November Elections and Oil
The only ones these gas prices are really hurting are the lower income. Everyone else is merely inconvenienced .
If the ā??averageā? American were really hurting by the gas prices they would slow down that SUV a little bit. Driving 80 mph isn't conducive to saving gas.
They gripe about how much it costs to fill up that gas hog they own, and then peel out of the parking lot. Hellā?¦. Theres a gallon wasted right there.
The ā??averageā? American has sooooo much! Computers, iPods, cell phones, multiple vehicles, etc,etc,etc.
When the gas prices started rising the first thing I gave up was my daily Starbucks, next I downsized my cell phone. I slowed down when Iā??m driving. (Saves a tremendous amount of gas.), stopped going out to restaurants 3-4 times a week. And what do you know, those little changes saved me over $ 400.00 a month. More than enough for the increased gas bill.
So they want to destroy our coastland forever, f*ck up our delicate eco-system so we donā??t have to be inconvenienced or cut back on our lifestyle?
Its really a bad idea to put a band aid on a 30+ year old wound. When our children, and grandchildren, pull it off its gonna be oozing and infected!
Americans got greedy with cheap gas and now we think we deserve it.
Next time when you buy a vehicle maybe you should get it for the gas mileage, not how many cup holders it has.
November Elections and Oil
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Originally Posted by Psycho4Bud
I've said it before, the price of oil and stance by the candidates will have great infuence on our next president. Let the price of gas crowd around $5.00/gal. and household oil in the Northern states rise to a price of $175/barrel and the "green vote" will turn from enviroment to the green in their pocket.
This will go down in history as the issue that crushed a candidate!:D
You almost sound happy that things might get so bad that we'll consider endangering our coastal environment with offshore drilling when otherwise we would never consider it. I don't see how you think the high price of gas possibly forcing the offshore drilling issue is a good thing. It's not a good thing when desperation forces you to do something you don't want to do. Hell, maybe it will get bad enough we'll have to burn all our furniture just to stay warm! That would be even better!
To me the high price of gas proves the petroleum industry is about done with --- we need to move away from it. I'd rather see the investment that would go toward developing these offshore wells go instead to finding an alternative. Either way we are a few years from seeing any benefit from the investment we make now. It makes more sense to me to spend that time and money finding a solution that might last awhile, rather than just blow it on unsustainable fossil fuel that will be burned and gone in a few years. The wakeup call we are getting is not to tell us to drill for more oil, it is to tell us to move on from oil.
Also, regarding the safety of offshore oil rigs, there is nothing you can do to guarantee their safety, and even when they function exactly as designed, there are still huge amounts of pollution. The Santa Barbara spill that triggered the ban on offshore drilling was not a failure of the rig --- it was a failure of the rock the rig was drilling through. Once they tapped the high-pressure pocket of oil, the oil forced it's way through flaws in the rock and spilled that way --- not through a ruptured pipe or damaged rig. You can't guarantee that won't happen again. And even when rigs do not spill, there is still a lot of ecological damage due to the shore facilities, pipelines, runoff, erosion, and other pollutants.
November Elections and Oil
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Originally Posted by LegalizeTheGreen
you know the Alaska Oil Reserve? enough oil for like 4 months, and it takes over 5 years to get access to it all.
actually there is 4.3 to 11.8 billion barrels of oil assumed to be there according to Drilling for Oil in ANWR ~ Tell Me Again What it Solves Ā« The World According to Opa
even though it is statistically low balled at lasting for only one year and 4 months, at least that could possibly by us some time to develop affordable energy alternatives, and by golly it seems like enough to convince me to make a decision to go for it, hell anything that saves me money asap i'm all for!!!!!!!!!:stoned:
I do recall watching a program on either the history channel or national geographic that had geologists stating that they think there may be more crude oil and/or natural gas in ANWR than the entire Middle Eastern oil fields combined. The point is we wont have a definitive answer to the quantity of fossil fuels in this area until we attempt to use the readily available modern technology to help drill in areas most likely to contain fossil fuels with little to no impact on the surrounding environment. We must all remember that drilling for oil is no longer a guessing game, we have access to great technologies that allow us to actually see whats in the ground before any drilling actually occurs. that fact alone should in my mind ease the environmentalists concerns that they have concerning oil drilling....:stoned:
I would like to make it absolutely clear that I do in fact support the expansion of fossil fuel production on a domestic level, however, I only support these ideas in order for us as Americans to lead the world in the search for alternative renewable energy with zero emissions. I just think that we as a country were "caught with our pants down" when it comes to the energy crisis. We simply need to buy some time for our manufacturers to utilize their Rand D departments and come out with affordable options.........:stoned:
wow! talk about a stoned rant!!!:stoned:
