Hey, a right-winger who SUPPORTS Iran’s quest for a nuclear program.

Ready for $100+ oil, folks? Ready for $5 gasoline? If not, you’d better make the decision to actually support energy independence, rather than merely talk the talk.
Comment by O. Bigfoot — November 7, 2007 @ 12:02 pm

And have you checked the current price for a barrel of oil lately? We’re just a few dollars away from the $100+ mark. Also, if you had half a brain (of course, look who I’m responding to), you’d know that even if the US oil fields were open, the cost would STILL move past the $100+ mark in no time. If ANWAR were opened to drilling tomorrow, it still wouldn’t help OUR needs. BushCo already has plans to sell more than 75% of that oil to Japan and China. Plus let’s not forget the cost that would be added on to pay for upgrades and improvements to the existing pipeline system. And, of course, the fields in the lower 48 and offshore are only now (thanks to the fact that oil’s gone over $50/barrel) becoming even remotely cost-effective to consider drilling. The reason that the Texas and Oklahoma fields “dried up” was because it cost the drillers more to extract the oil than they could get selling it. Then, too, we’ve got to consider that the Gulf of Mexico oil rigs are subject to hurricane cycles (enough powerful hurricanes hitting the Gulf would cause oil prices to skyrocket as much as a cutoff from the Middle East).
And, if BushCo have their way and attack Iran, we’ll see oil prices exploding (quite possibly, a 50% increase on just the first day of any such attack).

Adds nothing at all, but the legitimate discussion ended when republicans started spewing off accusations and such.

At any rate this certainly doesn’t add anything to the discussion.

Comment by Ike Skelton

Hmm… I think we’ve all heard this kind of thing before.

Maybe you are in the industry, and maybe you do have some insider knowledge that explains why wind and other alternatives won’t work, or won’t in your words, “be enough to replace fossil fuels”, but if you don’t give any examples, or specifics (other than saying we don’t currently have the power infastructure), than people are just going to dismiss your claim of having inside knowledge as simple BS.

WTFmate??? THATS exactly what a republican would say!!!

Dude, liberals are the new republicans.

I do work in the power industry. And no, I’m not a Nuclear power industry hack, nor am I specifically in the nuclear industry.

Get a job man.