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South America bringing the smack down
Nah, global warming is a myth. Humans vomoting toxic gases to the atmosphere has nothing to do with the planet being more polluted and getting warmer.
It's really God-driven to punish the gays and the infidels. Just like 9/11.
South America bringing the smack down
By the way, my company's stock is up 36% this year, I guess we should cut a check to the American people too, using Obama/Pelosi logic.
Did your company receive government subsidies when it was struggling?
The entire OCS leasing deal is a Repug instigated/last-year-in-office lease grab gifted to the oilcos. Has absolutley nothing to do with gas price or any pre-Iraq-style lies the Repugs are spewing OCS.
In classic "make or buy" decsion, the oilcos prefer to import oil, prefer to drill now for gas, than to invest $Bs in exploration and drilling.
so do our farmers. i don't see anything about Big Corn. Big Wheat.......................
next excuse
Drill until there is no tomorrow. I won't be around anyhow.
i'd rather drill than be taxed like there's no tomorrow.
I'm not in the top tax bracket so tax away baby!!!!!
hold that thought. i'll be back.
Thank you thank you thank you.There isn't one magic bullet to our energy crisis, but opening these areas up to drilling is part of an interim solution until new alternative energies can be realized in the economies of scale needed to make an impact on our nation's energy dependencies.
If you think that your boy Obama will only tax them and not you, you are gullible.
Your boy Obama says thats no good.
Whats up with that?
Under the OP logic, your company making money is evil and horrible to begin with.
Yeppers...
I see a real good possibility of the republicans resuming control of congress again. If the demonrats really cared about the people, they would do everything they can to bring oil prices back down.
It's as if they want us to suffer.
Oh Aggie...people can come up with statistics to prove anything....14% of all people know that.
If you think that your boy
Oh the hypocrisy...
While Congress is on summer break McCain has been AOL in the Senate..
Meanwhile, wing-nuts continue to spin that any added oil we drill from off-shore drilling or ANWR will stay in the U.S to drop domestic prices at the pump .......WRONG!
If We Drill in the U.S., We Don't Get the Oil
By Cenk Uygur, Huffington Post. Posted August 1, 2008.
One thing has been driving me crazy about this drilling debate -- everyone seems to assume that if we drill for oil in the US, that we will get the oil. And hence, we won't be dependent on foreign oil anymore. But we won't get anything, Exxon-Mobil will.
The oil that comes from that drilling will not be United States property (Republicans aren't suggesting we nationalize the oil companies, are they?). It will be the property of whichever oil company got the rights to that contract. They can then sell it to whoever they like -- and they will. They will sell it on the world market, so the Chinese will have just as much access to the oil that comes out of the coast of Florida as we will.
The Democrats have done a decent job of beating back the argument that this will effect prices in the short run, or even in the long run. But no one has addressed the point above. The Republicans make it seem like we won't be dependent on foreign oil -- and that prices will go down in the US -- if we have our own oil. But it won't be ours. And it will be sold on the world market, so its effect on global oil prices will be even smaller.
When we ask the question of whether there should be drilling off the coast of Florida or in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, we should ask the question this way -- would you be comfortable with the Chinese or the Germans or Russians or the Saudis drilling on American land? Because for all intents and purposes, they will be.
Large multi-national firms like Exxon-Mobil are not US property. They sell to the world and their allegiance is to corporate profits. So, when they drill, they drill for the whole world, not just us. Some might find that heart-warming, but it certainly has nothing to do with the US having more oil or lower prices.
Cenk Uygur is co-host of The Young Turks, the first liberal radio show to air nationwide.
Yes, there's a world market for crude oil. Market prices will bear out the prices on said market based on the *supply*. If the oil companies drill here, then the volume of said supply would go up, driving demand (and prices) down.
Silly liberals, it's called ECON101. And not to mention the transportation costs of shipping crude around the world vs. pumping it locally...
you finally said they don't care about americas long-term energy needs.
Yes, there's a world market for crude oil. Market prices will bear out the prices on said market based on the *supply*. If the oil companies drill here, then the volume of said supply would go up, driving demand (and prices) down.
Silly liberals, it's called ECON101. And not to mention the transportation costs of shipping crude around the world vs. pumping it locally...
Yeah, if us and the rest of the world are fighting over x number of barrels, and they add another 4-5 million barrels a day, that will have no effect on energy prices here...you finally said they don't care about americas long-term energy needs.
i think you missed the "long-term energy needs" statement.
you see........their montra is "we need to end our dependence on foreign oil".
thats the statement they hooked you with.
I predict this will become a major selling point in November to bring the republicans back. The more demonrats oppose realistic ways to reduce oil prices, the more people will look to the republicans. With the congress ban of outer continental shelf drilling set to expire in September, look at the hate they will generate when they reauthorize the ban, now! President Bush has removed the executive ban, now it's up to them. Just the known intention of increasing world oil supply will prop the prices almost immediately. President Bush's executive order has already brough prices down because the speculators see this as being a real desire, and probability.
In the past, when we set out to increase USA supply, OPEC has reduced the prices to levels that made it unprofitable, effectively stopping USA efforts. If they try this again once the outer continental shelf ban is lifted, we can see a dramatic drop in fuel costs again.
Democrats are the reason we pay the high prices. They stand in the way of lowering them.
Vote rebublican this year.... except for RINO's. Vote democrat or 3rd party instead. We need to keep the conservative republicans and can the liberal ones.
Republicans have to run on something I suppose....and lies are what have been driving the McCain campaign since he decided to let the Rovians take over his camp....I predict this will become a major selling point in November to bring the republicans back.
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