I feel I must preserve this exchange. It is priceless.
Comment by txchick57
2008-07-02 07:30:52
you know it’s a winner by the screechy objections put out by Reid, Pelosi, etc. They say it would take 7 years to get any of it out of the ground. If Bill Clinton had not vetoed the drilling in 1996, however, we’d have that oil right now and probably not $4 gas.
Comment by edhopper
2008-07-02 09:11:16
Jimmy Carter put policies in place to end our reliance on ALL foreign oil in 25 years. Ronald Reagan stopped every program Carter instituted and opened vast new areas for drilling.
But go on an blame Clinton.
Comment by lavi d
2008-07-02 12:16:51
Ronald Reagan stopped every program Carter instituted and opened vast new areas for drilling.
But go on an blame Clinton.
Ouch. That had to hurt.
Comment by NoSingleOne
2008-07-02 13:47:03
Game, set, and match.
Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.
-Hunter S. Thompson
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5 comments:
I am just being a furst whore now...because I have no idea what this post is trying to say.....it might be the booze from last night blurring my brain function
or I just don't get it?
Dear Rock -
This post is 'trying to say' something in keeping with the pseudo-mission statement:
"Dedicated to the other side of Las Vegas, namely; the sprawling, mad, incoherent underpinnings of the world's favorite destination."
I think Lavi's got the incoherent nailed.
I posted this because for the last few years or so I've been saying that we should have gotten off oil starting in the '70's.
So when someone said that Clinton stopped us from drilling in ANWAR in the 90's and that's why gas is $4.50/gal now, it was enlightening for me to read that Reagan scrapped all the initiatives put in place by Carter to achieve oil independence by '99.
And as you know, as leader of the Branch Lavidians, I am a staunch anti-oilslamist,
Doesn't anyone pay attention?
For less than the price of the war(s) we could:
1) Build hundreds of thousand mega-watt nuke plants. License only 2 or 3 "standard" models, fast-track those permits & construction.
1a) Open Yucca Mountain. Some day in the not too distant future a scientist or engineer will have a Eureka! moment and she'll solve the waste problem (and thank us for putting it all in one convenient spot)
1b) throw a few bucks at wind/solar/pig shit methane to placate the greenies. There aren't enough steady-state watts to make it viable, but they look nice.
2) drive bio-diesel research (start with algae, WVO is not sufficient for large scale). Decentralize production facilities.
Address pipeline compatibility issues.
3) Tax credits for small diesel cars, tax penalties for gas cars. Market demand will get the automakers to sell cars *already widely available in europe* here without CAFE lunacy.
4) Plug-in diesel hybrids
Presto: a cost-free 5 year plan for maintaining our standard of living, creating new industries, making our energy production and delivery systems fault-tolerant and robust, and saving oil for making plastic and fertilizer.
This is doable today with no new technology and would make us far less vulnerable to countries that aren't really friendly to us. All it takes is political backbone - therefore it'll never happen.
Great ideas d but far too logical to be implemented.
You need to add step five:
5) Establish methods of graft and bribery for politicians to support these ideas.
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