It's because it's idiotic to get oil from foreigners when we have it right here.
Hmmm... and I hope all your purchases are made right here in the good old USA.
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It's because it's idiotic to get oil from foreigners when we have it right here.
If you think the markets are that shaky that a meaningless gesture by Bush can bring prices down then I guess we should be regulating them more closely.Nah.. could not have ALSO been influenced by Bush's cutting of the Executive Federal ban...
Also good to go back and stick our heads in the sand and bring this up again when prices re-rise... global demand is not going to get LOWER
I don't know if anyone has noticed, but gas prices are dropping from a combination of conservation and a slightly stronger dollar.
There's no need to drill. There's no shortage of gas and no shortage of oil.
Nah.. could not have ALSO been influenced by Bush's cutting of the Executive Federal ban...
Also good to go back and stick our heads in the sand and bring this up again when prices re-rise... global demand is not going to get LOWER
Thats when it became obivious that fanatics with state ties possibly supported by oil money could be a threat to US citizens at home.Why would you have waited until people were killed?
If I was going to get off on something, it wouldnt be assuming... IT, however, is not a big assed assumption... did I miss the primary candates yelling Drill, Drill, Drill.... did I miss the republicans giving up their last break to grandstand on the capital.... actually if I remember Jim Webb, quite possibly your Senator, actually stayed throughout the christmas break to keep congress in session.. he was there alone last I checked.... and He left the cameras and the lights on.... How many pubs stayed around to discuss the need to drill oil. Hell you cats could have been screaming about drillin for jesus....Actually I challenge you to proove that oil was at the forefront of american and political thought once the hullibaloo from katrina oil related price hikes faded away....How do you get off assuming that people are "Johnny come lately" to the desire to drill. That's a big ass assumption.
Oil was what... 20 dollars a barrel. Many locations were either not known or not worth the effort... Hell since 92 how many fuel efficient vehicles was Detroit crankin out. Oil was cheap and plentiful... Few outside of oil companies were arguing for new drilling... so kudos if that was you.. granted I highly doubt it...I've been pushing for it since at least 1992.
still swimin in oil btw... that being said, I am all for responsible drilling... but, I think alternative energies need to be explored and not by oil companies.. arent they given a tax credit to explore energy alternatives? Heres a thought, Invest in universities and other non oil companies that have a vested interest in developing new energy alternative technologies...If it would take ten years to see it (which it doesn't, but that's the current vogue disinformation) we would have been swimming in oil for the 6 years if dems hadn't vetoed the damn thing. Thank your hero Bill Clinton for that.
Um.. yeah.. Ok Nostradamus.... You'd be a valuable asset to any oil man if you had that information... How are you with lottery tickets?Now stop changing the subject. Why not drill where the oil is? We all know where it is, let's go get it. Take your millions of acres back and let's go get some damn oil.
If you think the markets are that shaky that a meaningless gesture by Bush can bring prices down then I guess we should be regulating them more closely.
The sticking the head in the sand bit is Americans pretending that since prices fall there's no reason to conserve.
ABSOLUTELY NOT!
Cutting the executive ban did nothing and would not do anything because lifting the executive ban was and is meaningless without congress doing the same....
However the legislation on the hill to regulate speculators more than likely, and conservation world wide intentional or nonintentional due to the economies slowing world wide and a tiny bit of the dollar value upwards has made prices drop....
THIS IS what can be done immediately to affect our prices...some pipedream that may never come true, was not a part of it....imho.
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you cats will work with me to aleviate imediate economic pressures that americans are feeling,
the reason i do not believe what we may open up to drill will make one iota of difference is because all of that moratorium oil adds up to about 1% of the world's oil reserves if all drilled at once....i don't see how THAT increased world oil supply would do anything but something minor, like a 5 cent change on gas prices and this i read from economists, and i believe them...based on all the information they have....Hard as it is to believe, I think the signing of the Executive order did have a marginal impact. Remember markets are emotional as well as rational. Having a triple lock on something an watching one of the locks get unlocked has an impact rationally as well as emotionally. There is a calculation that takes place about the relative pressures increasing or decreasing the likelihood that drilling can occur. I suspect that Obama now deciding that oil drilling is necessary played a part in the last couple of weeks too.
otherwise known as give more entitlements... buy votes for me... and keep with a Robin Hood system of punishing earners and rewarding sloth... then I will think of doing the right thing with energy
the reason i do not believe what we may open up to drill will make one iota of difference is because all of that moratorium oil adds up to about 1% of the world's oil reserves if all drilled at once....i don't see how THAT increased world oil supply would do anything but something minor, like a 5 cent change on gas prices and this i read from economists, and i believe them...based on all the information they have....
this doesn't mean i can't be wrong, but logic dictates such in my opinion, especially since we are on a global market for oil....
ALL OF THE OIL that we drill now in America is only 3% of the world's oil supply/reserves and the USA uses 27% or the world's oil supply/reserves....
we drill every new spot that we can in the gulf moratorium areas and we WILL STILL BE USING and purchasing 25% -27% of the world's oil....i don't think it will make much of a difference....it does not reason, for it to make a difference with it being so little, compared to our needs.
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only the top 20% quintile in the USA are advancing, everyone else are left behind.....including the hard working middle class....
otherwise known as give more entitlements... buy votes for me... and keep with a Robin Hood system of punishing earners and rewarding sloth... then I will think of doing the right thing with energy
OMFG.. You are seriously the biggest idiot here, and thats hard to do... WTF...entitlements, what does a frigging entitlement have to do with what I said.. do you even understand what an entitlement is.... jesus christ you are one stupid individual...must be one of those bitter clingers.. your taste in music is pathetice too.. sammy beats dave anyday of the week...
the reason i do not believe what we may open up to drill will make one iota of difference is because all of that moratorium oil adds up to about 1% of the world's oil reserves if all drilled at once....i don't see how THAT increased world oil supply would do anything but something minor, like a 5 cent change on gas prices and this i read from economists, and i believe them...based on all the information they have....
this doesn't mean i can't be wrong, but logic dictates such in my opinion, especially since we are on a global market for oil....
ALL OF THE OIL that we drill now in America is only 3% of the world's oil supply/reserves and the USA uses 27% or the world's oil supply/reserves....
we drill every new spot that we can in the gulf moratorium areas and we WILL STILL BE USING and purchasing 25% -27% of the world's oil....i don't think it will make much of a difference....it does not reason, for it to make a difference with it being so little, compared to our needs.
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Yes... when the asshole Obama mentions (thru your paraphrase) "you cats will work with me to aleviate imediate economic pressures that americans are feeling"
Yep... sounds like he wants to tie his little entitlement packages into it as a stipulation for why he would possibly allow for more areas opened for drilling
What about bushes economic stimulus plan. Was that an entitlement?.. . oh.. bush gave money to everyone, he must be redistributing gdp, he must be a comunist... Since only the wealthy pay taxes, bush must be a pinko robin hood.
What about releasing some of the petroleum reserve. what about closing down the enron loophole... all things not entitlements that would decrease economic pressures...