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What's that got to do with

trblmkr — Mon, 03 May 2010 16:35:11 +0000

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What's that got to do with Deepwater Horizon? How does Obama's repealing of the ban have any causal relationship with a leak in an area where there was no ban?

With all due respect, this is

oleeb — Sun, 02 May 2010 22:29:40 +0000

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With all due respect, this is simply a foolish and simplistic argument that ignores the reality of alternatives. The needs of the nation for energy can be met otherwise and it's high time we began the conversion because the oil simply is not going to last forever and it is going to be prohibitvely more expensive in the not too distant future. So you see, we really have no choice but to convert from oil and the sooner the better for us all.

There's a small problem with

artappraiser — Sun, 02 May 2010 21:30:56 +0000

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There's a small problem with implementing your suggestion, i.e., you and many others might have to give up a few things you've grown accustomed to, like 1/3 of them:

The Spill vs. a Need to Drill
By JAD MOUAWAD. May 2

In the furor over the Gulf disaster, a hard-to-overlook fact: America needs the oil.

....some environmental groups have demanded an end to offshore exploration and urged President Obama to restore a moratorium on drilling. The White House has already said no new drilling permits will be approved until the causes of the accident are known. Additional government oversight seems inevitable.

But whatever the magnitude of the spill at the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana, it is unlikely to seriously impede offshore drilling in the Gulf. The country needs the oil — and the jobs.

Much has changed since 1969. The nation’s demand for oil has surged, rising more than 35 percent over the past four decades, while domestic production has declined by a third. Oil imports have doubled, and the United States now buys more than 12 million barrels of oil a day from other countries, about two-thirds of its needs....

* Graphic: The Gulf of Mexico, by the Numbers

The eastern Gulf of Mexico

Rutabaga Ridgepole — Sun, 02 May 2010 10:10:12 +0000

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The eastern Gulf of Mexico tract that would be offered for lease is adjacent to an area that already contains thousands of wells and hundreds of drilling platforms. The eastern Gulf area is believed to contain as much as 3.5 billion barrels of oil and 17 trillion cubic feet of gas, the richest single tract that would be open to drilling under the Obama plan.

Drilling was never allowed on that huge tract in the Gulf of Mexico, trblmkr, you fucking moron!

And trblmkr replies...

"Whut? Whut? Just because it was never allowed doesn't mean it was banned. Because banning means... Whut? Whut? Let's change the subject!"

BS! Nobody is saying

oleeb — Sun, 02 May 2010 06:52:39 +0000

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BS!

Nobody is saying anything of the kind and the technology and alternative sources already exist and they will work. In fact, they are already working all over the world to a far greater degree than here in the most oil addicted nation on earth. It's simply a matter of making the investment and that is all there is to it.

It's a classic goof trap. We

zing! — Sun, 02 May 2010 06:06:48 +0000

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It's a classic goof trap. We want the magical energy fairies to appear; capture them, grind them up, it's something like a terra-watt per fairy (not sure where I read that, Scientific American or Gizmodo... one of those).

I'm all for finding

Glaivester — Sun, 02 May 2010 04:56:03 +0000

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I'm all for finding alternative energy sources. I jsut think that "heavily restrict the use of fossil fuels and hope that something better comes along" is a dangerous way to do it. What the goal seems to be is to forego fossil fuels, nuclear, etc., and place all the eggs in the basket of wind and solar. If those don't work, then we simply go without and the economy takes a very deep plunge.

It's Glaivester, not

Glaivester — Sun, 02 May 2010 04:54:29 +0000

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It's Glaivester, not Galveston. Pronounced "Glave-stir." It's based on the name of the weapon in the movie Krull.

There are plenty of safe and

oleeb — Sun, 02 May 2010 03:47:21 +0000

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There are plenty of safe and renewable forms of energy available for us to easily forego offshore drilling. The easy and dangerous thing to do is to stay addicted to oil. I'm sure you'd endorse that but those of us who are sane don't.

Galveston, the total quantity

PTroub — Sun, 02 May 2010 02:08:46 +0000

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Galveston, the total quantity of all reserve of offshore oil in US territorial waters would be enough (except for that spilled instead to kill birds) to supply US consumption for about ten years. Your children and grandchildren will wonder what magical fairies you thought you had to so cavalierly squander their inheritance of natural resources.