Comments on: Bush tries to blame Congress for high energy costs

By: GunTrash

GunTrash — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:34:31 +0000

Both parties have had a hand in this mess but the Dems have been the primary culprits. They get a lot of money from the environmental crowd and they don’t want to jeopardize that.

We’re all partly the blame, also. We should have been up in arms when oil started approaching $100 a bbl. It seems that $4 for a gallon of gasoline was the figure that finally got everyone’s attention.

I’m from KY and both my Senators & Congresscritter are somewhat conservative Republicans so I don’t have to b*tch at ‘em. But I’ve kin who have Dem Reps and they are writing them and telling them to quit the finger-pointing and do something. That’s what it takes, do your homework, cite sources for any numbers you use and then keep hammering them to get off their butts and do something. This being an election year they tend to listen to us rubes a little more than usual.

By: BobF

BobF — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:32:09 +0000

Here's exactly the thing Mark was talking about. U.S. Judge Blocks Gas Drilling in Michigan Forest

By: GUYK

GUYK — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:52:36 +0000

I suspect that with crude oil selling for what it is the oil companies that have the leases would be drilling if “1″..they thought there was oil there worth getting..and “2″..if they could get the rigs to drill.

I have family and friends that work the Oklahoma oil patch..and they tell me that it is up to a year’s wait just to get a double derrick rig to drill a 5000 ft hole..and those in the drilling business tell me they cannot get and keep enough roughnecks to work the rigs..

Could be some of the problem..the oil companies don’t want to commit to the millions it takes to drill offshore and are using the available platforms to drill where they know they will make money..and some of the areas where they are restricted are areas where they know there is oil worth getting..

Another problem is refineries..we do not have enough and of course when you add the laws requiring so many different types of gasoline and diesel to meet various state’s enviro-nut laws…

According to the American Petroleum Institute their are billions if not trillions of cubic feet of natural gas to be had under the USA and the Gulf of Mexico..enough to satisfy our energy needs for decades..in fact enough to satisfy our needs until an alternative energy can be found..but the same problem exits in getting to it..shortage of rigs, help, and court fights.

One other thing to consider..the threat by the dim-a-crits to put a ‘windfall’ profit tax on oil and gas..and don’t forget the threat of some left wingers that they are gonna ‘socialize’ the oil companies. Both are enough to make a CEO think before investing a lot of money in the USA..especially when his company is already making records profits..

By: Mark Krauss

Mark Krauss — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:32:19 +0000

Yid has a good post about an extremely rare find, a intelligent politician.

By: BobF

BobF — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:28:17 +0000

Fred, don’t forget those of us who also cling to our religion and Bibles.

By: TexasFred

TexasFred — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:35:34 +0000

As a group, yeah they are, but I was referring to folks like you, me, BZ, Bushy, you know, all us bog dwelling, gun toting, beer swilling, uneducated rednecks who also cling to our religion and Bibles…

Fixed, just for BobF…

By: Mark Krauss

Mark Krauss — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:32:49 +0000

Fred, I hate to say it, but the American public at large IS stupid. If you can cite any smart actions by the electorate in the last 30 years aside from the odd quirk here and there….I’m all ears.

By: TexasFred

TexasFred — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:07:05 +0000

Mark, and when you couple all of that with the fact that congress and the oil companies think that ALL Americans are stupid, well, there ya go…

By: Mark Krauss

Mark Krauss — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:03:59 +0000

The largest reason little drilling has occurred here is just simple economics, arabian oil was selling cheaper than our local production costs for the past 25 years. couple that with rising envirofanaticism here, and this is what we got. now, recently, is growing world demand for oil, and Arabs have discovered they have us by the short hairs and are rather enjoying their new found power over us.

By: Bloviating Zeppelin

Bloviating Zeppelin — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:57:27 +0000

1. You’re correct insofar as we could have done something about this back in the 70s and during GOP Admins.

2. BobF is COMPLETELY correct when he indicates the GOP had NO idea what to do with the power it possessed. Why is it the Demorats have no problem wielding what power they possess and will use it for blackmail and extortion across the aisle (and the GOP CAPITULATES), but the GOP can’t seem to even get a GRASP of the power they may possess for a time and — God FORBID they even THINK of using their power to SMACK DOWN stupid-ass ideas and bills??

3. Your pointing out the lease issue — yes, if nothing else the nation deserves an EXPLANATION of the failure to drill. Perhaps there ARE reasons but the nation needs to and deserves to HEAR and READ them. Accountability.

4. Someone once wrote, and I believe it to be true: let there be word of approved drilling in the U.S. and speculative prices will drop damned near overnight.

5. BOTH parties are to blame. But here’s the rub: though the Demorats “hold the power” now, they COULDN’T stop Bush from pushing FISA. That speaks VOLUMES about their REAL power — but does the GOP take much advantage of it??

6. My H.S. Civics teacher once said, and I believe it fervently with all my heart; it is as true now as then: “Democrats don’t win elections; Republicans LOSE them.”