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No feed for the corn. Obama wants it to go to ethanol. A little history lesson. Before the car the horse was a cities greatest polluter. Then there where almost riots over feed for the horse vs feed for the people. We have now come full circle back to that. Using what 1.5 gallons of gas to make 1 gallon of the engine killing stuff. And the EPA demanding we use more and more of it. Then there is Obama, wanting to starve the car of oil to bring about his magic green jobs to his green communist he blusters about for support and payoff. How many Volt batteries where made here in the USA/ How much did we spend on them? How many more solar companies that Bush turned down mind you, but how many more magic green job/pay outs can Obama get away with?
Drill here and Drill now. and before you green weenie obamapoligist start crying but we now export more, that is on PRIVATE land. We bought Alaska for the Oil and Minerals. Keystone pipeline, drilling off our shores are just a few things Obama could help bring about. Nope He told us before the election he WANT 5$ gas. He puts this Chu Guy in charge that wants 10$ a gallon! Get with it people!
Drill here, drill now, and use it up so our grandkids are still reliant on foreign oil. Let’s not plan a future where OIL is the reserve, and wind, solar, geothermal, etc. are the main sources of energy.
What I always love is the fact that people who are hollering “Drill, Baby, Drill” never stop to think that with the time needed for geological surveys, land acquisitions, infrastructure support, design and construction of drilling platforms and equipment, and all the rest of the setup, that it would take a MINIMUM of 5 to 7 years before drilling could even start! Even longer if it is offshore drilling!
Don’t you guys bitch about expensive oil! Thousands and thousands of acadians have to exile themselves to Alberta to give the us cheap and reliable oil and harper wants even more people there!
@masterskrain
and all the rest of the setup, that it would take a MINIMUM of 5 to 7 years "
Just the discovery of new oil fields is enough to drop the price. And yes we should have started 5 ten years ago! And if Mc was elected we might have and yes prices would be lower right now.
Peak oil is a myth! We the USA have more oil then the middle East! The How to get to it and refine it gets better every day!But Obama and the green communist do not want the USA to get to it. And So what if in 100 years we use it all. By not using it are we going to bring about the next best thing? Did starving the horse bring about the car? All of the above is what I am saying! bring it on including Nuclear!
@Harleydavidson, No we don’t have much oil left. We should have started right after world war two building a world class public transportation system powered by wind, solar-thermal and geothermal. With progressive tax rates the funding would have been able to fund this massive project without the serious debt we have today. The people in the intelligence community knew back then that the ussr was more bark than bite outside their immediate sphere and we would not have wasted trillions of dollars on the cold war. We could have spent that money on a world class infrastructure free of coal and oil and without using too much natural gas.
“Just the discovery of new oil fields is enough to drop the price.” Nice fantasy there Harley. Yes the discovery would lower prices, but then some crisis or other factor would be manufactured to ensure the price remained the same or went higher. If the wind blows the wrong direction oil and gasoline prices go up.
You claim, "Peak oil is a myth! We the USA have more oil then the middle East! " But that contradicts your earlier claim, “Just the discovery of new oil fields is enough to drop the price.” We were once thought to be pretty tapped out on oil, the middle east was the last great reservoir of oil. So you say discovery of oil here puts us ahead of all of the middle east, but oil prices haven’t fallen because of that. In fact oil prices are higher, much higher than before we became so well known for huge oil reserves. m You contradict yourself. I will repeat, gasoline prices are what they are because that is what the oil companies want them to be. High oil prices benefit the oil companies since they produce a good portion of what they refine and sell so they have no incentive to lower the world market price for oil.
You really need to do a little research and learn about which you rant. The current use of ethanol as a motor fuel oxygenate and renewable fuel constituent is known as the Renewable Fuel Standard, or RFS. The RFS originated with the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and was expanded and extended by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA). Oooohhh! Both under president bush, initiated with a republican controlled congress but both times requiring the final signature of your golden boy. And here’s another part that I’ll bet your party approved propaganda outlets didn’t tell you, that initial and revised (both by a republican president) standard requires renewable fuel content to increase in amount each year, escalating to 36 billion gallons by 2022. So President Obama and “his” EPA did not start this, it was begun under republicans. And since there is great benefit to those farmers who grow corn, you can bet there would be massive farm lobbying efforts to thwart any repeal of the requirement. There are efforts around to repeal or significantly modify the requirement but they don’t go very far due to the special interests, because corporations benefit from the requirement, and “corporations are people my friend.” Please do learn about which you spew, and learn to identify credibility. Faux “News” and hotair are not.
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Harleyquinn
said, 3 months ago
No feed for the corn. Obama wants it to go to ethanol. A little history lesson. Before the car the horse was a cities greatest polluter. Then there where almost riots over feed for the horse vs feed for the people. We have now come full circle back to that. Using what 1.5 gallons of gas to make 1 gallon of the engine killing stuff. And the EPA demanding we use more and more of it.
Then there is Obama, wanting to starve the car of oil to bring about his magic green jobs to his green communist he blusters about for support and payoff.
How many Volt batteries where made here in the USA/ How much did we spend on them? How many more solar companies that Bush turned down mind you, but how many more magic green job/pay outs can Obama get away with?
Harleyquinn
said, 3 months ago
Drill here and Drill now. and before you green weenie obamapoligist start crying but we now export more, that is on PRIVATE land. We bought Alaska for the Oil and Minerals. Keystone pipeline, drilling off our shores are just a few things Obama could help bring about. Nope He told us before the election he WANT 5$ gas. He puts this Chu Guy in charge that wants 10$ a gallon! Get with it people!
Harleyquinn
said, 3 months ago
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/06/21/regulation-requires-oil-refiners-use-millions-gallons-fuel-that-is-nonexistent/
Obama politics at work!
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/09/14/epa-to-america-you-will-use-more-biofuels-and-you-will-like-it/
edinbaltimore said, 3 months ago
Drill here, drill now, and use it up so our grandkids are still reliant on foreign oil. Let’s not plan a future where OIL is the reserve, and wind, solar, geothermal, etc. are the main sources of energy.
edinbaltimore said, 3 months ago
Your new icon fits you perfectly Harley!
masterskrain said, 3 months ago
What I always love is the fact that people who are hollering “Drill, Baby, Drill” never stop to think that with the time needed for geological surveys, land acquisitions, infrastructure support, design and construction of drilling platforms and equipment, and all the rest of the setup, that it would take a MINIMUM of 5 to 7 years before drilling could even start!
Even longer if it is offshore drilling!
Corosive Frog
said, 3 months ago
Don’t you guys bitch about expensive oil! Thousands and thousands of acadians have to exile themselves to Alberta to give the us cheap and reliable oil and harper wants even more people there!
Harleyquinn
said, 3 months ago
@masterskrain and all the rest of the setup, that it would take a MINIMUM of 5 to 7 years "
Just the discovery of new oil fields is enough to drop the price. And yes we should have started 5 ten years ago! And if Mc was elected we might have and yes prices would be lower right now.
Harleyquinn
said, 3 months ago
@edinbaltimore
Peak oil is a myth! We the USA have more oil then the middle East! The How to get to it and refine it gets better every day!But Obama and the green communist do not want the USA to get to it. And So what if in 100 years we use it all. By not using it are we going to bring about the next best thing? Did starving the horse bring about the car? All of the above is what I am saying! bring it on including Nuclear!
Clark Kent said, 3 months ago
@Harleydavidson,
No we don’t have much oil left. We should have started right after world war two building a world class public transportation system powered by wind, solar-thermal and geothermal. With progressive tax rates the funding would have been able to fund this massive project without the serious debt we have today. The people in the intelligence community knew back then that the ussr was more bark than bite outside their immediate sphere and we would not have wasted trillions of dollars on the cold war. We could have spent that money on a world class infrastructure free of coal and oil and without using too much natural gas.
TheTrustedMechanic said, 3 months ago
@Harleyquinn
“Just the discovery of new oil fields is enough to drop the price.”
Nice fantasy there Harley. Yes the discovery would lower prices, but then some crisis or other factor would be manufactured to ensure the price remained the same or went higher. If the wind blows the wrong direction oil and gasoline prices go up.
lonecat said, 3 months ago
I agree that we haven’t hit peak oil, but we will someday. So doesn’t it make sense to be thinking ahead?
TheTrustedMechanic said, 3 months ago
@Harleyquinn
You claim, "Peak oil is a myth! We the USA have more oil then the middle East! "
But that contradicts your earlier claim, “Just the discovery of new oil fields is enough to drop the price.” We were once thought to be pretty tapped out on oil, the middle east was the last great reservoir of oil. So you say discovery of oil here puts us ahead of all of the middle east, but oil prices haven’t fallen because of that. In fact oil prices are higher, much higher than before we became so well known for huge oil reserves. m You contradict yourself. I will repeat, gasoline prices are what they are because that is what the oil companies want them to be. High oil prices benefit the oil companies since they produce a good portion of what they refine and sell so they have no incentive to lower the world market price for oil.
TheTrustedMechanic said, 3 months ago
@Harleyquinn
You really need to do a little research and learn about which you rant. The current use of ethanol as a motor fuel oxygenate and renewable fuel constituent is known as the Renewable Fuel Standard, or RFS. The RFS originated with the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and was expanded and extended by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA). Oooohhh! Both under president bush, initiated with a republican controlled congress but both times requiring the final signature of your golden boy. And here’s another part that I’ll bet your party approved propaganda outlets didn’t tell you, that initial and revised (both by a republican president) standard requires renewable fuel content to increase in amount each year, escalating to 36 billion gallons by 2022. So President Obama and “his” EPA did not start this, it was begun under republicans. And since there is great benefit to those farmers who grow corn, you can bet there would be massive farm lobbying efforts to thwart any repeal of the requirement. There are efforts around to repeal or significantly modify the requirement but they don’t go very far due to the special interests, because corporations benefit from the requirement, and “corporations are people my friend.” Please do learn about which you spew, and learn to identify credibility. Faux “News” and hotair are not.
DrCanuck said, 3 months ago
@Corosive Frog
Corosive Frog said, “….exile themselves to Alberta…”
(Nurf nurf)