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Posted By jovial 10 months, 2 weeks ago in News

Energy is currently the most debated issue on Capitol Hill, and Republicans in Congress have seized the moment to stage a political coup, blaming Democratic resistance to expanded domestic oil drilling for high gas prices. Democrats have started to cave to some of the pressure. But would more drilling help anytime soon?

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    jovial10 months, 2 weeks ago

    McCain is turning gas prices into political gain and campaign money. Since 1990 the big oil companies have donated 220,000,000 dollars to political campaigns. The Republican party received 75% of that!

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    miklkit10 months, 2 weeks ago

    We opened up the Gulf of Mexico to more drilling in 2006. What happened to gas prices?

    The republicons are bald faced liars.

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    fsev4110 months, 2 weeks ago

    It has become obvious to me that big oil runs our country. We need desperately to reduce our need for all products related to oil . Plastics would be a good place to start. Gasoline is a given but we tend to forget the other things oil is part of.

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    Spadecaller10 months, 2 weeks ago

    Who's running for office? The oil lobby?

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    alakazam10 months, 2 weeks ago

    We need to Nationalize oil and set it's value at $1.00 a gallon. Black Gold...why not?

    This wouldn't require removing speculation...profit is profit.

    Then retool some factories and steel mills for general domestic production.

    Then stop borrowing money from China to pay people who spend all their money on products from China we could build ourselves. America was once noted for the Mastery of it's Craftsmen. Now factory after factory sits idle.

    It's just not that complicated.

    We can be a clean powered Industrial Nation. We have the Technology.

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    not2needy10 months, 2 weeks ago

    There's gold in them thar hills and the repubs want it all! That's what this is all about, nothing more nothing less.

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    Shadowolf10 months, 2 weeks ago

    ...there's only ONE place the NeoConArtists DON'T scream "DRILL!!!DRILL!!!DRILLLLLL!!!

    ...the dentists office...

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      chevydog10 months, 2 weeks ago

      Seems like we'll be stuck with a petroleum based economy for quite a few years yet; this almost no matter what we do. Wonderings:

      How many cars are on the roads? My guess is 70-75 million; this exclusive of trucks, equipment, or planes, which also need petroleum-derived fuel. If we decided today to replace all cars with Toyota-type hybrids, how long would it take? Seven, eight, or ten years in all probablity--even if all could afford new cars on that schedule (some can't).

      Do we need new factories to produce these cars? Delays are possible here; plus the normal long construction times. Maybe cost- and schedule-wise they're pretty much the same as producing drilling platforms.

      Maybe electric plug-ins are OK for urban areas. But what about rural or even ex-urban areas?
      Has anybody even thought what kind of electric grid is needed to support say 100,000 electrics plug-ins recharging at once? Generally the grid has been designed for mixed residential and commercial loads. If the distribution requirements for recharging exceed capacity, a whole new grid may have to be constructed. Lots of potential bucks and pain here.

      Then think about the batteries. What materials are needed for these, and how will they be produced? Might we be getting into a situation where instead of importing oil (with the well-noted complications) we'll be importing battery materials, with the same potential complications? Where does all the electric to charge them come from?

      None of this should be construed as saying that we shouldn't do this or that. But everything, even "good" things, comes with a price attached. Here on Propeller I see lots of lively discussion on energy, usually using the same standard platitudes. But I haven't seen any serious musing posts on the implications of some of these decisions. At some point, if any of this is to be more than just talk, these kind of things will have to be approached.

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      simonsez10 months, 2 weeks ago

      We shouldn't do anything but talk about it. Alternative energy, thats the ticket!

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      simonsez10 months, 2 weeks ago

      It's not about price, it's about who gets the money. If we buy it from our-self, the money stays in our economy instead of a foreign economy.

      Saudi Aramco makes on the order of $200 billion per quarter profit! We buy oil from Mexico, Venezuela and Canada. Why not buy it from ourselves?

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      simonsez10 months, 2 weeks ago

      It took the earth millions of years to make the fuel we use ... and you're going to replace it with an annual crop. Lots of luck.

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