Just 5 days ago you suggested that oil shale might be an answer and today there is no mention of it.
I’m glad to not hear you talk about it because it is about the dirtiest, least efficient solution there is.
Could you explain exactly what the difference is between today’s oil and your “next generation oil” is?
Could you site a single example of next “generation coal” as being a clean source of energy?
How many Nuclear reactors do you think will be needed and what is your time frame for this plan? How many nuclear plants would we need to generate 80% of our power? How much waste would be generated from these plants and with Yucca Mt. already near capacity where would we store the waste.
The charge continues to be made that somehow the Democrats are responsible for no new refineries being built even though a republican controled the whitehouse for 20 of the last 28 years and republicans controled the congress 12 of the last 14 years. Could you site some examples of what the republican congress and President Bush have done over the 6 years they held office?
What standards should be met if any for a refinery to be built? Should they have to adhere to the same EPA standards as other manufacturing plants? Do you think there should be an EPA?
Why should the government interfere with the free market when it comes to offering tax incentives to becoming more energy efficient? Where will the money come from to pay for these incentives?
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Congresswoman Bachmann, please explain why you co-authored legislation to allow local governments to bond to build a personal rapid transit test track ((Bill Name: SF1574 ) "Personal rapid transit systems local bonding authority").
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the shoe fits, the democrats should wear it.
They have had control for almost all of the 35 years since the '73 oil crisis, gas lines etc.
And did N-O-T-H-I-N-G but count the cash in their pocket from the envirowhacko special interests that are now holding Americans hostage.
The envio impact is a joke, if we could within three years create synthetic rubber in the middle of W W 2, and send men to the moon in the 60's, with less sophisticated technology than is available today, then we can secure our own oil
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However, I don't see the role of government to dictate which of these will prevail. The "big solution" is maybe more than 50 years away and the biggest impediment for the near term is the capriciousness of partisan politics and the hostile legal environment. What is needed from the government is two things. One, a NASA-style agency that monitors and evaluates progress of the various projects under way with a purpose of thinking ahead for policy formation. Second, CALL OFF THE LAWYERS!!! All of these projects can be funded by the private sector but they require billions (trillions) of dollars invested for many, many years before any hope for payoff. This is risky enough with doing it in an environment where politicians grandstand ("cracking down on the oil companies" e.g.) every time an election is around the corner and where suing any public project is a major industry.
That simple. That is not only my opinion, it is the conclusion reached by every study I have read on the subject. Government is NOT the solution, it is the biggest part of the problem. Just get out of the way and resist the temptation of establishing yet another new bureaucracy and all of the taxes and red tape that would ensue.
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Why do we need conservation tax incentives? I'm all for lower income taxes but I abhor targeted tax incentives that attempt to encouage certain behavior from citizens. The only incentive that we need to do anything is cost and price. If the price is high we have all the incentive we need to reduce our consumption -- we don't need nanny state government telling us what's good for us individually or as a society. |
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The best short-term solution I have heard so far, is to incentivize flex-fuel vehicles, and to develop ethanol fuel from SUGAR and SWITCHGRASS (NOT corn).
In Brazil, all new cars can run on either ethanol or gasoline. You can fill the tank with either and the car will run equally well.
The technology to produce flex-fuel vehicles here in America is already here. Once we have vehicles that can use ethanol, there will be an incentive for energy companies to sell it to us at the filling station.
Producing ethanol from corn is a disastrous mistake--turning good American food into fuel. Instead, remove the tariffs and import barriers to the importation of foreign sugar, and allow that imported sugar to be made into fuel. Beyond that, new technology coming on line in the next 15 years will allow us to make ethanol from switchgrass and other "junk" biomass that couldn't be used for food anyway.
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Sammy writes: "The only incentive that we need to do anything is cost and price. If the price is high we have all the incentive we need to reduce our consumption"
No.
Even if the price is low, there are HIDDEN COSTS.
Even when the price of oil was low, America was becoming more and more in thrall to the Muslims of OPEC. We are forced to kiss the ring of the Saudi king because of oil. You don't see that price reflected at the filling station. But you pay it as a patriotic American.
The burning of fossil fuels contributes to air pollution which has major health costs. Children growing up in polluted areas have much higher incidence of asthma. Again, you don't pay for that at the gas station. But you pay for it through your taxes and your health insurance premiums.
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That is a small solution. This is a BIG problem. Flex fuel cars is part of the solution but it is short term and needs to lead to another solution once it has run its course. We need to visualize where we will be in 50 years and start building the infrastructure we will need. We will be going through several periods where one solution builds the infrastructure for the succeeding technology. Ethanol based on corn or sugar may not be all that useful in the long-run but they create production capacity that can be used to produce bio-mass ethanol once an enzyme is developed. Distributed generation of electricity is also a way to evolve a new infrastructure that pays for itself because of the enormous inefficiencies inherent in building giant power plants that need to transmit power of very long distances (electricity does not travel well and what is not immediately used is wasted).
It is a very complicated problem but many great and well-funded minds are working on it. What we need to do is create a capital-friendly environment for them to work in. Our government is now doing exactly the opposite. |
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Similar stuff has bee nsaid time and time again by the hapless GOP every time they get thrown on the street. "Please let me back in the House; I promise I'll do better this time" IT'S BATTERED WIFE SYNDROME ALL OVER AGAIN, YOU GULLIBLE McCainiacs! You don't have to succumb yet again to Battered Wife Syndrome or even Stockholm Syndrome, whichever applies. The GOP had 12 years to implement legislation at the Legislative level and 8 years at the Executive level, and they have done NOTHING to accomplish any of this. HAS IT TAKEN A ROCKET SCIENTIST TO COME UP WITH THIS LIST??? Hell NO! Most Americans have known this information for GENERATIONS now!! Vote CONSTITUTION PARTY if you expect to see any of this kind of common sense legislation ever be implemented. WHAT ABOUT THE OIL SHALE IN THE GREEN RIVER BASIN??? With the exception of BUSH, the GOP hasn't done one thing about this??? There is NO REASON WHATSOEVER why the GOP never had a backbone to stand up to environmentalist Liberal whackos when France, a Liberal whacko government has stood up to its fruitcakes and so has Socialist Canada. NO EXCUSE, GOP! You had your chance to prove yourself. The American People welcomed you in droves in 1994; we flushed the Libs, but you FLUSHED US. Your EVICTION NOTICE has ben served. The new POLITICAL PARADIGM will be Libertarian and Constitution Party. 3rd parties are going to be coming out in droves this election because both sides ofthe electorate are FED UP TO KINGDOM COME with you incompetent boobs and shameless lawyers who are spending this country's money into astronomical debt. |
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If there are indeed hidden costs such as pollution and therefore a need to clean it up then tax it so that these hidden costs are fully accounted for. I suppose that there might be some kind of national security interest that can be invoked with a dependence on an important commodity or input but simply offering tax incentives for reduced usage is not going to lessen this security threat -- we still need energy and lots of it. We simply need to allow our own exploration and development of domestic sources.
I know that you are a liberal and therefore you believe in the government's right and duty to try to influence and incentivize certain government approved behavior from the public, but the true conservative position is to let the market allocate scarce resources.
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the USA has right under its own soil enough potential oil capacity to provide America and indeed the world with enough fuel for 500 years. It would make America the new Middle East. In fact, this oil supply would make America's oil supply bigger than all of the Middle East nations' oil supply combined. Yes, I know you think I'm crazy. It's called oil shale. George Bush in 2005 commissioned 3 American oil companies, one of which is Shell Oil Frontier, to come up with the best way to produce oil from oil shale. Each of these 3 companies was given 160 acres of government-owned land with the commission to come up with an efficient environmentally friendly way to produce oil from oil shale. The winner gets a lionshare of this land to commence production. Has the GOP said anything about this??? Gee, I wonder why not??? Maybe it's because they're the stupid party. Has McCain said Anything about this??? OF COURSE, NOT!!! He opposes drilling there and in ANWAR, another vast oil supply. McCain is NO CONSERVATIVE whatsoever. He's a greenie, environmentalist whacko posing as a Conservative because he knows the GOP and the GOp McCainiacs are just STUPID enough to elect him. |
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Presently lets be realistic. The only word that is in environmentalists vocabulary is, "NO." "Can we explore?".....,""NO,""How about if we try...""NO""Can we build?...""No."
The environmentalists point of view is, "Its our way or no way."
I'm not saying environmentalism is wrong, but environmentalism has become misguided and extremely radicalized.
Whether Environmentalists like this opinion or not they have become corrupted by money, power, and influence from outside forces just as our government has.
The original message has been lost and many of the founders of the environmental movement have left many of groups because radicalism has taken over.
Just as Pasadena Phil posted well-funded minds are finally getting the funding, but as with anything that has government strings attached could spoil that to.
I have faith in my countrymen and countrywomen that minds more powerful than my own will prevail through the bureaucrats, and environmental snake oil salesmen to give us leadership in what direction that we are to march as a country.
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The problem is bigger than just environmentalists. I wrote an essay a few months ago that upset people of "both" sides of the argument. If we get the environmentalists out of the way, we would still have a huge problem. The public needs to be educated about what we are facing but the answer always seems to be more government, "cracking down" on the oil companies, or drilling in ANWAR, or other favorite simplistic sawhorse. If you really want to witness fatuity, find the video of Senator Feinstein berating the oil executives for making record profits today in her committee circus hearing. Nothing gets done because EVERYONE is in the way, even those who want to drill, build nuclear power plants and what have you. It's all one big monkey pile. It can't work that way.
We need the government to be involved but we could get this done with much LESS government. That is why I used the NASA model. NASA was a small agency that coordinated massive and complicated efforts towards a big goal and succeeded in a big way. Government can work, it just doesn't. |
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What is seldom discussed in the debate over alternative fuels is the fact that we bury a lot of hydro carbons instead of utilizing them. There are ways to make ethanol and bio diesel from what we throw away. Another method is making methane from our garbage but at present it is costly and not all the hydro carbons are reclaimed. That can help to lower the amount of foreign oil we import and with other sources of bio fuel can make a dent. Though as with other alternative fuels it is only a stop gap till there is either other sources of energy coming online such as nuclear. In the 30 some odd years since any new reactors have been built there has been lots of progress in their design. General Electric has redesigned fuel rods so it takes about 30% less to generate the same power. There other innovation has been an X-Ray reactor that uses spent fuel rods to generate more power from it though at a lower level. But it does help to mitigate the waste makes it less toxic then it was. Another area that much isn’t said about is the storage of electricity current batteries are not to effective and is to bulky and or to expensive. What we need is much better batteries for storage and other types of electrical storage as well. Even if we start all this now and the other options that were posted here we still need to develop our own oil fields either in Alaska, off shore or even shale oil. It doesn’t make sense that Cuba can lease oil fields off of the coast of Florida to the Chinese when our own domestic companies can not. That must change other wise our oil supplies will continue to dwindle the price will rise and then we wont be able to afford to develop alternative energy sources.
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The concern about nuclear waste is during transportation. I heard that all the nuclear waste in the U.S. would fit inside a high school gym.
Why not build storage facilities for spent fuel on site, that way spent fuel would never have to leave the building.
I've also wondered. If spent fuel is still radioactive, isn't there technology available to continue drawing energy off the stuff until it is no longer dangerous? |
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So the argument now is that gas is $4.00/gal because of the environmentalist and lawyers?
Did anyone watch the oil execs in the senate hearings today? Exxon alone made $40,000,000,000 in net profit last year with is almost 400% more than just 4 years ago.
Exxon hasn’t built any new refineries in 20 years because it says it’s too expensive to meet the new (20 year old) EPA standards.
Trust me it won’t cost even close to $40,000,000,000 a year to meet these standards. The real problem is that these refineries are big, noisy and messy and create a lot of pollution and nobody wants a new one in their back yard.
The people who issue permits have all come from the oil industry the last 7 years. The people who regulate the industry all from the oil industry.
The people who wrote the energy laws are all from the oil industry.
If Exxon is making record profits, (the largest ever seen in history),why would they want to change anything? What’s the incentive to add capacity? Do you really think Exxon wants to go back to $2.00 gas?
I wonder what they are going to spend the $40,000,000,000 on.
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The answer to your question Mr. B is yes spent fuel rods are still highly radioactive. Though General Electric has a method or refining spent rods then using X-Rays to excite them to the point of releasing more heat. Even with that they are still highly radioactive. Plus nuclear reactors generate other radioactive waste such as water steel from areas surrounding the and valves.
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You advocate more coal, more nuclear, more oil and gas drilling--and you accuse the Democrats of using "the same old 1970s solutions?" Who are you kidding? Maybe your oily energy company campaign contributors. And you propose using more oil, gas and coal while protecting our natural resources for future generations? What do you have--plans for a secret perpetual motion machine?
If Oral Roberts U grad Michele Bachmann isn't proof of why Oral Roberts Law School should have had its accreditation yanked permanently, I don't know what is. |
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John McCains lack for grasping the big picture on the domestic front have now finally been put on display in all its simple glory. Mr Green Jeans.
Well at least we wont have illegal immigration anymore; Becuase when a gallon costs just 8 bucks instead of the 12 that was quoted this morning by the "EXPERTS", food stops being delivered to the grocery store, people stop going to work, TAXES STOP BEING COLLECTED, business collapses and so does this country; and the illegals, they go were life is better, Mexico.
Its amazing to me as we stare down the energy tsunami of death heading right at us like exploding black hole that now, NOW John McCain goes Green.
Tell me, please tell me i woke up in a bad dream in the wrong decade and its all a mistake.
No way, he cant be that stupid, after all we elected him.
All john McCain has to do is tell the truth to the american working people; " when you go the store and eggs are a buck a piece and milk is 7 dollars a gallon and you are struggling to make ends meet, thank a democrat, thank a democrat and the liberal enviromental policy's of the last 3 decades that told us we can do with out oil and nuclear and coal and natural gas and everthing is beautiful.
And it will be beautiful thanks to them: Because when people have no food no job no home for there kids, political correctness ,psycho-anaylisis , self esteem encounters,personal introspection classes and polar bears (all 35-50thousand of them)will be all but forgotten and we'll be drilling for oil in our backyards, as it should have been before they killed common sense and responsible thought!
So you go John McCain, you go Green . History will have a place waiting for you; PUTZ, the greatest ever !!!!!!
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Amen! We should have, could have, and would have new energy sources today if our Congress and Courts actually had some some knowledge of technological advances made in energy production. Our Congress and Courts both sides have prevented us from being energy independent. We should have more coal plants, coal liquidification fuels as does South Africa, nuclear plants, refineries, sugar cane (Brazil does) production versus ethanol, the list goes on and on. Meanwhile we have a Congress that holds these ridiculous hearings on NOTHING. They posture, blame, point fingers, meanwhile nothing is done to solve the problem. It is so aggravating, frustrating, and maddening to watch these self righteous big mouths blames everyone but themselves. It is the Schumers of the USA who want to beg Saudis to produce more oil, why can't we drill in Anwar Schumer? Off our coasts? We can do it environmentally in a positive manner. Right now the governor of Montana wants to put coal reserves in the hands of the government with absolutely no coal available to the USA citizen. Yet, science shows how we can extract coal sideways, therefore, causing less environmental damage. Our Congress should be held accountable and our Courts for the harm they are inflicting on our economy as well as on our nation...jeopardizing our National Security for political purposes...the republicans, who also have been responsible should step up to the plate and send out a message ..they should be loud and clear on the technological advances that protect the environment but also produce energy from oil, and coal, as well as sugar cane, wind, etc. txpoljldy |
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80% of French electrical power comes from nuclear power - and they have no waste to dispose of. Waste, in and of itself, is one of the myths of nuclear power. The French reprocess it. And, they have no issues with "pollution". The foolishness of American's rest in their knee jerk paranoia over the use of coal - given the technology we have today, and the use of nuclear - given the same thing. We've become irrational. It's an amazing thing to watch. We use oil - but not ours. It's ok to put wells in anywhere in the world - but here. We have coal, but can't touch it. We have nuclear, but we fight over waste when others reprocess it. All across this country people in every jurisdiction fight to prevent anyone from building any kind of a plant that can produce power. Not in my backyard - they say. It's irrational. |
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The good news about using foreign oil is that all those U.S. reserves mentioned are just that. Maybe when the middle east oil reserves are dry, we'll be in the dominate position in the world for energy. Still, there's no alternative to a plan as laid out. When the world supply begins to run dry, we must be ready for our own production.
For all the eco-nuts, try to imagine our country without oil and gas. You guys can ride horses, and use lanterns, if you want, but I'll stick with my car and electricity. For all the hysteria about offshore drilling, I've never heard of one spill off of Texas or Louisiana. A nuclear ship can go 20 years without refueling. Nuclear energy also makes sense.
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Redlac,
I am a proponent of nuclear power but we are going to be stalled until several questions are answered including the ones I asked.
I helped build the one that just a few miles from my home. There is waste from that one and what to do with it is a problem. Every year I get a scary calendar from the power company with instruction on what to do if there is an accident at the plant.
I also live 3 miles from a coal power plant. On a windy day the ash from the plant covers my home and my neighbors. The plant has been operating for decades and the ash pile covers acres and is at least 100’ high. Nothing grows where the ash blows due to the high acid content.
By the way both plants are in Michelle’s home district the 6th.
There is no such thing as clean coal. There are ways of making it less of a poison. But it will never be clean. We no longer need to build any new coal power plants. Wind, solar and nuclear are the present and future.
The power companies and oil companies are their own worst enemies. They have to be dragged into every new technology and only clean up their act when no other recourse is available to them. Come visit my ash pile and you will see what I mean. Trust me, you wouldn’t want it in your back yard.
The reason people oppose drilling in the Keys and wilderness areas is the track record of the oil companies in cleaning up after themselves. Ask the landowners in Wyoming and Montana.
The real point is that there is nothing new in this energy policy. Hydrogen isn’t even mentioned. Using X-rays to make nuclear power a better option not talked about. Just more oil, coal, nuclear and lip service to solar and wind. We need a plan B for when we run out of oil.
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Here's what I think we should do BEFORE
any reforms are presented to congress:
Pick out the same amount of re-publicans and democrats, including those on any committees that concern
our economy and let them live for a
week or maybe a month on an average
American's income so they can get a
dose of reality! Once they all realize
how hard Americans are working to make
ends meet, we may get a quicker & more
sympathetic, economic response to solving the fuel crisis. They need to walk a mile (or two)in our shoes so they can better relate to what Americans are truly upset about!!
Better yet, let them live on food
stamps & welfare for a good month.....
I'm sure it would be real eye opener----how can someone begin to help us when
many of them are making a six-figure
income? You can talk until you are
blue in the face and make lots of
promises, but when their pocket
book is threatened, then things start
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Lawrence D. Burns, Ph.D.
Vice President, Research & Development and Strategic Planning
Annual U.S. Hydrogen Conference 2008
* The automobile industry has reached a critical juncture in our journey to realize the full potential of hydrogen fuel cell-electric vehicles. While we have made impressive progress, we have now reached a point where the energy industry and governments must pick up their pace so we can continue to advance in a timely manner.
* They must quickly join our caravan, positioning for their share of the opportunity and carrying their share of the risk and burden. The actions these stakeholders take right now will determine whether, and how soon, our world realizes the exciting and important benefits of automotive fuel cell technology.
* I am here today to ask NHA members to get fully engaged with the auto industry in an integrated effort to accelerate our journey along the most expedient and effective path.....
Continued at http://www.fuelcellsworks.com/Supppage8798.html
The Gov't should immediately announce to invest the 20 billion needed over the next 5-7 years to incent industry to create the infrastucture needed for hydrogen. Once this is done you can bet the private industry will invest billions of dollars in cars and other appliances to make the fuel cell industry happen.
When measured against the development of the internet, the fuel cell industry is about where the internet was in 1994
We have to put a stake in the ground or nothing will get done in a timely fashion.
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Ted you are 100% correct.
Talk about a kitchen table topic. To win the election Republicans need to be screaming it.
"It's the price of gas, STUPID!"
For 30 years the democrats have said NO, NO, NO. WIth no real alternative to offer. What did 8 years of Clinton get us? It is time they pay.
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All the oil in the world won't help if we don't
have the refinery capacity.
Since the intelligent people outnumber the dolts like the environmentalists and democrats, what we need is a 5 million man march on Washington and DEMAND that these fools eliminate the restrictions on domestic production and construction of refineries.
Sure, the Arabs will eventually run out of oil,
BUT NOT IN OUR LIFETIME!!!
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"This is a real howler, Bachmann
You advocate more coal, more nuclear, more oil and gas drilling--and you accuse the Democrats of using "the same old 1970s solutions?" Who are you kidding?"
Uh, let's see. In the 1970s we thought 65 cents a gallon was expensive for gas. Electricity was cheaper. We had no problem going after oil, coal and more nuclear. Gee those old 1970s solutions sound pretty good! |
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After Immigration/Kennedy,Campaign Finance Reform/Feingold, John McCain is Ready to SCREW us again.
And so it is : Reaching out to democrats and pandering to the Liberal media is a higher priority to John McCain than the suffering of average hard working Americans being crushed under the weight of energy prices.
Thus being faced with an inexperienced opponent, who's ideas hold no content, but who's preachings are magnificent and banter like a killer bee, McCain has once again taken the straight talk express up the high road and thrown the rest of us off the cliff; He's gone Green !
Nope, no opportunity here to Lay this energy crises firmly in lap of the Democrtats and their constituents in the tin foil hats who have for decades forced energy fasting on the rest who still want to have a life beyond bean sprouts and yoga classes.
Nope, no opportunity here for a siren call of energy projects; A TVA type approach to get the whole country involved and feeling good about ourselves agian after the democrats have ripped our self esteem to shreds like they always do a-la Jimmy Malaise carter!
Start with promising the American People that if the Chinese can drill for oil in our own God given waters then by god so can WE!.....Jees!
Safe repeatable French style nuclear plants we so desparetly need.
Invest massively in Hydrogen 50-100 billion!
Clean coal we have the most.
Wind farms; they finally got the technology.
And on and on.... Imagine the Jobs; millions. Imagine the benefit to the economy Trillions!
Nope don't grab this mantle run with it and truely help your country while getting elected president along the way, Nope John McCain you go green.
Cause if you don't the democrtats will!
All you ECO Criminals. Get used to the name,
because if we lose this fight will be wearing it for a long miserable time.
Go Green John...
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In 1995, the republican party passed a bill proposing to increase our oil supply by drilling in various United States territories, but President Clinton, vetoed the bill. Subsequently, the republicians could not garner sufficient support from demwits to override the veto. Each and every year, republicians have proposed to increase our oil supply, but the demwits always oppose. Recently, Senator McConnell, proposed a bill that again introducted the idea of drilling to increase our oil supply, but again it was shot down. This mess is due to the positions taken by the demwits, THEY OWN IT, and the republicans should pound the demwits constantly on this stupid situation. Since the 2006 elections the cost of gasoline has risen from $2.19 per gallon to today, around $3.90. Why is this, it seems the speculators believe the demwits will win the election, and see the failure to pass an energy bill and continue this insane policy.
They are speculating on the future, and the future does not bode well. They are hedging their bets on the stupidity of demwits. The United States is the only major country, that has an idiocy policy of not drilling for oil. China, Russia, Cuba, Mexico, Venzuela are drilling in the Gulf or will be shortly, but the United States does not drill to the extend necessary for our needs. The citizens of Alaska are in favor of drilling in Alaska, but the demwits of Reid, Kennedy, Durban, Kerry, are opposed to drilling.
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Start drilling in ANWR NOW!!!! Hey, what's that sound? It's the sound of NO drilling in ANWR! Get drilling NOW!
DRILL DRILL DRILL, here there and EVERYWHERE!!! |
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Especially when it comes to Energy Policy. Why do we let these policies set by wonks beholden to eco-terrorists like Greenpeace cripple our Energy Independence with theories that aren't even supported by science?
"We can't drill because oil is EEEEEEvil," they tell us - bringing out Exxon-Valdez spill footage. That's the only argument they raise and repeat when we propose off-shore exploration, ANWAR drilling, or Arctic drilling. Meanwhile countries with less respect for conservation, less accountability, and worse protective technologies are running out to grab oil from the Arctic and oceans right under our nose. These policies don't protect the environment from anything - they just make sure that the US is harmed and other nations obtain more wealth at our expense.
That's not conservationism, that's Wealth Redistribution and Anti-Americanism!
I've got a constant stream of entertainment from the know-nothing anti-nuclear trolls on the Internet going back to the 60s well hand-wringing about radioactive waste storage. Please come join us in the present, folks. The days of boxing up fissile Uranium after only 5% of its mass has been broken down are long gone. Now we can use centrifuges to salvage the actively fissile 95% for more energy and scrap the not-so-radioactive lead and Depleted Uranium "waste." On top of that, storing "waste" radioactive metals near the reactor core accelerates their half-life.
The biggest environmental hazard you get from modern Fission Technology is a decent supply of Lead and Depleted Uranium, but we can use both of those materials - lead for Radiation Shielding and Depleted Uranium for Armor Piercing tank rounds. |
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I suggest that all that wish to influence Congress to open our oil fields for more drilling do the following:
1) Go to your US Representative and Senators websites and see what they are up to relative to the oil situation. Read their press releases and policy statements.
2) Call them or send them your opinion and indicate what you expect them to do. If they are inline with your opinion, thank them, if not, warn them. But be respectful and clear about what you want them to do. You may think that they are idiots, but at least honor their office. And be sure to proofread and check your spelling/grammar. Don't let your emotional urge to blow off some steam cloud your message to them.
3) Find out when they are up for re-election and refer to it often when you communicate with them. Tell them that you will not vote for them unless they do it your way. Tell them that you are watching and will remember their actions.
4) And after all of this REMEMBER how they performed when their re-election day comes around and vote based on how they performed for you.
If we could get a few million people in every state to do this we would see a dramatic change in Congress' attention to our energy needs.
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Just so you understand. The Congress, that has been in the hands of the Democrates for most of the last 40 years, makes the laws and regulations. ( Not the President) The Democrats are the ones who are in bed with the wacko environmentalists who have stopped production of oil and refineries in this Country with the intent of chocking off supply. They have succeeded now for 30 years. You are right about the Republicans doing little to remedy the situation during their brief control of the Congress even though they never had enough votes to change the laws and regulations the Democrates but into place. You are also right about President Bush not doing anything to improve our energy situation. Why do you still support the Democrats when the facts show they are not looking out for your interest? |
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There is one way to bring down the price of gas now. It happened once before. If our leaders would set forth a plan to use all of our resources to find new oil here in the U.S. as well as other energy sources like coal,wind and water. Conserve in every way as a means to be free of mid east oil within the next 15 years starting today the price of OPEC oil would start down immediately as it did when we threatened to cut back on the use of their oil in the past. We just have to find a leader, Republican or Democrat with the backbone to do it. |
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I like the policies indicated. However, what were the Republicans doing when they controlled the House and the Senate? These policies should have been recommended earlier. |
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__ITS GAS PRICES STUPID!
ITS THE PRICE OF MILK AND EGGS STUPID!
John Mccain Can Seize the Moment that history has given him right now buy making Energy THE issue of the campaign. THE issue that takes away democrats chant ad nauseum that he is the third Term of George Bush; and makes IRAQ a second or possibly third place issue behind the Real Estate disaster.
ITS THE GAS PRICES STUPID:
THE ISSUE that gaurenteed is talked about at every kitchen table in AMERICA, wow and you know every kitchen table in the world. And its McCains for the taking, because the democrats would look like the biggest hypocrites in the world, but they're democrats and by definition have no shame. So Im betting they try!
McCain must be the first. The first to launch a "going to the moon" type National Saga that brings in the young, Americas best and brightest youth, engineers and scientists.
This ONE issue could save the forecast republican congressional slaughter that is going to take place this November, by taking away the democrats teeth, in holding their feet to the fire on their stewardship of this issue for the last thirty years.....stewardship that has brought us to the breathtakingly wretched place we're at; that could ruin our economy, leave us week and open to attack by our enemy's and our children's future....bleak.
Democrats took over in 2006; the price of gas has doubled. But the amount of gas spewed by democrats in committee, in endless hearings and finger pointing, condemnations, accusations, and subpeonas knows no limits, except to keep this government from attending to issues for which they were elected to serve! The price of gas has DOUBLED while on their watch and brought this country to its knees and you know what they're answer in 2009 will be; SUE anyone and everyone and tell us to ride our bicycles to work everyday! Thats real Leadership!
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This issue alone will lift all republicans this november and stop their villifacation by reminding middle class Moms and Dads like us who are struggling to make it even though they're making good money that its the democrats who slave to the tin foil hat and code pink crowd and the America last, punish America first crowd and republicans can be reasonable people who encourage logical outcomes and will compromise to get reasonable solutions.
Its up to you John McCain. Seize the moment history has so generously bestowed upon you, or go down as possibly the least insightful or possibly dumbest presidential contender to ever walk the campaign trail.
Dont go green John, show us some vision.
Our little ones are counting on YOU........
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This issue alone will lift all republicans this november and stop their villifacation by reminding middle class Moms and Dads like us who are struggling to make it even though they're making good money that its the democrats who slave to the tin foil hat and code pink crowd and the America last, punish America first crowd and republicans can be reasonable people who encourage logical outcomes and will compromise to get reasonable solutions.
Its up to you John McCain. Seize the moment history has so generously bestowed upon you, or go down as possibly the least insightful or possibly dumbest presidential contender to ever walk the campaign trail.
Dont go green John, show us some vision.
Our little ones are counting on YOU........
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and the people CHEERED AND CHEERED
when Obama told them to turn off their HEAT
and AC, at home and at WORK because
as POTUS he will !!!
so that there is MORE to heat and cool his
mansion and the mansions of his supporters:
AND THE PEOPLE CHEERED AND CHEERED
GET a BIKE and PARK your SUV or I will
as POTUS, Obama yelled build bike paths around the nation
NOT LIGHT RAIL, NOT high speed transportation for people and products !!!
I WILL RATION your Heat, AC, GAS and INCOME
and assets, return on your investments !!
HE YELLED
and they people cheered and cheered and cheered
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