JackB1 wrote:JackDog wrote:
Then he needs to press to drill for oil here at home. He has said he won't do that so we will continue to be dependent on other countries that do. We will get no respect as long as we have to keep asking others for what they have.
This is not the answer either. we would have to charge $20 a gallon to make up for the astronomical cost for drilling for oil from tar sands and oil shale.
Not to mention the environmental costs. This would just be a "band-aid" that would delay the inevitable. It's time to look into new technology that won't destroy our environment and ruin the planet for future generations. If we are going to spend billions developing this technology, why not spend it for developing a truly "new" technology that won't continue to destroy our planet.
On a related note, why aren't we looking into the obscene profits that the oil companies are making, while most of us struggle to fill our tanks and feed out families? If you want the real answer to ANY question facing our country, it ALWAYS traces back to greed. We have an oil man in the white house and we wonder why oil prices have skyrocketed since he's been in office?
First off,it was that oil man in Washington that signed the Fuel Economy Bill. All cars have to get 31.6 miles to the gallon by 2015. That's a good thing right?
As far as getting fuel from coal,do some research man. Union Pacific Railroad is well on their way to developing liquid fuel made from coal. In fact, they even have some prototype engines running on the stuff right now.Canada is doing it and we are buying oil from them. Cost might have been an issue in 05 but not now. We are painting ourselves into a weak corner by not exploring and drilling where we know we have domestic reserves of oil on our land and off the coasts. In the meantime, sure, work on alternative energy and energy independence. We're not going to flip a switch one day and magically covert from one form to another.
As far as the environment goes,I'll get on board when the rest of the world does. We are the only power country that gives a f*** and it's killing us. Our "friends" the Saudis are balking at increasing production. So while they continue to screw with us on oil ... let's be sure to respond here in this country by:
1. Refusing to drill in ANWR for more oil in the very portion of ANWR that was set aside for the purpose of drilling for more oil.
2. Refuse to tap the known reserves of oil and natural gas off the West coast of Florida because, after all, we certainly don't want tourists in Florida to catch sight of a drilling rig 25 miles off shore now do we?
3. Refuse to develop ways to use the oil shale from the Western United States.
4. Refuse to develop coal gasification techniques.
5. Refuse to build any more refineries in the United States.
6. Listen to the anti-nuke moonbats and continue to delay building some nuclear power plants.
And while we're doing all of these things let's make sure to keep the subsidies for ethanol at a ridiculous high so that we can take more land out of food production to grow more corn to be turned into an alternative fuel. We burn more than a gallon of fossil fuels to produce a gallon of ethanol.
Meanwhile, China is off the Florida coast drilling for oil, while we all sit back and twiddle our thumbs as we watch the price of gasoline skyrocket all while listening to people like you b*tch about the evil oil companies. We have our own oil resources on our own soil, and yet we're not allowed to drill. Instead, we should sit back, bleed to death as a nation? I don't believe so.
****Don't take this personal Jack. It's just a debate on a forum.****
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