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polluting the environment! What's up with that? |
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...Pelosi to stop holding up the democratic process! |
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your computer uses electricity doesn't it ronnie ?
Where do you think it comes from ? The Obama fairy electricity factory ?
Probably a coal plant ...
If you want to sweat in the dark after you walk home from working on an organic non mechanical farm, please feel free. I'll pass ...
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Ron...............your a tool!!!!!! |
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The total of the ANWR is 19.6 million acres. To date, the total area estimated for exploration and drilling is 2000 acres. Do the math! That is 19,600,000/2000. The answer? .0001 or one ten thousandth of one percent.
That is a BB in a Box Car. Why in the hell do proponents of drilling in ANWR continue to under represent this fact?
Memo to Congress: It is we who design, build and supply the high-tech gadgets that you endlessly fiddle with. 2+2 is not over our heads. |
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I think Michele is Great on this issue!
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I think it's high time our country started using our own resources instead of shipping money overseas to the Arab Nations! |
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I think it's high time our country started using our own resources instead of shipping money overseas to the Arab Nations! |
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Trillions in profit for China and India |
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Make sure you take pictures to show my senior senator that the area we want extract from is not the pristine area we keep hearing about. Keep up the pressure on the don't drill socialist. |
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What ARE we waiting for?
Answer: CONGRESS.
This is what we get when we vote in a San Francisco leftist into power - disaster.
Let's drill NOW! |
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...please ask the people who actually produce oil on the North slope of Alaska. How long it will take to get first ANWR barrels to the Alaskan Pipeline? I would bet its not even half of the Democrats 7 year myth.
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About time. How long will it take voting constituents to rid themselves of the flapping
Congressional obstructionists? Haven't we had enough of the Chicken Little mentality? Please
write to the following: Harry Reid, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein and last but not least,
the insufferable Nancy Pelosi. Their sole agenda is to undermine the Bush Administration in particular and all Republicans in general. They don't care if the United States of America is going to Hell in a hand basket. It makes me sick. The whole lot of them should be impeached. These pathetic narcissistic ego maniacs deserve nothing more than the boot out the door at every election until we are rid of them. |
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Dan,
Michele has it right, it is .01%. In your calculation you neglected to include multiplication by 100%.
.0001 x 100% = .01%
I mention this because all of us reasonable people need to keep our info accurate. Otherwise, the libturds pounce on innocuous mistakes in order to discredit people advocating rational policies :) |
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Of all the energy our do-nothing Democrat lead congress is saving by just putting on the back burner and hoping the problem will go away. |
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We're waiting for Hell to freeze over. And judging from Nancy Peolsi's approval ratings and her congress, that may have just happend!
Drill, said the dentist. Drill said the car. |
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to get oil from here. You heard half of the quote recently, which said
"We can't drill our way out of this"
What you didn't hear was the rest of the quote which was:
"Because our buddies in the environmental lobbies and the trial lawyers will hold it up in court for at least that long".
You gotta listen to the WHOLE Democrat message. |
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Are you kidding me? At today's prices that would redirect $1.4 trillion from our turbaned friends to us (ed: I realize it doesn't all go to them. We get a lot from Canada and Mexico). And by 'us' I don't mean us, but people who cling to religion and want to work for a living. Keeping that money in our own economy would create too much opportunity and put some serious punch behind the dollar.
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Senator McCain was all over Obama about making policy statements about Iraq without visiting the country for a long while. I think it's about time Sen. McCain sees ANWR since he's been making policy about it without experiencing it first hand. Maybe you can arrange to have Gov. Palin meet him there. After he has an epiphany on drilling at ANWR, he can then ask Gov. Palin to be his running mate. |
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That’s almost half of the total U.S. proven reserve of 21 million barrels.....
Need to change that to 21 BILLION barrels...
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If you are as tired of this garbage as I am, Vote. Just about every seat in the house is up for reelection this year. Throw the bums out and get some new blood and some new ideas. There has to be enough sane people in San Francisco, to vote Nancy Pelosi, out of office, as well as the other's who are dragging our country down. VOTE THEM OUT. |
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Please take lots of photos and video. Take panoramic 360 degree series of photos from each corner of these 2000 acres. Take photos of the access roads presently in place in these areas. Do not use telephoto lenses to bring the mountains into closer view but use "normal" lenses to show exactly how it looks to a human observer.
Almost all of the photos that the public sees show the towering majestic mountain ranges that are present in some parts of the ANWR, but few show the mundane frozen swampland that makes up the 2000 acres of the drilling site.
Also, if possible, try to get aerial shots from sufficient altitude to show the entire 2000 acre area. This should be possible as the 2000 acres translates to only a little over 3 square miles.
The public must be made aware of the realities of this area. Thank you for your efforts.
Drill Here! Drill Now!! |
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You've got it right -- Governor Palin should invite Senator McCain to view the VERY SMALL SECTION of ANWR that is proposed for drilling. I said it on my blog about 10 days ago. Go there if you want to read it. :-)
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I wrote the following comment for Power Line. Re-posted here (abbreviated)
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I vacationed at the North Slope in 2004 and spent a few days at Prudhoe Bay. Here are a few observations and comments from people I talked to in Alaska.
1. The general public have apparently been misled to believe the entire reserve is going to be covered with scene-destroying, environment-wrecking oil rigs. Nothing could be further from the truth. The rigs (on the 2,000 acre postage stamp) will drill down vertically several thousand feet. Then the drill holes will be turned horizontally.
2. In the late 1960’s, when activity started at Prudhoe Bay, environmentalists screamed loudly about how the pipeline would block migrating herds of caibou and musk oxen....thus causing their extinction in that part of the Arctic. Here’s what actually happened. Instead of seeing their demise, the herds are three times their size in the 1960’s! Many scientists believe that has happened, in part, because of the pipeline. The oil is maintained and pumped at 140 deg. During the very cold winters the cairibou and other wildlife tend to gather around the pipe for a little warmth...thus increasing their survivability of the herds.
3. Nobody....nobody leaves the compound at Prudhoe Bay, except on the north-south highway or by air The surrounding tundra is untouched. The flora and fauna are both protected. A clerk at the general store told me about a contract worker who was seen throwing rocks at a red fox which was following him around. He was summarily fired and put on the next plane out. She also informed me that the oil companies are bound by law to restore Prudhoe to it’s original, wild form when they leave, possibly in several more decades. ANWR will be the same.
So what’s all the fuss about? I just see a lot of very, very uninformed people who mindlessly react to “facts” fed to them by equally clueless people.
disgusting.....pat
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Let's not kid ourselves! We can vote all the liberal obstructionists out, but unfortunately not the judiciary. The enviro-fanatics and their ambulance-chasing lawyers will still tie up exploration and drilling indefinately by picking unaccountable judges who will rule in their favor. These people are not restrained by laws or the constitution, but only by their sense of what they can get away with.
I weep for my country...
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If we drill in ANWAR...
Will our gas and oil prices drop?
Not by much. Sure there's oil under them thar plains but it's not enough to make even a dent in the price of crude.
Who gets the oil profits?
Mostly the oil companies. (The Feds are famous for selling natural resources for pennies on the dollar.) But aren't we screaming "Too Much Profits!" already?
I say "Okay, drill in ANWAR but everyone in the US (ie, the federal government) better get 95% of the profits." |
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Why do liberals oppose this when their hero Carter was the one who set aside the land for exploration in the first place? If anyone needs PROOF that libs are walking contradictions, here you go.
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They tried pushing the Use It or Lose It bill, telling companies to drill on the lands already leased...
Well, maybe Pelosi and Reid, instead of CONSTANTLY asking for more tax money should use the money they already have. Use it or lose it folks.
Right?
Party of airheads, I swear. |
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Bush's mere LIFTING of the executive ban on offshore drilling had an IMMEDIATE affect on the price of a barrel of oil, the VERY next day, without producing a SINGLE drop, falling from $143plus a barrel to nearly $133 a barrel.
Futures my friend, futures.
Imagine what giving the go ahead in ANWR would do. |
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Don't be an idiot. The federal government is already taking a big chunk of their revenues as taxes, a larger percentage than what the oil companies make in profits.
So what happens to those profits? They go to further exploration, and they go to pay dividends to all the folks who own oil company stock, either directly or through their 401K plans...people like your grandparents, Dwight. You sure you want to allow the government to take away their retirement money? |
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Say Hi! to Jason Chaffetz for me!
Go Jason! |
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Thank you for your leadership in this issue so vital to our economy and way of life, and for your faithful service to our nation. |
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Ms. Bachmann represents the Twin Cities region of Minnesota, mostly a loony left side part of the state. How this smart,inciteful and commom sense bearing, conservative woman got elected from such a liberal area is a wonder -- but thank God! Go Michele! |
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Drilling can't hurt,right? Greenies need to take a look in their wallets and see how much they can afford to be so centered on one issue. People before animals and the resources God gave us should be used. |
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While I believe that yes, this would be a tremendous relief on our economy and foreign oil dependency at this time...there are a few things that I would like to take note of:
1. "Buying more time" should not be what the Republican party should focus on, rather, by NOT drilling in ANWR we push the private, scientific, and technological center towards sustainable energy development and usage at a faster rate-not only putting us ahead of the game but also reaching independence from foreign oil at an earlier rate.
2. Use money allocated for drilling to finance directives on renewable energy. It IS out there contrary to popular belief- and funny enough, it has BEEN out there since man first made fire.
I would just personally rather see a push in independence and innovation rather than us clinging onto a sinking lifesaver. |
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Your example (from $143/bbl to $133/bbl in 1 day) just shows that speculators are a major reason why oil prices are so high. But drilling in ANWR is about "production". When ANWR comes online it will produce 0.5 to 1.5 million barrels/day (DOE figures). By then world oil production will be more than 100 million barrels/day. ANWR oil will have "at most" a 1.5% impact on total available oil. That's nice but hardly a "praise the Lord" situation. I'm not saying "don't drill"; I'm just saying it's a tiny and transient remedy. I like Haley's comment that we should be moving toward independence of "oil" not just "foreign oil"
And I'm still worried about oil companies making HUGE profits from drilling "OUR" ANWR oil. Let them use their HUGE profits from other drilling sites to fund their oil explorations. |
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I worked at Prudhoe Bay for 3 summers and am convinced, without any reservation, that extracting MASSIVE QUANTITIES of that oil would help Americans in so many ways, beyond just the price at the pump. This is a great way to keep the big bucks in America--and not into that Despot Hugo Chavez's check book. Vote out all politicians who oppose this!! |
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