Posted on 11/10/2001 4:44:11 PM PST by Pokey78
And your "vision" is swayed by your Sunday Mission.
A quick commercial for the car I own. It is a hybrid gas-electric. But if you drove it you wouldn't even notice. You don't plug it in, you just put in regular gas. And after 700 miles all you do is stop at the gas station again and marvel at the 50-60 mpg you get.
I have lived since 1969 in the West Texas Oilfields, these proud people live in an economy that is governed by the whims of OPEC. The rest of the United States, by liberal media & tv, thinking we are all JR Ewing.
We have lost so many experienced oil "hands" and most have suffered by losing jobs & savings.
The rest of America needs to realize that we cannot allow our energy to be at the mercy of any foreign cartel.
We have alot of oil in America. That oil is taxed so much and profits are so low, there is very little incentive to compete with the cheap foreign oil.
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I can read a lot into that, ya know.
Thanks for the link. Got it bookmarked.
Didn't EXXON in Q4 of 2000 make a larger profit than any other company in the history of mankind?
Still a huge smile.
You be careful out there, alright?
You can look at a 1/4 profit, look at the profits from 1982, major bust....
You're forgetting the most quotable line of the entire article:
Our State Department is creative; surely, if called upon, it would be able to figure out an arrangement for operating the oilfields that would safeguard our supply and win the blessing of a revenue-hungry regime with a stake in the continued flow of oil. And surely such a regime, if it did not exist, could be invented.
That applies to hispanics just as well as arabs. Our involvement in Latin America over the past two hundred plus years proves this. Heck! We already have military stationed down there supposedly "fighting the war on drugs" next door in Columbia. Move the battle across the border and wipe out all parties involved. Then the U.S. can help the Venezuelans start over with a clean slate (one favorable to us, of course). We'd have a stable ally in the region, a more reliable source of oil, and the satisfation of scaring the bejeeszus out of all the little communistas in the area.
Right on! Good post, Saber.
You are crazy all right, because you have swallowed the anti-nuke brainwashing sponsored by the oil companies throught their RICOnut front organizations. 20 years ago I thought as you do, until I did the homework. What do we do about the radioactive isotopes people breathe RIGHT NOW from combusted coal? There is more radioactivity released from coal in sheer tonnage than will ever be produced by reactors and a lot of it is inhaled or ingested directly into the body, not some theoretical scare story cooked up by someone with a grant dollar to hustle. One also has to consider particulates and other lovely byproducts of combustion from carbon monoxide, to NOX, formic acid...
There is no free ride, fella.
And if you haven't thought about it....If, in fact, Bin Laden does have a dirty nukes...where do you think the radioactive material came from?
Well it's WAY too late to do anything about that, isn't it? Were you out there putting up your money to retire those ancient Russian carbon pile reactors? Will you go running out there and beg North Korea to stop? So what does that have to do with domestic US reactors? Get a grip.
There are safer ways to produce "energy" but of course none of the big oil companies would profit from them so they haven't been a concern.
Most of which require more energy than they produce, especially photovoltaics. Look, I'm not going to spit out my total favored energy program here just for your benefit. Let's just say that it includes a mix of technologies including passive solar space and water heating (got a copper mine? Quarrying too, then there is the gas for the concrete...), possibly electrochromic windows (a lot of mining there too fella), fuel cells on propane for wider distribution (got a platinum mine? co-holders of BP already cornered that one), and nuclear for large scale centralized production.
What concerns me more than which technology is employed is that the assessment of risk is not objective, but political, and political decision-making serves the interests of those who buy the patronage. It is a corrupt and incompetent system. I would rather trust those who make a choice after they put up the insurance money than those who shoot off their mouths with a shrill and uninformed diatribe, forcing people to waste energy and time paying off rapacious attorneys and risking our security keeping the Saudis in power, and preparing to pay the currency transfer taxes to keep the UN awash in your money.
Sleep tight, Rockefeller loves you. Maurice will keep you safe from those nasty nukes...
This undoubtedly will lead to some future war in which the Chinese will make a push for the Caspian reserves. The United States, Russia, and Western Europe will then have to defend those areas. The beat goes on.
I don't have much hope for any oil replacement anytime soon. The big oil corporations, the Wall Street gang, the automobile manufacturers, and the environmentalists all stand to lose if we change the status quo.
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