Posted on 10/21/2004 10:25:58 AM PDT by winodog
I can personally attest to many of the facts, and certainly many of the conversations quoted in the book, as I spent a week with Chaplain Lindsey on the North Slope of Alaska during the construction of the Trans-Alaska pipeline. I was privileged to talk with high officials of Alyeska Pipeline Service Company. For reasons unknown to me, I was given access to private information that apparently very few outsiders were ever given. I moved among the men at work and in the baracks. My week on the North Slope was a liberal education. The motivation for this book is to bring facts to the American people as the authors know them. They do not have a political ax to grind nor any personal advantage by bringing forth these facts.Our President has stated that our energy problem is the equivalent of war. Yet he has embraced policies that have continually discouraged and hampered the development of our oil industry. Nearly ten years ago President Nixon warned of a pending energy shortage unless our domestic production be drastically increased, but Congress insisted on restrictive price controls.
Congress has been urged—and sometimes threatened—by special interest groups to take a negative stance on energy production, but they have miserably failed to take proper action to increase our domestic production. In fact, as you read this book you must come to the realization that energy production has been fiercely stifled by "Government Bureaucracy, " and Congress has sat on its collective hands.
It is with great pride and pleasure that I endorse this manuscript and compliment the authors for taking time to do the research and make it available to all of us.
March 19, 1980 Hugh M. Chance Former Senator of The State of Colorado
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What did you think of that? I am hoping more of the freepers with expertise in this field will see this and give us their opinions.
I would not be a bit suprised if fedgov.org was sandbagging on the amount we have while we use up all the oil the rest of the world has. If we had a emergency like a big war in the middle east we would have access to all the oil we need right here in America and it is ready to go.
What I dont understand is why have no refineries been built in 20 years. I know the greenies fight them tooth and nail but they are vital to national security so the gov. would get them built despite the greenies. Something is up.
I would not be suprised if the refinery issue is tied to massive illegal immigration somehow. Perhaps TPTB have convinced Mexico to be our refinery in exchange for taking 20 million of their people off their hands.
My problem in understanding is why are we still dependent upon oil? Why are we still using gasoline? Why are we still using heating oil? Oil is a nonrenewable resource. And I understand that windmills, solar energy, etc. are tried as alternatives. But my question is: the US is one, if not THE, most technologically advanced nations on the planet, and we're still using gas. We're still producing vehicles that use gas. Where's the technological breakthroughs (ex. fusion carburetors)? The same applies to patents for medicines to cure cancer, AIDS, etc. The oil companies and car companies bought up the technology so that they'll use it only as a last resort (shades of the movie "Chain Reaction")?
failure of imagination, and the inertia created by fixed investments and decisions made 50-100 years ago.
There definitely are better ways, to fill most of our energy needs than gasoline from petroleum, but they will require fresh investments and some leadership, and it will require people who think this is important to explain why they think so.
Why is it bad to be dependent on Arab sheiks for our energy supply when they control the price? I can think of reasons.
Why is it OK for a conservative to think the Federal Government should play a big role in developing these new technologies? Because no part of the energy system in the US was created without Federal Government leadership. Not Nukes, not Hydro, not oil or coal or natural gas, and not the distribution system for the electricity and the gas that moves around. Eisenhower created two of the biggest federal programs of the last 50 years, the interstate highway system and the nuclear power industry, and nobody says HE's a disloyal Republican.....
The main reason we are still using oil is because it is the cheapest means. When the price of oil outstrips alternatives or if oil becomes a scarce commidity then big business or fedgov.org will fund and find a alternative.
I do agree that many technoligies are being supressed in order for greedy people to make more profit. I recall all the outcry by the predators and parasites in the swamp in the late 70's and 80's. Especially I remember the P. jimmah carter speaking from the soapbox about how America would change the way things are done and how we will find alternatives and never be held hostage again.
The fact that nothing was done to change things is all a person with common sense needs to realize that there was no oil shortage. It was just politicians and greedy corps and nations playing games to aqquire more wealth.
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the only problem is that it will take a long time and a lot of investment to develop those alternatives, regardless of whether the alternatives are the greenie long-term ones, or just more fossil fuel production. In the meantime, do not think that I am kidding for one second when I tell you that if we have a cold winter this year that spot crude could hit $70.
IF that happens, then oil prices will come down, yes, but they will come down as a consequence of demand destruction, i.e. a big ole global recession. And who will get blamed? Yup, Bush and the Americans.
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