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    OffshoreMan
    Oct 10 08:50 PM
    Offshore Drillers that May Profit from End of Ban [view article]
    Although many Drillings Companies have longterm contracts for their rigs, it is the Oil Company that has contracted the rigs that determines WHERE they drill. i.e. Shell, XOM, ADC etc tells the rig where to drill. Drilling off the Coast of FLA or CA is not that far off. China is already drilling 80 miles off the coast of FLA now. It's in international waters so there is nothing to stop them. Reply
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    captaincrazy
    legs
    Oct 08 12:09 PM
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    Bassmaster,

    Bassmaster, I bet thinking hurts your brain. Really? Only two days of hot weather in shittown, Ohio (I live in Columbus) and you are an expert on atmospheric science and climate change? Wow. I bet in your spare time you could become a doctor by watching discovery health.

    Humor me for a minute and hear me out though. Set aside the belief of whether global warming exists or does not. It is just plain dumb to analyze a problem by looking at an incredibly narrow and obscure fact such as the number of 90 degree days in Ohio, let alone the US. By that same stunning analysis, clinical trials where two patients out of a thousand who respond positively to a placebo must mean that the placebo (sugar) helped them overcome a disease. But, in defense of global warming, in July Iceland recorded the hottest temperature ever seen since 1870. The last record was set in 2004. So based on my conclusions from Iceland's two hottest days in over 130 years, global warming must be occurring. Bet you would argue with me because Ohio did not see a very hot summer. I'm tired of people who took a biology 101 class in college who try to dismiss a global climate analysis on whether or not they had to turn their a/c up or down last summer. If your doctor said you had the beginning of small pox because based on the single fact that you had one small red dot on your arm, you would switch doctors because your current doctor is an idiot. Let smart people do their jobs and listen to them because they are, in fact, probably smarter than you. Also, what is the worst thing that happens if we invest heavily in alternative fuels over the next few years? We end up with a country with lower pollution, new jobs, and energy independence?

    I almost forgot about your little "we are a big country not Holland that can get away with this" We only have approximately 270 times the land size of Holland. That means more area for which the sun hits (Arizona and the southwest have vacant land and a very high concentration of solar radiation) more land to grow switchgrass (corn is inefficient at best for biofuels) and lets not forget an abundance of wind out west.

    But you're right, a tiny little country like Holland can work towards energy independence. But big 'ol, cumbersome USA should just lumber around and do what we have been doing because "doing things so hard" so why even try? After all with our booming economy, i'm sure 5-10 dollar gasoline should not be a problem. It wasn't for Europe...oh wait, they had riots and people were killed. So why try?

    I am tired of shitty, ignorant arguments like yours that enough (read: more than 1) people hear and latch on to because they want to believe they are smarter than they are. So instead of listening to people that have spent decades at University learning and their profession, they make a quick, irrational argument as to why they believe the opposite. After all, that will show those phd elitists who knows what about things. Just because someone graduates from Idaho University with a communications degree, does not make them any less thinky than a person with a phd from Standford. Good call.

    So crack open a bottle of bud light Captain Smarty Pants because if you believe that, then you don't have to worry about killing any more brain cells.


    On Sep 27 11:30 PM bassmaster17 wrote:

    > Hippie liberal environmentalists, where's the global warming, I don't
    > see it..We had two 90 degree days in Ohio this year!!! Watch out...develope
    > clean coal tech with subsidies all these other wind solar etc. are
    > pipedreams...this is the US, not a small condensed nation like Holland
    > that can actually get away with this.     Reply
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    bassmaster17
    Sep 27 11:30 PM
    Offshore Drillers that May Profit from End of Ban [view article]
    Hippie liberal environmentalists, where's the global warming, I don't see it..We had two 90 degree days in Ohio this year!!! Watch out...develope clean coal tech with subsidies all these other wind solar etc. are pipedreams...this is the US, not a small condensed nation like Holland that can actually get away with this. Reply
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    paulk8756
    Sep 24 11:38 PM
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    Money,

    I'm not trying to pick a fight. I'd like to see a magic energy bullet as much as the next guy. The technology's just not there yet. And dreaming we can get there by artificially making gasoline super expensive won't work either. We'll go broke first!

    But we're making progress. The Congress is voting to extend alternative energy tax credits right now, although I understand they're leaving clean coal technology out, which is a major mistake. (That's yet another example of the problem with involving the politicians in the first place!)

    And the real "bridge" to our energy future isn't oil at all, that's just a stopgap. It's what Boone Pickens is saying, wind to replace NG on our electric grid and NGV's through our kid's lifetimes. (The EPA says they're as clean as electric cars, incidentally.)

    But if we don't get off our butts and do a bunch of nuclear reactors to expand our electric capacity, mass use of EV's will cause brownouts. In fact, we're headed toward brownouts without them.

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    Itsonlymoney
    Sep 24 01:38 PM
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    paulk8756,
    If you are speaking for the next generation you might want to consider a longer time frame. I think we've had our wake up call and now need to get on with the business of non-carbon based sustainable alternative energy. The oil must be our bridge to a sustainable future otherwise we will not have the capital to make the change. Time and oil is wasting and history books are full of failed civilizations who could not adapt.

    China, by the way, is a good example of what you get when environmental considerations are neglected. They exchanged their clean rivers and air for a cash horde that should have been spent on pollution control. These days it is unhealthy even to eat the fish from their waters. Of course the same can be said of shell fish in San Francisco Bay.     Reply
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    Jake2
    Sep 24 12:40 PM
    My Website
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    "This is a somewhat early call, but it gives investors an opportunity to also savor the taste of victory." How many days since Bush declared victory in Iraq? 'Publicans just don't get it.
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    Emerald
    Sep 24 11:46 AM
    Offshore Drillers that May Profit from End of Ban [view article]
    The key to our future is 1.) investing in and inventing new energy technologies (solar, wind, electric, etc.), 2.) creating new jobs in these industries so we don't have to ship our hard earned dollars to foreign despots. Ever wonder why Bush calls the Saudi rulers his friends when they are the single largest entity funding madrassas that teach poor young boys to hate America? We can't criticize them because we need the oil. How many more Americans need to die in endless oil wars that are bankrupting us? Put the money to use at home investing and growing alternative energy. Onvert all buses and trucks to natural gas use and invest in clean burning coal technology. Reply
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    Norman
    Lepoff, M.D.
    Sep 24 11:33 AM
    Offshore Drillers that May Profit from End of Ban [view article]
    Good comments and good article. Reply
  • commenter
    Robbit
    Sep 24 11:21 AM
    Offshore Drillers that May Profit from End of Ban [view article]
    Paulk8756 can you e-mail me at Robbit22 at gmail dot com?

    would love to talk more about this! Thanks!     Reply
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    paulk8756
    Sep 24 11:09 AM
    Offshore Drillers that May Profit from End of Ban [view article]
    As regards the environmental safety of producing oil and gas off our OCS, consider this. There are several hundred production platforms off the coast of Louisiana, where I live. It is also universally considered to be one of the TEN BEST fishing spots in the world!

    (Sorry, I can't seem to get off my soapbox today.)     Reply
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    paulk8756
    Sep 24 10:44 AM
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    Allowing our government to "ration" the types or amounts of energy we have the ability to produce is nothing less than a sin against the future of all mankind, I believe. Reply
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    paulk8756
    Sep 24 10:40 AM
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    This is my problem with the environmental community. It's either their way or the highway. Just because you believe deeply in something doesn't necessarily mean you're right.

    But I know this. The Industrial Revolution itself was built on access to affordable (read "cheap") energy. Without it we won't have to worry about saving the planet. We won't even be able to save ourselves and our families.

    (If you believe in UFO's, can you even begin to imagine the power they've learned to harness to visit here? If we desire to do the same some far off day, it will only be because we could afford to develop such amazing technologies. And we will need plentiful inexpensive energy if we're ever going to get there.)     Reply
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    paulk8756
    Sep 24 10:28 AM
    Offshore Drillers that May Profit from End of Ban [view article]
    Let me say I also don't believe we can risk our economic future well being exclusively on electric transport. Or for that matter, on oil or natrural gas vehicles, either. If one looks at it objectively, we need to do ALL this, and generate ALL the additional electricity we can from wind, solar, biomass, geothermal and more nucelar reactors at the same time.

    We've had it pretty good during our lives, and it is our children and theirs who will have to live with the decisions we make today. We owe it to them to provide them ALL the opportunities we had, which are
    TOTALLY dependent on access to inexpensive energy
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    paulk8756
    Sep 24 10:07 AM
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    CT,

    Please don't misconstrue my remarks. As of now (Oct. 1), the states will have no say in what takes place ouside their waters, which end only three miles offshore.

    It is thought the bulk of the estimated 18 billion barrels of recoverable oil in the OCS is pretty close in, which may not require the new "super rigs" to explore. And these are 30 year old estimates. Exploration and production technology has advanced dramatically since then.

    However, when and if we find out how much energy actually lies off our shores is still open to question. As a Democrat, do you believe you could convince a Democratic Congress and President to reasonably allow exploration and production there? I'm not so sure.

    Of course, if this were to happen there's no question RIG would be one of the biggest winners. We'll see.
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    Peppio
    Sep 24 09:23 AM
    My Website
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    Drilling our own oil will benefit everyone, not just oil companies. Politically wise too because we have been treated like beggars by those fanatics & tyrants who have oil to sell. At the same time, we need to save gas by driving less, buy smaller cars, and develope wind & solar energy also. That way, we'll be fine. Reply
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