Posted on 07/18/2008 7:40:11 AM PDT by SmithL
I admit to bafflement. I admit to a bit of total confusion mixed with a certain level of stupefied awe and teeth-rattling frustration as to why anyone with the mental acuity of more than a housefly would think that stabbing more holes into Alaska and the eastern seaboard in the search for a few remaining precious drops of oil is a good idea, would solve anything at all, is anything more than the equivalent of hurling matches at the devil.
Perhaps I'm missing something. Perhaps there's some dark, secret genius behind President Bush's otherwise absolutely imbecilic and dangerous corporate-whore move to lift the federal ban on offshore drilling, a ban placed there by his own father, as Dubya actually stood there with a straight face and tried to imply that this insidious move was meant to impart something good and helpful for a gas-stunned nation, that he was "doing all he could" to help with prices at the pump, when you could actually see the oil dripping from his shivery bones and the giant hand of Exxon shoved up his weak little spine, making his mouth move.
Oh, I fully understand the corporate arguments, even the political ones. Asking why the oil companies are eager as rabbits on meth to gouge further into the planet is a bit like asking a surgeon why she wants to operate, or a lawyer why he wants to sue, or a snake why he wants to sink his fangs into a nice juicy rat and swallow it whole and smile for a week. It is, quite simply, what they do.
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Indeed you are. It's called knowledge of subject and a thought process. Both of which you lost when your boyfriend left you on the alter. Get over him Morford! He's not coming back! He has a new lover!
Crude is down $15 since Bush lifted the ban. End of story.
“..swallow it whole and smile for a week.”
Moford’s subtext. He always sneaks in a personal desire.
This has to be the biggest understatement of the year! I'm surprised this guy can breathe without help. I don't recall ever seeing a more biased, uninformed piece of journalism. Doesn't this guy realize that crap like this represents an unnecessary denuding of the nations forests? Clearly he has no understanding of basic economics or capitalism in general.
Naw. Couldn't be.
No energy, no economy, no jobs.
So newspapers using trees to make paper that is bleached with chlorine that goes into the water supply and has a high energy use in distribution and winds up filling up landfills is good? HYPOCRIT!
After his 'back to-nature' experience, Marford could enlighten us on the benefits of a "no oil" lifestyle.
Morford: You’re right - let’s not punch holes in Alaska or the coasts. Give them all up. Yes, I’m serious - we don’t need them! No drilling at all in Alaska. Or off the coast of California. Or Florida. Or the Gulf Coast. Bahamas. None of that.
Rather, we have 280 YEARS of our TOTAL oil consumption - 20 million barrels of day - sitting as proven reserves in our oil-shale. We should develop that. It is over a large enough geographic area we could realistically extract 20 million barrels a day.
We can have first production in 3 years, and full production within 10. All located in geographically stable, central locations in Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado.
Add that to the 7 million barrels a day we make right now, not only could we be 100% self-sufficient in terms of oil, we could be a net exporter of oil. At $100 a barrel, that is $700 MILLION a day in exports. At the 25% tax rate the oil companies pay, that would also be another $64 BILLION in tax revenue for the government.
So by all means, let’s not punch more holes in Alaska or the coast. But we’ll go after the shale oil with a vengance and never have to buy another drop of oil, ever again.
Adulthood.
Not to Mention the Bakken reserves.
I know! I know what you're missing! ..... A brain.
So he’s kind of like the scarecrow on Wizard of OZ, except he’s a homo-scarecrow, and not very likeable.
The marketer of deviance and the highly regarded rimmer of his beloved community is once again demonstrating his enhancement of stupidity.
Enjoy yourself as you spew your inane venom, but remember this, one of these days you'll get your layoff notice, or, the publisher's email about the paper's eminent closing.
So he’s in his fatalist mood this morning, is he?
Imminent, I hope.
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