Bush Disagrees With His Own Energy Dept, Claims Drilling In Arctic Refuge Will ‘Bring Enormous Benefits’
Bush Disagrees With His Own Energy Dept, Claims Drilling In Arctic Refuge Will ‘Bring Enormous Benefits’
This morning in the White House Rose Garden, President Bush called on Congress to “pass good legislation as soon as possible” that would lift the federal ban on exploring the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) and allow states to permit offshore oil drilling. Bush said in order to relieve the “painful level” of gas prices, “our nation must produce more oil.”
As part of his plan, Bush also reiterated his demand that Congress allow oil drilling in the Alaskan Arctic Wildlife Refuge. According to Bush, drilling for oil in the Arctic Refuge will “bring enormous benefits to the American people”:
BUSH: we should expand oil production by permitting exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or ANWR. … In the years since [1995], the price of oil has increased sevenfold and the price of American gasoline has more than tripled. … I urge members of congress to allow this remote region to bring enormous benefits to the American people.
Watch it:
Bush’s claim isn’t even backed up by his own administration. A Department of Energy report released last month found that the Arctic Refuge’s reserves will do little to reduce the price of a barrel of oil:
If Congress were to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling, crude oil prices would probably drop by an average of only 75 cents a barrel, according to Department of Energy projections issued Thursday.
The report…found that oil production in the refuge “is not projected to have a large impact on world oil prices.”
Moreover, in 2005, DoE estimated that there are nearly 18 billion barrels of oil available in the OCS, which is roughly double the reserves in the Arctic Refuge. Thus, by 2025, drilling in Alaska and the OCS would shave around $2.25 off the cost of a barrel of oil meaning “little to no impact on the price at the pump, today or tomorrow.”
At best, Bush’s plan saves mere pennies on a gallon of gasoline 20 years from now, while putting billions more into Big Oil’s pockets. Perhaps oil company executives were the “American people” he was referring to.
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Why not drill?
June 18th, 2008 at 2:07 pmFirst Boosh is going to give the polar bears several blankets infected with small-pox. They will then greet us as liberators.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:09 pmWooohoo!! Delusion strikes AGAIN!!
June 18th, 2008 at 2:11 pmI cut and pasted this from a prior post.
The 68 million acres of leased but inactive federal land have the potential to produce an additional 4.8 million barrels of oil and 44.7 billion cubic feet of natural gas each day. This would nearly double total U.S. oil production, and increase natural gas production by 75 percent. It would also cut U.S. oil imports by more than one-third, reducing America’s dependency on foreign oil.
http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/ index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=389&Itemid=1
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June 18th, 2008 at 2:11 pmWhy drill in the Arctic when big oil can already make tons of money in leases they already hold? This is just W trying to pay back all his pals what has been so good to him. That and he, in his innane way, is struggling to find a legacy.
Impeach Pelosi, Cheney and Bush and Save the Constitution.
VA - there are too many reasons NOT to drill to balance the thimblefull of oil we’d get for it.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:11 pmVA Voter Says:
Why not drill?
Why not follow the lead of the Swedes, who will be OIL INDEPENDENT by 2020?
Makes much more sense. Then BIG OIL and the Bushes can go pound sand…
June 18th, 2008 at 2:15 pmBush Disagrees With His Own Energy Dept, Claims Drilling In Arctic Refuge Will ‘Bring Enormous Benefits’…
Yeah, to the OIL COMPANIES who own him.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:15 pm.
TEN YEARS LATER…
Gas prices at the pump will be somewhere around $10/gal.
ANWAR oil will impact this by how much? A few cents?
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June 18th, 2008 at 2:16 pmChimp, 2006: “we have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil”
http://www.whitehouse.gov/ news/ releases/ 2006/ 01/ 20060131-10.html
Chimp, 2008: “our nation must produce more oil”
June 18th, 2008 at 2:16 pmSo they could ‘open new drilling areas’ contingent upon fully producing areas already open. Problem solved.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:17 pmMore madness…From the chimp and cheney, cut it, drill it and kill it…BTW it was stated many time’s there is little oil there, it will take year’s to get it, the oil will likely be shipped to japan in single hulled ship’s like the Exxon Valdese because it would be cheaper than pipe line’s…Last but not least the native’s and wild life will be threatened further if this is allowed….Blessings
June 18th, 2008 at 2:18 pmV: how’s that oil derek working in your backyard? And your neighbors? Are you getting tons and tons of the black gold to share with the nation?
What? NIMBY?
No drilling in the arctic!
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Arn Gunnutes ,
But, but, but, the free market on alternate energy will affect the OIL CEO’s bottom line… We can’t have that, can we? Energy CEO’s are people, too. They have to support their families, too.
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June 18th, 2008 at 2:19 pmWe are witnessing the artful culmination of this administration’s years of work. This is the ultimate pay-back for those who brought Bush to the dance.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:20 pmSomething confuses me about this. Again, oil is supposedly a “vital national security interest” (despite our policies that suggest otherwise), so why is Bush suddenly so concerned about getting permission from Congress to do this? Isn’t his entire presidency defined by the notion that a commander-in-chief during wartime (even a war he illegally started) has virtually unlimited powers? If Bush and Cheney really believe all that crap they’ve been handing us about executive authority, then they must not believe they need Congress to approve anything they are doing concerning a “vital national security interest”.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:21 pmVA Voter…..still listening with bent ear to the same folks who have lied to him repeatedly and yet he has naught but disparaging remarks for the truthtellers….wonder why va voter is irrelivant.
Time for new people with ideas for moving us forward, not more going backwards…..we are tired of it.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:22 pmI wonder how the oil companies would react if opening ANWR was conditioned on a ban on export of oil from any U.S. field. Wouldn’t you love to hear the greedy ba$tard$ on the right explain how selling the oil to Japan benefits America? Nothing to see here gang. This is just the chimp trying to look relevant after getting laughed out of Europe — again.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:26 pmWhen VA continues to listen to the voices that sold us this criminal Administration, expecting different results, isn’t that a form of insanity?
… Just asking.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:28 pmPrevious utterances of Bush, presented without comment:
“It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.” (George Bush, pretending to care and sound all informed and such–Beacerton, Oregon, September 25, 2000).
“It would be helpful if we opened up ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge). I think it’s a mistake not to. And I would urge you all to travel up there and take a look at it, and you can make the determination as to how beautiful that country is.” —George W. Bush, White House press conference, March 29, 2001
“The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.” —George W. Bush, Jan. 14, 2001
“We need an energy bill that encourages consumption.” —George W. Bush, Trenton, N.J., Sept. 23, 2002
“Americans should be prudent in their use of energy during the course of the next few weeks. Don’t buy gas if you don’t need it.” –George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 1, 2005
“We have enough coal to last for 250 years, yet coal also prevents an environmental challenge.” –George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 20, 2005
“Part of the facts is understanding we have a problem, and part of the facts is what you’re going to do about it.” –George W. Bush, Kirtland, Ohio, April 15, 2005
June 18th, 2008 at 2:30 pmBush said in order to relieve the “painful level” of gas prices, “our nation must produce more oil.”
Wrong, Numbnuts, in order to relieve the “painful level” of gas prices (who told him they were painful? he wouldn’t know otherwise), our nation must become less dependent on oil, not simply find more sources. Who picked this moron to be president? Oh, yeah, the inaccurately named “Supreme Court”.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:31 pmVA Voter Says:
“Why not drill?”
Read before you post!
June 18th, 2008 at 2:31 pmVA Voter Says:
Why not drill?
I understand that home schooling doesn’t really prepare you for life out in the real world. It doesn’t provide the most well rounded of education, so I will be kind to you - for now.
The simple fact is that just because oil companies CAN drill there doesn’t necessarily means that they WILL drill there. Normally, the oil companies will wait until the time is right so they can maximize profits for themselves. That means waiting to drill until the price goes up, then they expend the time and effort to find the scarce supply of oil that is known to be in the Arctic. The oil companies won’t immediately drill because they want the price to come down, the wait to drill until the price goes up so they can recoup their investment in equipment, manpower, and bribes to the GOP slugs warming chairs in DC.
Its business in the worst way. Of course, I wouldn’t expect you to understand that.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:34 pmVA Voter Says:
Why not drill?
Go swimming on a beach by Galveston, then get back with us on that. After you wash off where the tar/oil balls touched you.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:35 pmI want to take a second to remind you folks that I don’t insult any of you. But none of you seem to have a problem with insulting me. No wonder people feel “progressives” are elitist.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:40 pmHeh. This from the man who drove Arbusto Oil into the ground. Lots ‘o credibility there.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:40 pmHi VA Voter. You look nice in that outfit. The colors really bring out your eyes
June 18th, 2008 at 2:42 pmDidn’t Clyde Barrow say something like “why not kill”? I suppose “why not drill” has the same underlying justification.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:43 pmVA Voter Says:
I want to take a second to remind you folks that I don’t insult any of you. But none of you seem to have a problem with insulting me. No wonder people feel “progressives” are elitist.
This is serious stuff and all you have to add is “Why not drill?” That was your entire rationale for drilling: “Why not?”. Did you expect a parade for your insight? Did you expect a bunch of ‘high fives’?
The planet is running out of oil (60 years). We need to do more than just put profits into the bank accounts of the oil companies. Don’t you care about YOUR future? Or your childrens future? Heck, forget about your kids - don’t you care about MY kids? I do.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:45 pmI don’t know about you guys but I’m not putting too much stock in this man’s advice on this subject. AMcG773 nailed it.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:45 pm#24 you can alway’s exit stage reich, please remember to take the oil slick with ya..Blessings
June 18th, 2008 at 2:45 pmLets do the math. 18BBL reserves, say 80% recoverable. 15BBL of oil in ANWAR. We currently use 20MM barrels a day. That’s a little over 3 years worth of oil.
Now, it’s all well and good for Republican politicians to posture about Democrats not opening ANWAR to the Republicans #1 benefactors - Big Oil. But what oil company is going to sink the money into building the infrastructure to tap a production opportunity with 3 years of usable life? Why not continue to rely on their ME friends and just pass the increase on to the consumer?
Republicans have no energy plan, just deflectable excuses to cover the fact that they’ve run our energy policy for the past 40 years that - a policy has cost us trillions and made us more dependent on foreign energy sources. They gave us “Morning in America” in the 80’s when they negotiated cheap oil with SA….that was a financial windfall for the House of Bush, but we are paying for their personal fortunes by expending blood and treasure in a losing game. Fitting that Bush the Lesser is presiding over “Evening in America”.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:46 pmLet me be the first to apologize, VAVoter, for any comment that I might have made that you misconstrued and found offensive despite any attempt on my part to be informative and/or simply joking in nature, insensitive to your nature in either regard.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:46 pmVA Voter, I don’t believe I have ever flat out insulted you.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:46 pmVA Voter-You insult yourself with your stupidity. Don’t blaim us here for simply pointing it out.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:46 pmVA Voter Says:
Why not drill?
I think you meant to ask the oil companies, “Why not drill on the land you already have leased from the government?”
June 18th, 2008 at 2:46 pmBush said in order to relieve the “painful level” of gas prices, “our nation must produce more oil.”
Then perhaps Bush should talk to the oil companies. I heard something the other day I didn’t know. There are apparently huge oil reserves in Colorado and Montana that our oil companies have the rights to drill for. They are choosing not to drill for this oil. Why you ask? Because by not drilling for the oil they have successfully driven the price of oil up significantly. Until the oil companies have drilled every place in the US they currently have rights to drill, I say no to any more oil drilling. It’s all just a scam to be able to drill in Alaska for less than 6 month’s of oil.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:47 pmReply to comment #1: Why not drill? Because my uninformed friend, it will only serve to make the oil executive richer and you will not save one red cent. It will take 7-12 years for the first drop of oil to be pumped out of the ground. You can’t just listen to political speeches and think you know what’s going on. If you think Bush or McCain are going to tell you the truth, I got some ocean front property in Kansas I want to sell you. They will say or do anything to get McCain elected. If you support them that’s fine or and your right, but don’t be stupid about it.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:47 pmWhom do I contact in the White House to get a sample of what the chymp’s been smoking?
June 18th, 2008 at 2:48 pmI was waiting to see how long before the crybaby started whining…..
Come to a progressive board and make an obnoxious remark, designed to piss people off and then….surprise, it worked.
kiss off va
June 18th, 2008 at 2:49 pmOne might want to read the following from: Rep Nick J. Rahall, Chairman of the Natural Resources Committee, had to say yesterday about drilling in ANWAR, or off the coasts.
http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 06/ big-oil-holding-back-fields that-could.html
June 18th, 2008 at 2:50 pmAt best, Bush’s plan saves mere pennies on a gallon of gasoline 20 years from now, while putting billions more into Big Oil’s pockets. Perhaps oil company executives were the “American people” he was referring to.
Enormous benefits? Yes, to big oil but not to working Americans, and certainly not to the environment after burning all of that oil. The only way to bring prices down would be to go back to regulating the oil commodity market the way it was before Enron/Cheney deregulated it.
More importantly, the days of cheap oil are over. Now more than ever we need to sink our recources into developing alternative energy sources.
http://progressiveworldreview.com
June 18th, 2008 at 2:52 pmI’ll answer your first question VA Voter. Why not drill? Here’s my belief on this.
I don’t want to give anything more to the big oil companies. I see record prices at the pump and I read of record profits by the same companies that are telling us we are in trouble soon if we don’t allow this sliver of the available (and produceable) area to be drilled.
I see this as they have been pissing on our heads for years and telling us it’s only rain. They have not risen to the level of being able to meet a national need as the goal. They are not worthy.
Care to object any of that?
June 18th, 2008 at 2:52 pmJust click on “Professor SmartAss!”
June 18th, 2008 at 2:53 pmVA Voter Says:
I want to take a second to remind you folks that I don’t insult any of you…
The utter inanity of your posts insults the shit out of me.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:53 pmRUCerious Says:
Whom do I contact in the White House to get a sample of what the chymp’s been smoking?
I could tell you, but then I would have to rendition you to Gitmo. Let’s just say that W likes a little bit o’ skunk. Laura likes the White Widow, but then you all knew that already.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:54 pmBush left off the part where it would bring “enormous benefits” only to a small number of wealthy individuals. I’m sure a few good jobs would be created for some common folk too.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:55 pmGW trying to deflect his failure in energy policy by NOW trying to blames the Dems if they don’t go along on this. There is no way pricing will change materially if we were to drill. Furthermore, to trust the oil companies to get us out of this mess after they created it in the first place is INSANE!
June 18th, 2008 at 2:57 pmVA confuses “ELITISM” with “BITTER”
June 18th, 2008 at 2:57 pmI also feel the ANWAR oil would end up being sold to the highest bidder folks.
If we do open it, lets require all US oil to STAY in the US.
Lets see how the greedy pukes react to that one.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:58 pmhellinabucket Says:
and the rest of you guys who respond intelligently to va voter ignorant remark.
Guys, he don’t care about the facts…he is just here to stir you up and then play the victim card…poor me.
Kinda like bush and his bunch now that they have everything so screwed up that it will take all of our efforts to dig our way out of the hole they have dug for us.
It’s hard work! bush said…..well it would be if you were working at moving us forward. Pretty easy just to sit back and let the crooks operate freely though so stop whining. Your time is near it’s end.
June 18th, 2008 at 3:00 pmOr go to “The Responsible Federal Oil and Gas Lease Act of 2008″ (H R 6251)
June 18th, 2008 at 3:01 pmHere’s a question I haven’t been able to find a answer to:
How does big oil make billions in profit on a $130 oil, but didn’t make billions on $50 oil? What part of the equation am I missing?
Thanks for the link Klem. The Responsible Federal Oil and Gas Lease Act of 2008 (H.R. 6251).
Thanks Rahal. Now make this a law.
June 18th, 2008 at 3:01 pmAny oil from ANWR is supposed to have too high of a sulfur content to be used in the U.S.
June 18th, 2008 at 3:01 pmDamn, you are quick
June 18th, 2008 at 3:01 pmVA Voter Says:
Why not drill?
Should read:
“Why not shrill?”
fixed.
June 18th, 2008 at 3:02 pmBush wants us to believe that drilling in ANWR will instantly shave $2.25 off the cost not of a barrel of oil, but a gallon of gas itself…sorry to say how many people will fall for that?
June 18th, 2008 at 3:03 pmVA Voter Says:
I want to take a second to remind you folks that I don’t insult any of you. But none of you seem to have a problem with insulting me. No wonder people feel “progressives” are elitist.
I don’t know about anyone else here, but I feel the presence of this troll is insulting to my intelligence.
June 18th, 2008 at 3:03 pmBased on past actions on other matters:
Bush says it has benefit
DOE says it doesn’t
Bush does it, saying he listens to his experts
IT fails
Bush blames DOE.
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June 18th, 2008 at 3:03 pmForTruth Says:
If we do open it, lets require all US oil to STAY in the US.
Thats been promised before.
June 18th, 2008 at 3:04 pmIsn’t that why the Alaska pipeline was built? But most of the Alaska oil already pumped is exported rather than sent to the lower 48 because it is more profitable to sell it overseas.
Republicans controlled the Senate,the House in the last 12 years until 2006.
June 18th, 2008 at 3:07 pmThey controlled the White House 20 years of the last 28 years.
What did they do about offshore oil drilling during those years…? zip ..nothing.
Most offshore oil drilling is in southern states which has been and still are controlled by Republicans like Florida, Texas ,and many others.
Why are they making an issue of this now before the elections and so they can blame Democrats?
Republican legistlators voted against drilling in many states like Florida..
This is nothing but a political game played right before elections.
Bush’s claim isn’t even backed up by his own administration. A Department of Energy report released last month found that the Arctic Refuge’s reserves will do little to reduce the price of a barrel of oil:
All right, who screwed up and let this report go out without being corrected to say something like there was enough oil in ANWR to “drive” a car to Saturn and back?
June 18th, 2008 at 3:08 pmFred, VA provides a valuable resource here. The responses to VA and others have provided hours of entertain and thousands of links debunking so much of the slime machine this administration is.
There is hard work ahead. Let’s get to work. If VA is a fraction of what he portends to be here then he will have to acknowledge facts when presented. If he wants to use visceral feelings as his political guide then he will be exposed by all who have a greater understanding.
June 18th, 2008 at 3:08 pmWhat people, where? Your fellow Fox News viewers, your peer group that listens to Limbaugh?
If you don’t like being insulted why to you come to a progressive site spewing your extreme right lies and BS. And please remember you weren’t INVITED here and are pretty much and unwelcome visitor. Next time why don’t you just leave instead of whining like a baby all the time.
June 18th, 2008 at 3:09 pmpmavrk
June 18th, 2008 at 3:11 pmYour link just proves everyone here’s point. You are a fool for posting that. from the article:
What ever happened to flippantly asking “$4 a gallon gas? Oh, I hadn’t heard that.”?
June 18th, 2008 at 3:12 pmAmericans would benefit more by taking oil out of the WHITE House. The benefits would not only be immediate, they would be certain and long-lasting.
Why are they pushing Artic drilling? This is remote, harsh, unforgiving territory. If it did produce enough to make an impact, it seems like it would cost more to produce (and transport) and therefore end up raising the price anyway. If it guaranteed foriegn oil independence within a certain, immediate time frame, it might be worth considering, but not otherwise.
I bet good ol’ American ingeninuity could develop viable alternatives before any of these propsed sites would have a noticable impact.
June 18th, 2008 at 3:13 pmI understand, really, but I have yet to see any of our trolls acknowledge a single fact that was not their own. You do as you wish, it just seems a waste of effort. They will ignore your facts and try to make the issue about their feelings……ect…ect.
June 18th, 2008 at 3:16 pmAnd Fred (#65), shouldn’t that article’s headline be changed from “Bush to Congress: Embrace energy exploration now to “Bush to Oil Companies: Embrace energy exporation now.?
It’s all about the leases.
June 18th, 2008 at 3:16 pmThis whole issue is an attempt for the Republicans to redirect America’s ire over the cost of gasoline from the Republicans to the Democrats. They are trying to convince us that it is all the Democrats fault that we are paying so much for gasoline and that it is all because they won’t let the oil companies drill in ANWAR and off our coasts. Fortunately the US public is finally on to the tactics of the right wing and won’t be buying their latest spin.
June 18th, 2008 at 3:18 pmWe could probably do more to reduce the cost of a gallon of gas if we had a functioning Department of Justice that could look into price fixing by the oil companies and why they are not drilling for the oil they already have leases on.
June 18th, 2008 at 3:19 pmDrill Bush, but Grill Cheney
June 18th, 2008 at 3:26 pmThat’s exactly the point. peemark read the headline and thought we would stop there too…..what a fool.
June 18th, 2008 at 3:28 pmBUSH: we should expand oil production by permitting exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or ANWR. … In the years since [1995], the price of oil has increased sevenfold and the price of American gasoline has more than tripled. … I urge members of congress to allow this remote region to bring enormous benefits to the American people.
Actually, average price/bbl of oil only increased $10 between 1995 and 2000 (from $24 to- $34/bbl(adjusted for inflation), and remained fairly constant from 2000 through 2003. However, beginning in 2003 ($32/bbl) it’s currently about $134/bbl. That seems to equate to OVER $100/bbl increase in 5 years. That’s a 10-fold increase. You don’t suppose it had to do with an obviously failing war in Iraq and saber rattling toward Iran, do you think?
http://www.inflationdata.com/ inflation/ Inflation_Rate/ Historical_Oil_Prices_Table.asp
June 18th, 2008 at 3:34 pmBush Disagrees With His Own Energy Dept, Claims Drilling In Arctic Refuge Will ‘Bring Enormous Benefits’
Hey Chimpy
How successful were you as an oil man , dipshit ?
Why do you insist on opening your stupid mouth ?
June 18th, 2008 at 3:36 pmOil companies exist to make a profit. They want to open up ANWR and other areas so they can hold the leases and NOT drill to keep their profits up. Anyone who believes that oil companies want to reduce prices is living in a fantasy world.
June 18th, 2008 at 3:39 pmAh, and the plot thickens, now they are revealing what their true intent was all along….sneaky bastards.
I beginning to think that this was planned…drive oil prices up, make Americans panic, open up the entire country to oil drilling without care for anything or anybody, rake in huge profits now that oil is really expensive.
We have been false flag attacked, again.
June 18th, 2008 at 3:40 pmLet’s develop and mass produce an engine that runs on dead caribou and polar bears. That’ll make Anwar drilling much more profitable.
June 18th, 2008 at 3:41 pmAwwww, now, you buncha big ol’ meanies - insulting poor VA Voter again by disagreeing with him and pointing out with facts how wrong he is!!!!
Dayum, you’re gonna hurt his widdle feewings!!! Cut it out, you big progressive elitist BULLIES!!!!
June 18th, 2008 at 3:41 pmIt could be designed to piss Americans off to the point that they will be willing to go to war with Iran for their oil…..
June 18th, 2008 at 3:47 pmI’m gonna’ an engine that runs off of pure bullshit ; in this way , I can get the GOP , White House and VA Voter to power America for several millenia………….
June 18th, 2008 at 3:47 pm“Im gonna’ invent” ; the line should read
June 18th, 2008 at 3:47 pmTheRight Says:
Say it three times and spin around and click your heels…maybe you will be in kansas when you awake…
June 18th, 2008 at 3:50 pm“Americans should be prudent in their use of energy during the course of the next few weeks. Don’t buy gas if you don’t need it.” –George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 1, 2005
Compared to what? Filling up your back seat with gas when the tank is full? :)~
June 18th, 2008 at 3:51 pmTheRight Says:
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I’m back!
Why drill in the Arctic when big oil can already make tons of money in leases they already hold? This is just W trying to pay back all his pals what has been so good to him. That and he, in his innane way, is struggling to find a legacy.
Another DNC troll reciting a DNC talking point. I call them DNCBots or DemoBots. They just recite the words produced by Howie Beanie and his goofy cohorts at the DNC.
There are many reasons oil companies do not drill for on the leases they have. One reason is because there is no oil there or not enough to make it worth their while.
What Regressives, who have their collective heads deep in oil wells, do not want to realize is that environmental extremist nut jobs have lots of money to hire lots of lawyers to challenge everything the oil companies want to do.
Democrats caused this mess.
June 18th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
You’re gonna’ try and claim that enviromentalists have more cash at their disposal than the oil companies , who have been making RECORD PROFITS these last 2-3 years , to secure the services of the best lawyers ?
That has to be one of the most inane and bordeline insane statements I’ve ever read (and this after 7 + years of a retarded simian being foisted upon me)
June 18th, 2008 at 4:01 pmROFLMAO………You’re a fu(king imbecile………What a moronic GOP tool you are.
Isn’t that why the Alaska pipeline was built? But most of the Alaska oil already pumped is exported rather than sent to the lower 48 because it is more profitable to sell it overseas.
That is precisely why I say that our “policy” of oil being a “vital national security interest” is bullshit. If it really was so vital, then why would we sell what little we have to anyone else? The fact that we do suggests to me that it is not as vital as they claim.
June 18th, 2008 at 4:03 pmBlah, blah, blah, You’re as enlightening as your Chimperor in Chief. Now get back under that desk and put your lips where they belong.
June 18th, 2008 at 4:04 pmTheRight Says:
There are many reasons oil companies do not drill for on the leases they have. One reason is because there is no oil there or not enough to make it worth their while.
Then why, oh, why would oil companies continue to pay for these leases if there’s no oil?
June 18th, 2008 at 4:08 pmTheWrong is a nut case, go back to the blow up sex doll, you’re wasting time here.
June 18th, 2008 at 4:10 pmAMcG773 Says:
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TheRight Says:
There are many reasons oil companies do not drill for on the leases they have. One reason is because there is no oil there or not enough to make it worth their while.
Then why, oh, why would oil companies continue to pay for these leases if there’s no oil?
June 18th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Because TheBlight believes the oil companies are as stupid as he is ; Blight purchased desert land and wonders why he can’t grow corn on it………….
June 18th, 2008 at 4:13 pmrighty, I can’t believe you would be this disrespectful of the opinions of real Americans.
Look, you guys had a good run but it’s over……time to face reality.
June 18th, 2008 at 4:16 pmWayne, the ONLY “vital national security interest” is profit.
June 18th, 2008 at 4:17 pmAnd don’t you forget it!
Fred, if they met reality in a dark alley, it’d beat the crap out of them.
June 18th, 2008 at 4:18 pmTheir comic books make them feel so safe.
How true this is. America to the gop is enron, big oil, big pharma, etc. The well being of American cititzens is not thier issue….evidence..Katrina
June 18th, 2008 at 4:24 pmBy trying to turn the gas problem into an argument about drilling, the right is trying to say that more oil will solve the problem.
Do we have shortages? Long lines at the pump? W do not.
There’s plenty–just at back breaking prices.
More gas will not help–if it’s expensive.
More cheap gas would do it, certainly.
Now, the question is, would the ANWR gas or the offshore gas be cheap gas? There’s absolutely no indication that that is the case.
The reasons for this are two:
1) The cheap, easy to extract, sweet crude, has long ago been exhausted domestically.
and 2) The companies we will be leasing the areas to have absolutely no reason to bring the oil in cheap.
If you were an oil typhoon, and your company found a vast new field of oil under the Clampett properties, would you start pumping as much as you could in order to bring the price down? Or would you say, holy crap, st 4 bucks a gallon we’ll be making a fortune!
If there is a lot more oil out there, then maybe we should go after it–but only after we nationalize the oil companies.
June 18th, 2008 at 4:29 pmIf there is a lot more oil out there, then maybe we should go after it–but only after we nationalize the oil companies.
First of all, I agree completely that the oil companies should be nationalized. They’ve had their shot to do the right thing for this country, and they’ve failed. They also control the oil refineries that so many on the Right complain that “we need to be able to build more.” Bull…they are operating at only about 80% capacity. Why? And the oil companies currently have drilling rights to 68 million acres in the country. Why aren’t they drilling? Well…we all know the answer to both “Why’s” Nationalizing the oil companies would end that, and end the power they’ve had over our Congress for way too many decades. Enough is enough.
The whole ANWAR and off-coast drilling boils down to an attack on all environmental regulations. I can’t remember right off who said it a couple of years ago, but some Republican stated that opening ANWAR would break down the gates on environmental regulations.
June 18th, 2008 at 4:50 pmP.S. As for you, “The Right,” there’s a lot of different names that would suit you well, but “Right” is definitely not one of them.
June 18th, 2008 at 4:52 pmSHAMEFUL political posturing that is NO different from the oil tax holiday proposed earlier by the likes of BILLARY Clinton — and John McCain!
June 18th, 2008 at 5:08 pmWow. The Delusion is strong in this one.
June 18th, 2008 at 5:57 pmWe have a scattered few trolls here who are just clever enough to be amusing. TheWrong is not one of these trolls.
It doesn’t even realize that the strongest proponents of corn-based ethanol as a fuel source are legislators from the rural midwest and Great Plains. Overwhelmingly, a Republican contingent.
Also, it has a tough time keeping track of who really are the regressives.
June 18th, 2008 at 6:00 pmTheRight Says:
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A typical outdoor barbeque with a Regressive goes like this.
Oil on the Cob cooked over a fire fueled by dried corn cobs.
DNCBot motto:
Let them eat oil! Use food for fuel!
June 18th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Can’t have a food shortage now , can we ; what on earth will McStupid cook to pander to reporters during a barbecue with..?
June 18th, 2008 at 6:06 pmTheRight Says:
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So you Regressives and DNCBots want to use food (i.e. corn) to make fuel for our cars.
Are you talking about the 40% of our corn crop that is underwater in the Midwest?
Maybe the Saudi Arabia or Iran will sell us some of their corn so we can make Ethanol.
June 18th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Are you talking about the Midwest that was hit with storms that have previously never been seen before , which is a result of global warming , that you 19%’ers still lyingly and stupidly insist isn’t real , jerkweed ?
June 18th, 2008 at 6:08 pmHere’s something that has always intrigued me… why would someone pluralize a noun properly (”Regressives”) and then in the same sentence, use an apostrophe to pluralize another noun “Muslim’s”)?
I mean, what is the principle behind this grammatical choice? What determines when someone uses an apostrophe to pluralize a noun and when they don’t?
We know TheWrong is not going to come up with a decent point, but can’t we at least ask him to use consistent grammar when he doesn’t?
June 18th, 2008 at 6:36 pmHey Right, the way I hear it real Republiscums like litte boys, do you agree or do you prefer bigger ones?
June 18th, 2008 at 6:45 pmWe will need to expand drilling at some point… but the first step is to repeal the tax breaks for XOM, Shell and AP. Why integrated oil companies are given huge tax breaks, when they profit up and downsteam is beyond me.
Oh, that’s right… because King Bush and the Bushies are ‘big oil’ whores.
June 18th, 2008 at 7:11 pmIt just so happens that “Big Oil” is sitting on around 68 million acres of leases and not drilling so they can help drive the price up. According to a recent study by my congresscritter, Nick Rahall (D-WV), the amount that they could produce would double our daily output of oil and jump the natural gas output by a whopping 75 percent! That’s why he introduced his “use it or lose it” bill just the other day.
Anyone who tells you that the price of gas is being driven up by the “liberals” is lying. Think about this for a minute. The last time we saw long lines at the pumps, a antionally lowered speed limit on interstate highways, and talk of odd/ even day rationing was back when Dick Nixon was running the “shortage” scam, driving gas prices up to over a buck a gallon.
Legislation to close the “Enron Loophole” is sitting on Bush’s desk, waiting to be signed, attached to the Farm Bill he’s threatening to veto. In case you hadn’t heard, the “Enron Loophole” is the little hat trick that lets hedge fund managers drive the price of fuel up by speculating. Experts estimate that when the oil market bubble is deflated by closing the loophole, we’ll see gas and deisel prices drop down to around half what they are now.
So don’t let them tell you Dem’s aren’t doing anything about the fuel prices. And don’t count on the Repubs to help the Dems overide Bush’s veto of that Farm bill, either, because I have a sneaking suspicion that there’s a bunch of them getting rich off speculating.
June 18th, 2008 at 7:30 pmNo, I’m serious. You obviously meant to include an apostrophe there, since neither “m” or “s” is near that key. So it was a conscious, or at least semi-conscious decision.
Why?
What convinced you that “Muslim’s” was proper?
June 18th, 2008 at 8:53 pmAgain, the true Regressives are the ones who want to drive up the cost of oil by sitting on their leases and doing nothing…it’s a shell game where Big Oil’s allies ignore this inconvenient fact and blame liberals and PROGRESSIVES and unfortunately, this works wonders on some people…
June 19th, 2008 at 5:41 am