Can any democrat or liberal please explain this?
amelinaiflirt on July 28th, 2008
Why wont democrats in congress support opening the nations coastlines for more offshore drilling. For some reason, liberals talk at great length about wind power and solar power and geothermal power and nuclear power and cleaner coal produced power and natural gas, but why is it that they refuse to see reality for what it is?
I would like to know the following:
1. How hard does the wind have to blow until it turns into gasoline?
2. How bright does the sun have to shine until sunlight morphs into gasoline?
3. How hot does the ground need to get where you can turn that heat into gasoline?
4. How much fusion is required for plutonium or uranium to turn into gasoline?
5. How much pressure must you put on a piece of coal until it melts into gasoline?
The worlds demand for oil is increasing, the United States’ demand for oil will increase as well. Right now 98% of all cargo and basic American citizen transportation is fueled by the combustion engine that requires gasoline… which is a by-product of oil. There is no infrastructure for electric cars that DO NOT YET EXIST to replace our vehicles. The last time i checked I did not see an 18 wheeler with a big sail using wind power to move from point A to point B. I havent seen the nuclear powered or the geothermal powered vehicles taking the market by storm. Nor have i seen any Gas-A-Coal stations.
Common sense would tell you that if you dont increase the supply as the demand increases then you will continually pay higher and higher prices. Is it possible that because increasing our oil production supply (with oil from the United States) will not immediately affect the price of gasoline that democrats and liberals really feel that paying twice as much or more in 10 years is a good idea? That slowly killing our economy is the right thing to do, or that they should try to mask it by talking about renewable energy sources, ALL OF WHICH, have nothing to do with our current transportation infrastructure or our oil demands? Like i said, at what speed must the wind blow for it to turn into gasoline?
Please, any liberal or any democrat, please demonstrate how opposing more offshore drilling is responsible and realistic for this nation as any part of any energy policy?
July 28th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Because drilling is like giving a drug addict more heroin. It would provide little down the road and is shortsighted. Plenty of oil out there, get a competitive market that has other choices and the speculators will come back to earth. Why ruin what beauty there is to drive your SUV to a remote suburb where you sit at a TV or computer when you could be out in the world staring at the clouds and seeing them not smog.
“First, let’s examine the claim that more drilling can lower gasoline prices. Between 1999 and 2007, permits for drilling in onshore and offshore public lands “increased by more than 361 percent, yet gasoline prices have also risen dramatically,” the House Natural Resources Committee reported in a new analysis. “There is simply no correlation between the two.”"
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/11397.html
Even the conservative US News and World Report agrees, ruining our home is a bad idea.
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/national/2008/05/23/arctic-drilling-wouldnt-cool-high-oil-prices.html
July 28th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
The point is that if we dont drill and increase our supply then theres no doubt that prices will raise exponentially. Drilling permits and drilling actual oil are not the same. This another one of those, one thing has nothing to do with the other, type of arguements.
If you know that there is an increase in demand, and yet you are OPPOSING any increase in supply than it goes without saying that prices will increase to an outrages level. Just think, if our supply output has just been above the demand and prices increased as they have, just imagine doing everything you can to OPPOSE greater steps to increase that supply as demand continues to increase at such a pace.
If you read your own articles and read my initial post you would see that drilling now isnt going to affect the CURRENT price of gas, but in the future we know demand is going to dramatically increase the FUTURE is what im talking about, wouldnt it be nice to pay 3.99 in ten years, instead of 9.99 or worse? Thats the point, how can anyone support this a rational energy policy when youre opposing increasing your own nations supply of a necessary commodity when you KNOW that demand is going to keep increasing and causing your economy and your citizens great harm?