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You Can Look Foward ....

To $4.00 per gallon gasoline this Summer.  You can take that to the bank.  And why can you look forward to $4.00 per gallon gasoline this Summer?  Why you can thank the environmental movement in this country for that. 

Why not go over to one of the environmentalist websites such as Greenpeace or the Sierra Club and send them a quick "thank you" for opposing drilling for our own oil at home, and for opposing new oil refinery construction as well?  In fact, why not just thank them for the $4.00 you'll be paying at the pump?

I am so glad the environmentalists are on our side, aren't you? 

The insanity of not drilling for our own oil at home, all caused by the environmentalists.  How wonderful!

What will the environmentalists think of next?

Print | posted @ Friday, March 14, 2008 7:12 AM

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Gravatar # re: You Can Look Foward ....
by Andy at 3/16/2008 11:51 PM
God forbid there are people out there that want to protect our nation's natural resources! God forbid we don't destroy animal habitats and thousands and thousands of acres of forest and prarie land! I would like to thank the Republicans for a pathetic dollar bill and for letting us face plant into a recession!

P.S. I do like your site, though. Consider this a comment from someone who probably shouldn't be running his mouth off due to a slim (at best) knowledge of contemporary politics. However, I must say that I take the environmentalist's side. We brought 4 dollar gas on ourselves.

P.S. Again: I am going to add you to my blogroll if you don't mind. I found you at GirlRobot.

P.S. Again: I look forward to your future posts and making ill informed comments
  
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by Braden at 3/17/2008 6:47 AM
Welcome, Andy! Glad to have you here.

We brought 4 dollar gas on ourselves? Yes, we did. And how did we bring it on ourselves? Allow me to repost a similar answer I posted on another blog:

By the way, if anything, that $4.00 a gallon gasoline you spoke of can be attributed to no one else but the environmentalists and their lobbyists who oppose domestic drilling for own own oil. And let's not forget about the constructing of new refineries to keep up with the asinine number of gasoline formulations the environmentalists talked our lawmakers into in the first place.

Let me guess, the War in Iraq was about oil, and the evil Haliburton! Hell, I wish it were about oil because we could use some of it now, but then again, what good will it do us since we no longer have the oil refinery horsepower to keep up with the demand anyway?

Domestic drilling? No, it'll harm the environment.

New Refinery construction? No, it'll harm the environment.

Nuclear power? No, too dangerous.

Wind turbines? No, they kill birds and bats.

Plug in rechargeable cars? No, they generate a "carbon footprint."

Hybrid cars? Shhhh, some enviro-weenies drive one so we won't say anything, although they do generate a "carbon footprint!"

The list goes on and on.

The environmental movement will oppose everything thrown at it, in fact, none of it really matters. What matters to the environmental movement is opposing any source of energy which will benefit this country because the environmental movement for the most part is run by nothing more than liberal moonbats who hate this country in the first place.

So that said, if you want to thank anyone for that $4.00 a gallon of gas statement you made, you can thank your liberal environmental friends and their influence they hold over our lawmakers.

Any questions?
  
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by Andy at 3/17/2008 2:03 PM
I just don't see what is wrong with protecting the environment??? You make it sound like these environmentalists are devil worshipers! I would pay four dollars at the pump any day to ensure that my kids and my kids' kids live in a half way decent environment.

And I don't know why you jumped to the topic of the war but I will say this. I am not caught up in the "why?" and the "how?" of the war but I read a very interesting post the other day:

For what we spend on just ONE DAY of the Iraq War (approximately $720 million), we could provide:

· 12,478 elementary school teachers, or
· 163,525 people with health care, or
· 6,482 families with homes.

That blows my mind...for as little progress as we have made in five years over there, it seems like there would have been lots of better homes for that money then have it get burried senselessly in the sand over there. We will never gain any ground in that country because it is not a political war. When it comes down to it, it is a holy war. Holy wars go on for hundreds and thousands of years and never get resolved.

That is just frustrating to me.

  
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by Braden at 3/17/2008 2:12 PM
You do know they have very environmentally friendly methods of drilling for oil now, right? But that's not good enough for the environmentalists.

You want to talk about frustrating?

How about knowing we have enough oil here in our own country to tell the Middle East to go stick it, but we can't. Why? Why, we must protect the environment! Even if that means going back to the days of the horse and carriage.

How is this progress? It's not. The environmentalists are holding us as a country back. Like I said before in my aforementioned response to you within this post, nothing is *ever* good enough for them. Once again, look at the list.

And since we're now talking about the war, allow me to ask you this (and please, don't respond to my question with a question of your own):

How could leaving Saddam Hussein in power promote peace and justice to the people of Iraq?
  
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by Andy at 3/17/2008 8:10 PM
I would like you to answer my question before I answer your Saddam question! What is wrong with wanting to protect the environment?
  
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by Braden at 3/17/2008 8:24 PM
I have no problems in protecting the environment, as long as it is reasonable and does not have a drastic impact on the progress of this country like the current situation given to us by the environmentalists in terms of domestic oil exploration/drilling/new oil refinery construction.

I am a firm believer in doing whatever it takes to make sure we (and our future children) have a clean environment, too.

But, where do we draw the line? Especially since we're now being faced with $4.00 a gallon gasoline this Summer. And why? Well, you now know why if you read my previous comments.

I am steadfast in what I said. I believe the environmental movement is greatly at fault for the situation we now have facing us. The possibility of facing $4.00 a gallon for gasoline could of been avoided if we were drilling for our own oil here at home, and if we constructed new refineries to keep up with the current demands.

It just doesn't get any clearer than that.
  
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by Andy at 3/19/2008 12:37 AM
This subject of drilling on our own soil for oil (no rhyme intended) has really sparked my intrest and intrigue. I had to go out of town all day today but I got back about 4 hours ago and I have been sitting here reading quite a few articles on the subject. Here are some common themes that I have discovered:

It is not just environmentalists that oppose drilling for oil in the Artic natural wildlife refuges. Check out this poll:

http://www.sierraclub.org/pressroom/releases/pr2004-12-21.asp

Basically it appears that 60 percent of random Americans oppose disrupting the refuge area that Eisenhower set aside four and a half decades ago for for polar bears, musk oxen, wolves, seals, walruses, and migrating birds.

But those environmentalists on capital hill, with as much of a fuss as they raise, really don't have that much affect on the price of gas. Gas prices depend on futures markets and when the State Department releases all kinds of terrorist alerts, the futures markets get ants in their pants and up shoot gas prices. And from what I can tell, we don't need any more refineries in America. They just need to run more efficiently and they COULD, but they don't CHOOSE to do so because that would affect how much demand there is for gasoline which would therefore affect their profits drastically. It is all very systematic and Big Oil knows exactly what they are doing.

But if you really think that drilling for oil up there in the Artic is the answer to 4 dollar gasoline, than lets pretend that the environmentalists and 60 percent of America change their minds.

So we send crews up north and DRASTICALLY disrupt the wildlife refuge. Read this really quick:

"For a sense of what big oil's heavy machinery would do to the refuge, just look 60 miles west to Prudhoe Bay -- a gargantuan oil complex that has turned 1,000 square miles of fragile tundra into a sprawling industrial zone containing 1,500 miles of roads and pipelines, 1,400 producing wells and three jetports. The result is a landscape defaced by mountains of sewage sludge, scrap metal, garbage and more than 60 contaminated waste sites that contain -- and often leak -- acids, lead, pesticides, solvents and diesel fuel."

Despite what you said earlier, there is nothing safe or small about an oil drilling operation. First they destroy thousands and thousands of acres of tundra. Then they have to ship the oil by barge through the Artic Seas which are some of the most treacherous in the world which would inevitably cause an oil spill at some point...you see where I am going with my environment rant.

But lets say we go up there and start drilling. Estimates show that there would be, at most, 16 billion barrels of oil, but the amount that we could extract and economically be able to use would probably be far less, but lets leave it at 16 billion. It would take 10 years for that oil to finally reach the market and the "peak" production wouldn't be until around 2027 if we start drilling tomorrow. In 2027, all that oil will be enough to account for a mere 1 to 2% of America's oil consumption. That's like killing a chicken for one chicken nugget. Even if we started drilling in America today, it would do NOTHING for gas prices tomorrow.

I think you and I both know that the only solution for high prices is to reduce consumption. When demand goes down, prices go down. That has probably been the answer to a question from "Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader" at some point. It is so basic.

America is letting itself get taken advantage of by not car pooling, by driving Ford F-10,000 pick-up trucks, by turning their heat up to 90 degrees when it could be 68 with a sweater on and by being the wasteful and negligent people that we are.



  
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by Braden at 3/19/2008 1:29 PM
And the Sierra Club is the source of this information? I highly question the validity of what Sierra claims, being the Sierra Club, along with Greenpeace and others like them are one of the reasons why we're in the current crisis we're now in.

Sorry, You lost me when you used the Sierra Club as your primary source of information as to why drilling on our own soil is a bad idea.
  
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by Andy at 3/19/2008 3:24 PM
Ok, you must not have read the link, Braden! It has nothing to do with the Sierra Club. It is the results of a poll conducted by the Zogby Survey Group which is in no way shape or form connected to or endorsed by the Sierra Club. I can try and Google it and post a prettier URL that doesn't have the words Sierra Club in it. It will still say the same thing. The Sierra Club just happened to post the news on their sight.
  
Gravatar # re: You Can Look Foward ....
by Braden at 3/19/2008 7:30 PM
Date of poll:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 21 , 2004

A LOT has changed since then, Andy.
Mainly, the price of a gallon of gas.

Poll those same people and see how they feel TODAY.
  
Gravatar # re: You Can Look Foward ....
by Andy at 3/20/2008 1:00 AM
Probably would feel the same if they knew how little drilling would do for gas prices right now. People want instant gratification which drilling on American turf wouldn't give them at the pump.
  
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