives up and goes away..........
If $2 is what it’s worth to produce a unit of concrete that’s what the market will pay. Once transportation is factored into the price, the market doesn’t care who makes it or where.
Nobody said we have to like it.
When are people going to get fed up with the Rats and Eviro-Wacko’s telling us we cannot drill for oil in places where we have billions of barrels.
The government should not be in the business of subsidizing anything, Food, energy, or housing. Once you start down that road, and we’ve been on it for long time, it cannot be stopped. Why should I give ADM my tax dollars to grow or NOT grow anything? Why should I give my tax dollars to the sugar cane growers of south Florida? Why should I give my tax dollars to anybody for anything? If the market is there, subsidies are not necessary. Subsidies are just another name for bribes and kickbacks. Corruption by lawmakers thru legislative fiat.........
Ever wonder why you can only bring back so much and only certain food from Mexico as an individual?
That's to protect the middle man here in the US.
Food is cheap in Mexico because the labor is and their tax burden is low.
Also, 'free trade' was instigated to help corporations rake in profits and keep the US consumer clothing, toys, electronics, etc. and food additives cheap so the gov can keep fleecing our back pockets.
Wonder why food and energy are no longer in the 'official' government's inflation reports?
Not as many as you think. Modern wind turbines can easily go above 2MW(some can go as high as 5MW). So around 200-500 average turbines are needed to equal a giant 1000MW coal fired boiler. But the turbines won't release any toxic pollution. The energy is in the air and we just have to grab it.
Solar can produce even more. Solar turbine plants in the Arizona desert can generate all the power we need. My research was for solar generation without panels and it is very promising. And yes, concentrated sunlight is as hot as red coals and can melt steel.
There is also an almost limitless amount of geothermal energy waiting to be tapped.
Every price increase on fossil fuels makes alternatives more viable. It will not be booming as the days of cheap fossils, but we will survive.
The plus side is that air and water will get cleaner. All of that toxic mercury you get in fish is from Coal plants. Cars running on electricity/H2 will cut down on smog in cities. If we continued increasing pollution, fish would be inedible and cities unbreathable.
IMO, the spiraling price of oil and the Bush Administration’s lack of an effective energy policy (other than environmentally-devastating biofuels support) amounts to an intangible tax increase on our reliance on government to solve all our issues.
Biofuels are having a devastating impact on world food markets and even the UN is admonishing all nations to eat food, not drive vehicles with it!! Much as I hate to agree with the UN, current studies of biofuels suggests that they are a bigger environmental disaster than burning fossil fuels.
As the cost of oil spirals out of control, the price of everything is going through the roof. So, while Rome burns, Nero (AKA Jorge Bush) fiddles. We are taking his administration’s (and Congress’) lack of action on this issue in the shorts and in the pocktbook. Bush got a lot of positive press from conservatives when he pushed to drill in ANWR but, when Congress pushed back and proved intransigent, he backed down. This is NOT leadership and it isn’t much different than Clinton’s leadership-by-focus-group.
At the current pace in his last term, Bush will rival Jimmuh Cahter as being one of the worst presidents in recent memory.
Oil is up when priced in Euro's or the Yen.
Not sure about the UN comments. I have not studied it. However, I agree with you about Bush. I voted for him twice, and regret it.
I’m not against alternative energy, but I think it’s the job of the market to decide when it’s time, not some politician trying to get votes. And when oil becomes too “expensive”, other alternatives will step up and replace it.
One problem though: what do we do when a company wants to put up 200-500 turbines, and it’s blocked by a politician? (e.g. Ted Kennedy). Politicians love to remind us of “problems”, but are not that eager to implement solutions. Isn’t it ironic that the politicians talk themselves up as having the answers to all of our problems, yet it is usually they that are the underlying problem?
I think it was on cavuto this weekend that people think vacation destinations such as Disney stock is going to go down the crapper. Airline tickets are going to go sky high soon. Lot's of people will not be able to afford to fly to Disney. Some will drive that would have normally flown. But attendance will be down.
Who's the idiot in that picture?
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