The cost of oil extraction is very cheap in the Middle East. The USA also stopped buidling refineries.//The American consumer generally doesn't really care about where and how products come about until they prove toxic or impact the global enviornment.
On Oct 1, 9:35 pm, Zebnick <[email protected]> wrote: > >If we have so much of it why are we buying so much of it from the >ME and > >helping to finance our enemies? > > Because the guys that you and your ilk keep voting in all over the > country block, at every turn, our opportunities to use our own > resources. One of the first things that President Clueless Obama did > was to reverse the Presidential order allowing off shore drilling in > the US. Jackass Clinton was the fool who blocked all drilling in the > north of Alaska, a barren fuckin WASTELAND. > > > CLEAN coal plants are NOT being prevented by the Democrats >but by the coal > > industry that does not WANT to spend the money. > > LOL! You should read up on this a bit. Democrats have regulated into > impossibility the building of clean burning coal plants, just like > they did to oil refineries. > > I didn't say Dems have stopped anything about alternative energy. I > asked what alternative energy was a plausible replacement for > oil......or coal.....or nuclear? If you've got something that can > replace oil products in our cars without driving us broke, I'll be > right on the line with you flipping the bird to big oil. And why can't > we build nuke plants? They don't even pollute. France uses them. I get > the feeling that the "everything we do now is wrong" crowd just hates > humans, including themselves. > > On Oct 1, 6:20 pm, Hollywood <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Zeb, > > > If we have so much of it why are we buying so much of it from the ME > > and helping to finance our enemies? > > CLEAN coal plants are NOT being prevented by the Democrats but by the > > coal industry that does not WANT to spend the money. > > Please tell me exactly what Democrats have done to stop the > > developement of alternative energy. > > > On Oct 1, 1:53 pm, Zebnick <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >conservation > > > > Why should we conserve something we have plenty of , if we want > > > it....energy? We have almost limitless supplies of oil, both > > > discovered and yet to be discovered. We're just prevented from using > > > it because of Democrats. We could build new clean coal fired electric > > > plants, but they are prevented because of Democrats. We could have > > > nearly limitless power from nuclear plants, just like France does, but > > > we are prevented because of Democrats. > > > > >AND renewable alternatives to oil. > > > > Such as? Name anything that we know of that will come close to > > > replacing oil and that Democrats won't block. > > > > On Sep 30, 4:58 pm, Hollywood <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > dick, > > > > > Also wouldn't had we learned the lesson of the OPEC oil embargo in the > > > > early 70's and gotten serious about both conservation AND renewable > > > > alternatives to oil. > > > > > WE, both Democratic AND Republication with a large amount of large to > > > > the public, have been behaving foolishly concerning our energy > > > > policies for at least 40 fucking years. Seems we NEVER learn to think > > > > long-term in this country. > > > > > On Sep 30, 1:38 pm, dick thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Which we wouldn't be if the Congress would permit drilling - Zero is > > > > > OK > > > > > to let Brazil drill right off our coast but our own companies can't. > > > > > And the Dems won't allow drilling. Meanwhile none of the alternate > > > > > energy sources they approve of can provide the energy needs of the > > > > > country but that doesn't matter. > > > > > > Hollywood wrote: > > > > > > dick, > > > > > > > Who knows? But if the entire Middle East blows up I guess we'll > > > > > > regret > > > > > > our insistence on remaining, to a large degree, dependent on their > > > > > > oil > > > > > > won't we? > > > > > > > On Sep 30, 1:09 pm, dick thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > >>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/837f30a0-ad30-11de-9caf-00144feabdc0.html?n...- > > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
