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The iron doors to financial safety are closing shut all over the world. The largest bubble of capitalism’s end-game is being shaped right now, a bubble of simply stupendous proportions, a bubble composed of extraordinary amounts of government debt; and, when this bubble bursts, governments and their (no-gold-holding) citizens will be its impoverished victims. don't be one of them.

The case for gold and silver is simple as it is old; as the same story has been repeated during the last 1,000 years, first in the East then in the West. Gold and silver were money. Then paper currencies backed by gold and silver were introduced by bankers and governments and were substituted for gold and silver. Then gold and silver were removed from paper money because governments had spent the gold while printing more and more paper money. As a result, every experiment with paper money ended in disaster. Hence the need for smart people to have some gold (and-or silver) under their own hand.

Giving your gold to GLD just helps the cartel in their shorting program to suppress the price. This cartel is good if you want to buy more physical gold at low prices.]]> Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:25:48 -0400
The iron doors to financial safety are closing shut all over the world. The largest bubble of capitalism’s end-game is being shaped right now, a bubble of simply stupendous proportions, a bubble composed of extraordinary amounts of government debt; and, when this bubble bursts, governments and their (no-gold-holding) citizens will be its impoverished victims. don't be one of them.

The case for gold and silver is simple as it is old; as the same story has been repeated during the last 1,000 years, first in the East then in the West. Gold and silver were money. Then paper currencies backed by gold and silver were introduced by bankers and governments and were substituted for gold and silver. Then gold and silver were removed from paper money because governments had spent the gold while printing more and more paper money. As a result, every experiment with paper money ended in disaster. Hence the need for smart people to have some gold (and-or silver) under their own hand.

Giving your gold to GLD just helps the cartel in their shorting program to suppress the price. This cartel is good if you want to buy more physical gold at low prices.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/148676-exxon-ups-the-algae-ante-big-time?source=feed#comment-587997 587997
Then it still costs $20/bbl to refine it into biodiesel using perhaps 80 barrels of water per barrel of fuel..

The economic math simply does not work!]]> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:23:23 -0400
Then it still costs $20/bbl to refine it into biodiesel using perhaps 80 barrels of water per barrel of fuel..

The economic math simply does not work!]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/128193-fed-treasury-propose-the-dissolution-of-capitalism?source=feed#comment-443283 443283 Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:00:52 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/124727-the-mystery-of-the-underperforming-gold-stocks?source=feed#comment-418091 418091
If the gold price pops over $1,000 and-or the market in general stabilizes gold bugs will come back into the speculative gold stocks.

Look behind the barrage of spin fed to us every day. The world's biggest banks are bankrupt. Everything else will surely follow.

Governments are effectively bankrupt too, they are just not telling you.

The US gov't borrowed 3% of GDP in 2007, in 2009 they need to borrow 14% of GDP to pay for the biggest pork program ever created. China is broke and can't lend us that much money. The US dollar will crash this year....]]> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:11:43 -0400
If the gold price pops over $1,000 and-or the market in general stabilizes gold bugs will come back into the speculative gold stocks.

Look behind the barrage of spin fed to us every day. The world's biggest banks are bankrupt. Everything else will surely follow.

Governments are effectively bankrupt too, they are just not telling you.

The US gov't borrowed 3% of GDP in 2007, in 2009 they need to borrow 14% of GDP to pay for the biggest pork program ever created. China is broke and can't lend us that much money. The US dollar will crash this year....]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/110739-is-the-second-great-depression-imminent?source=feed#comment-330736 330736
America has 400 years supply of oil in shales in Colorado-Utah-Wyoming, which can be retorted into oil for $30 per barrel anytime we want.

Peak oil is totally, completely wrong. There's tons of oil and gas available at the right price, which is probably $75 per barrel or more. At today's oil price the oil companies won't bother opening any new fields because there's no profit in it. Once the price goes back up we will be turning the tap on big time and there will be plenty for everyone...]]> Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:58:59 -0500
America has 400 years supply of oil in shales in Colorado-Utah-Wyoming, which can be retorted into oil for $30 per barrel anytime we want.

Peak oil is totally, completely wrong. There's tons of oil and gas available at the right price, which is probably $75 per barrel or more. At today's oil price the oil companies won't bother opening any new fields because there's no profit in it. Once the price goes back up we will be turning the tap on big time and there will be plenty for everyone...]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/100000-oil-remember-iran?source=feed#comment-282876 282876 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:26:45 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/96685-why-drill-baby-drill-does-not-translate-into-effective-national-energy-policy?source=feed#comment-274029 274029
Add to this opening up ANWAR and the shelf and oil shales and America would have all the fossil fuel it needs for 4oo years.... yes 400 years.

see; www.strategicnine.com/...

PROPOSED ENERGY EMERGENCY EXECUTIVE ORDER:

“THE BUSH AMERICAN ENERGY-ECONOMY FREEDOM PROJECT”

1. Declare an energy emergency and set aside the OCS permitting requirements so as to fast-track various critical new energy developments. Immediately Grant new ANWR, OCS and Oil-Shale “Energy Emergency” leases on a first come first served basis allowing smaller American companies to participate. This will blunt the complaints that big oil is being pandered to.

2. Exempt the new lease areas from any and all State and Federal lawsuits, imposts and delays. (See Senator DeMint’s proposed “Drill Now” Act.)

3. Offer low-interest loans for new energy projects production equipment, even more for natural gas projects, a cleaner low C02 fuel.

4. Grant a tax holiday for projects in declared special "American Energy Economic Zones" (AEEZ) to stimulate immediate action on the ground.

5. Temporarily eliminate up-front oil and gas lease payments and other imposts, in return for an increased royalty (20%) on the back end; after production commences.

6. Mandate that all new cars sold (not just made, but sold) in the United States within 3-4 years to be flexible fueled—operable on any combination of Natural Gas, Compressed Natural Gas, (CNG) or Gasoline. Alternatively alcohol (including both methanol and ethanol) or gasoline fuel.

The Democrats are secretly sticking with a flawed nation-killing, anti-carbon theology that opposes all new oil production. The ultimate cost of their policies if implemented, will be the destruction of the American economy.

]]> Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:09:21 -0400
Add to this opening up ANWAR and the shelf and oil shales and America would have all the fossil fuel it needs for 4oo years.... yes 400 years.

see; www.strategicnine.com/...

PROPOSED ENERGY EMERGENCY EXECUTIVE ORDER:

“THE BUSH AMERICAN ENERGY-ECONOMY FREEDOM PROJECT”

1. Declare an energy emergency and set aside the OCS permitting requirements so as to fast-track various critical new energy developments. Immediately Grant new ANWR, OCS and Oil-Shale “Energy Emergency” leases on a first come first served basis allowing smaller American companies to participate. This will blunt the complaints that big oil is being pandered to.

2. Exempt the new lease areas from any and all State and Federal lawsuits, imposts and delays. (See Senator DeMint’s proposed “Drill Now” Act.)

3. Offer low-interest loans for new energy projects production equipment, even more for natural gas projects, a cleaner low C02 fuel.

4. Grant a tax holiday for projects in declared special "American Energy Economic Zones" (AEEZ) to stimulate immediate action on the ground.

5. Temporarily eliminate up-front oil and gas lease payments and other imposts, in return for an increased royalty (20%) on the back end; after production commences.

6. Mandate that all new cars sold (not just made, but sold) in the United States within 3-4 years to be flexible fueled—operable on any combination of Natural Gas, Compressed Natural Gas, (CNG) or Gasoline. Alternatively alcohol (including both methanol and ethanol) or gasoline fuel.

The Democrats are secretly sticking with a flawed nation-killing, anti-carbon theology that opposes all new oil production. The ultimate cost of their policies if implemented, will be the destruction of the American economy.

]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/92676-compressed-natural-gas-key-to-american-energy-independence?source=feed#comment-242251 242251 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:23:46 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/92099-will-global-events-keep-oil-above-100?source=feed#comment-237262 237262
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

August 18, 2008, 10:10 PM (GMT+02:00)
USS Ronald Reagan

USS Ronald Reagan

DEBKAfile’s Middle East sources report that the Iranian satellite carrier space launch Sunday, Aug. 17, was prompted by a joint caution to Tehran from Saudi King Abdullah and Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak.

After their meeting Saturday, the spokesman of the presidential palace in Cairo, Suleiman Awwad, said: Iran should not present on a silver platter the “justifications and pretexts for those [US and Israel] who want to drag the region down a dangerous slope.”

This warning was interpreted by the London Arabic daily Al Quds as a warning to Tehran that an attack is impending by the US, some European nations and Israel.

The article recalled the fate of Saddam Hussein “who didn't adequately refute claims over Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction.”

Tehran immediately responded to the warning by launching the Safir satellite carrier into orbit, thereby exhibiting a ballistic missile capable of reaching outside the Middle East, as far as Britain and France, should they decide to join an American attack on Iran, as well as US military installations on that continent.

Our military sources report that the war scare in Cairo and Riyadh also infected Kuwait.

Last week, the small oil emirate placed its military on “war alert,” to avoid being caught off-guard by a possible conflict in the region. On Saturday, Kuwait boosted its naval force in the Persian Gulf to ward off a possible Iranian reprisal against its oil installations if attacked.

The scare was fed by the impending arrival of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, the USS Ronald Reagan, and the USS Iwo Jima in the Persian Gulf to reinforce the US strike forces in the region, as first revealed by DEBKAfile on August 11.

They are to join the USS Abraham Lincoln, which is patrolling the Arabian Sea opposite Iran, and the USS Peleliu, on beat in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. This deployment would be the largest naval task force the US and its allies had massed in the region since the 1991 Gulf War.

A US Pentagon spokesman last week denied that these forces were gathering to impose a partial naval blockade on Iran, but declined to disclose their mission. The denial apparently failed to convince the rulers of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Kuwait.
]]> Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:05:03 -0400
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

August 18, 2008, 10:10 PM (GMT+02:00)
USS Ronald Reagan

USS Ronald Reagan

DEBKAfile’s Middle East sources report that the Iranian satellite carrier space launch Sunday, Aug. 17, was prompted by a joint caution to Tehran from Saudi King Abdullah and Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak.

After their meeting Saturday, the spokesman of the presidential palace in Cairo, Suleiman Awwad, said: Iran should not present on a silver platter the “justifications and pretexts for those [US and Israel] who want to drag the region down a dangerous slope.”

This warning was interpreted by the London Arabic daily Al Quds as a warning to Tehran that an attack is impending by the US, some European nations and Israel.

The article recalled the fate of Saddam Hussein “who didn't adequately refute claims over Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction.”

Tehran immediately responded to the warning by launching the Safir satellite carrier into orbit, thereby exhibiting a ballistic missile capable of reaching outside the Middle East, as far as Britain and France, should they decide to join an American attack on Iran, as well as US military installations on that continent.

Our military sources report that the war scare in Cairo and Riyadh also infected Kuwait.

Last week, the small oil emirate placed its military on “war alert,” to avoid being caught off-guard by a possible conflict in the region. On Saturday, Kuwait boosted its naval force in the Persian Gulf to ward off a possible Iranian reprisal against its oil installations if attacked.

The scare was fed by the impending arrival of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, the USS Ronald Reagan, and the USS Iwo Jima in the Persian Gulf to reinforce the US strike forces in the region, as first revealed by DEBKAfile on August 11.

They are to join the USS Abraham Lincoln, which is patrolling the Arabian Sea opposite Iran, and the USS Peleliu, on beat in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. This deployment would be the largest naval task force the US and its allies had massed in the region since the 1991 Gulf War.

A US Pentagon spokesman last week denied that these forces were gathering to impose a partial naval blockade on Iran, but declined to disclose their mission. The denial apparently failed to convince the rulers of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Kuwait.
]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/92099-will-global-events-keep-oil-above-100?source=feed#comment-237258 237258 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:57:21 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/91381-do-stock-screeners-work-three-inexpensive-reliable-energy-plays?source=feed#comment-236752 236752 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:42:41 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/90932-natural-gas-wind-power-the-pickens-plan?source=feed#comment-236393 236393
‘Buy America Energy’ should be our focus for the future.
We could have $2.50 gasoline from our own local supplies.
The American oil shortage is political, not geological.
In the U.S., the local, State and Federal governments prohibits drilling offshore, effectively blockading American companies from supplying oil to Americans so that foreigners can make obscene profits from our energy stupidity.
Half the home sales in America are foreclosures because we are sending all our money overseas for foreign oil, when it could be staying here creating millions of safe American oil and local jobs.
The entire economy and our communities are facing collapse because of the irrational ongoing attack on American Energy.
Our entire modern society is build on fossil fuels. The population is so brainwashed by the "Sierra Club Gang" they don't realize that if the much maligned oil companies went on strike, within a month half the population would be dead;
Without hydrocarbons fuel you would soon be walking. You couldn’t be driving cars, and it wouldn’t do any good to call the maintenance or repair people because they wouldn’t be able to get there, as they would be walking too.
The food distribution system would quickly grind to a halt as cold-storage warehouses stockpiling perishables went offline due to lack of electricity.
Most of the things we depend upon would be gone, and we would literally be depending on our own food assets and those we could reach by walking to them.
Without hydrocarbons fuel people in hospitals would be dying faster, because they depend on electrical power and natural gas for warming to stay alive. But then stoppages would soon include water, food, civil authority, emergency services. And we would end up with a country with many, many people not surviving.
ANWR: Could quickly replace 10% of America's oil imports.
OIL SHALE: There's 3 trillion barrels of oil in Shales in Colorado, The technology to remove the oil was developed back in the mid 1980s. This Area could supply 20-30% of America's oil needs within a decade, with modest environmental impacts. It only takes 3 barrels of water to make one barrel of shale-oil. It take 85 barrels of water to make one barrel of ethanol!
CALIFORNIA FACT; There is between 2-3 billion barrels of proven-probable barrels of oil within 20 miles of the Santa Barbara County shores alone.
See; www.strategicnine.com/...
CALIFORNIA FACT; This area alone could produce 300,000 to 500,000 barrels a day for 10-20 years, replacing more than half of California's oil imports, while generating billions in County, State and federal royalties, and make Santa Barbara County the wealthiest in the nation.
NATURAL OIL SEEPS POLLUTION; The Santa Barbara County continues to suffer 6,000 tons per year or airborne pollution from natural oil-gas seeps and does not get a nickel in revenues or health benefits from natural oil seeps and instead continues bankrolling Americas competitors and enemies.
Change is urgently needed, or the American economy will soon disintegrate.
The OPEC-Russia-Chavez oil cartel is not just looting the United States, but the whole world, and will accumulate over $1.5 trillion in net profits this year. At their current rate of take, OPEC-Russia will acquire enough cash to buy majority control of every leading company in the United States within six years. And you are voting into power the very American-energy-traito... who are doing this to you and your country.
Its high time to Put American’s Energy Supplies First.
Vote all the energy-idiots out of local state and federal governments.
www.arcticoag.com/
]]> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:59:12 -0400
‘Buy America Energy’ should be our focus for the future.
We could have $2.50 gasoline from our own local supplies.
The American oil shortage is political, not geological.
In the U.S., the local, State and Federal governments prohibits drilling offshore, effectively blockading American companies from supplying oil to Americans so that foreigners can make obscene profits from our energy stupidity.
Half the home sales in America are foreclosures because we are sending all our money overseas for foreign oil, when it could be staying here creating millions of safe American oil and local jobs.
The entire economy and our communities are facing collapse because of the irrational ongoing attack on American Energy.
Our entire modern society is build on fossil fuels. The population is so brainwashed by the "Sierra Club Gang" they don't realize that if the much maligned oil companies went on strike, within a month half the population would be dead;
Without hydrocarbons fuel you would soon be walking. You couldn’t be driving cars, and it wouldn’t do any good to call the maintenance or repair people because they wouldn’t be able to get there, as they would be walking too.
The food distribution system would quickly grind to a halt as cold-storage warehouses stockpiling perishables went offline due to lack of electricity.
Most of the things we depend upon would be gone, and we would literally be depending on our own food assets and those we could reach by walking to them.
Without hydrocarbons fuel people in hospitals would be dying faster, because they depend on electrical power and natural gas for warming to stay alive. But then stoppages would soon include water, food, civil authority, emergency services. And we would end up with a country with many, many people not surviving.
ANWR: Could quickly replace 10% of America's oil imports.
OIL SHALE: There's 3 trillion barrels of oil in Shales in Colorado, The technology to remove the oil was developed back in the mid 1980s. This Area could supply 20-30% of America's oil needs within a decade, with modest environmental impacts. It only takes 3 barrels of water to make one barrel of shale-oil. It take 85 barrels of water to make one barrel of ethanol!
CALIFORNIA FACT; There is between 2-3 billion barrels of proven-probable barrels of oil within 20 miles of the Santa Barbara County shores alone.
See; www.strategicnine.com/...
CALIFORNIA FACT; This area alone could produce 300,000 to 500,000 barrels a day for 10-20 years, replacing more than half of California's oil imports, while generating billions in County, State and federal royalties, and make Santa Barbara County the wealthiest in the nation.
NATURAL OIL SEEPS POLLUTION; The Santa Barbara County continues to suffer 6,000 tons per year or airborne pollution from natural oil-gas seeps and does not get a nickel in revenues or health benefits from natural oil seeps and instead continues bankrolling Americas competitors and enemies.
Change is urgently needed, or the American economy will soon disintegrate.
The OPEC-Russia-Chavez oil cartel is not just looting the United States, but the whole world, and will accumulate over $1.5 trillion in net profits this year. At their current rate of take, OPEC-Russia will acquire enough cash to buy majority control of every leading company in the United States within six years. And you are voting into power the very American-energy-traito... who are doing this to you and your country.
Its high time to Put American’s Energy Supplies First.
Vote all the energy-idiots out of local state and federal governments.
www.arcticoag.com/
]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/92144-atlas-energy-more-criminally-undervalued-than-cramer-realizes?source=feed#comment-236391 236391
‘Buy America Energy’ should be our focus for the future.
We could have $2.50 gasoline from our own local supplies.
The American oil shortage is political, not geological.
In the U.S., the local, State and Federal governments prohibits drilling offshore, effectively blockading American companies from supplying oil to Americans so that foreigners can make obscene profits from our energy stupidity.
Half the home sales in America are foreclosures because we are sending all our money overseas for foreign oil, when it could be staying here creating millions of safe American oil and local jobs.
The entire economy and our communities are facing collapse because of the irrational ongoing attack on American Energy.
Our entire modern society is build on fossil fuels. The population is so brainwashed by the "Sierra Club Gang" they don't realize that if the much maligned oil companies went on strike, within a month half the population would be dead;
Without hydrocarbons fuel you would soon be walking. You couldn’t be driving cars, and it wouldn’t do any good to call the maintenance or repair people because they wouldn’t be able to get there, as they would be walking too.
The food distribution system would quickly grind to a halt as cold-storage warehouses stockpiling perishables went offline due to lack of electricity.
Most of the things we depend upon would be gone, and we would literally be depending on our own food assets and those we could reach by walking to them.
Without hydrocarbons fuel people in hospitals would be dying faster, because they depend on electrical power and natural gas for warming to stay alive. But then stoppages would soon include water, food, civil authority, emergency services. And we would end up with a country with many, many people not surviving.
ANWR: Could quickly replace 10% of America's oil imports.
OIL SHALE: There's 3 trillion barrels of oil in Shales in Colorado, The technology to remove the oil was developed back in the mid 1980s. This Area could supply 20-30% of America's oil needs within a decade, with modest environmental impacts. It only takes 3 barrels of water to make one barrel of shale-oil. It take 85 barrels of water to make one barrel of ethanol!
CALIFORNIA FACT; There is between 2-3 billion barrels of proven-probable barrels of oil within 20 miles of the Santa Barbara County shores alone.
See; www.strategicnine.com/...
CALIFORNIA FACT; This area alone could produce 300,000 to 500,000 barrels a day for 10-20 years, replacing more than half of California's oil imports, while generating billions in County, State and federal royalties, and make Santa Barbara County the wealthiest in the nation.
NATURAL OIL SEEPS POLLUTION; The Santa Barbara County continues to suffer 6,000 tons per year or airborne pollution from natural oil-gas seeps and does not get a nickel in revenues or health benefits from natural oil seeps and instead continues bankrolling Americas competitors and enemies.
Change is urgently needed, or the American economy will soon disintegrate.
The OPEC-Russia-Chavez oil cartel is not just looting the United States, but the whole world, and will accumulate over $1.5 trillion in net profits this year. At their current rate of take, OPEC-Russia will acquire enough cash to buy majority control of every leading company in the United States within six years. And you are voting into power the very American-energy-traito... who are doing this to you and your country.
Its high time to Put American’s Energy Supplies First.
Vote all the energy-idiots out of local state and federal governments.
www.arcticoag.com/
]]> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:58:28 -0400
‘Buy America Energy’ should be our focus for the future.
We could have $2.50 gasoline from our own local supplies.
The American oil shortage is political, not geological.
In the U.S., the local, State and Federal governments prohibits drilling offshore, effectively blockading American companies from supplying oil to Americans so that foreigners can make obscene profits from our energy stupidity.
Half the home sales in America are foreclosures because we are sending all our money overseas for foreign oil, when it could be staying here creating millions of safe American oil and local jobs.
The entire economy and our communities are facing collapse because of the irrational ongoing attack on American Energy.
Our entire modern society is build on fossil fuels. The population is so brainwashed by the "Sierra Club Gang" they don't realize that if the much maligned oil companies went on strike, within a month half the population would be dead;
Without hydrocarbons fuel you would soon be walking. You couldn’t be driving cars, and it wouldn’t do any good to call the maintenance or repair people because they wouldn’t be able to get there, as they would be walking too.
The food distribution system would quickly grind to a halt as cold-storage warehouses stockpiling perishables went offline due to lack of electricity.
Most of the things we depend upon would be gone, and we would literally be depending on our own food assets and those we could reach by walking to them.
Without hydrocarbons fuel people in hospitals would be dying faster, because they depend on electrical power and natural gas for warming to stay alive. But then stoppages would soon include water, food, civil authority, emergency services. And we would end up with a country with many, many people not surviving.
ANWR: Could quickly replace 10% of America's oil imports.
OIL SHALE: There's 3 trillion barrels of oil in Shales in Colorado, The technology to remove the oil was developed back in the mid 1980s. This Area could supply 20-30% of America's oil needs within a decade, with modest environmental impacts. It only takes 3 barrels of water to make one barrel of shale-oil. It take 85 barrels of water to make one barrel of ethanol!
CALIFORNIA FACT; There is between 2-3 billion barrels of proven-probable barrels of oil within 20 miles of the Santa Barbara County shores alone.
See; www.strategicnine.com/...
CALIFORNIA FACT; This area alone could produce 300,000 to 500,000 barrels a day for 10-20 years, replacing more than half of California's oil imports, while generating billions in County, State and federal royalties, and make Santa Barbara County the wealthiest in the nation.
NATURAL OIL SEEPS POLLUTION; The Santa Barbara County continues to suffer 6,000 tons per year or airborne pollution from natural oil-gas seeps and does not get a nickel in revenues or health benefits from natural oil seeps and instead continues bankrolling Americas competitors and enemies.
Change is urgently needed, or the American economy will soon disintegrate.
The OPEC-Russia-Chavez oil cartel is not just looting the United States, but the whole world, and will accumulate over $1.5 trillion in net profits this year. At their current rate of take, OPEC-Russia will acquire enough cash to buy majority control of every leading company in the United States within six years. And you are voting into power the very American-energy-traito... who are doing this to you and your country.
Its high time to Put American’s Energy Supplies First.
Vote all the energy-idiots out of local state and federal governments.
www.arcticoag.com/
]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/88910-will-automakers-switch-to-natural-gas?source=feed#comment-235923 235923
There's plenty to go around and its clean fuel.]]> Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:55:33 -0400
There's plenty to go around and its clean fuel.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/91980-how-you-can-invest-in-the-pickens-plan?source=feed#comment-235535 235535
You need two lakes, one above another.

When the wind is blowing, you use the turbines as pumps and shift the water up hill to a higher lake and when the wind stops the pumps become generators and the water flows down hill again.

The Swiss have been secretly doing this with cheap nuke power from France which they quietly use at night, when the France electricity demand is low, they pump Swiss lake water uphill. and let it run turbines during the day. smooths out the electricity flow.... Maybe this is what Boone is planning.]]> Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:33:32 -0400
You need two lakes, one above another.

When the wind is blowing, you use the turbines as pumps and shift the water up hill to a higher lake and when the wind stops the pumps become generators and the water flows down hill again.

The Swiss have been secretly doing this with cheap nuke power from France which they quietly use at night, when the France electricity demand is low, they pump Swiss lake water uphill. and let it run turbines during the day. smooths out the electricity flow.... Maybe this is what Boone is planning.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/91980-how-you-can-invest-in-the-pickens-plan?source=feed#comment-235528 235528 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:26:16 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/91313-is-there-a-future-for-ng-powered-vehicles?source=feed#comment-233620 233620
Those millions of car batteries will require all the nickel in the world to make, so don't expect electric cars to go mainstream until EEstor gets its ultracapacitor working!!]]> Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:26:38 -0400
Those millions of car batteries will require all the nickel in the world to make, so don't expect electric cars to go mainstream until EEstor gets its ultracapacitor working!!]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/91478-events-in-russia-could-push-u-s-toward-a-clearer-energy-policy?source=feed#comment-233615 233615
It would be a set up for a hilarious "Peter Sellers" comedy if it wasn't destroying this economy.]]> Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:12:17 -0400
It would be a set up for a hilarious "Peter Sellers" comedy if it wasn't destroying this economy.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/85220-implementing-pickens-plan-for-public-energy-policy?source=feed#comment-232957 232957
My Company Arctic Oil & Gas, (AOAG) recently offered Santa Barbara County residents $2.50 gasoline and $1.50 CNG and hundreds of millions in royalties, if they let us develop proven oil reserves of 250 - 500 million barrels in the SB channel and land 1 trillion cubic ft a year of gas from my Bering sea gas project. And we offered to convert cars to CNG.

So far no one seems much interested. Americans would rather send their entire national wealth to our enemies!!!

See; www.strategicnine.com/...

Other companies hold leases suspended for 30 years with 2-3 billion barrels of proven oil reserves. This is just over a small stretch of California coast.

OPEC-Russia will own every major American company within 6 years at current oil prices. Your kids will have to work for them!!!!

]]> Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:58:23 -0400
My Company Arctic Oil & Gas, (AOAG) recently offered Santa Barbara County residents $2.50 gasoline and $1.50 CNG and hundreds of millions in royalties, if they let us develop proven oil reserves of 250 - 500 million barrels in the SB channel and land 1 trillion cubic ft a year of gas from my Bering sea gas project. And we offered to convert cars to CNG.

So far no one seems much interested. Americans would rather send their entire national wealth to our enemies!!!

See; www.strategicnine.com/...

Other companies hold leases suspended for 30 years with 2-3 billion barrels of proven oil reserves. This is just over a small stretch of California coast.

OPEC-Russia will own every major American company within 6 years at current oil prices. Your kids will have to work for them!!!!

]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/90716-oil-will-only-fall-so-far?source=feed#comment-232025 232025
You can't tell me that the US wasn't fully aware of all those tanks poised on the Russian side a couple of days earlier. They just forgot to tell the Georgians thats all. and so the trap was set.]]> Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:39:13 -0400
You can't tell me that the US wasn't fully aware of all those tanks poised on the Russian side a couple of days earlier. They just forgot to tell the Georgians thats all. and so the trap was set.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/90716-oil-will-only-fall-so-far?source=feed#comment-231995 231995
I stand by my assessment that the US has a secret deal to give Russia, Georgia in exchange for Russia not supporting Iran. I think the 5 Carrier US fleet out front of Iran's shore's today backs my opinion. Time will tell.]]> Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:58:08 -0400
I stand by my assessment that the US has a secret deal to give Russia, Georgia in exchange for Russia not supporting Iran. I think the 5 Carrier US fleet out front of Iran's shore's today backs my opinion. Time will tell.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/90716-oil-will-only-fall-so-far?source=feed#comment-231955 231955
Three major US naval strike forces due this week in Persian Gulf

DEBKAfile Special Report

August 12, 2008, 10:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
New America armada around Iran

New America armada around Iran

DEBKAfile’s military sources note that the arrival of the three new American flotillas will raise to five the number of US strike forces in Middle East waters – an unprecedented build-up since the crisis erupted over Iran’s nuclear program.


This vast naval and air strength consists of more than 40 carriers, warships and submarines, some of the last nuclear-armed, opposite the Islamic Republic, a concentration last seen just before the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Our military sources postulate five objects of this show of American muscle:


1. The US, aided also by France, Britain and Canada, is finalizing preparations for a partial naval blockade to deny Iran imports of benzene and other refined oil products. This action would indicate that the Bush administration had thrown in the towel on stiff United Nations sanctions and decided to take matters in its own hands.


2. Iran, which imports 40 percent of its refined fuel products from Gulf neighbors, will retaliate for the embargo by shutting the Strait of Hormuz oil route chokepoint, in which case the US naval and air force stand ready to reopen the Strait and fight back any Iranian attempt to break through the blockade.


3. Washington is deploying forces as back-up for a possible Israeli military attack on Iran’s nuclear installations.


4. A potential rush of events in which a US-led blockade, Israeli attack and Iranian reprisals pile up in a very short time and precipitate a major military crisis.


5. While a massive deployment of this nature calls for long planning, its occurrence at this time cannot be divorced from the flare-up of the Caucasian war between Russia and Georgia. While Russia has strengthened its stake in Caspian oil resources by its overwhelming military intervention against Georgia, the Americans are investing might in defending the primary Persian Gulf oil sources of the West and the Far East.


DEBKAfile’s military sources name the three US strike forces en route to the Gulf as the USS Theodore Roosevelt , the USS Ronald Reagan and the USS Iwo Jima . Already in place are the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea opposite Iranian shores and the USS Peleliu which is cruising in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.


www.debka.com/headline...


----------------

Order of Battle of the US/EU Naval Armada


The US Naval forces being assembled include the following:



Carrier Strike Group Nine


USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN72) nuclear powered supercarrier
with its Carrier Air Wing Two
Destroyer Squadron Nine:
USS Mobile Bay (CG53) guided missile cruiser
USS Russell (DDG59) guided missile destroyer
USS Momsen (DDG92) guided missile destroyer
USS Shoup (DDG86) guided missile destroyer
USS Ford (FFG54) guided missile frigate
USS Ingraham (FFG61) guided missile frigate
USS Rodney M. Davis (FFG60) guided missile frigate
USS Curts (FFG38) guided missile frigate
Plus one or more nuclear hunter-killer submarines


Peleliu Expeditionary Strike Group


USS Peleliu (LHA-5) a Tarawa-class amphibious assault carrier
USS Pearl Harbor (LSD52) assult ship
USS Dubuque (LPD8) assult ship/landing dock
USS Cape St. George (CG71) guided missile cruiser
USS Halsey (DDG97) guided missile destroyer
USS Benfold (DDG65) guided missile destroyer


Carrier Strike Group Two


USS Theodore Roosevelt (DVN71) nuclear powered supercarrier
with its Carrier Air Wing Eight
Destroyer Squadron 22
USS Monterey (CG61) guided missile cruiser
USS Mason (DDG87) guided missile destroyer
USS Nitze (DDG94) guided missile destroyer
USS Sullivans (DDG68) guided missile destroyer

USS Springfield (SSN761) nuclear powered hunter-killer submarine

IWO ESG ~ Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group
USS Iwo Jima (LHD7) amphibious assault carrier
with its Amphibious Squadron Four
and with its 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit
USS San Antonio (LPD17) assault ship
USS Velia Gulf (CG72) guided missile cruiser
USS Ramage (DDG61) guided missile destroyer
USS Carter Hall (LSD50) assault ship
USS Roosevelt (DDG80) guided missile destroyer

USS Hartfore (SSN768) nuclear powered hunter-killer submarine


Carrier Strike Group Seven


USS Ronald Reagan (CVN76) nuclear powered supercarrier
with its Carrier Air Wing 14
Destroyer Squadron 7
USS Chancellorsville (CG62) guided missile cruiser
USS Howard (DDG83) guided missile destroyer
USS Gridley (DDG101) guided missile destroyer
USS Decatur (DDG73) guided missile destroyer
USS Thach (FFG43) guided missile frigate
USNS Rainier (T-AOE-7) fast combat support ship


Also, likely to join the battle armada:

UK Royal Navy HMS Ark Royal Carrier Strike Group with assorted guided missile destroyers and frigates, nuclear hunter-killer submarines and support ships

French Navy nuclear powered hunter-killer submarines (likely the Amethyste and perhaps others), plus French Naval Rafale fighter jets operating off of the USS Theodore Roosevelt as the French Carrier Charles de Gaulle is in dry dock, and assorted surface warships

Various other US Navy warships and submarines and support ships. The following USN ships took part (as the "enemy" forces) in Operation Brimstone and several may join in:

USS San Jacinto (CG56) guided missile cruiser
USS Anzio (CG68) guided missile cruiser
USS Normandy (CG60) guided missile cruiser
USS Carney (DDG64) guided missile destroyer
USS Oscar Austin (DDG79) guided missile destroyer
USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG81) guided missile destroyer
USS Carr (FFG52) guided missile frigate

The USS Iwo Jima and USS Peleliu Expeditionary Strike Groups have USMC Harrier jump jets and an assortment of assault and attack helicopters. The Expeditionary Strike Groups have powerful USMC Expeditionary Units with amphibious armor and ground forces trained for operating in shallow waters and in seizures of land assets, such as Qeshm Island (a 50 mile long island off of Bandar Abbas in the Gulf of Hormuz and headquarters of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps).

The large and very advanced nature of the US Naval warships is not only directed at Iran. There is a great fear that Russia and China may oppose the naval and air/land blockade of Iran. If Russian and perhaps Chinese naval warships escort commercial tankers to Iran in violation of the blockade it could be the most dangerous at-sea confrontation since the Cuban Missile Crisis. The US and allied Navies, by front loading a Naval blockade force with very powerful guided missile warships and strike carriers is attempting to have a force so powerful that Russia and China will not be tempted to mess with. This is a most serious game of military brinkmanship with major nuclear armed powers that have profound objections to the neo-con grand strategy and to western control of all of the Middle East's oil supply.

The Russian Navy this spring sent a major battle fleet into the Mediterranean headed by the modern aircraft carrier the Admiral Kuznetsov and the flagship of its Black Sea Fleet, the Guided Missile Heavy Cruiser Moskva. This powerful fleet has at least 11 surface ships and unknown numbers of subs and can use the Russian naval facility at Syria's Tartous port for re-supply. The Admiral Kuznetsov carries approximately 47 warplanes and 10 helicopters. The warplanes are mostly the powerful Su-33, a naval version (with mid-air refueling capability) of the Su-27 family. While the Su-33 is a very powerful warplane it lacks the power of the stealth USAF F-22. However, the Russians insist that they have developed a plasma based system that allows them to stealth any aircraft and a recent incident where Russian fighters were able to appear unannounced over a US Navy carrier battle group tends to confirm their claims. The Su-33 can be armed with the 3M82 Moskit sea-skimming missile (NATO code name SS-N-22 Sunburn) and the even more powerful P-800 Oniks (also named Yakhonts; NATO code name SS-N-26 Onyx). Both missiles are designed to kill US Navy supercarriers by getting past the cruiser/destroyer screen and the USN point-defense Phalanx system by using high supersonic speeds and violent end maneuvers. Russian subs currently use the underwater rocket VA-111 Shkval (Squall), which is fired from standard 533mm torpedo tubes and reaches a speed of 360kph (230mph) underwater. There is no effective countermeasures to this system and no western counterpart.

---------------------
As Russian troops and air force pilots, and thousands of Russian civilians die in combat in Europe for the first time since 1945, only miles from their homeland (on land that was part of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union for centuries), the sleeping Russian Bear has been awaken and filled with a terrible resolve. The fact that only within the last few weeks have the 1,000+ American Marines - sent in to train the Georgians for this very war - left is not overlooked by the Russians.


The fact that (according to DEBKA the well-connected Israeli strategy and military site) over 1,000 Israeli "mercenaries" are actively engaged in combat with the Russian Army on the side of the Georgians is also not overlooked. The fact that the American neo-con administration and the Israelis have been engaged in a fury of advanced arms sales and deliveries over the last year, and that these weapons are killing Russians on their own historic territory, is not overlooked.


The fact that the Bush administration tried very hard to get its European NATO partners to accept Georgia as a NATO member without success (too many European nations saw the trap and smelled a rather large rat), and the fact that had this neo-con gambit succeeded NATO would be in war against Russia now ~ this also is not overlooked by the Russian bear. The fact that the Georgian Defense Minister is a 'former' Israeli and many current and retired Israeli generals are deeply involved in Georgia is also not overlooked by the Russian bear.



]]> Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:44:50 -0400
Three major US naval strike forces due this week in Persian Gulf

DEBKAfile Special Report

August 12, 2008, 10:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
New America armada around Iran

New America armada around Iran

DEBKAfile’s military sources note that the arrival of the three new American flotillas will raise to five the number of US strike forces in Middle East waters – an unprecedented build-up since the crisis erupted over Iran’s nuclear program.


This vast naval and air strength consists of more than 40 carriers, warships and submarines, some of the last nuclear-armed, opposite the Islamic Republic, a concentration last seen just before the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Our military sources postulate five objects of this show of American muscle:


1. The US, aided also by France, Britain and Canada, is finalizing preparations for a partial naval blockade to deny Iran imports of benzene and other refined oil products. This action would indicate that the Bush administration had thrown in the towel on stiff United Nations sanctions and decided to take matters in its own hands.


2. Iran, which imports 40 percent of its refined fuel products from Gulf neighbors, will retaliate for the embargo by shutting the Strait of Hormuz oil route chokepoint, in which case the US naval and air force stand ready to reopen the Strait and fight back any Iranian attempt to break through the blockade.


3. Washington is deploying forces as back-up for a possible Israeli military attack on Iran’s nuclear installations.


4. A potential rush of events in which a US-led blockade, Israeli attack and Iranian reprisals pile up in a very short time and precipitate a major military crisis.


5. While a massive deployment of this nature calls for long planning, its occurrence at this time cannot be divorced from the flare-up of the Caucasian war between Russia and Georgia. While Russia has strengthened its stake in Caspian oil resources by its overwhelming military intervention against Georgia, the Americans are investing might in defending the primary Persian Gulf oil sources of the West and the Far East.


DEBKAfile’s military sources name the three US strike forces en route to the Gulf as the USS Theodore Roosevelt , the USS Ronald Reagan and the USS Iwo Jima . Already in place are the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea opposite Iranian shores and the USS Peleliu which is cruising in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.


www.debka.com/headline...


----------------

Order of Battle of the US/EU Naval Armada


The US Naval forces being assembled include the following:



Carrier Strike Group Nine


USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN72) nuclear powered supercarrier
with its Carrier Air Wing Two
Destroyer Squadron Nine:
USS Mobile Bay (CG53) guided missile cruiser
USS Russell (DDG59) guided missile destroyer
USS Momsen (DDG92) guided missile destroyer
USS Shoup (DDG86) guided missile destroyer
USS Ford (FFG54) guided missile frigate
USS Ingraham (FFG61) guided missile frigate
USS Rodney M. Davis (FFG60) guided missile frigate
USS Curts (FFG38) guided missile frigate
Plus one or more nuclear hunter-killer submarines


Peleliu Expeditionary Strike Group


USS Peleliu (LHA-5) a Tarawa-class amphibious assault carrier
USS Pearl Harbor (LSD52) assult ship
USS Dubuque (LPD8) assult ship/landing dock
USS Cape St. George (CG71) guided missile cruiser
USS Halsey (DDG97) guided missile destroyer
USS Benfold (DDG65) guided missile destroyer


Carrier Strike Group Two


USS Theodore Roosevelt (DVN71) nuclear powered supercarrier
with its Carrier Air Wing Eight
Destroyer Squadron 22
USS Monterey (CG61) guided missile cruiser
USS Mason (DDG87) guided missile destroyer
USS Nitze (DDG94) guided missile destroyer
USS Sullivans (DDG68) guided missile destroyer

USS Springfield (SSN761) nuclear powered hunter-killer submarine

IWO ESG ~ Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group
USS Iwo Jima (LHD7) amphibious assault carrier
with its Amphibious Squadron Four
and with its 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit
USS San Antonio (LPD17) assault ship
USS Velia Gulf (CG72) guided missile cruiser
USS Ramage (DDG61) guided missile destroyer
USS Carter Hall (LSD50) assault ship
USS Roosevelt (DDG80) guided missile destroyer

USS Hartfore (SSN768) nuclear powered hunter-killer submarine


Carrier Strike Group Seven


USS Ronald Reagan (CVN76) nuclear powered supercarrier
with its Carrier Air Wing 14
Destroyer Squadron 7
USS Chancellorsville (CG62) guided missile cruiser
USS Howard (DDG83) guided missile destroyer
USS Gridley (DDG101) guided missile destroyer
USS Decatur (DDG73) guided missile destroyer
USS Thach (FFG43) guided missile frigate
USNS Rainier (T-AOE-7) fast combat support ship


Also, likely to join the battle armada:

UK Royal Navy HMS Ark Royal Carrier Strike Group with assorted guided missile destroyers and frigates, nuclear hunter-killer submarines and support ships

French Navy nuclear powered hunter-killer submarines (likely the Amethyste and perhaps others), plus French Naval Rafale fighter jets operating off of the USS Theodore Roosevelt as the French Carrier Charles de Gaulle is in dry dock, and assorted surface warships

Various other US Navy warships and submarines and support ships. The following USN ships took part (as the "enemy" forces) in Operation Brimstone and several may join in:

USS San Jacinto (CG56) guided missile cruiser
USS Anzio (CG68) guided missile cruiser
USS Normandy (CG60) guided missile cruiser
USS Carney (DDG64) guided missile destroyer
USS Oscar Austin (DDG79) guided missile destroyer
USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG81) guided missile destroyer
USS Carr (FFG52) guided missile frigate

The USS Iwo Jima and USS Peleliu Expeditionary Strike Groups have USMC Harrier jump jets and an assortment of assault and attack helicopters. The Expeditionary Strike Groups have powerful USMC Expeditionary Units with amphibious armor and ground forces trained for operating in shallow waters and in seizures of land assets, such as Qeshm Island (a 50 mile long island off of Bandar Abbas in the Gulf of Hormuz and headquarters of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps).

The large and very advanced nature of the US Naval warships is not only directed at Iran. There is a great fear that Russia and China may oppose the naval and air/land blockade of Iran. If Russian and perhaps Chinese naval warships escort commercial tankers to Iran in violation of the blockade it could be the most dangerous at-sea confrontation since the Cuban Missile Crisis. The US and allied Navies, by front loading a Naval blockade force with very powerful guided missile warships and strike carriers is attempting to have a force so powerful that Russia and China will not be tempted to mess with. This is a most serious game of military brinkmanship with major nuclear armed powers that have profound objections to the neo-con grand strategy and to western control of all of the Middle East's oil supply.

The Russian Navy this spring sent a major battle fleet into the Mediterranean headed by the modern aircraft carrier the Admiral Kuznetsov and the flagship of its Black Sea Fleet, the Guided Missile Heavy Cruiser Moskva. This powerful fleet has at least 11 surface ships and unknown numbers of subs and can use the Russian naval facility at Syria's Tartous port for re-supply. The Admiral Kuznetsov carries approximately 47 warplanes and 10 helicopters. The warplanes are mostly the powerful Su-33, a naval version (with mid-air refueling capability) of the Su-27 family. While the Su-33 is a very powerful warplane it lacks the power of the stealth USAF F-22. However, the Russians insist that they have developed a plasma based system that allows them to stealth any aircraft and a recent incident where Russian fighters were able to appear unannounced over a US Navy carrier battle group tends to confirm their claims. The Su-33 can be armed with the 3M82 Moskit sea-skimming missile (NATO code name SS-N-22 Sunburn) and the even more powerful P-800 Oniks (also named Yakhonts; NATO code name SS-N-26 Onyx). Both missiles are designed to kill US Navy supercarriers by getting past the cruiser/destroyer screen and the USN point-defense Phalanx system by using high supersonic speeds and violent end maneuvers. Russian subs currently use the underwater rocket VA-111 Shkval (Squall), which is fired from standard 533mm torpedo tubes and reaches a speed of 360kph (230mph) underwater. There is no effective countermeasures to this system and no western counterpart.

---------------------
As Russian troops and air force pilots, and thousands of Russian civilians die in combat in Europe for the first time since 1945, only miles from their homeland (on land that was part of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union for centuries), the sleeping Russian Bear has been awaken and filled with a terrible resolve. The fact that only within the last few weeks have the 1,000+ American Marines - sent in to train the Georgians for this very war - left is not overlooked by the Russians.


The fact that (according to DEBKA the well-connected Israeli strategy and military site) over 1,000 Israeli "mercenaries" are actively engaged in combat with the Russian Army on the side of the Georgians is also not overlooked. The fact that the American neo-con administration and the Israelis have been engaged in a fury of advanced arms sales and deliveries over the last year, and that these weapons are killing Russians on their own historic territory, is not overlooked.


The fact that the Bush administration tried very hard to get its European NATO partners to accept Georgia as a NATO member without success (too many European nations saw the trap and smelled a rather large rat), and the fact that had this neo-con gambit succeeded NATO would be in war against Russia now ~ this also is not overlooked by the Russian bear. The fact that the Georgian Defense Minister is a 'former' Israeli and many current and retired Israeli generals are deeply involved in Georgia is also not overlooked by the Russian bear.



]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/90974-natural-gas-prices-set-to-surge-canaccord?source=feed#comment-231246 231246 CNG) or gasoline. It will only cost around $1,500 to convert any existing vehicle to run either fuels. Yes we need to install CNG tanks at gas stations too. we have offered to do this for Santa Barbara County as part of an oil-gas project importying our Bering Sea gas and drilling in our 250-500 million barrel lease application areas in the Santa Barbara Channel. See strategicnine.com

My company is sitting on 200 trillion cubic ft of gas offshore perfect for California and the East Coast markets. see AOAG]]> Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:01:19 -0400 CNG) or gasoline. It will only cost around $1,500 to convert any existing vehicle to run either fuels. Yes we need to install CNG tanks at gas stations too. we have offered to do this for Santa Barbara County as part of an oil-gas project importying our Bering Sea gas and drilling in our 250-500 million barrel lease application areas in the Santa Barbara Channel. See strategicnine.com

My company is sitting on 200 trillion cubic ft of gas offshore perfect for California and the East Coast markets. see AOAG]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/90772-do-we-need-an-alternative-energy-manhattan-project?source=feed#comment-229846 229846
See; www.strategicnine.com/...]]> Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:11:04 -0400
See; www.strategicnine.com/...]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/90823-canadian-superior-s-trinidad-gas-find?source=feed#comment-229840 229840 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:59:52 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/90739-offshore-drilling-is-not-the-solution?source=feed#comment-229794 229794 To bring down the price of gasoline you need to drill where there is a lot of oil quickly. Not where there is little or no oil. America is sitting on vast supplies of proven oil and gas reserves, all ready to produce in short order.

Its all under an OPEC sponsored embargo compliments of Congress.,
Our Modern Economy Still Needs Oil and Gas Today.
Without hydrocarbons fuel the United States would quickly revert to an early 19th century type of country. Except that we would have 10 times as many people and no way to distribute food to most of them.
Without hydrocarbons fuel you would soon be walking. You couldn’t be driving cars, and it wouldn’t do any good to call the maintenance or repair people because they wouldn’t be able to get there, as they would be walking too.
The food distribution system would quickly grind to a halt as cold-storage warehouses stockpiling perishables went offline due to lack of electricity, (which is 20% powered by natural gas and 50% powered by coal) and by the lack of diesel fuels for trucks. Warehouses equipped with backup diesel generators would fail, because we wouldn’t be able get fuel for generators or trucks to distribute food.
Most of the things we depend upon would be gone, and we would literally be depending on our own food assets and those we could reach by walking to them.
America would begin to resemble the 2002 TV series, “Jeremiah,” which depicts a world bereft of law, infrastructure, and memory.
Without hydrocarbons fuel people in hospitals would be dying faster, because they depend on electrical power and natural gas for warming to stay alive. But then stoppages would soon include water, food, civil authority, emergency services. And we would end up with a country with many, many people not surviving.
We can treat our oil addiction, but it's not going to disappear. U.S. consumption has started to ebb, but the U.S. still accounts for 24 percent of the 86 million barrels of oil consumed in the world every day. We buy about two-thirds of the oil we use from overseas. Much of it comes from lands that are engulfed in political turmoil.
It's critical to reduce the U.S. dependence on oil. But it's most critical to reduce the U.S. dependence on foreign oil.
Technology is making drilling less of a risk and the demand for it is growing. The Democratic leadership in Congress has to start listening.
We need to support the continued development of alternative and renewable sources of energy and to increase conservation. In the meantime, lifting the congressional ban on oil and natural gas exploration in outer continental shelf waters is an absolute imperative if we are to rescue any sort of functioning economy.
]]> Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:16:45 -0400 To bring down the price of gasoline you need to drill where there is a lot of oil quickly. Not where there is little or no oil. America is sitting on vast supplies of proven oil and gas reserves, all ready to produce in short order.

Its all under an OPEC sponsored embargo compliments of Congress.,
Our Modern Economy Still Needs Oil and Gas Today.
Without hydrocarbons fuel the United States would quickly revert to an early 19th century type of country. Except that we would have 10 times as many people and no way to distribute food to most of them.
Without hydrocarbons fuel you would soon be walking. You couldn’t be driving cars, and it wouldn’t do any good to call the maintenance or repair people because they wouldn’t be able to get there, as they would be walking too.
The food distribution system would quickly grind to a halt as cold-storage warehouses stockpiling perishables went offline due to lack of electricity, (which is 20% powered by natural gas and 50% powered by coal) and by the lack of diesel fuels for trucks. Warehouses equipped with backup diesel generators would fail, because we wouldn’t be able get fuel for generators or trucks to distribute food.
Most of the things we depend upon would be gone, and we would literally be depending on our own food assets and those we could reach by walking to them.
America would begin to resemble the 2002 TV series, “Jeremiah,” which depicts a world bereft of law, infrastructure, and memory.
Without hydrocarbons fuel people in hospitals would be dying faster, because they depend on electrical power and natural gas for warming to stay alive. But then stoppages would soon include water, food, civil authority, emergency services. And we would end up with a country with many, many people not surviving.
We can treat our oil addiction, but it's not going to disappear. U.S. consumption has started to ebb, but the U.S. still accounts for 24 percent of the 86 million barrels of oil consumed in the world every day. We buy about two-thirds of the oil we use from overseas. Much of it comes from lands that are engulfed in political turmoil.
It's critical to reduce the U.S. dependence on oil. But it's most critical to reduce the U.S. dependence on foreign oil.
Technology is making drilling less of a risk and the demand for it is growing. The Democratic leadership in Congress has to start listening.
We need to support the continued development of alternative and renewable sources of energy and to increase conservation. In the meantime, lifting the congressional ban on oil and natural gas exploration in outer continental shelf waters is an absolute imperative if we are to rescue any sort of functioning economy.
]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/90739-offshore-drilling-is-not-the-solution?source=feed#comment-229789 229789
"...Randall Luthi, director of the US Minerals Management Service, said the US should aggressively pursue energy development in the Outer Continental Shelf off Alaska, as well as regions of the OCS currently closed to drilling, including the eastern and western US coasts and the eastern Gulf of Mexico.

"Much of the future US demand can -- and let me underline can -- be met by OCS production, particularly from new areas in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico, if we can survive the threat of hurricanes and survive the hurricane of litigation that surrounds oil and gas development," he said...."
www.gasandoil.com/goc/...

Oil is still the fuel of the immediate future - you can bet on it! We must move forward to a future in which cleaner natural gas, electricity, and renewable energy fuels cars and heats homes. But this transformation will take 20-30 years. Yes we need to wean ourselves from oil, but only as fast as technology can replace oil energy while we keep our country and economy safe. This is breaking the backs of American consumers and domestic industry infrastructure still dependent on fossil fuels, this is unacceptable anti-social, Anti-American behavior. Change is urgently needed.
"Before you get all excited about tearing down the energy industry, stop and think for a moment about what makes your comfortable life possible. Your heat and most of your electricity are provided through the burning of oil and natural gas. The thousands of plastic items in your home, car and office are all made from crude oil. Much of your clothing is woven of fibers made from petroleum.
Without the hard work and ingenuity of the men and women who work for the energy companies, we would be living in the 17th century - no electricity, running water, cars, trucks, airplanes, ships, factories, waterproof clothing, soda bottles, safety glass, sterile food and medical containers, air conditioners, televisions, microwave ovens, X-Boxes, I-Pods, or any of the millions of other products made using power generated from the burning of fossil fuels."
"You would have to grow your own food, or ride your donkey to a nearby market, where there would be no refrigerators or electric lights. You'd have to kill and clean your own meat and cook it over an open fire. You'd have to chop down the trees for your home, and provide your own light by making candles from the fat of animals. Every single thing in your modern life is utterly and completely dependent upon a steady supply of oil and gas. Without it, the entire Western world would collapse completely in a matter of weeks; tens of millions would perish from starvation, exposure, and disease." Todd Keister


]]> Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:10:36 -0400
"...Randall Luthi, director of the US Minerals Management Service, said the US should aggressively pursue energy development in the Outer Continental Shelf off Alaska, as well as regions of the OCS currently closed to drilling, including the eastern and western US coasts and the eastern Gulf of Mexico.

"Much of the future US demand can -- and let me underline can -- be met by OCS production, particularly from new areas in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico, if we can survive the threat of hurricanes and survive the hurricane of litigation that surrounds oil and gas development," he said...."
www.gasandoil.com/goc/...

Oil is still the fuel of the immediate future - you can bet on it! We must move forward to a future in which cleaner natural gas, electricity, and renewable energy fuels cars and heats homes. But this transformation will take 20-30 years. Yes we need to wean ourselves from oil, but only as fast as technology can replace oil energy while we keep our country and economy safe. This is breaking the backs of American consumers and domestic industry infrastructure still dependent on fossil fuels, this is unacceptable anti-social, Anti-American behavior. Change is urgently needed.
"Before you get all excited about tearing down the energy industry, stop and think for a moment about what makes your comfortable life possible. Your heat and most of your electricity are provided through the burning of oil and natural gas. The thousands of plastic items in your home, car and office are all made from crude oil. Much of your clothing is woven of fibers made from petroleum.
Without the hard work and ingenuity of the men and women who work for the energy companies, we would be living in the 17th century - no electricity, running water, cars, trucks, airplanes, ships, factories, waterproof clothing, soda bottles, safety glass, sterile food and medical containers, air conditioners, televisions, microwave ovens, X-Boxes, I-Pods, or any of the millions of other products made using power generated from the burning of fossil fuels."
"You would have to grow your own food, or ride your donkey to a nearby market, where there would be no refrigerators or electric lights. You'd have to kill and clean your own meat and cook it over an open fire. You'd have to chop down the trees for your home, and provide your own light by making candles from the fat of animals. Every single thing in your modern life is utterly and completely dependent upon a steady supply of oil and gas. Without it, the entire Western world would collapse completely in a matter of weeks; tens of millions would perish from starvation, exposure, and disease." Todd Keister


]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/89703-wind-s-our-future-but-natural-gas-is-now?source=feed#comment-228335 228335
Look at Louisiana. Offshore oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico is a $70 billion shot in the arm for Louisiana's economy, employing more than 325,000 people in good paying jobs. When Katrina hit the Louisiana coast, it shoved big off shore oil platforms right up onto the beach. Was there a big oil spill to compound the tragedy of Katrina? No.
Look at Texas. In the last 12 months, employers in Texas have created 245,000 jobs. The Texas unemployment rate is 4.4 percent. The national jobless figure is 5.6 percent; California's is 6.9 percent. Texas does offshore drilling and onshore drilling. They allow drilling wherever the oil is. The state government will run a $10 billion surplus this year.
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Look at Louisiana. Offshore oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico is a $70 billion shot in the arm for Louisiana's economy, employing more than 325,000 people in good paying jobs. When Katrina hit the Louisiana coast, it shoved big off shore oil platforms right up onto the beach. Was there a big oil spill to compound the tragedy of Katrina? No.
Look at Texas. In the last 12 months, employers in Texas have created 245,000 jobs. The Texas unemployment rate is 4.4 percent. The national jobless figure is 5.6 percent; California's is 6.9 percent. Texas does offshore drilling and onshore drilling. They allow drilling wherever the oil is. The state government will run a $10 billion surplus this year.
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buy my company; AOAG a lowly pink sheet stock. Its a very speculative play , which might secure largish oil gas reserves if OCS is opened up]]> Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:41:22 -0400
buy my company; AOAG a lowly pink sheet stock. Its a very speculative play , which might secure largish oil gas reserves if OCS is opened up]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/86760-pickens-plan-comes-in-the-nick-of-time?source=feed#comment-213652 213652
Oil Shale could replace one third of America's imports and provide all the gasoline and diesel requirements for middle America.

Things you didn't know about oil shale
By Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah
Article Launched: 07/24/2008 12:30:00 AM MDT

Democrats control Congress, so Americans ought to be asking about their plan to lower gas prices. Let's hope their plan doesn't rest on solar, wind and geothermal, because planes, trains and automobiles don't run on electricity; they run on oil - mostly foreign oil. Or at least 97 percent of the time they run on oil, and the other 3 percent is mostly ethanol. Let's also hope the Democrats" plan doesn't rest on ethanol to break our dependence on foreign oil, because it can't. More on that later.
Americans ship about $700 billion annually to foreign oil traffickers, and Democrats respond by shutting down America's own energy supplies. Now at the mercy of foreign governments smart enough to produce their own energy, we are selling away our nation's place in the world and funding the rise of our most aggressive competitors and even our enemies.
Colorado, Wyoming and Utah have more oil in oil shale than OPEC. Everyone seems to know that by now, but here are six things you probably did not know about oil shale.
1) Did you know oil shale has a smaller carbon footprint than ethanol? When calculating the carbon emissions of the entire oil shale process, without the use of carbon capture technology, its total carbon footprint is about 7 percent larger than gasoline. But a peer-reviewed article in the February issue of Science calculates the entire carbon footprint of ethanol to be 93 percent larger than gasoline. The article reports that even switchgrass footprint is 50 percent larger than gasoline.
2) Did you know oil shale uses less water than ethanol and no more than gasoline? Increased ethanol production will require more irrigation. A September 2007 article in Southwest Hydrology states that irrigated corn requires more than 780 barrels of water for each barrel of ethanol. The Department of Energy reports that oil shale, for the entire process including land restoration, requires three barrels of water for every barrel of shale oil, about the same as gasoline.
3) Did you know oil shale uses much less land than either ethanol or gasoline? One acre of corn produces 10 barrels of ethanol. One acre in the oil patch produces about 10,000 barrels of oil. One acre of oil shale produces between 100,000 and one million-plus barrels of shale oil! No, that's not a typo.
Whether your concern is carbon emissions, water use or wildlife habitat, oil shale is a better answer than ethanol. And when it comes to transportation fuels, ethanol is the only alternative of any real significance.
4) Did you know oil shale has been commercially produced in Brazil for 30 years and in Estonia for 80 years? Technology is not a barrier.
5) Did you know that oil shale failed in 1982 due to the price dropping to $10 a barrel, not because of technology or scarcity of water? That was a quarter century ago, and a lot has changed since then. Time Magazine's Man of the Year in 1982 was the Computer. Today, we have better technology, better environmental regulations and OPEC can no longer flood the oil market.
6) Did you know current law gives each governor, before any commercial leases are granted, the right to set the pace of oil shale development? But Rep. Mark Udall has put a moratorium on commercial leasing regulations, effectively taking away that right for Utah's governor. The action produces no additional rights for Colorado, but destroys Utah's right to move forward at any pace.
Some have expressed concerns that the horse should not be put in front of the cart with regard to oil shale production. But the moratorium slaughters the horse and barricades the road. You protect against a bust by supporting an activity, not artificially starving it.
I've supported Colorado's right to choose its own pace. Utah deserves the same courtesy.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is an online-only column and has not been edited.
www.denverpost.com/hea...
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Oil Shale could replace one third of America's imports and provide all the gasoline and diesel requirements for middle America.

Things you didn't know about oil shale
By Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah
Article Launched: 07/24/2008 12:30:00 AM MDT

Democrats control Congress, so Americans ought to be asking about their plan to lower gas prices. Let's hope their plan doesn't rest on solar, wind and geothermal, because planes, trains and automobiles don't run on electricity; they run on oil - mostly foreign oil. Or at least 97 percent of the time they run on oil, and the other 3 percent is mostly ethanol. Let's also hope the Democrats" plan doesn't rest on ethanol to break our dependence on foreign oil, because it can't. More on that later.
Americans ship about $700 billion annually to foreign oil traffickers, and Democrats respond by shutting down America's own energy supplies. Now at the mercy of foreign governments smart enough to produce their own energy, we are selling away our nation's place in the world and funding the rise of our most aggressive competitors and even our enemies.
Colorado, Wyoming and Utah have more oil in oil shale than OPEC. Everyone seems to know that by now, but here are six things you probably did not know about oil shale.
1) Did you know oil shale has a smaller carbon footprint than ethanol? When calculating the carbon emissions of the entire oil shale process, without the use of carbon capture technology, its total carbon footprint is about 7 percent larger than gasoline. But a peer-reviewed article in the February issue of Science calculates the entire carbon footprint of ethanol to be 93 percent larger than gasoline. The article reports that even switchgrass footprint is 50 percent larger than gasoline.
2) Did you know oil shale uses less water than ethanol and no more than gasoline? Increased ethanol production will require more irrigation. A September 2007 article in Southwest Hydrology states that irrigated corn requires more than 780 barrels of water for each barrel of ethanol. The Department of Energy reports that oil shale, for the entire process including land restoration, requires three barrels of water for every barrel of shale oil, about the same as gasoline.
3) Did you know oil shale uses much less land than either ethanol or gasoline? One acre of corn produces 10 barrels of ethanol. One acre in the oil patch produces about 10,000 barrels of oil. One acre of oil shale produces between 100,000 and one million-plus barrels of shale oil! No, that's not a typo.
Whether your concern is carbon emissions, water use or wildlife habitat, oil shale is a better answer than ethanol. And when it comes to transportation fuels, ethanol is the only alternative of any real significance.
4) Did you know oil shale has been commercially produced in Brazil for 30 years and in Estonia for 80 years? Technology is not a barrier.
5) Did you know that oil shale failed in 1982 due to the price dropping to $10 a barrel, not because of technology or scarcity of water? That was a quarter century ago, and a lot has changed since then. Time Magazine's Man of the Year in 1982 was the Computer. Today, we have better technology, better environmental regulations and OPEC can no longer flood the oil market.
6) Did you know current law gives each governor, before any commercial leases are granted, the right to set the pace of oil shale development? But Rep. Mark Udall has put a moratorium on commercial leasing regulations, effectively taking away that right for Utah's governor. The action produces no additional rights for Colorado, but destroys Utah's right to move forward at any pace.
Some have expressed concerns that the horse should not be put in front of the cart with regard to oil shale production. But the moratorium slaughters the horse and barricades the road. You protect against a bust by supporting an activity, not artificially starving it.
I've supported Colorado's right to choose its own pace. Utah deserves the same courtesy.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is an online-only column and has not been edited.
www.denverpost.com/hea...
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