Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Posted by:
Michele Bachmann
at
2:14 PM
So much attention in this energy debate has been paid to the use of oil to fuel our cars and homes. But oil has a lot of other uses in our daily lives. Tonight on the History channel's Modern Marvels, they will be airing a show entitled, Secrets of Oil.
Here's what the History Channel has for a teaser on their website:
"Rubber, Plastic, Nylon, Aerosols, Resins, Solvents, and Lubricants--none can exist without oil. If we stopped driving our cars tomorrow, America would still need five million barrels of oil a day. Visit Vulcan Materials, where oil tanks are emptied into massive double-barrel mixers to make asphalt and then continue to the Rolls Royce Aerospace Facility where complex jet fuels are blended. Travel back to the 1870's to see how an unemployed whale oil salesman turned a greasy oil-drilling by-product into a household staple: Vaseline. Finally discover how cutting-edge recycling techniques can breathe new life into used motor oil, and where a number of renewable fuels and technologies take aim at oil sovereignty."
Seems like an interesting twist to the same old debate about oil.
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But, since history has ended, we don't need the knowledge that the History Channel imparts. 'History is bunk'. We just need hope and change. lol |
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1. The "gang of 10" bill unilaterally opens up drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, with no state veto. The GOP bill didn't do that, because Mel Martinez and Charlie Crist didn't want it. Non-Gulf states Virginia, Georgia, and the Carolinas can opt-in if they like; the old GOP bill was opt-in everywhere, allowing Florida to block drilling in the Gulf off of its shores.
2. The bill also allows for seismic exploration along the entire continental shelf.
3. The ban on drilling within 50 miles of the coast was also in the GOP bill.
4. Contrary to many commentators' claims, the "gang of ten" bill is not a lifeline for Obama: "What a bunch of C-R-A-P. " (Yes, he spelled it out like that) "If Obama embraced this, he would be the biggest flipflopper ever." A lot of the opposition to the bill is really a case of trying to keep drilling as an election issue instead of getting more drilling.
5. The bill includes a Zubrin-like flex-fuel provision, requiring that 75% of cars by 2015 and 85% by 2020 be capable of running on something besides gasoline.
6. "Our bill also opens up coal-to-liquids. We couldn't have gotten 44 Republicans for that."
7. The bill is "incredibly aggressive" on nuclear power, including accelerated-depreciation provisions like those for solar and wind power, more NRC resources to speed licensing, and an end to the Carter-era ban on nuclear fuel reprocessing. "We couldn't have gotten 44 Republicans on this."
8. The bill also promotes cellulosic ethanol.
http://www.pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/archives2/022864.ph p |
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Maybe if she would actually read and understand what she is writing, she would embrace the need to provide alternative ways to heat our homes and power our automobiles. There are so many good uses for oil that making it into gasoline is just a waste in the long run. |
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Way to embarrass Minnesota again you moron:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtKTuWSVaNo
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This information regarding the uses of petrochemicals is news to you?
sigh.
And you are a congresswoman? |
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