Why Don't We Drill in the U.S. for Oil?

[Big Fitz]

Ecofascists and libtards are afraid America would become prosperous, self sufficient and debunk their crazy faith.

And this thread was going along so well.

Truth hurts don't it?

 

[rdean]

What are the promises of people who tell us the US can be a superpower on government subsidized windmills worth?

Because that's what all the Right Wing Scientists and Engineers, both of them, are accusing the Left of believing.

 

[Jackson]

We should be drilling everywhere there is oil. High cost? Getting oil from outside sources who are calling their own prices is high cost. It would also provide jobs.

 

[Woyzeck]

We want to get off of foreign oil, correct? Then why don't we drill here for it? I mean, within the U.S. (on land)?

I imagine for the same reasons a meth addict doesn't choose to make his own meth rather than buying from the dealers. He doesn't have the knowledge or means to sustain his addiction forever, and once it runs out or collapses he's back at the dealer's, anyway. Instead the healthier thing to do would be kick the addiction altogether, instead of making it from home.

Oh yeah, that's an equivalent comparison. Meth to oil. Fire up the steam calliope the circus is back in town.

Well thanks for coming around again, people here love the circus acts! Especially the one when you give a snide, snobbish insult dismissing someone's post without giving any counterargument, and then a lolcats image. The kids go crazy for it these days.

 

[Big Fitz]

I imagine for the same reasons a meth addict doesn't choose to make his own meth rather than buying from the dealers. He doesn't have the knowledge or means to sustain his addiction forever, and once it runs out or collapses he's back at the dealer's, anyway. Instead the healthier thing to do would be kick the addiction altogether, instead of making it from home.

Oh yeah, that's an equivalent comparison. Meth to oil. Fire up the steam calliope the circus is back in town.

Well thanks for coming around again, people here love the circus acts! Especially the one when you give a snide, snobbish insult dismissing someone's post without giving any counterargument, and then a lolcats image. The kids go crazy for it these days.

Better than intellectually disingenuous metaphors pretending to be intellectual, Good Will Nothing. Kids go crazy? You're right. You have.

 

[rdean]

We should be drilling everywhere there is oil. High cost? Getting oil from outside sources who are calling their own prices is high cost. It would also provide jobs.

Why is this so difficult to understand?

IT'S NOT OUR OIL!

Oil companies lease government land. If oil is discovered, it belongs to them. Get it? It belongs to them. NOT US! It belongs to them.

The oil is put on the open market. If the price starts to drop, they withhold the oil, creating new demand, which raise the price.

Too many complain about socialism and communism and then turn around and say, "Drill baby drill". If the oil belonged to us, we would be a "socialist" or a "communist" country. But we are not. We are a "capitalistic" country. The oil belongs to the company that drills for it and pays the government for the right.

Come on people, "THINK!"

 

[Rozman]

Because oil is bad....and the oil companies are bad and the people who RUN oil companies are bad and the people who work for oil companies are bad and the people who use oil are bad.


BAD BAD BAD ........

 

[Old Rocks]

The original question was why don't we drill for our oil. I believe at this point it has been established that we do not have enough oil to make an appreciable differance considering our appetite for the oil. And as long as we have to import this amount of oil, we will be beholden to the people that own the oil. To the point that we will have to accept unreasonable demands on their part. To the point that we have to pay a huge military bill to gaurd their oil so they can charge us whatever they choose for that oil.

In the meantime, we have a decreasing middle class whose wages have been going down in real money terms for 30 years. And, now with the weather related disasters, the food prices are going to go up at the same time as the price for oil rises.

Yet, we have people here that are absolutely opposed to the idea that we can create an energy technology within our own nation that does not rely on oil. Even as the amount of oil this nation produces goes ever downward.

 

[skookerasbil]

The original question was why don't we drill for our oil. I believe at this point it has been established that we do not have enough oil to make an appreciable differance considering our appetite for the oil. And as long as we have to import this amount of oil, we will be beholden to the people that own the oil. To the point that we will have to accept unreasonable demands on their part. To the point that we have to pay a huge military bill to gaurd their oil so they can charge us whatever they choose for that oil.

In the meantime, we have a decreasing middle class whose wages have been going down in real money terms for 30 years. And, now with the weather related disasters, the food prices are going to go up at the same time as the price for oil rises.

Yet, we have people here that are absolutely opposed to the idea that we can create an energy technology within our own nation that does not rely on oil. Even as the amount of oil this nation produces goes ever downward.

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So we build a few windmills and the problem disappears!!!! Gotta love the lefty solutions to shit............


"Energy technology".......laugh my balls off. Faux solutions...........we're decades away from energy solutions that make any sense at all. The real question is............will the government get the fcukk out of the way so that private enterprise can compete and develop energy solutions for the 21st century. As of now.....they do not exist.........except in the minds of those pulling the wool over the eye's of people too stupid to realize the snake oil sold by people producing windmills and solar panels and bio-fuels. Reminds me of that old Twilight Zone classic "To Serve Man"!!!!!!!........the k00ks being the people of earth and the tall alien bald guys.......The Kanamits....... the corporate genius's pushing windmills.

 

[Woyzeck]

Oh yeah, that's an equivalent comparison. Meth to oil. Fire up the steam calliope the circus is back in town.

Well thanks for coming around again, people here love the circus acts! Especially the one when you give a snide, snobbish insult dismissing someone's post without giving any counterargument, and then a lolcats image. The kids go crazy for it these days.

Better than intellectually disingenuous metaphors pretending to be intellectual, Good Will Nothing. Kids go crazy? You're right. You have.

Nope, that's right kids, just insult your opponent instead of debating any points you take issue with. No need to reason why you're point of view is correct, just act like it is without supporting it!

 

[Big Fitz]

Wait... you think you actually made a point by claiming that oil was equivalent to methamphetamine.

How about you substantiate your lameass allegation? I made 5 points that would fix this energy mess, pointed out that ecofascists and libtards are the main reason we can't seem to make headway on fixing this problem.

Of course you actually believe in the fantasy of Anthropogenic global warming and peak oil, so I doubt you have anything to say not worth more than mockery.

 

[saveliberty]

Why drill for our oil now? Wait until we bleed the Middle East dry first, then Russia. At $300 a barrel our oil will be mighty fine.

 

[LCSHRINE]

Drill now, start a real energy program, get off your butts. Stop all the bull
get a new leader that gets something done here, in this country. Wake up america before its too late

 

[dilloduck]

The original question was why don't we drill for our oil. I believe at this point it has been established that we do not have enough oil to make an appreciable differance considering our appetite for the oil. And as long as we have to import this amount of oil, we will be beholden to the people that own the oil. To the point that we will have to accept unreasonable demands on their part. To the point that we have to pay a huge military bill to gaurd their oil so they can charge us whatever they choose for that oil.

In the meantime, we have a decreasing middle class whose wages have been going down in real money terms for 30 years. And, now with the weather related disasters, the food prices are going to go up at the same time as the price for oil rises.

Yet, we have people here that are absolutely opposed to the idea that we can create an energy technology within our own nation that does not rely on oil. Even as the amount of oil this nation produces goes ever downward.

Good God, rocks. Build the technology and people will use it. No one is blowing up solar research labs. In the mean time I see no reason not to drill for all we can. Maybe it will calm the speculators down a bit. Announcing that drilling will begin in earnest all over America is bound to make a dent and create a few jhobs at the same time.

 

[KissMy]

We want to get off of foreign oil, correct? Then why don't we drill here for it? I mean, within the U.S. (on land)?

Our government really doesn't want to get off the foreign oil tit. The last remaining country with oil wins.

 

[dilloduck]

We want to get off of foreign oil, correct? Then why don't we drill here for it? I mean, within the U.S. (on land)?

Our government really doesn't want to get off the foreign oil tit. The last remaining country with oil wins.

I figure there is some truth to that. Just think of how valuable it will be when others start to run out. Hoarding from us now is a bit cruel tho.

 

[KissMy]

We want to get off of foreign oil, correct? Then why don't we drill here for it? I mean, within the U.S. (on land)?

Our government really doesn't want to get off the foreign oil tit. The last remaining country with oil wins.

I figure there is some truth to that. Just think of how valuable it will be when others start to run out. Hoarding from us now is a bit cruel tho.

I bet our government government plans on selling it to pay off the national debt when oil gets over $300

 

[dilloduck]

Our government really doesn't want to get off the foreign oil tit. The last remaining country with oil wins.

I figure there is some truth to that. Just think of how valuable it will be when others start to run out. Hoarding from us now is a bit cruel tho.

I bet our government government plans on selling it to pay off the national debt when oil gets over $300

A lot of good that'll do me.

 

[KissMy]

This entry below is the stock of proved reserves of crude oil in barrels (bbl). Proved reserves are those quantities of petroleum which, by analysis of geological and engineering data, can be estimated with a high degree of confidence to be commercially recoverable from a given date forward, from known reservoirs and under current economic conditions.

 

[k2skier]

We want to get off of foreign oil, correct? Then why don't we drill here for it? I mean, within the U.S. (on land)?

It goes back to when oil was first discovered in Saudi Arabia, now we trade weapons for oil with Saudi Arabia. It's all a fucking power and money trip now, and has nothing to do with oil independence.

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