Kudos: The President Agrees To Offshore Drilling

[Skull Pilot]

if this had been a Bush announcement, the left would be up in arms saying he is paying off his OIL buddies...
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...and they would be right. Obama's doing it for the country, not to make his retirement cushier.

Or Obama would have made fun of them saying that you can save more gas that they could find by putting air in your tires.

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[Oddball]

If the oil companies do it in such a way as to make sure the ecological concerns are protected they can make money by extracting this reserve.

When they cut corners to make higher profit then it doesnt work.

Responsibility is the key.

When will they accept the higher standards and LIVE within them?

This isn't about oil companies, dingbat....This is about the Boyking trying to mollify certain people in advance of his upcoming attempt to cram down cap-n-tax.

 

[PoliticalChic]

if this had been a Bush announcement, the left would be up in arms saying he is paying off his OIL buddies...
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...and they would be right. Obama's doing it for the country, not to make his retirement cushier.

Anytime I see "Obama" and "retirement" in the same sentence, I swoon!

 

[Truthmatters]

If the oil companies do it in such a way as to make sure the ecological concerns are protected they can make money by extracting this reserve.

When they cut corners to make higher profit then it doesnt work.

Responsibility is the key.

When will they accept the higher standards and LIVE within them?

This isn't about oil companies, dingbat....This is about the Boyking trying to mollify certain people in advance of his upcoming attempt to cram down cap-n-tax.

Only in the minds of political hacks

 

[PoliticalChic]

I think this is a decision of genius. And look where the first leases are. Right off the coast of Virginia. When the oil companies do the inevitable screw up, it will not be a wilderness that only a few other people, other that the natives, see, but a major population center that will be fouled.

And, in the meantime, the push for alternative energy continues at a faster pace. And we get a carbon tax, or cap and trade, to create even more momentum for the switchover.

So good to hear from the far-flung idiot precincts, the ones who hate anyone not a member of either the Sierra Club or the Al Gore Fan Club.

Why, I don't hate really stupid people like you. After all, we all have our problems

This guy and Hiroo Onoda (go ahead: google him) are still banging the warmist drums.

Just in you haven't made the distinction between bumper-sticker-jargon and actual knowledge, let's take the air out of his balloon:

"When the oil companies do the inevitable screw up,..." Assuming that he knows the meaning of 'inevitable,' and don't be too sure of that, check this out:

“During the past two decades, while U.S. oil imports and consumption have steadily risen, oil spill incidents and the volume of oil spilled have not followed a similar course. In general, the annual number and volume of oil spills have shown declines—in some cases, dramatic declines.” And 62% of all oil spillage is natural seepage from the earth itself, and only 1% of oil in coastal waters is due to oil extraction. http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/RL33705_20090827.pdf(Source: Prepared by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) with data from the National Research Council
(NRC) of the National Academies of Science, 2003, Oil in the Sea III: Inputs, Fates, and Effects, p. 69.)

Gives a whole new meaning to 'inevitable,' huh?

Murphy's.


And as for "the push for alternative energy continues at a faster pace." Let's just see if this boob gets his usual 'F-" for this post, or we can pass him with a 'gentleman's C...'

You probably guessed already, but, let's grade it anyway:

1. “Presidents all the way back to Richard Nixon -- whose "Project Independence" promised to make America independent from foreign oil by 1980 -- were thwarted by short attention spans, other urgent problems and gyrations in the energy market.” After some 30 years and billions of dollars poured into alternative technologies, renewable energy now accounts for a mere 6.7% of our total.
A Past President's Advice to Obama: Act With Haste - WSJ.com

Based on US Department of Energy, sources of energy used in the US:
39.2% petroleum, 23.3% natural gas, 22.4% coal, 8.3% nuclear, 3.6% biomass, 2.4% hydroelectric, 0.35% geothermal, 0.31% wind, 0.08% solar.

Of the installed new electrical generation in the US in 2009, 42% was wind.

2. If green energy is as good, cheap, and clean as supporters say, why haven’t market forces should make it an increasing part of the energy picture…? Politics: rather than the promotion of new sources of energy, the movement has been hijacked by those whose main motivation is the devolution of America, or to accomplish government ownership and control of our energy supply. Sometimes called the “Watermelon Effect,” it is made up of the ‘green’ pro-environment policies on the outside, hiding the red Marxist redistributive policies on the inside.
BTW, we imported just over a third of our oil in 1981, and now 70%.

Once again, revealing your stupidity. The wind turbines are not owned by the government, but by private companies and utitlities. And they are making money off of them.

Green math: solar panels to save 50% on your electric bills? Well, if the average electric bill is about $100/mos, the savings is $600/ year! But solar costs 30-40 K, so it takes about 58 years to start saving money. But…solar panels are projected to last 20-30 years. So, savings? Not so much.

First, the panels last a lot longer than that. Most are gauranteed for 20 years. Second, that price is old. Standard price now is about $3 a watt, and shopping can get you 30% off of that. The grid parrallel convetor for a 5 kw system is about $2000 to $5000. So, for $25,000, if you do the work yourself, you can have a system that will take care of all the electrical needs of most homes.

How about hybrid cars? About 15 yrs to payback. (19 yrs for the Volt.)

How on earth are you figuring that? The Prius cost little more than the average midsized car, and uses about half the fuel. At $3 a gallon, that is a $6 savings per 100 miles. $600 per 10,000 miles. And when the prices get back up to $5, the savings are even more significant.


Now, one more thing, for the purpose of categorization here on USMB, this poster does not qualify to run as the dumbest poster grouping.

No, his category is most "Poster Most In The Hip Pocket Of 'Big Green' "

Sticks and stones, and I don't give a shit as to what you think

"...Of the installed new electrical generation in the US in 2009, 42% was wind."

I read your post, so I know where the wind is coming from.

 

[Skull Pilot]

If the oil companies do it in such a way as to make sure the ecological concerns are protected they can make money by extracting this reserve.

When they cut corners to make higher profit then it doesnt work.

Responsibility is the key.

When will they accept the higher standards and LIVE within them?

This isn't about oil companies, dingbat....This is about the Boyking trying to mollify certain people in advance of his upcoming attempt to cram down cap-n-tax.

Only in the minds of political hacks

And certainly Obama is no partisan hack.

 

[Oddball]

There are scores of capped wells off the California coast, which need no such "studies" to determine their viability for production....They could be put into production within mere months.

This is just another phony fan dance for the tragically gullible from Barry Obubblehead.

 

[kwc57]

There are scores of capped wells off the California coast, which need no such "studies" to determine their viability for production....They could be put into production within mere months.

This is just another phony fan dance for the tragically gullible from Barry Obubblehead.

There are capped wells from one end of Oklahoma to the other. They are capped because it is cheaper to get oil out of the ground half way around the world then it is from existing wells in the US. The "drill here, drill now, pay less" is a feel good bumper sticker slogan used by talk radio in election years to get the sheep excited and to vote. There is a belief that drilling isn't allowed in the US. That isn't true. I see working rigs all over Oklahoma. It is restricted in certain wildlife areas. If needed, there is plenty of oil on plenty of leases in the US that could be put into production in short order.

 

[concept]

Kudos: The President Agrees To Offshore Drilling

No he doesn't.

He agrees to "study" the possibility of maybe, one day or another, considering the idea of drilling, or not, at some future point in time, yet to be determined.

More Kabuki theater from the Boyking.

Yep. He just agreed to try and fish for a few votes.

Drilling? Not so much.



The bots love it though, even though they hate drilling, they love it that n00bama is drilling.