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Topic: More Drilling in Gulf of Mexico
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| Latin1 | Posted – 5/12/2008 7:32:52 PM | show profile The far left blocks everything. France gets most of its power from nuclear, but the far left blocks any nuclear plants in the U.S. Russia and Canada are drilling around the North Pole and the far left in the U.S. is blocking that. Countries are drilling for oil off the coasts of North America, BUT of course the far left is blocking that. We need more oil refineries...but once again the far left is blocking that. Proposed windmills off the coast of Massachusetts and the far left stopped that project. Meanwhile as other countries are moving forward the far left is moving the country back wards. |
| UGoGirl | Posted – 5/13/2008 9:34:09 AM | show profile Loose change is all.... Getting more oil out of the gulf, might help mitigate the decline of other existing oil fields in the US, but don't expect it to do anything to decrease prices. This is a case of one step forward, two step backwards. The oil is harder to find, more expensive to produce, and simply less plentiful. Fortune magazine had a good article about oil production in Alaska recently ("Hunting for Oil Beneath the Ice"), and I loved this quote: ** "The folks at Conoco surveyed this slice of barren land about a decade ago. But times are a bit desperate up here in North America's largest oil region, and they've come back. "We're looking to see if we left anything behind," says Jim Darnall, an acquisition geophysicist for ConocoPhillips, as he brushes ice off his bushy gray beard. "We're trying to milk this field anyway we can." Is this what America's late-20th-century oil paradise has been reduced to - the petroleum equivalent of rooting for loose change in the cushions of a sofa? U.S. crude production is at its lowest since 1949, and nowhere has that decline been steeper than in Alaska, where oil output is less than half what it was a decade ago. The fields that since the late 1970s have provided more than 20% of America's oil are slowly running dry. It's a phenomenon that is hardly limited to Alaska. The world's five largest oil companies are replacing only 82% of the oil they pump each year, as once-prodigious fields fade and state entities in such countries as Venezuela and Russia consolidate ever more control over their oil and gas." |
| robbo | Posted – 5/13/2008 11:10:54 AM | show profile How did UGoGirl miss the point? It seems to me like anovelfate posted an opinion that the US needs to open up more drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and UGoGirl replied with her opinion that drilling in the Gulf of Mexico wouldn't really help matters. What point was missed? |
| veraworld | Posted – 5/13/2008 2:19:44 PM | show profile | email poster I understand that more drilling seems to be reasonable in the short term, but at the same time I would like to see the Goverment in a clear pursue of clean alternatives that we can produce here. At some point we need to start to seriously work on that. |
| UGoGirl | Posted – 5/13/2008 10:50:45 PM | show profile I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but these are just the facts as I understand them. It's as if you have a $10,000 credit card bill you can't pay, and you find a $50 bill and say woo hoo!!! I found $50 to pay my credit card bill! Sorry, it just doesn't buy you much. This is just the reality. If we wanted to get serious, we wouldn't continue acting like addicts, and instead would get serious, for example by mandating that all new cars in 2020 are at least 50 mpg. We can do that. If we wanted to. But no, let's instead talk about those wacky environmentalists who don't want to squeeze the last drops of oil out of the GOM or Alaska. |
| UGoGirl | Posted – 5/14/2008 11:57:57 AM | show profile And one reason we're unlikely to see anyone pushing for 50 mpg vehicles in 2020 is the ethanol lobby. Because ethanol has much less heat content than gasoline or diesel, that 50 mpg would turn into something like 70 mpg for ethanol-fueled vehicles. And that is not going to happen by 2020. |
| UGoGirl | Posted – 5/16/2008 10:33:05 AM | show profile I know I could be accused of the same on energy issues, but with Clinton/Obama, don't even you think you're beating that horse to death? Does EVERY discussion have to devolve into some point of why Clinton is better than Obama? What a turn off. Other than this response, I'm ignoring all the Obama bashing you and notpriveleged are putting out here. Even Clinton has said it would be a huge mistake to vote for McCain. I don't think either of you give a damn about the principles of the democratic party, perhaps you feel this is the one and only chance to see a female president in office in your lifetime. I don't feel that way. |
