Cafe Standards.......get ready to buy your Prius.....

I never said I was against alternative fuels, because I am quite for them actually. Wind, Water, Solar, Nuclear, just to name a few. But the tree huggers are against alot of that to it seems. I'm willing to bet there is a twenty to thirty year supply of Oil to be tapped inside of our borders here in the United States. The plan BHO has come up with is ludicris and won't work and will actually cost us all more money in the long run, but Mr. Big Government is all about fixing everything. He and his band of idiots feel is broke so hey let's spend some MORE MONEY. Which by the way he is really really good at!

Global warming is the biggest Witch Hunt of the 21st century. We just recorded one of the coldest winters EVER in many regions of the country this past winter and Scientist are saying this is now a trend we can look forward to for several years to come.
Global warming= Fooyyee, Poppycock, Horsemanure, don't beleive in it one darn bit waht so ever!

[QUOTE=apb;368852]So, we drill in Alaska and off-shore. Any guarentee that the oil we find will be used here rather than sold to the highest bidder (China)? Fossil fuels are non-renewable. Wouldn't it make more sense to have resources here that we could exploit in times of dire need rather than use those resources now even though we can get them elsewhere? Wouldn't it make sense to develop altnerative sources of energy rather than keep relying on a non-renewable resource? Sooner or later all the oil will be gone. You really want to wait until the last minute to figure out an alternative? Seems to me that we would be better off working on the long-term solution now rather than go with some quick fix that we know will land us right back in the same place in a few years.

Andrew[/QUOTE]

DUDE you need to stop crying, and do some RESEARCH.

I said NOTHING about Alaska.........that is a red herring......Those fields can produce about 5% of the oil that WILL be FOUND using oil sands, tar fields, and offshore.

Our oil CANNOT be burned here...........DUMBASS environmental rules with regards to sulfur content. WHILE I understand the rules........they FORCE us to sell our oil to others.

AND............dumping oh say 2 million barrels a day on the open market will do WONDERS for stabilizing prices.

AND.............finally........most of OUR oil comes from Canada.....and CANADA has some of the MOST strigent requirements for turning tar fields into OIL......

[url]http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html[/url]

AND if most of our OIL comes from Canada.......and OUR oil sands and tar sands are 2 times as LARGE............WHAT do you suppose that will do for our oil reserves.....

[url]http://ostseis.anl.gov/guide/index.cfm[/url]

Later,

Geo

[QUOTE=mhall;368873]
Global warming is the biggest Witch Hunt of the 21st century. We just recorded one of the coldest winters EVER in many regions of the country this past winter and Scientist are saying this is now a trend we can look forward to for several years to come.
Global warming= Fooyyee, Poppycock, Horsemanure, don't beleive in it one darn bit waht so ever![/QUOTE]

I'm not going to turn this into a global warming debate.......BUT.......for the past 8-9 years, we have actually cooled FASTER than any other time in RECORDED HISTORY.........more than in the 1970's when the SAME scientists screaming about Warming were screaming about cooling.

[url]http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech-mainmenu-30/environment/942[/url]

From Newsweek: 1975......hahahahahahahahaha

[url]http://www.denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm[/url]



Let them scream.

Later,

Geo

We need to build bigger more powerful trucks to pull our 500 hp glitter boats . What do we care if our grandkids have to go back to horses Hell we'll be dead anyway. Besides look at all the money we can make as stockholders in these companies. You folks that can't afford to pay for that gas will have do like I did go out and bust your butt work like a dog and make the big bucks so you can do anything you want. If you don't like tough, ahhhh its great to be a capiltist ain't it?

[QUOTE=stratosjoe;368892]We need to build bigger more powerful trucks to pull our 500 hp glitter boats . What do we care if our grandkids have to go back to horses Hell we'll be dead anyway. Besides look at all the money we can make as stockholders in these companies. You folks that can't afford to pay for that gas will have do like I did go out and bust your butt work like a dog and make the big bucks so you can do anything you want. If you don't like tough, ahhhh its great to be a capiltist ain't it?[/QUOTE]

There's hope for you yet Joe, I'm still waiting on my piggyback you promised.

I'm an old person refresh my mind on the piggyback?

[QUOTE=stratosjoe;368906]I'm an old person refresh my mind on the piggyback?[/QUOTE]

You told me to walk some time ago and I told you I would if you gave me a piggyback.

[QUOTE=GeoFisher;368888]DUDE you need to stop crying, and do some RESEARCH.

I said NOTHING about Alaska.........that is a red herring......Those fields can produce about 5% of the oil that WILL be FOUND using oil sands, tar fields, and offshore.

Our oil CANNOT be burned here...........DUMBASS environmental rules with regards to sulfur content. WHILE I understand the rules........they FORCE us to sell our oil to others.

AND............dumping oh say 2 million barrels a day on the open market will do WONDERS for stabilizing prices.

AND.............finally........most of OUR oil comes from Canada.....and CANADA has some of the MOST strigent requirements for turning tar fields into OIL......

[URL]http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html[/URL]

AND if most of our OIL comes from Canada.......and OUR oil sands and tar sands are 2 times as LARGE............WHAT do you suppose that will do for our oil reserves.....

[URL]http://ostseis.anl.gov/guide/index.cfm[/URL]

Later,

Geo[/QUOTE]

Sooo, Canada supplies MOST of our oil?? Funked math in school, right. According to the figures you supplied (total for 2008), just under 21% came from Canada. Saudis are not far behind and neither is Venezuela. Yep, thems some good friends!

Hey, just keep thinking short-term. Nothing could go wrong now could it??

Andrew

[QUOTE=apb;368920]Sooo, Canada supplies MOST of our oil?? Funked math in school, right. According to the figures you supplied (total for 2008), just under 21% came from Canada. Saudis are not far behind and neither is Venezuela. Yep, thems some good friends!

Hey, just keep thinking short-term. Nothing could go wrong now could it??

Andrew[/QUOTE]

OK I misspoke a little........They are the LARGEST supplier of OUR OIL......

Lets nitpick the CRAP out of it........Here are the details.........

CANADA 1,913.........................Ally.
MEXICO 1,219.........................Ally.
SAUDI ARABIA 1,099.................Ally......scary Ally, but STILL, and Ally.
VENEZUELA 960.......................CRAZY MOFO.
ANGOLA 671............................WHO CARES.
IRAQ 554................................Ally, kind of.
NIGERIA 457............................Don't KNOW.
BRAZIL 365................................Ally
KUWAIT 251..............................We saved their ASS..........Ally.
ECUADOR 243.............................Don't know.
COLOMBIA 225............................Don't know.
EQUATORIAL GUINEA 167.................Don't know.
ALGERIA 142...............................Don't know.
RUSSIA 139...............................Becoming CRAZY AGAIN......
CHAD 101...................................Don't know.

So, we get nearly 5 million barrels a day from Canada, Mexico, VENEZUELA, and IRAQ. That is nearly 1/2 of our OIL from "safer" places.

IRAQ is questionable......

If we can pump 2 million barrels or 3 million barrels........That would eliminate another 20 percent or so.....of oil coming from people who HATE US.

Yes......my numbers were WRONG...........BUT We DON'T import as much from The Middle EAST as we used to..............

Bottom LINE..........if you want to stop sending money to people that HATE US.....drill our own oil.

One final Note....if you use the bottom chart, Canada supplies DOUBLE what any other contry does of all petrol products........

AND they are close to providing more than the top 3 combined..........

AND if you look at all petrol products.......you can CLEARLY see that 2/3 of our imports come from NON middle east countries.

Later,

Geo

Wow there is some good stuff right there. I'm for saying we drill for our own oil while trying to perfect alternatives. It seems this administration likes to go cold turkey on things. Why? We don't have to. It's like Gitmo, shut it down and then try to figure out a plan. Seems backwards to me. Why not come out and say that we as an administation are interested in poking our enemies in the eye by drilling for our own oil and at the same time going full speed to develope alternatives. I guess that wont work because other polititians have said the same thing and they lost. We get what we vote for.

[QUOTE=apb;368920]Sooo, Canada supplies MOST of our oil?? Funked math in school, right. According to the figures you supplied (total for 2008), just under 21% came from Canada. Saudis are not far behind and neither is Venezuela. Yep, thems some good friends!

Hey, just keep thinking short-term. Nothing could go wrong now could it??

Andrew[/QUOTE]

Andrew.....The more I think about your response the more it honks me off.

Your response is EXACTLY what most libs do.......You proofread it........LOOKING FOR ERRORS and skipped over the CONTENT.........

Granted what I was trying to convey and how I did was a little wrong, but it was not deliberate....the data I was using to talk about OIL imports was about how much we DON'T import from countries that HATE us....I messed up about us importing MOST of our OIL from Canada.........

AND don't even TALK about short term thinking.............Need I say........3 TRILLION dollars in 100 days............WOW. You think they GIVE a CRAP about the long term consiquences of their spending.....HELL NO.

Later,

Geo

Ok, I over stated a little. However, I still stand by the drill drill drill approach as being a bad idea. If we went that route we would just hold off on working on alt sources. I also like the idea of having oil sources here that we could exploit in an emergancy so we do not have to rely on others. After all, if we have sources that we can use, that is a bargining chip. If we have none, we are at the mercy of those who have oil. Its not a repub or dem thing. Both have failed us on this issue. Caffe standards, if I remember right, were started in the 70's. The Bush admin dropped the ball and did not enforce them. The Clinton admin came up with the stupid idea that SUV's were not cars, therefore, not required to meet the standards. Probably part of why the auto industry is in the current mess.

Andrew