Hey Brian Crook, getting back to our short discussion about oil prices. I’d like to see if your logic follows this. On January 16, 2009, the Friday before President Obama took office, oil prices closed at $40.98 per barrel. At the end of last week, oil closed at $80.85 per barrel. Your President has allowed oil prices to nearly double in under 2 years!!! OMG!!! How can he do such a thing? It’s no wonder his failed stimulus plans haven’t worked. He’s in bed with Big Oil. It’s so patently obvious!!! See? That really doesn’t work any more than your failed attempt to pin oil prices on the preceding administration. I await your amusing reply which will somehow pin the current rise in oil prices on the previous administration. I’m sure it will have something to do with deregulation by Republicans, or some such claptrap.
Also, in answer to your point about putting derricks in Alaska, and them not producing oil for 20 years, apparently you don’t understand the impact that a steady FUTURE stream of oil production does for speculators’ expectations. Those expectations are what drives the price that speculators will offer for oil. I’m guessing you knew that but simply put it aside in your rush to glorify all things Obama. And so you know, the area which would actually have drilling in in the ANWR is about the size of Dulles Airport here in DC. Take a look at this and you’ll get a perspective of what it would mean to drill there.
Of course, some folks have no persepctive of how immense and uncrowded a lot of America, and the world really are because they’ve spent their entire lives in the mob scenes that are our coastal cities like LA, NYC, Boston, and the like, which are indeed much too crowded. But try driving across our great nation and for that matter, most nations, and see how much of the Earth we really haven’t used up, destroyed, laid waste to, or any of the other descriptors you may want to use.
Nola, where did I state that Bush-Dick was solely responsible for rising oil prices over the course of his eight terrible, questionably legitimate years in office?
More to the point is that Bush-Dick, owned by Big Oil, moved slowly to help renewable energy, promoted increased drilling, especially in 1.5 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (A.N.W.R.), and incompetently regulated the oil industry, as a direct consequence of which, oil drenched the Louisiana coast from April to October.
A.N.W.R. holds about four billion barrels of oil. That would run the United States for about two hundred days. In exchange for seven months of domestic oil, we would run roughshod over a natural mating ground for caribou, greatly risking their survival.
In addition, the oil tankers and oil derricks along the coast would disturb populations of polar bears and greatly damage the maritime life—All that for simply seven months’ worth of oil.
Focus on the future, Nola, not simply on lining the pockets of Big Oil. The future is in renewable energy: solar, wind, & geothermal. The universe supplies us with all the energy we want if we can manage the technology to use it.
Oil has led to the deaths of millions. It is the past. It is ending.
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MisngNOLA over 13 years ago
Hey Brian Crook, getting back to our short discussion about oil prices. I’d like to see if your logic follows this. On January 16, 2009, the Friday before President Obama took office, oil prices closed at $40.98 per barrel. At the end of last week, oil closed at $80.85 per barrel. Your President has allowed oil prices to nearly double in under 2 years!!! OMG!!! How can he do such a thing? It’s no wonder his failed stimulus plans haven’t worked. He’s in bed with Big Oil. It’s so patently obvious!!! See? That really doesn’t work any more than your failed attempt to pin oil prices on the preceding administration. I await your amusing reply which will somehow pin the current rise in oil prices on the previous administration. I’m sure it will have something to do with deregulation by Republicans, or some such claptrap. Also, in answer to your point about putting derricks in Alaska, and them not producing oil for 20 years, apparently you don’t understand the impact that a steady FUTURE stream of oil production does for speculators’ expectations. Those expectations are what drives the price that speculators will offer for oil. I’m guessing you knew that but simply put it aside in your rush to glorify all things Obama. And so you know, the area which would actually have drilling in in the ANWR is about the size of Dulles Airport here in DC. Take a look at this and you’ll get a perspective of what it would mean to drill there.
http://www.cdfe.org/center-projects/energy/the-truth-about-anwr
Of course, some folks have no persepctive of how immense and uncrowded a lot of America, and the world really are because they’ve spent their entire lives in the mob scenes that are our coastal cities like LA, NYC, Boston, and the like, which are indeed much too crowded. But try driving across our great nation and for that matter, most nations, and see how much of the Earth we really haven’t used up, destroyed, laid waste to, or any of the other descriptors you may want to use.
BrianCrook2 over 13 years ago
Nola, where did I state that Bush-Dick was solely responsible for rising oil prices over the course of his eight terrible, questionably legitimate years in office?
More to the point is that Bush-Dick, owned by Big Oil, moved slowly to help renewable energy, promoted increased drilling, especially in 1.5 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (A.N.W.R.), and incompetently regulated the oil industry, as a direct consequence of which, oil drenched the Louisiana coast from April to October.
A.N.W.R. holds about four billion barrels of oil. That would run the United States for about two hundred days. In exchange for seven months of domestic oil, we would run roughshod over a natural mating ground for caribou, greatly risking their survival.
In addition, the oil tankers and oil derricks along the coast would disturb populations of polar bears and greatly damage the maritime life—All that for simply seven months’ worth of oil.
Focus on the future, Nola, not simply on lining the pockets of Big Oil. The future is in renewable energy: solar, wind, & geothermal. The universe supplies us with all the energy we want if we can manage the technology to use it.
Oil has led to the deaths of millions. It is the past. It is ending.