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  • commenter
    JNNRG
    May 28 03:49 PM
    America's Energy Policy: Coming to Terms with Reality [view article]
    The Senate hearings with Big Oil are almost as relevant as the steroids hearings.

    The government's energy plan only includes getting re-elected in November. I hope their plan fails.     Reply
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    nasser
    May 28 12:35 AM
    America's Energy Policy: Coming to Terms with Reality [view article]
    The politicians complaining the loudest about high prices are the same ones obstructing new exploration for energy. I am sick and tired of hearing these morons wax eloquent about wind, solar, conservation etc. while ignoring the fact that these are only going to be marginal factors for the next several decades. T. Boone Pickens wind farm project on the TX panhandle will take up 400,000 acres to generate power for 1 million homes. How much space can we devote to that?Nuclear? Nooo! Coal liquification? Nooo, too much CO2. LNG Terminals? Nooo, too ugly. Drill in ANWAR and continental shelves? No, but the Chinese are drilling in Cuban waters. They will be great stewards of the ocean environment. Reply
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    HLMencken
    May 27 08:05 PM
    America's Energy Policy: Coming to Terms with Reality [view article]
    "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard."

    "Democracy is ... the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."

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    Itsonlymoney
    May 27 01:45 PM
    America's Energy Policy: Coming to Terms with Reality [view article]
    We must assume that once a person reaches the US Senate they have above average intelligence, so why the idiotic posturing from both parties at the recent hearings?

    I'm guessing they speak to their constituencies who they apparently think are simple minded or are paying them to avoid cutting to the chase. No politician wants to deliver bad news to the electorate. That is everyone's fault as we tend to elect candidates that tell us what we want to hear or in the alternative candidates we know the least about.

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    munger
    May 27 11:35 AM
    America's Energy Policy: Coming to Terms with Reality [view article]
    As long as the politico's avoid reality, the play is simple--stay long oil. The day I hear Diane Feinstein admit that there is a supply/demand imbalance is the day I go short oil. Reply
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    J. Henster
    May 27 12:00 AM
    America's Energy Policy: Coming to Terms with Reality [view article]
    Name-calling doesn't work--calling someone left- or right-winged with regard to their opinion is just a way to short-circuit the thought process. Along those lines, I plotted Y2007 adj. cost per barrel vs. incremental oil above or below current supply since 2003 (US Energy Inf. service source) and found the neutral point at about $55/bbl. It's simplistic, but it seems plausible. The sensitivity of this relationship was about $29/MMBOPD--it means the USA could cut consumption by 5% or so and bring the price to a reasonable level. Since the USA already consumes per capita way over any other country, this should be doable (should have been done years ago, actually).

    We know all sorts of monkey-business goes on, and should be prosecuted, or perhaps even regulated (i.e. speculation), but the underlying price-controller still seems to be supply and demand. Unless the US is ready to invade other countries to take over their oil resources to produce them as we see fit, it would seem our main leverage over price control is still either our own resource development (supply), or conservation and alternative energy (demand). It would seem other countries' decisions to leave it in the ground, produce it inefficiently, or even sell it at an exorbitant price by curtailing the supply is their decision to make, not ours. Comes down to this: do you want peace or war?     Reply
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    phillips49
    May 26 12:01 PM
    America's Energy Policy: Coming to Terms with Reality [view article]
    It is not an exaggeration to state that we are at war! It is just not a coventional war with an overt bad guy. It is a subltle war for survival of the American way of life. Our future will depend on how well we do.

    Our current strategy: Shoot, Ready, Aim will fail!

    A war is won starting at the very top with:

    Identification of a national goal or objective.

    Securing majority support for the goal.

    Placing our best generals in charge of securing the objectives.

    The generals are given the latitude to develop the plan of attack and are not politically micro managed.

    The required resources are identified.

    The resources to fight the war are mobilized.

    The attack begins and moves flexibly through many battles.

    Then, the war is fought, one skirmish at a time, one battle at a time.

    The war is won based on how good the plan was and how well it was supported and the winning of the majority of the battles.

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    phillips49
    May 26 11:01 AM
    America's Energy Policy: Coming to Terms with Reality [view article]
    I wish it was as easy as a change in Administration and representation. Since the oil embargo though, 30 some odd years ago, there have been many changes in Administration and representation. Unfortunately though, none have had the foresight, leadership or the will to protect our national security, by assuring reasonable access to strategic resources. America was built on reasonably available energy. We exported our manufacturing strength and we exported our national wealth for imported energy. Our dollar is weak because we have exported money and imported all the value added, dirty stuff that we didn't want to be bothered with at home. The global concept of a faternity of nations, all getting along and cooperating in trade is great on paper, but it comes as a sacrifice to our own strength. Can we really have a world class life style, by selling each other hamburgers? Now, if we make any of our global suppliers mad , we are totally ........, well, you can fill in the blank. Reply
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    JOSEPH
    FOSTER
    May 26 09:24 AM
    America's Energy Policy: Coming to Terms with Reality [view article]
    MAY 26, 2008 J. FOSTER USA-UK
    PICERNO YOU ARE 100% CORRECT BRILLIANT ARTICLE.
    AMERICANS WASTE OIL MORE THAN ANY POPULATION ON EARTH.
    OIL IS HEADING TOWARDS $200 SUPPLY AND DEMAND
    IS THE FACTOR.
    BY YEAR END AMERICANS WILL BE PAYING $6.00 PER GALLON.
    EUROPE NOW IN THE RANGE OF $10 TO $11 PER GALLON.
    MESSAGE TO OUR POLOTICIAN IF YOU ARE ABLE TO WASTE 2 TRILLION DOLLARS ON A MISTAKEN WAR IN IRAQ HERE IS MY SUGGEATION TO REMEDY THE SITUATION.
    1. POWER PLANTS IN THE USA SHOULD BE 95% NECULAR SIMILAR TO FRANCE.
    2. SET UP A MANHATTAN PROGECT LIKE THAT USED TO DEVELOP THE NUKE BOMB ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MOST EFFICENT BATTERY TO POWER AUTO.
    ONE SET WITH A RANGE OF 100 MILES SECOND SET FOR ANOTHER 100 MILES FOR SWITCHING PURPOSE YOU NOW HAVE A RANGE OF 200 MILES PER DAY.
    OVERNIGHT THE BATTERIES ARE CHARGED FOR THE NEXT DAY DRIVING.
    SOLAR AND WIND WILL NOT SOLVE THE ENERGY CRISIS.
    WHEN MSFT AND CISCO PROFIT JUMPS BY 80% WILL THE SAME SENATORS CALL THE CEO FOR ENQUIRY OF COURSE NO.
    A NEWL INVENTED GENERATOR MAY STRETCH YOUR BATTERY POWER.
    THE ABOVE SOUND SIMPLE BUT THE POLOTICIAN DO NOT WANT TO HEAR SIMPLE ANSWERS.
    BRING THE BEST SCIENTIST IN THE WORLD TO LOS ALMOS
    AND WITHIN ONE YEAR A BREAK THROUGH WILL BE FOUND.     Reply
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    Pretzel
    Logic
    May 26 05:49 AM
    America's Energy Policy: Coming to Terms with Reality [view article]
    I just gotta say, I love the idea of making OPEC illegal. If only we had thought of this intelligent strategy during the Cold War, we could have just made the USSR illegal and the war would have been over!

    I think making everything illegal is an Idea Whose Time Has Come. Since we're at it, I am humbly proposing a list of things I sincerely believe we should ALSO "make illegal":

    -- Earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes

    -- Volcanic eruptions (We should at least outlaw these in populated areas. And yet Congress does NOTHING.)

    -- Radical Islamic Terrorists

    -- Cockroaches

    -- Crappy weather

    -- "Lite" beer

    -- The "Reverend" Al Sharpton

    -- Those annoying commercials where you don't understand what the hell they're advertising until the very end when they show a company logo and say something completely irrelevant to what they're selling, such as, "Nike. Because chicken should be grilled, not fried."

    -- That first poster. Pandemic, Pangea, Panasonic... whatever his name was.

    -- Elvis impersonators

    -- Democrats

    I'm sure there are lots of other things we can make illegal if we only wish hard enough! Let's all focus on Democrats first. On three, everybody wish really hard. One... two...     Reply
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    Texbuz
    May 26 12:51 AM
    America's Energy Policy: Coming to Terms with Reality [view article]
    TIME Magazine...date line Monday July 26,1943:...."East... A-card holders will probably have their gas allowances upped from one and a half to two or three gallons a week, to use as they please; Midwest motorist will probably be cut from four gallons to the same figure, thus sharing the shortage" Reply
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    seffieandcoc
    o
    May 25 10:11 PM
    America's Energy Policy: Coming to Terms with Reality [view article]
    We need to have a manhattan project to get fusion power online in the next decade. As soon as the producers hear that we mean science and business the price will collapse. Methinks that the Arabs are paying off the congress. Reply
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    phillips49
    May 25 09:59 PM
    America's Energy Policy: Coming to Terms with Reality [view article]
    Perhaps Senator Leahy should bring Saudi Arabia before congress. ( not seriously). They pump 10 millions barrels per day at $130 per barrel. That's $5.0 million per hour. $830,000 per minute. Perhaps Prince Waleed who just had a $4.8 million diamond covered car built ,(his 38th car), would feel the pain of the Senators people.
    I'm sure that the US government already got their fair share of taxes off of Exxon and all their employees including the execs whom the Senator tried to embarrass. Exxon is just an easy target because the are a $479 billion business and they are domestic. Increasing taxes on the oil companies won't fix the problem. We need to get free of foreign energy.

    Here's where your gas money is really going, for anybody that really cares.

    www.dancehallreggae.co...     Reply
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    phillips49
    May 25 09:59 PM
    America's Energy Policy: Coming to Terms with Reality [view article]
    Perhaps Senator Leahy should bring Saudi Arabia before congress. ( not seriously). They pump 10 millions barrels per day at $130 per barrel. That's $5.0 million per hour. $830,000 per minute. Perhaps Prince Waleed who just had a $4.8 million diamond covered car built ,(his 38th car), would feel the pain of the Senators people.
    I'm sure that the US government already got their fair share of taxes off of Exxon and all their employees including the execs whom the Senator tried to embarrass. Exxon is just an easy target because the are a $479 billion business and they are domestic. Increasing taxes on the oil companies won't fix the problem. We need to get free of foreign energy.

    Here's where your gas money is really going, for anybody that really cares.

    www.dancehallreggae.co...     Reply
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    surgcare
    May 25 05:15 PM
    America's Energy Policy: Coming to Terms with Reality [view article]
    Barnburner Another socialist rant . You guys want to destroy anyone who does better than you and when this results in lost jobs or more expense ,you always want to blame anyone but yourself . Inconvient truth ,not likely .Pack of lies ,yes . Reply
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